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  • Joao Abreu

    Joao Abreu: Senior Manager, Finance Transformation

    Joao is a seasoned financial services advisor specialised in delivering performance analytics solutions to his clients. His passion for sustainable investing and ESG started in Africa (Angola) where he managed project finance initiatives aimed at improving social and economic conditions in one of the country’s poorest regions.

  • Iain Adamson

    Iain Adamson: Senior Manager, Controls Assurance

    Iain is a Senior Manager in KPMG’s Controls Assurance team, with significant experience of SOC 1 and SOC 2 engagements and supporting organisations beginning their assurance reporting journey. He is passionate about optimising the value that can be gained through assurance and delivering work.

  • Esther Adewole

    Esther Adewole: Assistant Manager, Connected Customer (Corporates)​

    Esther is an Assistant Manager in the Connected Customer (Corporates) unit of KPMG LLP. Her experience covers corporate strategy articulation, target operating model development, and customer experience, with a focus on helping organisations identify and implement sustainable growth strategies.

  • Charlotte Adkins

    Charlotte Adkins: Manager, Forensic ESG

    Charlotte is a Manager in our Forensic team and is an ACA qualified Chartered Accountant. She specialises in advising clients on UK Modern Slavery Act Compliance and Business and Human Rights. Charlotte has substantial experience in developing and advising on modern slavery and human rights-related policies.

  • Motilewa Akerele

    Motilewa Akerele: Senior Manager,

    Moti is a Senior Manager in KPMG’s Advisory Services – Governance, Risk and Compliance Services (GRCS) practice and is a member of the KPMG working group on the UK response to the proposed corporate governance reforms.

  • Asif Akhtar

    Asif Akhtar: Partner,

    Asif is a partner who leads KPMG’s Corporate Services Transformation (CST) practice for mid-size organisations. He specialises in helping clients transform their back office operations and is a leading authority on digitally enabled transformations as well as shared services and outsourcing.

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    Simon Albrighton: Partner, Head of Sectors Consulting

    Simon is passionate about helping individuals and businesses to be the best that they can be. At KPMG UK, we help the UK and global businesses transform, solve their biggest and most complex needs and sustain high performance in a fast-moving digital world.

  • Leanne Allen

    Leanne Allen: Partner, FS Consulting Technology and Data, Data Science & AI capability Lead in KPMG UK

    Leanne Allen is a Partner in KPMG’s Financial Services Tech Consulting Practice and leads KPMG’s Data capability. She is an experienced data architect with broad experience across data management, data and systems architecture, data visualisation, reporting and analytics and data migration.

  • Michael Allen: Partner, Head Health Consulting and Global Health Workforce Lead

    As Global Lead, Future Workforce in Healthcare, Michael collaborates across the KPMG global organisation helping to create solutions aimed at addressing the worldwide shortage of healthcare workers and to help KPMG firms’ clients — large and small, public and private, systems and organisations — to understand, plan and transform their healthcare workforces.

  • Michelle Allen

    Michelle Allen: Partner, Head of ESG Consulting KPMG UK

    Michelle has spent over twenty years helping public sector organisations to deliver lasting change. She is passionate about improving public services and helping to build a fairer world for citizens. She has brought this passion to her new role where she is responsible for helping KPMG.

  • Luke Anderson

    Luke Anderson: Partner, Private Equity Value Creation

    Luke holds more than 25 years Private Equity experience both as an advisor to PE Funds and as part of a principal investment team. He is focused on value creation through the deal and portfolio cycle for large cap general partners with a specific (although not exclusive) interest on ESG, Technology and Digital.

  • Justine Andrew

    Justine Andrew: Director, Education

    Justine leads our work with some of the largest education providers nationally as well as being at the forefront of our work in the skills space. Justine is passionate about the evolving role of public service and the potential of working across an economic geography to change the way we currently deliver and receive services.

  • claire angell

    Claire Angell: Partner, Head of Energy

    Claire is a Tax Partner who focuses on the Energy and Natural Resources sector. She leads the Energy Tax Practice at KPMG in the UK. Claire has advised Energy and Natural Resources clients across oil and gas, power, utilities and renewables.

  • Surbjit Laroya-Annan

    Surbjit Laroya- Annan: Partner, People Consulting

    Surbjit is a seasoned director with Global, multi-sector and functional experience, leading large complex programmes, working with C-suite to drive the people led organisation transformation agenda.

  • Rebecca Armstrong

    Rebecca Armstrong: Director, Financial Services Customer

    Rebecca is a Director in KPMG’s Financial Services Customer team. She specialises in Customer Centric Transformation, working across organisations to help them grow and evolve their capabilities in a climate where customer habits, technology and regulation are changing rapidly.

  • Jonathan Ashenafi

    Jonathan Ashenafi: Author, FS Fin Tran

    Jonathan is passionate about helping clients add value within their businesses and the wider society, currently working as an analyst within the KPMG Consulting practice for Financial Services clients.

  • Richard Aston

    Richard Aston: Associate Partner, Deal Advisory

    Richard joined KPMG’s transaction services team in 2003 following qualification as a Chartered Accountant. Richard has worked in Manchester, Leeds and more recently London offices and focuses on working in the UK mid market with private equity and buy and build programmes with UK corporates. Richard’s sectors include travel (B2B and B2C) and private sector education.

  • Lewis Atter

    Lewis Atter: Author, Associate Partner, Infrastructure Strategy Lead

    Lewis is Strategy lead in KPMG’s Infrastructure Strategy practice, with a particular focus on cities and major transport projects. Lewis advises clients on cutting-edge economics, innovative funding approaches and deal making to deliver sustainable growth focused investment programmes.

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    Jonathan Attia: Partner, Head of Products

    Jonny is the head of KPMG's new Products business. He has a background as both a start-up CEO, business executive and strategy consultant. He has led businesses through development, launch, start-up and scale up and spent a decade advising some of the world's largest organisations on their growth strategy.

  • Camilla Austerberry

    Camilla Austerberry: Senior Manager, Cloud Risk and Controls

    Camilla is an experienced Senior Manager in the Cloud Risk and Controls team. Camilla has significant industry experience supporting organisations in their move to the Cloud. Her experience includes developing Cloud Controls, leading Cloud control assessments, Frameworks, and advising on Cloud strategies. She has worked extensively within technology audit, assurance and risk advisory in banking and the wider financial services market in the UK and US.

  • Jay Ayrton

    Jay Ayrton: Partner, Head of Tax Reimagined for UK and EMA

    Jay is the EMA Head of Global Compliance & Transformation. He leads some of KPMG’s most complex tax transformation projects covering evaluation of compliance sourcing options, development of business cases, and advising on how best practice statutory and tax processes are designed and implemented.

  • Sophie Bailey

    Sophie Bailey: Author, ESG Reporting & Assurance Senior Manager, CLR Assurance

    Sophie is an ESG Reporting and Assurance specialist. She works with organisations to report in line with best practice and respond to regulator and stakeholder demand through robust ESG disclosures and metrics.

  • Mark Baillache

    Mark Baillache: Partner, Audit

    Mark has wide experience of leading KPMG relationships with both audit and non-audit clients, and sector roles mainly in consumer markets. Mark recently returned to the UK from a secondment in Hong Kong where he served as the Asia Pacific Regional Head of Markets.

  • Thomas Ballard

    Thomas Ballard: Senior Manager, Cyber (Deals)

    Tom works in our KPMG Cyber in Deals Consulting practice, working with Private Equity firms on pre and post deal value creation, specifically where there is a technology of Cyber aspect to the deal.

  • melissa barry

    Melissa Barry: Senior Manager, GBS

    Melissa is a Senior Manager in KPMG’s Global Business Services team. She specialises in designing and delivering GBS transformational programmes with a particular focus on strategy, operating model design, process optimisation, and digital enablement.

  • Daniel Barry

    Daniel Barry: Partner, Wealth & Asset Management

    Daniel is a Partner in the Wealth and Asset Management regulatory practice and leads the firms risk and compliance advisory capability in this sector. He has 20 years of experience helping firms across the sector understand and manage their risk and compliance obligations.

  • Charles Batchelor

    Charles Batchelor: Partner, Accounting and Finance

    Charles is an advisory Partner specializing in accounting and financial services. He worked in KPMG in the UK for 15 years before joining KPMG Lower Gulf. He has been involved in consulting on financial reporting for over 20 years, focusing on transaction accounting and complex financial reporting projects.

  • tilda bates

    Tilda Bates: Assistant Manager, Corporates Customer Consulting

    Tilda sits within the Corporate Customer team having recently transferred from the Strategy and Operations in team in Hong Kong. She has supported clients' business and process transformation programmes focused on ESG and financial services.

  • Jo Bateson

    Jo Bateson: Partner, Family Office and Private Client

    Jo is a partner in KPMG’s Family Office & Private Client team leading the London team. She specialises in providing tax advice to entrepreneurs, UHNW families and their family offices and both onshore and offshore trustees.

  • Laurene Batkin

    Laurene Batkin: Director, People Consulting

    Laurene is a specialist in People-led transformation. She helps clients transform their businesses or single functions (Procurement, HR, Finance) globally driving teams readiness and the adoption of new Target Operating Models.

  • Sharon Baynham

    Sharon Baynham: Director, Tax Policy

    Sharon is a Director of Tax Policy for KPMG in the UK where she specialises in tax technical and policy, primarily focussing on corporate and international tax matters.

  • Bridget Beals

    Bridget Beals: Partner, Co-Head of Climate Risk and Decarbonisation Strategy

    Bridget is a KPMG UK Director and Co-Head of Climate Risk and Decarbonisation Strategy leading our Climate Risk and Decarbonisation Strategy team. Bridget has over 12 years experience in climate change and decarbonisation, spanning a variety of private and public sector roles including banking, Government advisory and strategic consulting.

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    Ian Beaumont: Partner, Head of Family Business in the North

    Ian leads the firm’s relationship with people and organisations across a number of different industry sectors; working with family owned, entrepreneurial, PE, publicly listed and international groups. Ian works closely with his clients through all aspects of growth, acquisition, transition between generations and exit either through sale or IPO onto a public market.

  • Nathan Beaver

    Nathan Beaver: Partner, Customer & Digital

    Nathan is a Partner in our Customer & Digital team specializing in working with organizations and senior leadership to help them deliver customer centric strategy and change across their organization. Nathan has led numerous consulting engagements in the areas of customer and commercial strategy, customer experience improvement and digital and data transformation.

  • Magnus Becher

    Magnus Becher: Director, eDiscovery, KPMG in the UK

    With over 10 years of experience in compliance and 6 years of experience in Forensic Technology Magnus leads information governance, privacy, eDiscovery, and legal and compliance review engagements. Magnus’s sector focus includes financial services, oil and gas, pharma and industrial clients amongst other public and private sector clients.

