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.

Axe is a Partner in KPMG Deal Advisory team and leads the specialised FS Deal Strategy & Value Creation practice. A Financial Institutions Group focused Deals Advisor, Axe works with Private Equity, Asset Managers and Corporates on investments and cross border transactions, managing deals from origination (deal flow) through to execution.

Leanne Allen is a Director 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.

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.

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.

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 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 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 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.

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 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.

Charles has a wide range of experience in IFRS and accounting support, ranging from advising on the IFRS implications of transactions, IFRS conversion exercises and training businesses on the implementation and effects of IFRS.

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.

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 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.

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 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.

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.

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 is an ESG expert within our Financial Services Consulting Team. After a successful career in Banking, he specialises in providing ESG advice to our Banking and Financial Services clients.

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.

Claire is a qualified chartered secretary and has been supporting and advising clients with their corporate secretarial and governance requirements since 2006. Claire heads up the team of UK corporate secretarial and governance specialists.

Robert is a partner in KPMG’s Global People and Change Centre of Excellence where he delivers world-class HRolutions 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.

Sue is a senior partner with over 30 years of experience with KPMG. She has been an executive Board member of KPMG Europe and is a former Head of Tax for the EMA region of KPMG. She is now responsible for the overall KPMG relationship with a number of major global groups in the consumer goods, retail and manufacturing sectors.

As the Director leading the Technology Architecture capability within KPMG’s CIO Advisory practice, Adrian oversees a team of 30 enterprise, cloud and application architects who transform and manage the technology platforms (especially cloud) which enable our clients to compete within their markets.

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.

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 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.

With over 25 years of professional experience in successfully guiding clients through challenging situations where problems need fixing, Andrew's experience includes advising on supplier difficulties and the threat to production/creating brand damage, improving cash flow forecasting, challenging strategies and designing and implementing turnaround programmes.

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.

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.

Georgia completed her MSc in Behavioural Science from the University of Bath in 2019 and is now a contributor to KPMG’s ‘BSU’ – ‘Behavioural Science Unit’. Georgia has worked at KPMG for a year as an analyst in the Operations team.

Chris is a Director in the Finance Transformation team in KPMG UK. He has over 10 years’ experience supporting clients with regulatory change.

Sophie is a Manager in the HR 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 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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

Bob has many years’ experience advising companies on equity market matters. He was initially appointed head of research and later became managing director of the UK equities business.

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.

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 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.

Chris is part of the rail team in KPMG’s Infrastructure Advisory Group and has worked on engagements across the sector. He specialises in providing financial, commercial and strategic advice to clients across the rail sector including Network Rail, Transport for London and other local and national transport authorities.

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 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 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.

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.

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.

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

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

Karl is the Midlands Regional Chair and Birmingham Office Senior Partner. He has over 25 years’ experience of working with clients in the Industrial Markets, Automotive, Property, Construction and House Building sectors.

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.

David Elms is the UK Head of Media for KPMG LLP. David has advised clients in the media sector for over 25 years. As Head of Media for KPMG, David has responsibility for our services to all of our media clients.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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'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.

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 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 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 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.

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 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.

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

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.

Richard has over 20 years’ experience transforming complex supply chains to reduce cost and increase resilience. He is currently a Director in our Operations Consulting practice where he leads our procurement and supply chain capability within the Infrastructure Government and Healthcare market.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

With over 20 years of experience across the technology and analytics sector Paul is Head of Digital Lighthouse for KPMG UK. He leads a data, AI and digital capability focused on delivering best-in-class solutions across an extensive range of specialisations.

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 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.

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.

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.

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 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 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.

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.

On the topics related to digital content such as gaming, esports, and entertainment, Baro advices global clients on B2B business development, planning, and implementation; providing thinktank services for the Japanese government on deciding the nation’s public policy; and implement professional curriculums at Keio University.

Andra works closely with families and family offices, supporting them in managing their businesses, their wealth and understanding their aspirations. Andra takes a holistic approach when advising clients, focusing on family longer term succession planning and family governance.

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.

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.

Alp has substantial experience leading technology engagements across several industries, with a focus on Salesforce in Comms, FS and FMC. He has been responsible for planning and delivery of Salesforce implementation, data integration and migration, establishing Centre of Excellence and strategic roadmaps. He has also provided SME guidance on cloud applications, change management, DevOps and agile delivery.

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.

