Paul Gee

Paul graduated in Economics and Accounting at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne. He is a Fellow of
the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales.

He has worked in the accountancy profession, in both medium and large professional practices, in accountancy tuition at Chart Foulks Lynch and in higher education, where he was Principal Lecturer at Bristol Business School, University of the West of England.

Paul joined Solomon Hare, Bristol in 1989, where he is currently Technical Director with responsibility for
both technical and training matters.He is author of Spicer and Pegler’s Book-keeping and Accounts and co-author of Financial Reporting for Smaller Companies.

For over 11 years, Paul was General Editor of Butterworths Financial Reporting and Accounting Service.

Keith Gordon MA (Oxon) ACA CTA

Keith is a barrister, chartered accountant and tax adviser.

He lectures and writes frequently on a wide range of tax-related subjects.

Peter Gravestock

Peter is a Director of G&O Insurance Services and a consultant with Gravestock & Owen Chartered Accountants.

He is a past President of the Association of Taxation Technicians and is undoubtedly one of the UK's best speakers.

Gerry Hart CTA (Fellow) ATT

Gerry is an experienced Chartered Tax Adviser who currently provides technical tax support to other professional advisers such as accountants and solicitors.

He is also a prolific lecturer on a variety of tax subjects, with an enthusiastic style ensuring that delegates get the most out of the presentation.

Over the years he has created and developed several tax practices, including The Tax Team which he formed in 1994 and sold to H & R Block in 1997; he was then Head of UK Operations for nearly five years.

Gerry created the UK Tax Congress, an annual event held at Wembley Conference Centre in the 1980's.

He was the 1995/96 National President of the Chartered Institute of Taxation and founder chairman of the Sussex Branch.

Martyn Ingles (BSc FCA ATII)

Martin qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 1982 and has specialised in taxation ever since. He became an Associate member of the Chartered Institute of Taxation in 1983 whilst working for Arthur Andersen in London.
Martyn worked for The Financial Training Company Ltd for ten years lecturing in taxation and other accounting subjects to students preparing for their accountancy and taxation examinations, as well as on CPE and CPD courses.

On his return to professional practice in January 1997 Martyn joined Horwath Clark Whitehill, becoming a partner in October 1998. His main area of interest is tax planning for the family business, in particular tax efficient remuneration, exit planning and restructuring. He has also been involved in advising overseas investors on the taxation implications of setting up a business in the UK, and UK companies setting up abroad. Martyn joined MacIntyre Hudson in April 2000 where he continues to be involved in the provision of taxation training for accountants and lawyers and is a regular speaker on taxation courses.

A member of the ICAEW Tax Faculty committee and its Vice Chairman, Martyn has also had articles published in the Tax Faculty TaxLine Technical Review and in “Taxation” magazine. He is also involved in the production of tax training videos for Legal Network Television Ltd as part of his work with the College of Law.

Robert Jamieson MA FCA CTA (Fellow)

Educated at Fettes and Pembroke College, Cambridge where he studied Moral Sciences, Robert joined Cooper Brothers & Co and qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 1972. He then moved to Financial Training where he ran their specialist tax course and tax consultancy divisions. He passed the ATII examination in 1979 and received his FTII in 1984 for a thesis on family companies.

After 20 years with Financial Training, Robert decided to return to full-time practice and became a partner in Adam Broke & Co in 1992. Adam Broke & Co merged with Mercer & Hole on 1 October 2001.

Outside his work, Robert joined the Council of The Chartered Institute of Taxation in 1993 and became their President in May 1999. In addition, he is on the Editorial Board of the weekly magazine “Taxation”.

He contributed to Sweet & Maxwell’s “Transactions: Group Company Structures” and Tolley’s “Tax on Transactions” and he has written a Tax Digest for Accountancy Books on “Close Company Problems”. He was also one of the original Series Editors for Croner’s Tax Handbooks.

Chris Jones BA CTA (Fellow) ATT

Chris is Director of Tax Training at LexisNexis Tolley.

Chris is also a co-founder of Online Tutors the company that designed and produced the first audio-visual tax learning product. LexisNexis liked the product so much they launched it to the professional market last year as “Tolley’s Tax Tutor.”

Chris continues to lecture extensively to a whole range of audiences, from local societies to large training-providers and major firms of accountants. Chris has gained an excellent reputation as being among the best in his field.

Chris has throughout this time continued his practice work and advises a range of clients on many tax planning and compliance issues. He is currently a partner in a firm on the South Coast. Chris regularly draws on this experience when lecturing to fellow professionals.

Francesca Lagerberg

Francesca is the National Tax Director at Smith & Williamson and is responsible for technical support.