  • Sara Belchamber

    Sara Belchamber: Director, People Consulting

    Sara is a Director in our People Consulting practice and is the People-Led Transformation Leader within our Financial Services Sector. She specialises in Organisational Change and is passionate about architecting & implementing transformations with people at the centre to drive business performance.

  • Colin Ben-Nathan

    Colin Ben-Nathan: Director, KPMG in the UK

    Colin advises employers on the structuring and taxation of employee remuneration packages, both in a UK and international context. This includes advising on employee incentive arrangements, social security issues and international issues arising from the movement of employees to and from the UK.

  • Richard Bernau

    Richard Bernau: Management Consultant, Financial Services

    Richard is an experienced management consultant supporting financial services clients find innovative ESG solutions to in the UK and beyond. He is passionate about sustainability and the role that finance providers have in helping business reach their net zero targets.

  • Michelle Berners Price

    Michelle Berners Price: Partner, Tax

    Based at KPMG in London, Michelle advises multinational corporations in relation to assignee management, business traveller co-ordination, social security and employment taxes. Michelle acts as a trusted advisor for senior executive assignees, business travellers, group tax teams and HR line managers. With a primary focus on the financial services industry, Michelle is a regular speaker at Global Mobility industry events.

  • Papinda Bhandal

    Papinda Bhandal: Director, GBS and FT

    Papinda has extensive experience of leading large-scale complex transformational programmes across a number of industries and supports clients to establish and enhance their Global Business Services organisation from strategy to design to implementation.

  • Sarah Bickerstaffe

    Sarah Bickerstaffe: Director, Public Policy and Regulation

    Sarah has fifteen years’ experience in the health and care sector spanning regulation, central government, parliament and research. She joined KPMG in 2021 from the Care Quality Commission, where she was the Director of Policy & Strategy.

  • David Bird

    David Bird: Associate Director, The Strategy Group

    David has worked with a client base ranging from multinational blue chips to SMEs across the UK, EMA and worldwide. He helps clients develop growth and business plans, and invest in new markets, products and assets through robust strategic and financial advice.

  • Oliver Bisseker

    Oliver Bisseker: Author, Lead DevOps Engineer

    Oliver works in KPMG’s Cloud Team, specialising in Azure cloud. His primary experience is in designing and building cloud native solutions, especially machine learning infrastructure. Oliver leads multiple teams across a range of clients primarily in the public sector.

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    Robert Bolton: Partner, Global People and Change Centre of Excellence

    Robert is a partner in KPMG’s Global People and Change Center of Excellence where he delivers world-class HR solutions to the firm’s global clients. He has more than 20 years of experience in management and consulting, developing strategically differentiated HR functions that can bring value to their business.

  • Simon Bolton

    Simon Bolton: Director, Software Asset Management and License Management

    Simon is a Director with over 15 years of experience in IT asset management, software sourcing and procurement, and Software/IT audit. He leads KPMG’s IT Asset Management (“ITAM”) Center of Excellence in the UK.

  • Adrian Bradley

    Adrian Bradley: Partner, Head of Cloud Transformation

    Adrian leads our teams who transform and manage the technology platforms which enable our clients to deliver on the promise of digital. Adrian’s roles have included migrating FTSE100 companies to infrastructure leading one of the world’s largest Office 365 implementations, and delivering digital transformations across front and back offices.

  • Joanne Brien

    Joanne Brien: Partner, Reward

    Jo initially trained and spent 2 years post qualification at Pinsent Masons before moving to KPMG’s Reward team where she has worked for 17 years and leads KPMG’s Reward practice in the regions.

  • Zealah Brindley

    Zealah Brindley: Director, KPMG Private Enterprise Consulting

    Zealah specialises in the operational performance improvement through the use of technology in Private Enterprise clients. Zealah works with privately owned and private equity back businesses to develop and execute their value creation and value protection plans.

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    Nicole Brock: Leadership, Market Lead for Local & Regional Government

    Nicole works with senior Leadership Teams of Local and Combined Authorities to understand their issues, challenges and opportunities and to identify ways in which KPMG might help.

  • Nicola Brooks

    Nicola Brooks: Director, KPMG Law

    Nicola is a legal operations professional and leads Legal Operations Transformation Services (LOTS) team in the UK. The team specialises in delivering operational transformation programmes that help General Counsel (GC) and in-house legal teams maximise cost efficiencies, proactively manage risk, optimise operations and position teams as strategic and valuable partners to the business.

  • Tom Brown

    Tom Brown: Partner, UK Audit

    Tom leads advisory assignments including operational and process reviews as well as internal audits, transactions and listings. Tom has been actively involved in the global regulatory change debate post the financial crisis and spearheaded KPMG’s successful focus on Alternative Investments.

  • Stuart Bruce­

    Stuart Bruce­: Director, Climate Risk & Decarbonisation Strategy

    Stuart helps companies, insurers and governments identify, quantify, assess and manage the impacts of known and emerging climate change risks and opportunities they face over the short-, medium- and long-term to drive climate resilience, emissions reductions and value creation.

  • Alex Burton

    Alex Burton: Assistant Manager, Financial Services

    Alex is an Assistant Manager in KPMG’s financial services practice. He is an experienced member of the operational resilience team, supporting banking, insurance and asset management clients in defining their business services & important business services, target operating models and service resilience assessments.

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    Luke Bywaters: Manager, Strategic Advisory - IGH Infrastructure Advisory Group

    Luke leads on KPMG’s supply chain circularity initiatives. He has multiple years’ circular economy experience, he has also led global strategic procurement, and commercial teams in the private sector. Luke has particular expertise in circular economy, and sustainable supply chain strategy.

  • Nathan Cain

    Nathan Cain: Partner, Corporates and Head of UK Technology Risk

    Nathan is an experienced leader in the provision of assurance and consulting services covering complex IT, data analytics, business processes and automated control environments in many industry sectors.

  • Gonzalo Cajigas

    Gonzalo Cajigas: Senior Manager, People Services

    Gonzalo joined KPMG in April, 2021. Previously, he worked for 10 years at Garrigues, one of the leading law firms in continental Europe in the Tax and Human Capital Services departments. Gonzalo has broad experience and has participated in many projects of tax and legal advice on compensation and benefits.

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    Matthew Campbell: Author, Chief Technology Officer, Audit

    Matt is KPMG UK’s Chief Technology Officer. In his role Matt leads the Clara analytics team, the team responsible for delivering data analytics audit work on all UK audits, and oversees the development, deployment and usage of technology across the UK audit practice.

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    Taran Chana: Senior Manager, Corps Tech Strategy and Transformation

    Taran is an experienced technology transformation Senior Manager advising energy clients on their technology agendas (strategy, implementation, technology provider and platform selection). Taran has over 15 years of experience advising clients on technology, development of technology business plans and operating efficiencies.

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    Maria Chatziathanasiou: Manager, Advisory, Investigations, Forensic, Risk Consulting

    Maria is a Manager in KPMG’s Regional Forensic practice and is based in KPMG’s Manchester office. She has 9 years’ experience in the accountancy profession. Maria has experience in a range of Forensic disciplines including compliance reviews and fraud investigations.

  • Rajvir Cheema

    Rajvir Cheema: Director, Digital Health Advisory

    Rajvir helps clients create change that matters, empowering organisations to grow and thrive in the digital age. This is by harnessing the power of data, modernising core technology and capitalising on new technology, and fuelling digital growth that creates new and improved customer user experience.

  • Sophie Chidley

    Sophie Chidley: Manager, People in M&A

    Sophie is a Manager in the People in M&A team with experience working on large, international separations and integrations focussing on labour relations, employee experience, employee transfers and organisational design across the deal lifecycle.

  • Adrian Clamp

    Adrian Clamp: Partner, Head of Digital Transformation, Connected Enterprise

    Adrian Clamp has over 20 years of experience leading transformation programmes and implementing new customer-facing technologies and operating models within large, complex organisations. His expertise encompasses delivery of large, complex programmes that have successfully deployed new processes, digital technologies.

  • Alec Clarkson

    Alec Clarkson: Director, FS – Cyber Defence Services

    An experienced, successful and strategic director in IT security and assurance, who enjoys getting hands-on and involved in the delivery of large and complex security projects, working with some of the largest financial institutions in the UK and globally to improve their defences against cyber attacks.

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    Liz Claydon: Partner, Head of Deal Advisory

    Liz is a Partner and Head of Deal Advisory for KPMG UK. In addition to this, she is an experienced Global Lead Partner having led clients including Diageo and Burberry.

  • Robert Cleminson

    Robert Cleminson: Manager, Finance Transformation

    Rob is a Manager in our Finance Transformation team and is a CIMA qualified accountant. Rob specialises in the optimisation of month-end close processes. As a member of the Enterprise Performance Measurement capability, Rob brings his expertise in data structures, chart of accounts, cost accounting, inventory accounting.

  • Katie Clinton

    Katie Clinton: Partner, Brexit Head of Internal Audit & Risk Compliance Services Lead

    Katie is a Partner in KPMG’s UK firm, and is also leading the firm’s Brexit response in this area. Having begun her career in the financial services practice and also recently leading KPMG’s internal audit business in that sector, Katie has over 15 years’ experience providing assurance services to clients.

  • India Clutterbuck

    India Clutterbuck: Management Consultant,

    India provides our Financial Services clients with performance analytics solutions through her role within our Finance Transformation team. She is particularly passionate about the social sustainability and equality of our Financial Services working environment.

  • Jonathan Coates

    Jonathan Coates: Director, Wealth & Asset Management

    Jonathan is a Director in KPMG’s Wealth & Asset Management practice with an extensive track record in supporting clients through the early stages of strategic discovery by driving consensus on objectives, core principles.

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    Jonathan Cobb: Leadership, Global Powered IAM Lead & KPMG UK IAM Lead

    Jonathan is KPMG’s Global leader for Powered IAM implementations. He has led and delivered numerous Identity and Access management transformation across multiple industries, including for one of the UK’s largest energy providers.

  • Simon Collins

    Simon Collins: Leadership, Programme and Project Manager

    Simon is a project, programme and portfolio management specialist with significant international experience of major transformations across both the public and private sector. He uses this industry experience to help his clients create internal delivery landscapes, structures and PMOs, that reflect their strategic and operational requirements, and drives delivery programmes to exceed targets.

  • Thomas Collins

    Thomas Collins: Director, Assurance

    Thomas is a Director in KPMG’s Assurance practice, where he leads a portfolio of risk and controls engagements, including SOC1 and SOC2 engagements for business outsourcing, payment, and technology-enabled businesses.

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    Brian Connell: Senior Manager, Corporates, Operational Transformation

    Brian has worked in supply chain consulting for more than 15 years for a diverse range of international clients to reduce cost, improve supply chain effectiveness, ensure resilience and meet regulatory changes. He is currently focused on the deployment of technology to tackle the increasingly complex demands of modern supply chains.