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 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.

Rhiannon is a leader of large and complex change and transformation programmes and works with clients to help them develop and harness the skills and capabilities of their people through people-led transformation.

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 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.

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 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.

Aris is a Financial Services Partner at KPMG in the UK, and focuses on finance transformation for global banking clients. He has delivered major Finance Operating Model change, finance shared services and intelligent automation solutions for Finance. Aris also leads on Finance function benchmarking for banking globally.

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.

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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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.

Andy leads KPMG’s People Consulting capabilities in the public sector. With a particular focus on justice and policing, Andy has led multiple operating model and people led transformation projects.

Lydia has spent the last 1.5 years working in KPMG's People Consulting team, focusing on Behavioural Change Management and Communications in the context of operating model, risk and regulatory driven transformation. She has a particular interest in driving community engagement through the use of social media, and digital calls to action in the workplace. Prior to working in the People Consulting team, Lydia spent 3 years in the KPMG Technology Consulting team, focusing on ERP specification, selection, and programme assurance.

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.

Simon is a director in the firm’s Data & Analytics practice where he leads our team focused on retail and regional clients. He has 20 years’ experience advising clients on how to get value and insights from their data, leading on data strategy, data governance, business intelligence implementations and advanced analytics solutions.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

Colin works across the Further Education & Higher Education sectors, he is currently focusing on the development and delivery of skills analytics. His experience includes funding compliance and curriculum planning across providers and supporting government departments with the evaluation of sector-wide data collections.

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 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.

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.

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 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 is Chair of KPMG UK and has more than 20 years of international M&A and Restructuring experience in the UK, USA and Canada acting for private equity houses, lenders and corporates.

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

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 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

Chris has led various multi-disciplinary functions and complex client delivery work across the full suite of retail and commercial banks. His main focus is banking operational strategy, multi-channel end-to-end data and digital re-engineering.

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.

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.

Nick has over twenty-five years blue chip financial management and transformation experience in both consulting and in industry where he worked as a finance and planning director for Centrica.

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.

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.

Leveraging more than 20 years of industry experience in supply chain and operations, Maureen helps deliver transformational levels of performance, productivity and profitability. She is passionate about people and proud to lead the operational transformation team for KPMG in the UK. She believes in the power of business-led, technology-enabled transformation of the supply chain.

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 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.

Isabel is a data protection and privacy lawyer in the KPMG Law team. She has 15 years’ experience with a practice focussing on data and information technology law. She advises on both freedom of information and data protection compliance and arrangements where personal data is being transferred.

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 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.

Richard is a Director in the Managed Services team, with experience working across a diverse collection of industries and sectors, leading the solution design and development of managed service engagements.

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).

Tim is a Partner in our People Consulting practice. His expertise is in organisational behavioural, organisation design and HR Transformation. He is a Chartered Occupational Psychologist, and in addition to many years as a consultant he spent four years as UK and EMEA HR Director for KPMG, also sitting on the Board of KPMG Europe LLP.

Graham leads KPMG’s Technology, Media and Telecommunications (“TMT”) sector Corporate Finance business in the UK. Graham has over 15 years’ experience and is an experienced corporate finance practitioner. The TMT Corporate Finance team in the UK is over 30 strong, with deep subsector expertise across many verticals.

Richard is the Performance Group Leader for National Markets Deal Advisory. He is a highly-skilled partner with over 20 years’ experience in his field. He has a proven track record of coordinating and forming multi-location cross-border transactions and has an excellent network of close colleagues around the globe to ensure consistent and seamless delivery.

Alexis has 18 years’ experience supporting businesses to attract and retain the best talent. She particularly enjoys collaborating with clients to develop their ‘Employee Value Proposition’ and in recent years has spent time focusing on Family Businesses and the unique and fascinating family dynamic that sets those businesses apart.

Kristopher, has over 15 years of experience gained in the UK, Europe and South America. Specializing in diagnostic, design and implementation of complex SOX and Internal Controls programmes for large organisations, and delivery of Internal Audit engagements with a focus on financial controls.

Rob is a Senior Manager in the Financial Services Governance, Risk and Compliance Services practice. He is an experienced risk, controls and internal audit professional with 11 years’ experience in financial services gained working with a variety of organisations.

Cliodhna is a Risk and Regulatory Transformation Consultant specialising in Corporates at KPMG UK LLP, and a qualified Chartered Accountant.