Francesca was formerly senior consultant to the Tax Faculty of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales (ICAEW) where she assisted in its representational work and helped launch and co-edit its website and produce its monthly newsletter - TAXline.

She has written and lectured on a wide-range of tax subjects and is co-editor of the annual TAXline Tax Planning publication. Other publications include a Tolley's Tax Digest on IR35 and contributions to Tolley's Professional Partnership Handbook.

Francesca worked for a number of years on Taxation magazine and is still on its editorial board. She is Deputy Chairman of the Tax Faculty of the ICAEW and a member of the Personal Tax Committee of the Chartered Institute of Taxation. She writes regularly for the professional press and national newspapers.

Francesca is a director of Smith & Williamson Limited and is also a qualified barrister and chartered accountant.

Steve McAlpine

Steve is a Chartered Accountant with considerable practical and training experience.

He has been responsible for accountancy training to a variety of organisations, including open courses; ranging from small businesses to major quoted companies.

Steve had almost ten years experience as training manager in two medium size firms of Chartered Accountants before becoming a freelance trainer.

As a complement to his training commitments, Steve runs a small audit and accountancy practice. The clients are generally owner managed, and Steve provides them all the routine
professional services they require from an accountant.

John Selwood

John is a chartered accountant and a partner in Reeves and Neylan.

In addition to managing and building a busy portfolio, John lectures on auditing, financial reporting and practice management and development.

He also prepares technical material for a number of publishers and is a regular contributor to Accountancy Age on SME issues.

Stephanie Smith

Stephanie is Audit and Investment Business Compliance partner for MacIntyre Hudson and is also the firm's technical partner.

She lectures on auditing, including Audit Regulations matters, company law and professional ethics. She also teaches financial management, and understanding and interpreting accounts to a number of law firms and is an accredited lecturer with the College of Law.

Her other specialisations include Money Laundering and fraud issues, avoiding professional indemnity insurance claims in accounts and audit work, accounting for employee share schemes and charities.

She continues to be involved in dealing with contentious audit and accounting issues for the practice and is a member of the Technical and Practical Auditing Committee of the ICAEW.

Mike Thexton MA FCA CTA

Mike qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 1983 and as a Chartered Tax Adviser in 1984, and has been training accountants since that time.

He presents general tax updates for practitioners and accountants in industry throughout the UK, as well as more detailed courses on CGT for stockbrokers and VAT for general practitioners/VAT specialists.

He runs the ATII programme for VAT specialists for a large firm. Mike also writes on a variety of tax topics in the professional press.

Mike Truman LLB FCA CTA (Fellow) MSFA

Mike is currently the editor of Taxation magazine which is published by LexisNexis Tolley. Prior to this appointment in 2004 he was a tax consultant and independent financial adviser. He has lectured and written on many taxation subjects since 1991 and brings a wealth of practical experience to his speaking engagements.

Mike became a fellow of The Chartered Institute of Taxation in 1996 with his prize-winning thesis entitled “Residence, 150 Years of Misinterpretation.”

Mike’s published works include the Small Business Adviser’s Toolkit – Taxation, Taxbriefs Holistic Financial Planning manual, Tax partner Digest and Teach Yourself Basic Accounting.

Mike has appeared on the video-based training programme for accountants The Accountancy Channel since 1994 and was an expert contributor to Meridian Television’s programme Quids In.

Bob Trunchion

Bob trained and qualified with Coopers & Lybrand before moving to MacIntyre Hudson, where he is involved in general taxation.

Bob has a reputation for being a very knowledgeable tax lecturer.

Dean Wootten, CTA, FCA

Dean has been involved in tax training since 1994 and lectures on a wide variety of tax matters.

Dean started his career as a Chartered Accountant, qualifying in 1988 and then as an Associate of the Institute of Taxation in 1991.

After qualifying Dean spent a number of years in practice that included over five years at partner level. The experience gained whilst in practice enables Dean to focus his lecturing on the practical aspects of the issues presented.

Together with Chris Jones, Dean was a founder director of Online Tutors Limited, a company specialising in providing high-level tax training via the internet and CD-ROM. The company is responsible for the tax and accounting update service at http://www.cchseminars.com/ and Tolley’s Tax Tutor.

For the past seven years Dean has concentrated on tax training in the CPE and student market. In addition to lecturing on a wide range of CPE courses, Dean teaches ATT students and CTA students for the General Practice, Corporate Specialist and VAT routes.

Jim Yuill 

Jim is one of the UK's leading consultants on National Insurance and is currently running his own consultancy and advisory service, The Yuill Consultancy.
Jim was a Director of the Social Security Services based in the London office of Ernst & Young.

He was responsible for advising international companies on their worldwide social security responsibilities as well as for keeping a close eye on current UK developments. Previously he spent over 20 years in the DSS and helped shape the current NIC system.