  • Timothy Copnell

    Timothy Copnell: Associate Partner, Board Leadership Centre

    Timothy is the founding Chairman of KPMG's UK Audit Committee Institute and Board Leadership Centre and has specialised in corporate governance for over 25 years. He has extensive experience of facilitating board effectiveness reviews and in advising on corporate governance matters.

  • Chris Corless

    Chris Corless: Senior Manager, Financial Services Technology Risk Consultant

    Chris is a Senior Manager in KPMG's Financial Services Technology Risk Consulting Practice. Chris specialises in controls transformation and using technology to deliver better risk management and value across the three lines of defence.

  • Lesley Coutts

    Lesley Coutts: Senior Manager, Corporates, People Consulting

    Lesley is an experienced MCIPD Change Management and Learning and Development (L&D) professional. With a background in a wide portfolio of culture change. She holds extensive operational and strategic L&D experience, enhancing both individual and organisational effectiveness.

  • Noeleen Cowley

    Noeleen Cowley: Partner, Financial Services

    Noeleen is Head of the UK Risk and Regulatory Driven Transformation practice and Financial Services Lead Partner for ESG at KPMG. She has worked with major financial institutions across the industry on their transformation agendas- helping to prevent regulatory censure and build capability to address risks in the market.

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    Rob Crawford: Senior Manager, Risk and Regulatory Advisory

    Rob is a Senior Manager in KPMG’s Risk and Regulatory Advisory team with over nine years’ experience of advising banks and investment firms on risk matters, specialising in prudential regulation.

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    Laurence Crook: Associate Director, Economics

    Laurence joined KPMG in May 2022 as an Associate Director in the Economics team, and has supported clients with economic and financial analysis on a number of regulatory issues, including regulatory costing, market reviews and subsidy control issues.

  • Tim Cross

    Tim Cross: Manager, Private Enterprise - Emerging Giants

    Tim works with start-up and scale-up companies across the UK to help them achieve their growth ambitions. Tim is the UK and Global lead for our Tech Innovator competitions and also leads on the teams programmes and alliances nationally.

  • Joe Crotty

    Joe Crotty: Expert, Senior Consultant, ESG Centre of Excellence

    Joe is a founding member of our ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance) Centre of Excellence, driving ESG as a priority in KPMG and helping clients meet the increasing stakeholder demands for a more sustainable approach to their business. Joe is also a nominated member of KPMG IMPACT’s Future Leaders Council – representing the views of under-35s in shaping KPMG’s Global ESG strategy.

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    Daniel Crowther: Partner, Family Office and Private Client

    Daniel is a Partner in KPMG’s Family Office and Private Client team in the UK. He specialises in advising individuals, families, trustees and family offices on their tax issues in connection with their investments, properties and businesses. He also acts for the businesses that his private clients own, seeking to maximise the mutual benefit between owner and business.

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    Scott Cullen: Partner, Head of Reward Consulting

    Scott leads KPMG UK Reward Consulting Team. He has over 25 years’ experience in the reward field having previously been a Senior Director in Willis Towers Watson Reward team for 13 years and prior to that working as a Reward Manager at a multi-national insurance company and a multi-national bank.

  • Pete Darnley

    Pete Darnley: Senior Manager, Powered Customer

    Pete has 17 years' experience across Financial Services inc. Insurance, Retail, Business, Commercial & Global Corporate Banking, delivering Salesforce solutions for Marketing, Sales & Service covering; AML / KYC, Onboarding, Financial Crime Remediation, Complaints and GDPR.

  • Miles Davies

    Miles Davies: Author, Managing Director, Private Equity Value Creation & Portfolio Services

    Miles helps companies achieve their strategic ambitions, be it through international growth, acquisition, transformation or otherwise. He has a particular focus on working with family businesses, helping families manage the sometimes tricky dynamics of being a family and being a business family. Miles is a FCCA.

  • Neal Dawson

    Neal Dawson: Director, Financial Services Inv. & Compl.

    Neal is the UK Head of AML and Sanctions for KPMG and is a Director in our Risk Consulting practice. Neal has extensive experience of a range of strategy, process, technology and investigations projects in Financial Crime.

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    Amelie De Borchgrave d’Altena: Director, Head of Corporate Intelligence

    Amelie is the Head of Corporate Intelligence and Modern Slavery Lead. She has extensive experience assisting multinationals, financial institutions, NGOs and public sector clients to manage their reputational and regulatory exposure.

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    Feargal De Burca: Partner, Cap Markets Transformation

    Feargal has over 20 years experience in Financial Services technology, specialising in technology strategy, vendor market solutions and Technology enabled Business Transformation. He has worked in industry within Front Office Pricing and Risk technology. As a consultant, he has delivered many large-scale programmes for Banking clients.

  • Robert Dean

    Robert Dean: Leadership, UK Head of Financial Crime Technology

    Robert is the Head of Financial Crime Technology at KPMG in the UK. He is a leading authority in the field of machine learning and artificial intelligence in financial crime control systems, speaking at a range of industry events, conferences and panel debates alongside financial services regulators, industry SMEs.

  • Philip Deeks

    Philip Deeks: Director, Regulatory Insights Centre

    Philip provides insights on compliance, retail conduct and cultural change for clients across financial services sectors, sharing his in-depth knowledge to help them become better informed about the direction of regulatory developments and evolving expectations.

  • James Dennis

    James Dennis: Associate Director, Climate Risk and Decarbonisation Strategy at KPMG UK

    James works across KPMG’s Climate Risk practice and leads development of KPMG Climate IQ, leveraging his technical and commercial experience to assess the most material impacts of climate change on businesses, and identifying development activities which drive insights to deliver maximum value for our client.

  • Viral Desai

    Viral Desai: Author, Corporate Finance

    Viral joined KPMG in 1990 and has specialised in commercial valuations since moving to KPMG corporate finance in 1997. He has performed valuations for public and private companies in a wide range of industries across the globe and primarily focuses on providing deal related valuation advice to financial services clients.

  • Marija Devic

    Marija Devic: Director, Financial Services Consulting

    Marija is a Director advising financial services clients on large scale, complex risk and regulatory driven transformation and remediation programmes.

  • James Devine

    James Devine: Director, UK Lead for Health and Care Workforce

    James joined KPMG having spent 25 years working in the NHS. During his career, James has worked at Board level both as a Chief People Officer, and a Chief Executive. He was also the joint Senior Responsible Officer for the Integrated Care Partnership across health, care, and local authority.

  • Indy Dhami

    Indy Dhami: Partner, FS Cyber

    Indy is the lead KPMG cyber partner focusing on global banking clients. He has over 20 years’ cyber experience in operational, consulting, start-ups and self-owned business roles. His background includes leadership engagements in information/cybersecurity, risk assurance, crisis management, IT audit, governance and risk and compliance programmes.

  • Katie Diacon

    Katie Diacon: Author, Head of Corporates Resilience

    Katie leads our Corporates resilience team and has over 20 years experience across MOD, Foreign Office, Business and in Professional Services leading major technology change programmes and advising on resilience and crisis management.

  • Douglas Dick

    Douglas Dick: Author, Head of the Emerging Technology Risk

    Douglas is the Head of the Emerging Technology Risk for KPMG in the UK, encompassing leadership of the Cloud Risk and Controls service line, supporting clients with managing the risks with migrating to and running services in the cloud.

  • Aleksandar Dordevic

    Aleksandar Dordevic: Senior Manager, Risk Analytics and Automation

    Aleksandar is an emerging technologies expert, leading the Risk analytics and automation team for KPMG UK and leading KPMG member firm network’s EMEA-wide automation programme, leveraging RPA and AI to digitally transform our ways of working. He is skilled analyst in Risk and Control, end-to-end processes, Intelligent Automation, Machine Learning, Analytics, Information Security and customer life-cycle, experienced with Data Privacy compliance.

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    Michael Douek: Director, Forensic Data Analytics

    Michael is a Director in our Forensic Data Analytics team and has over 11 years’ experience of leading the design, build and implementation of advanced analytics and technology solutions to identify and prevent fraud. Michael also supports our assurance service line using data to verify the accuracy of non-financial KPI’s.

  • Arron Dougan

    Arron Dougan: Author, Lead DevOps Engineer – FS Cloud Engineering

    Arron is a Lead Engineer within the Cloud Transformation team at KPMG, holding broad technical experience ranging from service management to enterprise grade cloud architecture.

  • Jon Dowie

    Jon Dowie: Partner, FS Tech Risk CT

    Jon specialises in advising clients on technology and third-party risk with a focus on the Financial Services sector and is part of KPMG's FS Consulting Leadership team

  • Tom Downey

    Tom Downey: Director, Integration and Separation

    Tom is a Director within the Integration and Separation team at KPMG. Tom has over 13 years of experience in successfully delivering global, multi-functional M&A and transformation programs for his clients. Tom specialises in working alongside the Finance function through these programs, and leads the Life Sciences offering.

  • Chris Downing

    Chris Downing: Partner, Tax

    Chris is a Partner in the KPMG Tax team in London, leading the UK Tax Technology and Transformation team. A specialist in indirect taxes for 20 years, Chris spent three years working for HMRC as a VAT Assurance Officer in the Large Business sector.

  • Chris Dunbar

    Chris Dunbar: Director, Place Regeneration and Development

    Chris leads on development and regeneration projects within the UK for KPMG Infrastructure Advisory group, working with local government, public and private sector clients.

  • Mike Eaton

    Mike Eaton: Partner, Managed Services

    Mike has over 25 years’ experience in Consulting and worked across all sectors, with a focus on Insurance and Banking. He has built and delivered Target Operating Models in a range of challenging post-merger integration and restructuring situations, as well as delivered against fixed regulatory deadlines.

  • Karl Edge: Author, UK and EMA Head of KPMG Private Enterprise

    Karl has over 30 years’ experience working with Private Enterprise clients across a range of sectors including Industrial Markets, Automotive and Construction, and is passionate about bringing the best of KPMG to support our clients with their ever-changing needs.

  • Lambros Efstathiou

    Lambros Efstathiou: Manager, Customer & Digital

    Lambros works in KPMG’s Customer & Digital team, and specialises on customer, marketing and digital transformation. He has previously worked in both advertising and in-house marketing functions, and now advises a broad set of clients on their customer, marketing and digital strategies.

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    Daryl Elfield: Partner, Quality Engineering & Testing Services

    Daryl Elfield has over 20 years' experience in Financial Services, working with clients across Banking, Insurance and Investment Management from a software quality perspective. He has an established track record of test leadership and cost reduction.

  • Linda Ellett: Partner, Head of Consumer Markets, Leisure & Retail

    As UK Head of Consumer Markets, Leisure & Retail, Linda leads innovative thinking on our spending/savings culture and provides both specialist pensions advice as well as being Global or UK Client Lead Partner on some of KPMG’s Key Accounts in these Sectors.