Alicia specialises in driving improved risk mitigation and management for Financial Services and FinTech clients in Europe. This is coupled with an interest in driving the gender diversity agenda in the wider FS sector.

Iain is an Associate Partner in KPMG’s Operational Transformation practice and leads our Supply Chain team working with large UK organisations. Iain acts as a trusted advisor to COOs and supply chain executives in a number of corporations.

Anna is the London Office Senior Partner. Her focus is on Private Enterprise in London, where she convenes client discussions in this critical growth area. She was previously the UK firm’s Head of People.

As UK National Sector Head for Real Estate Andy oversees all of KPMG’s services to property companies and investors in the UK and has focussed on real estate transactions since that time. He is also part of a KPMG team advising some of the largest real estate investors on the impact of technological disruption on the real estate sector.

As the UK lead for financial controls transformation service Osama specialises in risk and control transformation programmes, supporting large and complex organisations. He deep expertise of end to end Sarbanes-Oxley implementations, enabling clients to achieve their strategic and financial objectives.

Siddharth is an Associate Director in KPMG Powered Procurement team and heads the technology enabled procurement practice. Siddharth works with mid-size to large cap Private Equity houses, Insurance, Banking and Asset management companies to help rapidly gain significant savings and control in their procurement function through technology enablement.

Rosanna works in KPMG’s Financial Services (FS) People Consulting team, supporting her clients across their people and transformation agendas. Her primary experience includes learning, change management, culture and communications, particularly in the context of risk and regulatory transformation.

Hannah is a Manager in our People Consulting team, specialising in learning, talent and culture. She has experience across a range of sectors, including Retail, Pharmaceuticals and Defence. Hannah is passionate about unlocking the potential performance of an organisation through its people.

George has a background in financial statement audit at KPMG covering a wide range of sectors including regulated power & utilities, oil & gas, retail and chemicals and pharmaceuticals.

Jonathan is an experienced chartered accountant with a background in commercial, financial reporting and tax valuations. He currently leads the Midlands tax valuations team and has a specialism in EOTs and IP valuation.

Adam works extensively on microeconomic strategy projects, both in the UK and internationally. His work includes advising clients on the economic analysis of demand, market size estimation, product design and statistical simulation, taxation, and broader regulatory issues.

Caroline Rivett is Associate Partner, Cyber Security in Life Sciences. Caroline has over twenty years experience of managing and reviewing technology and risk. Over the last five years she has specialised in privacy and the security of personal medical information.

Matthew is a procurement specialist with extensive experience helping FTSE 100 businesses transform their procurement and supply chain capabilities. He has led the development of the global procurement operating model for a retailer, developed the Source to Pay technology strategy for a busines.

Peter is a trading risk and valuation specialist with a detailed understanding of regulatory requirements and significant risk and finance transformation experience. He specialises in helping clients design and embed Basel compliant approaches for derivative pricing, liquidity risk and capital.

Marianze has over 11 years of experience gained in South Africa, the US and the UK, delivering a range of Sarbanes-Oxley compliance, financial and operational internal audit projects and risk assessment for large and complex clients in multiple sectors.

David was appointed as the UK Head of Consulting, combining Management, Risk and Strategy Consulting, in October 2017. He has a substantive track record of delivering high profile business transformation programmes, particularly within Consumer Goods, Diverse Industrials and Travel and Transportation industries.

Helen joined KPMG in 2002, joining Corporate Finance in 2005 after qualifying in KPMG’s Audit practice and became a Partner in 2018. She leads KPMG’s public company M&A offering, with particular experience of working with and in relation to public companies on Takeover Code governed transactions and also co-leads London Regions M&A team.

Justine is part of KPMG Law’s financial services legal team where she focuses on legal and regulatory offerings for banks in the fast-paced and ever-evolving legal and regulatory global eco-system.

Sam leads KPMG’s Education Consulting practice in the UK. He has over 18 years’ experience of working with high profile public sectors clients, both in the UK and Australia, delivering large scale organisational redesign, process and customer journey improvement, core systems selection and change management projects.

Tim is a specialist in the implementation of tax-efficient business models by multinational companies and has recently been leading KPMG’s Brexit response in tax and location strategy across industry. He has 17 years of experience as an international corporate tax specialist.

