Accountancy Age's 'icons of accountancy'
Accountancy Age profiles some of the most inspirational and powerful figures in our profession
Andrew Higginson, Tesco group finance and strategy director
In the past year, Accountancy Age has profiled some of the most inspirational
and powerful figures in the profession: from banking CFOs to FDs of FTSE100
companies to rising stars in the Big Four. Here, we showcase some of these icons
of accountancy and offer a few of their words of wisdom.
To access their profile interviews, click on the links below, otherwise,
launch the photo gallery here:
David Sadler, FD of guidebook publisher Lonely Planet
Malcolm Simpson, FD of bakery retailer
Greggs
Jon Thompson, FD of Office for Standards
in Education (Ofsted)
Norman Lyle, FD of Jardine Matheson one of
Asia’s biggest businesses
Steve Lamey, CIO of HM Customs &
Revenue
Jonathan Kemp, FD of Shed productions, makers of
Footballers’ Wives
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Neal Milsom, UK FD of mobile phone
operator Orange
Karan Bilimoria, chief executive and founder of Cobra
Beer
Margaret Ewing, CFO of the British
Airports Authority
Sarah Buxton, the FD behind the Chelsea
Flower Show
Lee Ginsberg, FD of Domino’s Pizza
Hugh Sturges of Berry Bros & Rudd,
wine suppliers
Martin Coombs, FD of Computer Sciences
Corporation
Javed Khan, FA Premier League’s director
of finance and administration
Ashley Steel, KPMG board member
Naguib Kheraj, Barclays Bank’s CFO
Steve Gazzard, FD of enterprise business software company,
SAP
Tracey Wood, the youngest partner of a Big
Four firm
Christopher Wales, MD, financing group,
Goldman Sachs International
Jon Symonds, CFO of AstraZeneca and former Hundred Group
chairman
Stuart Bridges, FD of FTSE 250 insurer
Hiscox
Peter Johnson, FD of housing and
development group Taylor Woodrow
Nick Land, out-going chairman of Ernst
& Young
Gordon Hurst, FD of outsourcing company
Capita
Mark Robson, FD of British retailer MFI
Helen Kilpatrick, Home Office FD
Karen Witts, CFO of BT Wholesale
John Griffith-Jones, KPMG’s senior
partner-in-waiting
Katherine Lee, CFO of opinion pollsters
YouGov
Andrew Higginson, Tesco group finance and
strategy director
Steve Lucas, National Grid Group FD
Jann Brown, FD of Cairn Energy
Paolo Pieri, FD of lastminute.com
Mary Keegan, head of government finance
Tom Blacksell, Capgemini consulting CEO
Mark Robson, Galiform finance director
Ian Dyson, group FD of Marks & Spencer
David Nish, Standard Life Group finance director