  • Michael Emejulu

    Michael Emejulu: Senior Manager, Programme Assurance lead for Public sector clients

    Michael is the Programme Assurance service lead for the Infrastructure, Government and Health - Technology Risk team within KPMG UK. He has over 10 years worth of experience in assuring and delivering transformation projects for public sector and FTSE 100 clients. He has worked with clients to identify key risks, assess the design and operational effectiveness of their controls and to design and implement new safeguards

  • Anthony Emler

    Anthony Emler: Senior Manager, Technology Risk Consulting

    Anthony has over 20 years’ experience with KPMG of advising and supporting senior stakeholders and teams to deliver high quality products within IT and Business Change programmes. He has worked across public and private sectors in support of major projects and programmes.

  • Mark Essex

    Mark Essex: Director, Public Policy

    Mark has a background in strategy. He uses critical thinking, and an analytical approach to come at questions from a different angle. Mark now leads an intelligence team which analyses the impact of Vote Leave on business. A relentless optimist, Mark is determined to originate upsides from the referendum result.

  • Sam Ewuosho

    Sam Ewuosho: Associate Director, Climate Risk & Strategy

    Sam is an Associate Director in the Climate Risk and Decarbonisation Strategy team helping clients understand the physical and transition risks that they will face under various climate change scenarios, the impact of these risks on their operations and the strategy they need to put in place to mitigate these risks as well as to take advantage of any opportunities arising.

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    Iakov Fedoseenko: Author, Cloud Architect – FS Cloud Transformation

    Iakov is a cloud architect within the KPMG’s Connected Technology function specialising in Cloud Strategy & Architecture, Cloud Security, IT Governance, and Infrastructure transformation. He has 8+ years of consulting and risk assurance experience, where he led global diverse teams and managed complex digital transformation projects.

  • Patrick Fenton

    Patrick Fenton: Partner, Powered Enterprise Lead

    Patrick is the lead partner for KPMG’s KPMG’s cloud transformation proposition Powered Enterprise. He specalises in ’back office’ transformation business and developing finance strategies and operating models for large, global organisations enabling them to support their ambitions.

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    Beccy Fenton: Partner, Head of Health and Human Services & Global Lead for Care Pathway Redesign

    Beccy has over 20 years’ experience working for and with healthcare organizations including commissioners, providers, regulators, integrated care systems and governments.

  • David Ferbrache

    David Ferbrache: Author, Chief Technology Officer, Cyber

    David has over 30 years of cyber and information security expertise and is recognised as one the UK’s experts in this area. He leads on strategy for the KPMG cyber team, oversees KPMG’s cyber defence services.

  • Lisa Fernihough

    Lisa Fernihough: Partner, Financial Services Consulting

    Lisa leads our Financial Services Consulting practice, and as also a Client Lead Partner for a large building society. She has deep experience in leading large, complex transformation programmes in the financial services sector.

  • Martin Findlay

    Martin Findlay: Partner, Office Senior Partner, Aberdeen

    I hold two positions: Aberdeen office senior partner (since April 2016) & tax partner (since October 2000). Our 115 colleagues provide audit, tax & advisory services, supported by the wider UK firm & our global network. Our advisory practice covers deal advisory, forensic accounting & other business consulting.

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    Georgie Fletcher: Author, FS Fin Tran

    Georgie works in KPMG's Finance Transformation team. Aside from her client work, she co-leads KPMG’s RaiseYou Client Outreach initiative which seeks to promote the attraction and retention of diverse talent, establish strong client networks and upskill the FS community. Georgie is passionate about the ‘S’ in ESG, with a particular focus on IDSE and gender diversity.

  • Tim Fletcher

    Tim Fletcher: Director, Cyber Security in Corporates

    Tim leads KPMG’s Powered Cyber offerings within the UK. He joined KPMG in the UK in 2012 and has been principally involved in delivering cyber security advisory and transformation engagements to clients in industrial manufacturing, consumer markets, technology and energy and natural resources

  • Nelly Ford

    Nelly Ford: Manager, Financial Services

    Nelly is a Manager in the Finance Transformation team in KPMG UK. She has over 10 years of industry and consulting experience supporting clients with transformation programmes and project management.

  • Max Forshaw

    Max Forshaw: Assistant Manager, Climate Risk and Decarbonisation Strategy

    Max's background is in the power and utilities sector, where he helped clients respond to regulatory changes as the energy sector decarbonises. His recent work in the climate risk team has involved supporting clients with climate risk assessment, modelling and TCFD disclosure.

  • Ben Foulser

    Ben Foulser: Director, Infrastructure Advisory Group

    Ben is a Director in KPMG's Infrastructure Advisory Practice and leads the Infrastructure Advisory Future Mobility team, providing consultancy services to clients spanning zero-emission mobility, intelligent transport, smart ticketing/fare payment systems, Mobility as a Service (‘MaaS’).

  • Paul Freeman

    Paul Freeman: Director, Corporate Tax Central Technical & Treasury

    Paul leads KPMG’s corporate tax central technical team and co-leads KPMG’s treasury tax team. He has over 16 years’ experience as a corporate tax specialist – including 10 years focusing on the provision of advice on complex tax issues to major multinational groups operating in the financial sector.

  • Philip G Abram

    Philip G Abram: Partner,

    Phil joined KPMG in 1996 and became a partner in 2005. Phil has specialised in advising clients on deals since 1998, working extensively across both our Corporate and Private Equity client base supporting these clients from deal strategy through to post deal support.

  • Heather Garrett

    Heather Garrett: Director, Internal Audit, Risk and Compliance Services

    Heather is a Director in our Internal Audit, Risk and Compliance Services function. Heather leads a portfolio of clients across a range of sectors (including Defence, Consumer Markets, Professional Services and Life Sciences), delivering risk, governance and internal controls services. She has worked with organisations at different stages of risk and control maturity.

  • Sophie Gauthier-Beaudoin

    Sophie Gauthier-Beaudoin: Director, Audit Centre of Excellence

    Sophie is a Director in KPMG UK’s Audit Centre of Excellence and leads the Investor Insights Programme, which provides a forum for institutional investors and auditors to share perspectives on how corporate reporting and stewardship can evolve to meet stakeholders’ needs today and in the future. Sophie joined KPMG Montreal in 2007 where she worked on some of the office’s largest audits and moved to the UK firm in 2012 where she specialised in audits of listed groups in the industrial manufacturing and other sectors.

  • Melissa Geiger

    Melissa Geiger: Partner, Head of Tax Policy and UK Board Member

    Melissa is a Partner, Head of Tax Policy and UK Board Member for KPMG in the UK. She leads the tax relationships with some of the firm’s most significant clients, advising on tax policy and complex tax issues, tax governance, tax technology processes and reporting changes, transfer pricing and M&A. Melissa returned to KPMG in 2017 as the Head of International Tax for KPMG in the UK based in London.

  • Binu George

    Binu George: Manager, Controls Assurance

    Binu is a Manager in the Controls Assurance team and has 6 years of experience in KPMG delivering assurance engagements across different sectors. Within KPMG, Binu is part of the SOAR Centre of Excellence, supporting the team in the development of best practices and training.

  • Nick Ghamgosar

    Nick Ghamgosar: Manager, People Consulting

    Nick is a Manager in our People Consulting team. He is a specialist in workforce transformation and procurement, and advises large banks and corporate groups on, and delivers workforce planning and analytics solutions, job architecture programmes, procurement transformations and change management programmes. 

  • Dilen Ghetia

    Dilen Ghetia: Author, Management Consultant

    Dilen is an Analyst in the People Consulting practice. He focuses on helping businesses improve through people transformation. As part of his CIPD qualification, he completed research looking into the barriers to progression for queer people of colour in the workplace, which has fuelled his interest and passion in D&I.

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    Emma Gibson: Partner, KPMG Law in the UK

    Emma has over 20 years corporate legal experience working for privately owned companies. Boardroom experiences and insights gained when running her own business has reinforced Emma’s view that an integrated, international and technology-enhanced legal services offering is optimum for business.

  • Jonathan Gill

    Jonathan Gill: Partner, Head of Aerospace & Defence

    Jonathon works with clients on complex transformation programmes. He is KPMG’s UK Head of Industrial Manufacturing & Defence and a member of the firm’s IGH and Sectors leadership teams. In addition, he is a board member of KPMG’s Global Defence and Security leadership team and leads KPMG’s EMA Defence business.

  • Darren Girvin

    Darren Girvin: Senior Manager, Forensic Data Analytics

    Darren has over eight years’ experience within the Anti-Money Laundering sector both within and outside of consultancy. Darren’s unique mix of Transaction Monitoring (‘TM’) /Know Your Customer (‘KYC’) system Subject Matter Expertise enables him to deliver technology driven solutions across the Financial Crime space.

  • Bianca Goott

    Bianca Goott: Management Consultant, Customer Practice

    Bianca is a consultant in our customer practice where she helps organisations develop their customer strategy and improve the end to end customer experience. She comes from a background in psychology and digital startups having completed an MSc in both Clinical Psychology and Business Management.

  • Davide Gorini

    Davide Gorini: Author, Lead Cloud Architect – IGH Cloud Transformation

    Davide is a Lead Cloud Architect within the Cloud Transformation team at KPMG. Focusing on public Cloud adoption. Specifically, the way that teams and organisations most effectively leverage Cloud and modern DevOps approaches to increase business agility. Davide has a special interest on Cloud native solutions.

  • Tom Gray

    Tom Gray: Author, Graduate - Consulting

    Tom is a Graduate within the Sectors Customer Consulting team based in the Manchester office. Since joining the firm in October 2022 he has been supporting by helping clients understand the behavior and interactions they have with their customers.

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    Clair Green: Senior Manager, Finance Transformation

    Clair has over 9 years commercial experience focused on working with large multinationals on global transformation programmes, specialising in project managing ERP implementations – mainly SAP, Oracle and Microsoft Dynamics.

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    Rachel Greenberg: Senior Manager, Accounting Advisory Services (AAS)

    Rachel is one of our leads in the KPMG UK AAS Transformation service line, advising clients on best-practice technical accounting, financial reporting automation, and upgrading internal controls frameworks to ensure compliance with global accounting standards.

  • Janet Greenwood

    Janet Greenwood: Director, Director, Infrastructure Advisory Group

    Janet is a Director in KPMG’s Major Projects Advisory practice and has over 25 years experience developing & delivering major infrastructure programmes, having worked in wastewater, flood defence & transport sectors. She is experienced in carbon mitigation & sustainability at strategy & project delivery levels.

  • Fran Gregory

    Fran Gregory: Manager, Solutions Manager

    Fran has worked as both a researcher and a solutions manager, providing customer experience programmes that ensure Customer is at the heart of business.

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    Krishna Grenville-Goble: Director, Inclusion, Diversity and Equity – Board Leadership Centre

    Krishna focuses on diversity, inclusion and equity matters at board level for the ‘KPMG Board Leadership Centre’ programme and works closely with the FTSE Women Leaders Review team (successor to the Hampton-Alexander Review) to improve gender balance in FTSE350 companies.