Based in Birmingham, Judith Scholes is a Project Manager in our Project Programme and Portfolio Management Team. As part of the wider Connected Technology capability, Judith focusses primarily on business change projects that are enabled by technology.

Derek leads the Private Client Tax Disputes and Investigations team. In particular he advises high net worth individuals, families and their companies who are under enquiry by HMRC. Derek specialises in advising clients undergoing complex investigations involving offshore structures and assets.

Louise is KPMG’s Head of Learning Solutions in the UK, and also has a specific focus on public sector clients. She leads our work on innovative design and delivery of learning programmes, working with complex consortia to implement and apply change within the public sector. She brings a combination of extensive consulting experience with direct experience as both an education and health practitioner who understands how learning works in practice and how to implement successful change. Prior to joining KPMG in 2007 Louise was an Associate Director in Further and Higher Education and a registered allied health professional for 16 years.

Sebestyén works as an advisor at KPMG’s Sports Advisory Practice and at the Football Benchmark team. In addition to sports, his main focus is esports – he has been involved in esports for more than 5 years, and not only as a consultant, but also as a player, has won the 2019 Hungarian National Esport Championship.

Dharam is Senior Manager in our Banking Risk team and focuses on Wholesale Conduct Risk. He has expertise in risk detection, strategy, governance, market abuse and surveillance, banking, advisory, front-to-back processes, and controls.

Rebecca is a strategy and deals partner with client relationship lead partner responsibility for a selection of large-cap Corporates. She is KPMG’s Head of Industrial Markets, Strategy Lead for KPMG’s Corporates business, and a member of the firm’s Corporates leadership team. Prior to that she spent six years as Head of Strategy for KPMG’s Global firm during which she was also a member of KPMG’s Global Management Team. Her experience as a consultant with KPMG and McKinsey spans over 25 years. Rebecca is known for her ability to engage senior leadership teams around a change agenda and turn ideas into implementation. In her consulting role, Rebecca has advised senior teams in major multi-nationals and PE houses. Her experience ranges from strategy assessments, feasibility studies and commercial due diligence work to post-merger integration and implementation of major change initiatives.

Roisin is a Director and Co-Head of Corporate Responsibility. Driving our responsible business agenda via KPMG UK’s key pillars of social mobility, strategic philanthropy, education and environment. Roisin joined KPMG in 2013, leading on environmental strategy, compliance and thought leadership, becoming Head of Corporate Responsibility in 2018.

Richard joined KPMG in London in 1988 in audit and gained investigation experience in a general practice environment before specialising in transaction advisory work in the mid-1990s. He became a partner in 2001 and now leads the Life Sciences deal advisory team in London.

Donna leads KPMG’s growing Employment Legal Services team and has over 15 years' experience in employment law. She advises employers from a wide range of sectors on all aspects of employment law.

Simon Shaw is Head of Indirect Tax for KPMG in the UK and is also a former Anti-Avoidance Adviser to HM Revenue & Customs. His role helps clients manage their VAT affairs and solves their VAT related problems. Simon has led numerous projects that have delivered substantial amounts of VAT as cash refunds or working capital.

Julian Short is a Partner with over 20 years’ wide-ranging consulting experience and KPMG UK's lead for Commercial Strategy. Prior to this he was a Managing Director in Accenture and led the Pricing strategy group globally. Julian is the co-author of “The Oxford Handbook of Pricing Management” and “Selling Through Someone Else”.

Nathan sits in our Customer Experience specialism at KPMG. He has worked on multiple customer-focused transformations with experience in Telco and Utilities. He is passionate about leveraging digital technologies to improve customer experiences.

David is Director – International at KPMG UK, where he advises businesses about how to take advantage of international trade and investment opportunities and to succeed in the changing global trading environment.

Paula leads KPMG’s UK banking team which brings together the best professionals to help UK banks grow responsibly and sustainably. Paula is a seasoned banking professional with over 20 years’ experience in senior finance and operational roles at a number of major global banks.

Anna is a director in information technology (IT) transformation, providing her expertise both internally and externally to our clients. She is also the founder and leader of IT’s her future, KPMG’s multi-award winning programme which is tackling gender diversity within KPMG technology and at our clients.

Summer is part of our Forensic Data Analytics team. She helps clients manage their financial crime risks by using analytics to derive insight and uncover patterns from large volumes of data.

