Media spokespeople
Our people are regularly featured in national, trade and local press, giving comment on topical issues or featuring in articles on issues in which they are experts.
For more information on Baker Tilly's spokespeople please click on the relevant service and sectors listed below. To speak to or interview any of our media spokespeople, please contact our PR Manager.
If you are writing an article which requires input from a specialist not listed here, please contact our PR Manager.
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Jane Bleach
Jane is Head of Audit and an advisory partner providing a strategic sounding board for large OMBs. She is also a member of the National Management Team that has the responsibility for the future strategy, development and day-to-day running of the firm. Jane joined Baker Tilly in 1988.
Mark Harwood
Mark Harwood is an experienced Audit Partner and advisor specialising in listed and AIM quoted companies. He regularly writes and presents on aspects of corporate control and governance and on accounting issues including IFRS.
Mark's experience includes advising companies ranging from well known multi-national corporations to smaller, entrepreneurial owner-managed businesses. He has advised on a number of high profile acquisitions and on the implementation of business systems and processes for multi-national corporations.
Mark has previously worked as an advisor to government and as CFO of a European retail business which he grew through a number of acquisitions.
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Chilton Taylor
Chilton Taylor is a Partner, Head of Capital Markets and is the main Corporate Finance spokesperson at Baker Tilly. He is a graduate of Cambridge University (where he gained a cricket blue) and qualified as an accountant at KPMG in 1977. He has over 25 years of corporate finance experience specialising in flotations, due diligence and fund raising, and has acted on over 80 flotations.
Chilton is a specialist on AIM IPOs and is the only accountant invited to the AIM Advisory Group of the London Stock Exchange. He is an acknowledged specialist in the VCT and EIS legislation and author of "A Guide to AIM Tax Benefits" – a joint publication
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Sudhir Singh
Sudhir is Chairman of Baker Tilly's National Charities and Education Group and a Business Services partner in the Watford office, working exclusively in the Charities and Education sector. He is responsible for a portfolio of charity and education clients, including major charities, independent schools and FE Colleges.
Having specialised in the sector since 1990, Sudhir is a recognised expert in charity accounting, law and regulation, management and governance.
He has served on several technical working parties dealing with charity accounting and regulation. He writes and speaks regularly on sector issues, and has close links with all the major charity sector bodies including the Charity Finance Directors' Group, NCVO, Charity Law Association, and he is also on the Finance Committee of the Association of Chief Executives of Voluntary Organisations.
He has spoken at recent events for the Institute of Internal Auditors, NCVO, Independent School Bursars Association (ISBA) and Association of Governing Bodies of Independent Schools.
Sudhir is also a governor of an independent girls school.
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Rob Donaldson
Rob Donaldson is a corporate finance expert. He is a Partner at Baker Tilly and Head of M&A and Private Equity.
Rob leads a team focusing on mid-market transactions between £10m and £250m. Over the past ten years, he has been responsible for business disposals and private equity transactions across many sectors including media (publishing and TV), business services, manufacturing, leisure, retail, pharmaceuticals and information technology.
Previously, Rob worked in a Big 4 firm. He is a qualified Chartered Accountant and a member of the Securities & Investment Institute, qualified in corporate finance and investment analysis.
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Mark Holland
Mark Holland is a chartered accountant who specialises in IT consulting, the development of accounting software and management information systems.
With 20 years' experience, Mark is an expert in online payment technology and can speak with authority on related issues such as fraud, security features and the development of payment technologies.
He also specialises in advising companies in a range of industries on their management information systems and back office procedures.
Mark has been responsible for the development of Baker Tilly's on line accounting service, Revas.
He is also a regular judge in the annual Accountancy Age Software Awards.
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Ian Bell
Ian Bell is an expert on pension issues. He is a Partner and Head of the Pensions Group at Baker Tilly. He has worked extensively with pension schemes for a number of years for clients including Securicor Group, Skanska, Societe Generale and Honda UK.
Ian is also a trustee of the firm's own defined benefit pension scheme and therefore has first hand experience of the issues faced by Trustee Boards in undertaking their role.
Ian can comment on all issues pertaining to pensions and pension scheme management including, employer covenant, risk management, regulatory requirements, trustee knowledge and understanding and scheme auditing.
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Karen Clark
Karen is a Tax Partner in the Baker Tilly Media Group and has dealt with a number of high profile individuals in the music and film industries. Her areas of specialist knowledge include entertainers and sportsmen, UK expatriates abroad and non-domiciled professionals in the UK.
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Geoff Carton-Kelly
Geoff is a Restructuring and Recovery Partner and is the Chairman of the Restructuring and Recovery faculty at Baker Tilly which operates in 14 of the firm's offices with 25 partners and over 170 staff. He has over 21 years' experience in dealing with the whole spectrum of business recovery and insolvency matters. He is a licensed insolvency practitioner, a member of the Insolvency Practitioners Association, a fellow of the Association of Business Recovery Professionals and a former Examiner for JIEB.
Key industry experience includes restructuring, rescue and insolvency work for stakeholders in IT, motor trade, hotels, property, energy, retail/wholesale, care homes, property, manufacturing, engineering, and transport.
Bruce Mackay
Bruce Mackay is a Partner in the Restructuring and Recovery practice at Baker Tilly. His primary areas of focus are restructuring and advisory work, and larger mid-corporate formal insolvency appointments.
Bruce has developed a number of sector specialist areas in the 24 years that he has practiced business recovery. His principal sector focus areas are pensions, motor industries, professional practices and retail.
Bruce is the National Head of Baker Tilly's Defined Benefit Pension Scheme Unit. He has a strong reputation in the field of advice to Trustees and employers tasked with managing scheme deficit risks. He is also a leading player in acting for lenders and stakeholders in the motor retail sector, has been involved in a number of restructurings and turnarounds of professional partnerships and has acted in a number of multi-site retail insolvencies.
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Mark Harwood
Mark Harwood is an experienced Audit Partner and advisor specialising in listed and AIM quoted companies. He regularly writes and presents on aspects of corporate control and governance and on accounting issues including IFRS.
Mark's experience includes advising companies ranging from well known multi-national corporations to smaller, entrepreneurial owner-managed businesses. He has advised on a number of high profile acquisitions and on the implementation of business systems and processes for multi-national corporations.
Mark has previously worked as an advisor to government and as CFO of a European retail business which he grew through a number of acquisitions.
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George Bull
George Bull is Senior Tax Partner at Baker Tilly. He also heads Baker Tilly’s Professional Practices Group and is primarily involved in providing leading-edge business and taxation advice to the legal profession.
Before joining Baker Tilly he was head of the commercial services department in a law firm where he was involved in strategic decision-making as well as day-to-day management. He therefore has an understanding of strategy issues both from the perspective of an in-house management team and as an external client adviser.
George is an approved Lexcel consultant to the Law Society in England and Wales, a member of the International Bar Association and an Honorary Member of the Law Management Section of the Law Society. He is also a member of the Tax Working Party of the Association of Partnership Practitioners and a member of the LLP SORP Steering Committee. He has recently been appointed to the Committee of the Solicitors’ Special Interest Group of the ICAEW and to the London Committee of the Managing Partners’ Forum.
He regularly broadcasts, lectures and writes on all aspects of professional practices.