  • Gillian Griffin

    Gillian Griffin: Director, KPMG In the UK

    Gillian leads on a number of Global Compliance projects for clients focusing on bringing a level of standardisation, robust tax risk governance and best practice across teams, regions and globally. Her key focus is relationship management; service delivery across all taxes; embedding process improvements.

  • Adrian Griffiths

    Adrian Griffiths: Partner, Head of Life Sciences

    Adrian is a Partner in our Management Consulting practice who specialises in Finance and back-office transformation programs. These encompass operating model, process and people change in the context of ERP (both Oracle and SAP) and Business Intelligence reporting and planning solutions.

  • Stewart Hagell

    Stewart Hagell: Director, Corporate Treasury Services

    Stewart has 14 years of treasury advisory, accounting and audit experience from working in KPMG’s corporate treasury services function. Stewart has extensive experience leading treasury advisory and audit engagements, including transformation projects, risk management assessments.

  • Jan Hameed

    Jan Hameed: Senior Manager, Independent Programme Assurance

    Jan leads KPMG UK’s FS Independent Programme Assurance Team. Jas has spent the last 13 years in providing assurance over large and complex change initiatives, evaluating change portfolios as part of the 1st, 2nd and 3rd lines, reporting into the Board and senior management.

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    Kevin Harabasz: Senior Manager, Financial Services Consulting

    Kevin is a Senior Manager in KPMG’s Financial Services Regulatory Consulting practice and specialises in providing regulatory advisory services to smaller companies. His experience includes supporting new Bank and non-Bank authorisations as well as providing support on Conduct Risk, SMCR, Governance and regulatory prudential matters.

  • Kate Hardy

    Kate Hardy: Author, Analyst, People Consulting

    Kate works in KPMG’s IGH People Consulting department and has a keen interest in how behavioural science can be applied to both internal and client work. Given the unprecedented challenges of 2020, Kate is particularly interested in the links between behavioural science and health & wellbeing.

  • Tatiana Hardy-Stotz

    Tatiana Hardy-Stotz: Senior Manager, ESG Reporting

    Tatiana is a leading ESG disclosures expert within our ESG Corporate Reporting team at KPMG in the UK. Tatiana has over a decade of international ESG experience, with a particular focus on ESG communication and reporting.

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    Peter Harmston: Partner, Head of Financial Services Payments Consulting

    Peter leads Payments Consulting for KPMG UK with extensive experience in payments strategy, product innovation, payments program design as well as deep experience in the delivery of large scale payments and payment related programs.

  • Ashley Harris

    Ashley Harris: Director, Financial Services

    Ashley has over 15 years’ experience in designing, delivering and implementing large scale regulatory and operational transformation programmes. Ashley is currently KPMG’s Global Lead Architect for Operational Resilience and has led a number of major banking, insurance and wealth and asset management operational resilience implementations.

  • Paul Harrison

    Paul Harrison: Senior Consultant, Tax and Legal

    Paul Harrison is a Director in the Tax & Legal practice (Central Tax). He focuses on risk, quality and professional issues for the firm and helps clients deal with complex tax investigations and disputes. Paul gained an MSc in Occupational Psychology during a career break in 2017.

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    David Harrison: Partner, Management Consulting, Technology Strategy & Transformation

    David leads the UK Technology Strategy & Transformation practice. David has 25 years’ experience in consulting, finance and technology enabled transformation. David and his team support clients with IT Effectiveness, IT Sourcing and Enterprise Applications.

  • Beth Harvey

    Beth Harvey: Manager, Wealth & Asset Management

    Beth, part of KPMG’s Wealth & Asset Management practise primarily focuses on ESG implementation. She has a proven track record of successful ESG implementation across both regulatory and strategic programmes. Beth has acquired a broad knowledge of the ESG regulatory obligations impacting the industry in EU and Global.

  • Ali Hassan

    Ali Hassan: Author, Head of Business Design

    Ali is the Head of Business Design within KPMG’s Connected Technology practice focusing on the Corporates sector. He specialises in applying human-centred design methodologies to find solutions to complex business problems and is known for converting business strategy into solution design and digital products.

  • Thomas Hawkins

    Thomas Hawkins: Assistant Manager, Corporate Security

    Thomas is an Assistant Manager who is leading on Corporate Security at KPMG. He has experience in resilience and security working with a variety of different industries including; aviation, critical national infrastructure, logistics, manufacturing and financial services.

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    Will Hawkley: Author, Global Head of Leisure and Hospitality

    Will joined KPMG in 2001 to develop KPMG’s presence in the leisure sector as part of the business development team. His accounts include TUI, Ladbrokes Coral, Playtech, GVC, Whitbread, IHG, William Hill.

  • George Hay

    George Hay: Partner, Corporate Finance

    George is a leading expert in finance and regulation of utilities, providing executive level advice and managing detailed regulatory finance analysis and modelling that regulated utilities and their investors rely on.

  • Sarah Hayes

    Sarah Hayes: Partner, Deal Advisory Real Estate

    Sarah Hayes is a Partner in the Real Estate Deal Advisory team and has been with KPMG in the UK for 15 years. During her time with KPMG Sarah has worked on both multinational and domestic transactions in numerous areas of acquisitions, capital market transactions, joint ventures, demergers and disposals.

  • Oliver Haywood

    Oliver Haywood: Director, Customer and Digital Lead

    Oliver has extensive experience in supporting leading brands with the design and delivery of strategic, customer-centric business change. He helps clients to develop clear, robust visions and designs for new operating models – then supports through the full implementation and benefits realisation cycle.

  • Victoria (Vicki) Heard

    Victoria Heard: Partner, Head of Tax and Legal

    Vicki is the head of KPMG’s Banking tax practice and has worked in corportate tax for 15 years. She has advised a large variety of financing transactions, including external and intra-group structured finance arrangements, bond issuances and IPO.

  • Chris Hearld

    Chris Hearld: Author, Head of Regions

    Chris is Head of Regions and is responsible for a network of over 20 regional offices and KPMG’s work with privately owned businesses across the UK. Chris joined KPMG in 1992 and previously spent time working in the Financial Services and Audit practices.

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    Louise Heffernan: Associate Director, Financial Services ESG, Nature & Biodiversity

    Louise supports Financial Services clients manage nature related risks and opportunities, and incorporate nature into their climate ambitions and approaches. Prior to KPMG she held several roles in the UK Government with a primary focus on International Climate.

  • James Henderson

    James Henderson: Author, Customer Insurance Director

    James has spent the last 15+ years in senior marketing & customer growth roles - both client and consultancy side with clients ranging from global FS and CPG corporations to consumer retail tech start-ups.

  • Tom Henderson

    Tom Henderson: Assistant Manager, Infratech

    Tom currently sits within KPMG UK’s InfraTech team, which provides advisory on digital technologies, data, and analytics for asset-intensive organisations. Tom’s role involves undertaking diagnostics and strategy, as well as, supporting the implementation and integration of solutions and analytics in the infrastructure sector.

  • Lisa Heneghan

    Lisa Heneghan: Partner, Chief Digital Officer

    As Chief Digital Officer for KPMG UK, Lisa leads a high-end technology capability focused on delivering best-in-class solutions across an extensive range of specialisations. Her role has seen her drive organisation-level transformation to deliver fundamental business model change, better enabling KPMG to thrive in the digital age.

  • Paul Henninger: Partner, Head of UK Connected Technology & Global Lighthouse

    As Head of Head of Connected Technology, Paul leads all UK Technology teams including technology advisory, data & analytics, cloud & application engineering, automation, and our enterprise platforms teams across major platforms including SAP, Oracle, Salesforce, Coupa and others.

  • Katie Henry

    Katie Henry: Senior Manager, Lead for Dynamic Risk Assessment Strategy, development and ESG

    Katie specialises in risk management and applies this knowledge to support clients across the globe, particularly in relation to their emerging, strategic and environmental, social and governance (ESG) risks. As the strategy, development and ESG Lead for KPMG’s dynamic risk assessment (DRA) Global Centre of Excellence, Katie is responsible for the delivery of ground-breaking techniques into new markets and sectors.

  • Matthew Herrington

    Matthew Herrington: Partner, Deal Advisory Tax, Corporates Lead

    Matthew is a Partner, Head of International Tax – Corporates, in our international tax group. He is a qualified solicitor, and advises large corporate groups on international tax matters, transfer pricing and dispute resolution.

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    Neil Hewitson: Director, ESG Lead for Infrastructure, Government and Healthcare

    Neil has fifteen years experience auditing and assuring local government bodies and leads our local government audit team in London and the South East. He represents KPMG on the London Audit Group, a membership body of Heads of Internal Audit from London Boroughs and the Home Counties, and sits on its Executive Committee.

  • David Hirst

    David Hirst: Director, FS TS Infra & Real Est

    David specialises in leading multi-work stream due diligence engagements for infrastructure investors in Europe and is part of the senior team at KPMG covering this investor community.

  • James Holley

    James Holley: Partner, ESG Transaction Services Deal Advisory

    James leads our Transaction Services team and ESG Private Equity proposition at KPMG, with over 20 years’ ESG & Sustainability experience in both an advisory and practitioner context. He has had core membership roles in several private equity industry initiatives.

  • Kate Holt

    Kate Holt: Partner, HR Transformation

    Kate is a People Consulting Partner in HR Transformation. She has led projects that have focused on behavioural change management, organisation design and development, optimisation of the HR function, leadership and talent development, and performance improvements through people.

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    Alice Hothersall: Assistant Manager, Powered HR

    Alice is a Technology Solutions Consultant within the Powered HR practice. She works with organisations to deliver large scale business transformation programmes enabled by technology, with a focus on Oracle and ServiceNow solutions.

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    Lauren Lauren Hughes: Senior Manager, Disputes, Investigations, Advisory, Risk consulting, Forensic

    Lauren is a Senior Manager in KPMG’s Regional Forensic practice and is based in KPMG’s Birmingham office. Lauren has a range of forensic accounting experience, including dispute advisory projects, fraud investigations on behalf of public sector and privately owned companies, consequential loss/banking remediation and post-deal disputes.

  • Kirk Hull

    Kirk Hull: Director, Operations Consulting

    Kirk is a Supply Chain and Operations Director with more than 20 years’ experience in global industry and consulting. He has led significant business transformation projects in multiple sectors and supported clients with global supply chain management, operating model design and implementation process.

  • Sam Humphries

    Sam Humphries: Senior Manager, FS People and Change

    Sam helps banks to transform their approach to learning to realise their workforce outcomes of the future. He currently focuses on the KPMG managed services for learning & learning technology.

  • Liz Hunter

    Liz Hunter: Director, Equity Reward, People Services

    Liz Hunter has twenty years’ experience as a specialist in the design and implementation of UK and international executive and employee incentive plans. She supports both quoted and private companies in relation to statutory and bespoke equity reward arrangements.

