Voting opens for the 2023 ICAS Council elections and AGM business

At a glance

• Passionate about sustainable, holistic growth for a better world
• Senior ESG Consultant at KPMG - with over 6 years at the firm including 5 years in financial audit alongside achieving a fully sponsored degree and the CA qualification.
• Member of ICAS’ Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion Board Committee.
• Member of KPMG’s Inclusion and Diversity Steering Committee for the Midlands,
• Member of NSPCC Birmingham Business Board, and is the Chair of the Young Professionals board
• working to connect businesses and drive activities to support the health and wellbeing of children and young people.
• One Young World Ambassador, recently representing KPMG UK - speaking about Ethical leadership to 4,000 global future leaders
• Shortlisted Future Face of Health and Wellbeing by the Greater Birmingham Chamber of Commerce.

What do I bring to Council?

• ICAS as trailblazer: My background and experience provide a perspective that will help ICAS not just address its material risks and opportunities, but lead the charge.
• Personal drive: I’m passionate about a better world, and making the member experience (present and future) the best it can be.
• Relevant skills: From challenging the status quo to presenting to executives, I possess the skills required to be effective in the role – with demonstrable experience at a global level.

Why am I interested in joining?

• The opportunity to promote positive change for both ICAS and its stakeholders
• Access a wonderful opportunity for personal and professional development.
• Connect and engage with a diverse range of perspectives

I trained and worked in practice for 9 years, training in a small firm which gave me exposure and experience in a wide range of activities and providing broad base of experience to me early on in my career. After practice, I moved to financial services where I gained experience in asset management finances, governance, global operations, and marketing operations. After 15 years in financial services in finance and operation roles I moved to CFO roles.

I was privileged to be voted onto the ICAS council in April 2020.  During the last 3 years on council my understanding of the worked carried out by ICAS and the challenges that the organisation faces has grown immensely. Having been part of agreeing a refreshed strategy for ICAS at the end of 2022 I would love to be able to use the knowledge and insights gained over the last three years to help with the delivery of that strategy and to help support the executive team work through the challenges that ICAS faces.

I would be delighted to have the opportunity to serve on the ICAS Council if elected.

I retired as a non-executive director from the Board of  FareShare in December  2022 after 16 years. Fareshare is the UK's leading food-redistribution charity and during my period on the Board,  it grew in size to redistribute 128 million meals worth of food to 9,500 charities in communities across the UK. In addition to being a Fareshare trustee, I  was Chair of the Finance, Audit and Risk Committee for 6 years and was a member of the Nominations Committee.

Previously, I had a career of over 20 years in the City in investment banking and equity capital markets, advising on M&A and raising equity capital for UK-listed companies ranging from small-cap companies to FTSE-100 companies. I was a director of de Zoete & Bevan (part of BZW) and spent 10 years there. I joined Merrill Lynch and helped build up its UK corporate broking and ECM businesses, becoming a Managing Director of investment banking and Co-Head of UK corporate broking and ECM. Laterally, I was at Dresdner Kleinwort Benson as a Managing Director and Co-Head of Corporate Broking.

I qualified as a CA with Deloitte Haskins & Sells in Glasgow and then transferred to the Corporate Finance department of Deloitte Haskins & Sells in London. I am a member of  The Association of Corporate Treasurers.