  • Georgia Hunter

    Georgia Hunter: Senior Manager, FS Transformation

    Georgia is a Senior Manager in KPMG’s financial services practice supporting clients to deliver regulatory-driven change initiatives, in particular Payments Operational Resilience. She is our Powered Resilience Functional Manager, working closely with global teams to innovate the Powered Resilience solution.

  • Andrew Husband

    Andrew Husband: Partner, Operational Transformation

    Andrew is a partner in KPMG’s financial services practice focused on supporting banking clients in structuring and delivering their most complex operational change initiatives. He has led and advised on many large-scale operational transformational programmes. More recently he has built and led KPMG’s multi-disciplinary Operational Resilience team.

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    Tino Hwata: Manager, Consumer Markets

    Tino is a Manager in KPMG’s Consumer Practice in the UK. He supports Consumer Digital Platforms and Consumer Packaged Goods clients to create efficiency, manage risk and drive growth. Previously, supported large pharmaceuticals and life science organizations with business intelligence and market research across EMEA and US.

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    Samar Iqbal: Assistant Manager, Cyber Security

    Samar is an Assistant Manager in our KPMG Resilience team in the UK. She has extensive experience helping clients across Corporates and Financial Services navigate and prepare for crises. Her expertise is in designing and testing a firm’s resilience capability aligning to best practice across the industry and new regulations.

  • Claire James

    Claire James: Author, Head of ESG Strategy

    Claire leads KPMG’s ESG strategy team, within Deal Advisory. An experienced and trusted leader with an extensive range of financial, strategic, analytic and operational skills. She helps clients with creating or refining their ESG Strategy, as well as strategic options for transforming the business in line with their ESG ambition.

  • Georgina Jarvis

    Georgina Jarvis: Assistant Manager, Climate Risk and Decarbonisation Strategy

    Georgina has been working across the energy and climate sector at KPMG for 4 years. Her work in climate risk and decarbonisation includes working with corporates to define decarbonisation strategies to help achieve emissions targets including through carbon offsets, as well as understanding how banks should approach the 2021 climate biennial exploratory scenario exercise.

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    Kashif Javed: Partner, Head of International Tax

    Kashif is a Partner and Head of International Tax for KPMG in the UK, with over 20 years of experience working with global groups on complex international tax issues.

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    Yehen Jayasena: Senior Manager, Enterprise Performance Management, Finance Transformation

    Yehen is a Senior Manager in our Management Consulting practice. He has over 20 years of experience in Enterprise Performance Management and has led large scale Finance Transformations encompassing establishing Centres of Excellence, delivering significant efficiencies through automating end-to-end finance processes.

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    Nehal Jilka: Partner, Head of Controls – Corporates

    Nehal has over 20 years experience developing tailored solutions surrounding financial, operational and information technology (IT) processes & controls. He has worked on over 300 clients across the globe in either an audit or advisory capacity and specialises in helping organisations transform their risk & controls.

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    Ashish Joglekar: Author, Cloud Transformation Architect

    Ashish is a Cloud Architect within our Cloud practice and has 11+ years’ experience in Technical and Solution Architecture. He has strong experience in Cloud Transformation, DevOps Modernization, IT Service Continuity, & Technical Program Management.

  • Michael Johnson

    Michael Johnson: Senior Manager, Wealth and Asset Management Consulting

    Michael is a Senior Manager in our Wealth and Asset Management Consulting practice. He has extensive experience helping asset managers implement complex regulation and manage risk on an ongoing basis.

  • Hannah Johnson

    Hannah Johnson: Assistant Manager, Business Psychology and Change Management

    Hannah began her Business Psychology career, after studying a MSc in Organisational and Business Psychology. Working in organisational development, improving organisational culture and employee engagement through change programs.

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    Carol Johnson: Partner, Tax, Innovation Incentives

    Carol leads KPMG’s UK innovation incentives team for large corporate clients. She has over 19 years tax experience including in operational and tax policy roles at HMRC and HM Treasury where she was responsible for CFC reform, R&D tax credits and the Patent Box.

  • Gareth Jones

    Gareth Jones: Director, HR M&A

    Working with organisations Gareth helps them deliver the people agenda on integrations, separations (M&A), joint ventures and large scale change programmes. He has experience of working across different industries. Gareth has held senior roles in consulting and in-house HR teams.

  • Natasha Jones

    Natasha Jones: Partner, Audit and Retail Sector Audit Lead

    Natasha has specialised in working with retail clients for the past 20 years, and is the UK Firm’s retail sector lead for Audit. She has worked with a great variety of retailers, including international groups as well as UK centric businesses.

  • Ishi Juttla

    Ishi Juttla: Author, Management Consultant, People Finance Services

    Ishi works in KPMG’s People Practice, supporting clients in the Financial Services sector to transform their workforce, learning and HR functions. She has a background working in the Energy sector and is an advocate for ESG policy and strategy.

  • Sesank Kandalum

    Sesank Kandalum: Senior Manager, Financial Services

    Sesank is a change champion and specialises in designing and delivering organization wide strategic and transformational programmes engaging multiple businesses, functions and senior stakeholders across geographies. He has led several complex change assignments internationally in corporate head offices, shop-floors and shared services set ups in retail and manufacturing companies across UK, Europe and Asia-Pacific.

  • Shubham Kapur

    Shubham Kapur: Author, Cloud Transformation Architect – FS Cloud Transformation

    Shubham Kapur is a Cloud Transformation Architect with specialisation in Cloud Strategy, Transformation and Delivery across Financial Services. Her primary experience is in supporting clients navigate their organisational, infrastructure and people agendas as they undergo Modernisation and Cloud Transformation.

  • Kishen Karia

    Kishen Karia: Assistant Manager, Corps Data & Data Strategy

    Kishen works in KPMG's Connected Technology within the Corps Data team. He has delivered work for clients in the Utilities, Government and D&A sectors. While focusing on developing and operationalising corporate Data Strategy, including data operating models, governance and management insights.

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    Hemal Karsan: Senior Manager, Finance Transformation

    Hemal is a Senior Manager in our Finance Transformation team and is a qualified ACA & ChMC Chartered Accountant. He specialises in advising Finance executives with the optimisation of their Finance function with a particular focus on strategy, operating model design, process optimisation.

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    Abhijeet Kasurde: Author,  Cloud Consultant – FS Cloud Transformation

    Abhijeet is a Cloud Consultant within the Cloud Transformation team at KPMG UK with 20+ years of broad technical experience ranging from designing on-premises, Hybrid infrastructure, Cloud migration and solution architecture.

  • Niluka Kavanagh

    Niluka Kavanagh: Author, Brand, Customer and Marketing Strategy

    Niluka works in brand, customer and marketing strategy at KPMG. Her areas of specialism include experience design, customer-led innovation, brand strategy, behavioural science and communications. Her background includes employee experience in M&A and sales & marketing. Outside of KPMG, Niluka is a writer and content creator.

  • Jeremy Kay

    Jeremy Kay: Partner, Energy and Natural Resources

    Jeremy has over 20 years of experience in consulting and leads the Global Energy and Natural Resources Strategy team. He regularly provides advice to private equity, principal investment firms and blue chip corporate clients in all aspects of business and operations strategy.

  • Paul Kelly

    Paul Kelly: Director, Solicitor

    Paul is a corporate lawyer in the KPMG Law team specialising in domestic and cross-boarder mergers and acquisitions, international group reorganisations and equity incentives. Paul has extensive experience of delivering legal services as part of multi-disciplinary team at KPMG.

  • Shaan Khalil

    Shaan Khalil: Director, Enterprise Performance

    Shaan helps businesses drive top and bottom line performance by implementing Enterprise Performance Management solutions. He is a highly experienced programme and project leader, with experience across the Consumer Goods, Retail, Life Sciences, Technology and Telco sectors.

  • Alice Killingbeck

    Alice Killingbeck: Partner, Partner, KPMG Law

    Alice is a private client lawyer in the KPMG Law team. She advises UK and international individuals, families, trustees and family offices on issues related to the management, growth and transition of their personal and business wealth.

  • Eloise Knapton

    Eloise Knapton: Partner, Head of Employer Reward Services, KPMG in the UK

    Eloise has over 11 years’ experience within Employment Taxes and is a Partner in our UK Employment Tax practice, which advises clients on a broad range of Employment Tax and payroll issues from compliance and reporting to advisory and best practice guidance.

  • Tim Knight

    Tim Knight: Partner, Customer Advisory

    Tim is deputy head of KPMG’s Customer Practice, focused on helping clients grow faster and more effectively. We do this by helping deliver the best customer, digital and employee experiences. He also runs KPMG’s global Customer Excellence Centre, which analyses the performance of over 3,000 brands, through the lens of customers, employees and economic results

  • Arturs Kokins

    Arturs Kokins: Author, Associate Director, Global Strategy Group

    Arturs is an Associate Director within KPMG's Global Strategy Group, with more than 10 years of experience in supporting international growth, developing customer-centric business models and enhancing operational capabilities of world leading organisations across a range of industries, including Financial Services, Telecommunications, Public Sector, and others.

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    Katya Kozlova: Author, Analyst, Powered Customer

    Katya works to deliver digital transformations and a seamless customer experience with Salesforce as the core solution. Since joining the team, she became a Salesforce administrator and has worked with a broad range of products such as service and Sales Clouds. She has experience working in agile Salesforce implementation projects across multiple industries including public sector, food and beverage.

  • Richard Krishnan

    Richard Krishnan: Partner, Technology and Cyber Risk

    Richard leads the UK firm’s Cyber Security practice for Infrastructure, Government and Healthcare. Richard has a background in major transformational change in central government and law enforcement and most recently has developed cyber security strategies for major programmes of change across the public sector.

  • Marina Krumbholz

    Marina Krumbholz: Director, Technology Risk, Financial Services

    Marina has over 15 years’ experience delivering advisory engagements over financial, operational and information technology (IT) processes, across the financial services and corporates sectors. Her focus areas are in risk management and control transformation programmes and has track record in helping clients design.

  • Bettina Kuntz

    Bettina Kuntz: Senior Manager, Forensic Investigation and Compliance, Risk Consulting

    Bettina has more than twelve years of experience in counter fraud and financial crime compliance work. She has gained exposure to different types of work and cultures by helping clients from various sectors and carrying out international assignments.

  • Harriet Kuzemko

    Harriet Kuzemko: Author, FS Strategy

    Harriet is part of our Strategy & Value Creation team focussing on growth and transformation within Financial Services players, across design and implementation of business and operating models.

  • Christina Kwon

    Christina Kwon: Manager, HR M&A

    Christina is a HR M&A Specialist who advises clients on major transactions relating to people and HR matters and helps them deliver the people agenda. She is passionate about working on the ground with clients to help employees make a seamless transition.

  • Caroline Laffey

    Caroline Laffey: Partner, Tax and People Services

    Caroline advises employers on a wide range of employer compliance obligations including the operation of PAYE and NIC on payments, National Minimum Wage (NMW) and the operation of Construction Industry Scheme (CIS) regulations. Caroline also advises employers on the structuring and taxation of employee reward packages including the design and implementation of flexible benefit schemes.

  • Rachel Lang

    Rachel Lang: Author, Project Manager, FS Central Coverage

    Rachel is a manager in FS who works on KPMG UK's FS ESG proposition development. She also works at a global level with the Global Risk Driven Transformation business on developing core ESG propositions for global members firms.

  • Kirsty Laremore

    Kirsty Laremore: Author, Associate Partner, Financial Risk Management and Regulatory Practice

    Kirsty specialises in compliance arrangements and the conduct of business in the retail banking industry. She has worked on a series of high profile regulatory investigations commissioned by the FCA as well as a Section 166 review and has supported banks in developing their remediation responses to mis-selling issues.

  • Azalia Lawrence

    Azalia Lawrence: Senior Manager, Financial Services, People consulting

    Azalia is from our Financial Services People Consulting Practice, specialising in HR Transformation and people strategy. She bring an academic background in Psychology & Business Management and is the Communications & Marketing lead in KPMG’s Behavioural Science Unit.

  • Jennifer Lee

    Jennifer Lee: Partner, KPMG in the UK

    Jennifer has worked at KPMG for over 19 years, having led the tax practice in Liverpool since 2016. She advises a wide variety of clients in UK.

  • Shen Lee

    Shen Lee: Director, Corporate Treasury Services

    Shen has over 20 years of treasury management and Financial Services experience gained from various positions in industry and advisory services. Industry roles include, Front office dealer, Back office Manager, Global Head of Cash Management and Head of Operational Risk for a commodity Trading business.

  • Greg Limb

    Greg Limb: Partner, UK and Global Head of Family Office and Private Client

    Greg leads the Global Family Office and Private Client practice, having advised clients for over 30 years on tax matters and beyond. Greg’s client base ranges from wealthy individuals to entrepreneurial families, often with complex dynamics and cross-border nuances, requiring a blend of commercial, personal and technical astuteness in successfully advising on their affairs.

  • Rachel Linhares

    Rachel Linhares: Director, Governance, Risk and Compliance Services

    Rachel has 19 years of experience providing assurance and advisory services to clients in Practice/Consulting and in a US-listed multinational industry, and has worked in over 18 countries helping companies of different sizes, complexities and industries to assess and improve their risk, controls and assurance governance structures.

  • Charlotte Lo

    Charlotte Lo: Director, Banking Accounting Advisory

    Charlotte leads our Banking Accounting Advisory practice delivering market-leading accounting services and solutions such as ESG reporting, hedge accounting and providing leading accounting insights on complex and emerging issues such as structured cryptocurrency and carbon transactions.

  • Nicola Longfield

    Nicola Longfield: Partner, Global Consumer Markets Deal Advisory Lead

    Nicola leads the Consumer Markets Deal Advisory team in London and is the KPMG Lead Partner for Mars Inc. She has over 15 years of experience with KPMG as a Transaction Services specialist, advising corporate and private equity clients on sell-side, buy-side and refinancing projects.

  • Mark Longworth

    Mark Longworth: Partner, Head of Insurance Consulting

    Mark is a Partner and Head of Insurance Consulting with KPMG in the UK, as well as the Global Insurance Advisory Lead, KPMG International. With over 26 years of experience, he specializes in transformational change across Life, Non-Life and London markets.

  • Nicole Lowe

    Nicole Lowe: Leadership, Head of Emerging Giants and KPMG Access in the UK

    Nicole is the Head of Emerging Giants and KPMG Access in the UK. Emerging Giants is a Global KPMG brand for our support of fast growth and innovative scaling businesses. The team identify and support high potential startups and scaleups across the UK and work alongside them to accelerate their success.

  • Alex Luck

    Alex Luck: Manager, Corporates People Consulting

    Alex is a Manager within KPMG’s People Consulting practice. She advises clients on workforce, learning and HR solutions designed to address their key people and talent issues. Alex’s particular areas of focus are Talent, Organisational Change and Workforce Transformation.

  • David Lynch

    David Lynch: Senior Manager, Wealth & Asset Management Consulting

    David is an experienced and highly regarded programme manager, and for the last 12 years has worked with a variety of asset management firms to transform their client and fund reporting propositions, managing technology and business process transformation projects.

  • Marc MacLeod

    Marc MacLeod: Senior Manager, Financial Services ESG

    Marc sits in KPMG’s Financial Services ESG Team, supporting organisations with ESG-focussed risk- and regulatory-driven transformation programmes. His expertise spans ESG with primary focus on social, human rights and modern slavery and, increasingly, the intersection between people and planet.

  • Neelm Mahmood

    Neelm Mahmood: Assistant Manager, People in M&A

    Neelm specialises in merger & acquisition advisory on the people side of deals. Driven by her industry and deal experience, she takes pride in supporting companies during the integration and separation process. She is passionate about psychology and has volunteered as a cognitive behavioural therapist.

  • Matthew Malone

    Matthew Malone: Partner, Risk and Regulatory Transformation

    Matt is Head of risk and regulatory transformation. His career covers a mix of industry and management consulting experience across industry sectors and disciplines. He is recognised for leading businesses through breakthrough customer, technology, culture and risk-led transformational change.

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    James Malton: Analyst, Customer

    James has worked on a range of projects, from developing unique insight into ‘best-in-class’ customer experience, customer journey mapping, and enterprise-wide digital transformation. He has led research into how digital innovation is transforming the world of the customer.

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    Joe Manning: Director, Advisory

    Joe is a Director in KPMG’s Major Projects Advisory team, providing assurance and programme management for Infrastructure and Government. Joe has 15 years’ experience delivering and advising across the lifecycle of major projects and programmes.

  • Damien Margetson

    Damien Margetson: Director, Forensic

    Damien is a Director in KPMG’s Forensic team and has over 20 years in the accounting profession. Damien helps clients to maximise the value they get from their data assets by extracting value from financial and operational information to aid better business decision making and minimising risk.

  • Scott Marriott

    Scott Marriott: Director, Restructuring

    Scott is a chartered surveyor within KPMG’s national markets’ restructuring team and has over 20 years’ professional experience in commercial and residential property development, asset management and investment across the UK.

  • Massimiliano Marsico

    Massimiliano Marsico: Director, Technology Risk Consulting

    Massimiliano is a Director in Technology Risk Consulting, where he leads the SAP Controls team. He advises corporate clients on automation via SAP solutions to manage risks and achieve compliance with regulatory frameworks.

  • Paul Martin: Partner, UK Head of Retail

    Paul is KPMG’s UK Head of Retail and an international business professional with over 15 years of experience in consulting, market research and operational roles focussing on the retail sector. His main areas of experience are internationalisation and digitally enabled customer centric – channel agnostic transformation programmes.

  • Kelly Martin

    Kelly Martin: Partner, Accounting Advisory Services

    Kelly is an expert accounting advisor for energy businesses, having supported some of KPMG’s largest global clients on IFRS 15 and IFRS 16 adoption.

  • Kennedy Masterton-Smith

    Kennedy Masterton-Smith: Director, Legal Services

    Kennedy is a Regulatory Services Lawyer in our UK Legal Practice. She leads the team advising on the impact of Brexit on MIFID II implementation along with broader regulatory issues for firms. Kennedy is part of the KPMG multi-disciplinary team advising a number of clients on the creation and development of a Brexit contingency plan including three banks and one investment firm.

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    Sam Matute: Associate Partner, Global Compliance & Transformation

    Samantha specialises in the area of Tax Operating Model, being the end to end strategy and delivery model for a tax function. This covers Organisation design; the definition, design and implementation of tax processes and the review, often using Lean Six Sigma methodologies, of existing processes.

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    Aron Mayer: Partner, Global Compliance and Transformation

    Aron has over 12 years of tax and accounting experience with KPMG. He currently serves as a director in our Global Compliance and Transformation Practice and leads Managed Services engagements for some of our largest global clients.

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    John McCalla-Leacy: Partner, Head of ESG

    As our Head of Environment, Social & Governance (ESG), John is responsible for embedding ESG practices into our strategy and for leading the delivery of ESG solutions, products and services to our clients.

  • Adam McElroy

    Adam McElroy: Director, Financial Services Cyber

    Adam has over 30 years of experience in information technology and is widely acknowledged as an industry expert in Identity and Access Management. He leads IAM in the UK market for KPMG cyber and collaborates with international colleagues across the network of member firms and alliance partners.

  • Will McGahan

    Will McGahan: Senior Manager, Employment Tax

    Will has over 10 years of experience advising organisations in both the public and private sector on a range of different matters. Will is a Senior Manager in the Employment Tax team and has been at the forefront of helping clients review their company car offerings.

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    Sean McGill: Director, Strategy & Performance Transformation

    Sean has experience in both transactions and corporate strategy with KPMG in both North America and Europe. Prior to joining KPMG, Sean worked for EY in London focusing on providing commercial due diligence services to Private Equity clients.

  • Tom McGinness

    Tom McGinness: Leadership, Global Leader Family Business, KPMG Private Enterprise

    Tom has been a partner at KPMG in the UK for over 21 years and is responsible for all tax services provided to a wide range of privately-owned and family-owned businesses. A former Inspector of taxes, Tom has over 30 years’ corporate tax experience including international mergers and acquisitions, reorganisations and financing.

  • David McGonigle

    David McGonigle: Director, Powered Supply Chain & Procurement

    David is a passionate change evangelist and has over 25 years’ experience specialising in the value-add benefits that effective supply chain, procurement, logistics and operations management can bring to an organisation.

  • Bina Mehta

    Bina Mehta: Leadership, Chair

    Bina has worked at KPMG for over 30 years, specialising in M&A and Restructuring and advising leading private and listed international clients. She has extensive international experience having worked in India, the USA and Canada acting for private equity houses, lenders and corporates.

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    Tejas Mehta: Director, Head of FS and UK IT Internal Audit

    Over 20 years of experience in providing IT Internal Audit services for global financial services clients. Tejas leads the FS and UK wide IT IA practice across KPMG UK and also acts as lead for IT IA co-sourcing engagements for several FS organisations. Tejas runs the KPMG IT IA co-sourcing relationship for several major banks.

  • Zeynep Meric-Smith

    Zeynep Meric-Smith: Partner, Wealth and Asset Management Consulting

    Zeynep has extensive experience in helping clients across all asset classes on business strategy, operational and technology-led change.

  • Ashlee Mewburn

    Ashlee Mewburn: Manager, KPMG Forensic

    Ashlee is a qualified Chartered Accountant with extensive experience in fraud risk management and investigations both in Australia and the UK. As an experienced fraud and misconduct investigator she is passionate about assisting clients to better understand their fraud risk vulnerabilities when it comes to fraud prevention and detection.

  • Warren Middleton

    Warren Middleton: Partner, Manchester Office Senior Partner

    Warren Middleton is our Manchster Office Senior Partner, an experienced Consulting Partner who has been with the firm for 22 years and a partner for 12. He is the UK National Markets Consulting team Lead Partner and leads a team of over 30 fellow partners. Warren has worked or led work in over 30 countries

  • Phil Mitchell

    Phil Mitchell: Partner, HR Transformation

    Phil Mitchell is a Partner in KPMG’s Cloud Transformation practice in the UK to lead the HCM capability. Phil has provided HR and Payroll transformation implementation services across multiple industries including retail, financial services, travel and transportation, retail, oil and gas and public sector.

  • Sophie Mondo

    Sophie Mondo: Senior Manager, CORPS Customer

    Sophie supports retail and CPG organisations to transform how they operate, implementing new strategies to achieve efficiency and growth by putting the customer at the heart of everything they do. Sophie has extensive experience in Strategy implementation & Transformation, Target Operating Model development.

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    Stephen Moore: Director, FS ESG, Insurance

    Stephen is part of the Financial Services ESG team at KPMG UK, where he focuses on the insurance sector, helping businesses to implement an authentic, integrated and commercial ESG strategy. Stephen has extensive knowledge of Lloyd’s and the insurance sector, with over 28 years of experience in the London market and global insurance markets.

  • Julie-Anne Moors

    Julie-Anne Moors: Senior Manager, Forensic Technology

    Julie-Anne has over 15 years of forensic and eDisclosure management and delivery experience, investigation, PII and audio surveillance projects across several international jurisdictions. She has worked on a variety of cases ranging from fraud, litigation, misconduct and human resource disputes.

  • Luis Mora-Silva

    Luis Mora-Silva: Director, Forensic and Financial Crime

    Luis is a Director in the Financial Crime Forensic Team practice with extensive international experience delivering complex, data heavy Financial Crimes investigations and reporting to regulatory authorities. Luis is also an ACAMS Certified Anti-money Laundering and Global Sanctions Specialist.

  • Paul Moreels

    Paul Moreels: Director, Employment Taxes

    Paul is a Director in KPMG’s Employment taxes team and is the National Housing Sector lead for People Services. He has worked for KPMG for over 8 years advising employers on all aspects of PAYE, NIC and CIS compliance as well as assisting with the design, implementation and review of flexible benefits schemes.

  • Ruth Morgan

    Ruth Morgan: Partner, Head of Local Government

    Ruth leads our local government practice in the UK, working in and with local government and the broader public sector. This includes change programmes of every scale and increasingly involves working with partner organisations.

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    Sue Mortimer: Senior Manager, Forensic Investigations and Compliance

    Sue Mortimer is a qualified Chartered Accountant and a Forensic consultant experienced in investigations and compliance matters, including in anti-bribery and corruption, and with a strong interest in ESG-related issues.

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    Phil Murden: Partner, Consulting

    Phil leads ‘DealConnect’ which helps clients grow their businesses faster and increase their equity value typically following new ownership, for example after Private Equity investment. DealConnect team cover a range of services including Business Transformation, Cost Reduction, Cyber, Data Analytics, Risk management and Technology.

  • Richard Murray

    Richard Murray: Partner, FS T&L TP Banking

    Richard specialises in designing, documenting and implementing tax efficient transfer pricing policies for multinational companies. He has around fourteen years of consulting experience and specialises in economic analysis, valuation, and transfer pricing policy setting and audit defence.

  • Steve Nathan

    Steve Nathan: Director, People Consulting

    Steve is a senior member of the People Consulting team, focussing on infrastructure, central government and healthcare. He led the first phase of transformation for a group of Whitehall public sector bodies merging.

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    Jahir B Navaz: Manager, Cloud Architect

    Navaz is a Cloud Architect within KPMG Cloud Transformation team and has experience in Cloud design, solution, and transformation. He has a deep understanding of cloud computing technologies and services, and proficient in designing and implementing cloud-based solutions that align with an organization’s goals and objectives.

  • Sarah Nelson

    Sarah Nelson: Associate Director, Climate Risk and Strategy

    Sarah is responsible for helping to lead and shape our Natural Capital and Biodiversity work in our Global ESG Advisory Hub. Sarah has over twenty years of international experience in developing and implementing environmental, social and economic policies at both the global, regional and national level.

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    Carol Newham: Partner, Insurance, Tax, ESG Tax & Legal Partner Sponsor

    Carol has specialised in financial services tax since joining KPMG in 1999. Her experience covers a wide variety of areas including, mergers and acquisitions, post deal integration, international tax, tax transformation and risk management, HMRC tax disputes and settlement negotiations and tax support to statutory audits.

  • Mel Newton

    Mel Newton: Partner, Insurance Transformation

    Mel is a Partner in KPMG’s Insurance Transformation team, specialising in People and Organisational Change. Mel has over 30 years of experience in this field and has a reputation for leading programmes with energy, engaging effectively with leadership, programme teams and employees at all levels.

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    Vinh Nguyen: Manager, Finance Transformation

    Vinh is a Manager in our Finance Transformation team and is an ACA qualified Chartered Accountant. Vinh specialises in planning and delivery of Finance operating model optimisation, including implementation of cloud ERP and planning technologies.

  • Cyril Noel-Tagoe

    Cyril Noel-Tagoe: Assistant Manager, Cyber Security

    Cyril is an assistant manager in KPMG’s Cyber Security practice, with a focus primarily on clients in the financial services sector. He advises clients on a range of technical and non-technical cyber security domains from strategy and governance to security operations and incident response, and is an ISO 27001 Lead Auditor.

  • Andrew North

    Andrew North: Director, Technology Risk

    Andy joined KPMG in 1990 from University and after initially qualifying as a chartered accountant within our audit practice, he has focused upon information technology (IT) audit and assurance. He has worked across all industries and now leads our technology risk team in the UK, servicing infrastructure, government and healthcare clients.

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    Lucas Ocelewicz: Partner, Risk Consulting

    Lucas advises banks on trading risk and wholesale conduct. Lucas is a Partner in Risk Consulting specialising in trading risk and wholesale conduct. Over the years he investigated and supported banks in the remediation of major scandals such as LIBOR and FX as well as one of the largest unauthorised trading incidents.

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    Leticia Oladele: Assistant Manager, Inclusion, Diversity & Equity

    Leticia is an Assistant Manager in KPMG’s Inclusion, Diversity and Equity team. Her areas of focus include: social mobility, ethnicity, programme management and data analysis . She is passionate about working with internal teams, clients and suppliers to help and make a difference in our wider society.

  • Dr. Andrew Olawale

    Dr. Andrew Olawale: Associate Director, Major Projects Advisory, Assurance

    Andrew provides advice and solutions that help clients improve the performance of their capital projects and programmes thereby saving cost, reducing financial wastage, and enhancing value. He also delivers strategic insights and assurance for boards and leaders of organisations to provide delivery confidence.

  • Maxim Olliver: Director, ESG, Climate Risk

    Maxim specialises in integrating climate change into the risk management of financial institutions, and helping them develop strategies to drive their business towards Net Zero.

  • Lola Olorunnibe

    Lola Olorunnibe: Author, Assistant Manager, Powered Customer

    Lola focuses on customer centric transformations, through Salesforce based engagements. She has also worked with a range of business services teams on projects such as paid channel marketing, client analytics & insights, user journey and experience. Prior to joining the firm.

  • Lolu Olufemi: Senior Manager, People Consulting

    Lolu supports employers with their people & HR strategy and projects. This includes areas such as navigating the people side of ESG; Inclusion, Diversity & Equity (IDE); the future of work & hybrid working; behavioural change management; learning; employee experience; culture; leadership development workforce transformation.

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    Christopher Overton: Senior Manager, KPMG - Law

    Chris provides strategic advisory and transaction support particularly for government, technology, regulated sector and investor clients on technology, data, payments/fintech, cloud, investment structuring and complex sourcing & logistics. This includes extensive M&A and investment transaction advice.

  • Anupama Panikar

    Anupama Panikar: Senior Manager, Governance, Risk and Compliance Services

    Anupama has 10 years of experience in providing risk, controls and assurance services including internal audits, controls transformations and risk management advisory engagements. She has worked with clients across manufacturing, technology, consumer markets, media, and life sciences.

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    Ioanna Papanikolaou: Manager, Infrastructure Advisory Group, Asset Management

    Ioanna is a Chartered Civil Engineer and holds a PhD in Engineering from the University of Cambridge, which was focused on developing sustainable materials. She has extensive experience in supporting asset-intensive organisations to transform their operating model to realise efficiencies and respond to changing environments.

  • Ruby Paramanathan

    Ruby Paramanathan: Director, Distribution & Client Experience, Wealth & Asset Management Consulting

    Ruby joined KPMG at the beginning of 2020 following 18 years working both buy side and in consulting focused on the asset management sector. Her specialism is delivering technology enabled transformation including operating and business model changes working with Sales, Marketing and Distribution functions.

  • Jason Parker

    Jason Parker: Partner, Head of Health & Human Services KPMG

    Jason is KPMG’s UK Head of Health & Human Services across private, public and third sector. His expertise includes: performance improvement, lean management, cost reduction, strategy, reconfiguration, mergers and acquisitions, board development and senior stakeholder management.

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    Jack Parker: Senior Manager, Head of Data and Applications, Managed Services

    Jack is a Senior Manager in KPMG Managed Services, with experience in leveraging technology and data to support large scale operations including Customer Due Diligence and regulated remediation engagements.

  • Charlotte Parker

    Charlotte Parker: Manager, Financial Services ESG

    Charlotte is a Manager within our UK Financial Services ESG team. She specialises in helping clients in the wealth and asset management and banking industries, with a deep knowledge of stewardship, engagement, reporting and long-term value creation.

  • Shreya Patel

    Shreya Patel: Assistant Manager, Cyber Security

    Shreya is an Assistant Manager within the Cyber Security team at KPMG in the UK. She specialises in Identity and Access Management (IAM), She has experience of multiple large-scale IAM/PAM transformation programmes.

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    Nathan Patten: Partner, Financial Services, Finance Transformation

    As an insurance industry specialist Nathan provides a broad range of advisory services across the insurance market. His experience includes leading finance change and system implementation programs, acquisition and due diligence support, process and control reviews and technical advisory and assurance projects.

  • Julie Patterson

    Julie Patterson: Director, Head of Asset Management, Regulatory Change

    Julie leads on Asset Management, Regulatory Change in the EMA FS Risk & Regulatory Insight Centre, EMA. Prior to joining KPMG in 2014, Julie spent 15 years at the Investment Management Association and its predecessors (IMA and AUTIF).