Nandini has more than thirteen years of experience in large scale financial crime transformations in KYC/CDD (Know your customer/Customer due diligence), Transaction Monitoring linked to Anti-Money Laundering (AML) and the Sanctions space. Including financial crime reviews, risk assessments, AML strategy and roadmap, Control Framework and TOM design.

Simon has over ten years of experience working on financial crime compliance and investigation related projects. He specialises in helping financial institutions with regulatory driven reviews and complex anti-money laundering and anti-bribery and corruption related engagements.

Juliana is part of KPMG’s Actuarial team, specialising in helping life and non-life insurers quantify and manage their various sources of risk. Originally from Colombia, she is particularly interested in how ESG considerations can help address environmental and social inequalities in developing countries.

Ruth leads our Learning, Talent and Culture practice and has over 18 years’ experience leading complex organisational transformation programmes. Through the application of behavioural science techniques, she enables our clients to maximise the performance of their people.

Dr Kay Swinburne is the Vice Chair of Financial Services at KPMG in the UK. Kay served as Vice Chair of the European Parliament’s influential Economics and Monetary Affairs Committee, playing a pivotal role in shaping EU and global financial services legislation.

Jonathan has over 10 years’ of experience in delivering commercial valuation advice to a wide range of clients. He has worked across a number of sectors but has extensive experience in providing valuation services to clients in the financial services sectors.

Mina Tezcan is a Senior Relationship Manager in KPMG’s Financial Services Team. She is an experienced communications strategist and previously led marketing teams at KPMG and at various international investment banks. Mina is a strong advocate of intersectional brand and corporate communications. Since 2019 she led the partnership programme for KPMG’s gender balance initiative RaiseYou.

Ed Thomas is KPMG’s UK Head of Transport and has specialised in the rail sector since 1999. He advised the original Strategic Rail Authority from 2001 to 2005, and since then has built up KPMG’s market-leading practice advising private sector bidders as well leading a number of high profile public sector rail mandates.

Adam is a Partner in our Deal Strategy & Value Creation team. He has advised business leaders and investors across multiple countries. His primary focus areas are Healthcare, Education and Life Sciences as well as in the Leisure sector.

Richard has over 25-years of experience advising private and public sector clients on some of the world’s largest and most complex infrastructure projects. He is passionate about the benefits of the growing role of technology in infrastructure and cares deeply about building prosperity, reducing poverty and creating a sustainable quality of life.

Martin took over the role of leading KPMG’s UK Cyber Security practice in 2018, prior to that Martin led the overall consulting practice in the North region.  The UK Cyber Security team clients range from Fortune 500 businesses to UK-based technology businesses and a number of premium sports businesses. Alongside this role Martin launched KPMG’s involvement in Cyber Champions, an initiative taking Being Safe Online talking to school children directly that in 2018 saw the KPMG team educate over 3,000 school children in the UK. 

Svilena has been with KPMG for ten years, having joined the firm after ten years in industry. She has a highly commercial background, having managed the budgeting and forecasting process at group and regional level within the software and pharmaceutical industries.

Martijn is a partner in the London office, specialising in cyber security and digital. Martijn has been with KPMG since 1999 and has worked for the Dutch, Australian and UK member firms.

Simon is the UK Head of Energy and Natural Resources at KPMG advising clients on strategy, regulation & deals in the UK energy market. Simon has an extensive background in the Energy sector and he is also a Fellow of the Energy Institute, on the Executive Council of the PGES, and on the Board of the University of Sheffield Energy 2050 Programme.

Francesco is a Director in the Forensic Data Analytics team for KPMG in the UK, with over 20 years’ experience in designing advanced analytic solutions to help global banks fighting financial crime and achieving compliance.

Roy is a Chartered Accountant, Head of Investigations and Corporate Forensics conducting forensic investigations and disputes in many countries for over 21 years. He has conducted regulatory driven financial investigations of fraud, financial statement misstatements, misconduct and money laundering.

Sarah is an expert in assurance with over 15 years’ experience supporting clients to ensure they have put in place effective controls over their financial reporting processes. She has delivered projects across several regulatory driven subject matters and has been instrumental in delivering some of our largest and most complex US SOx audits.

Helena has over 10 years of audit and advisory experience at KPMG in the UK, working across a broad range of sectors. She has recently established KPMG UK’s Corporate Reporting Advisory team bringing together financial reporting and ESG specialists to provide advice to clients on all aspects of UK corporate reporting.

Simon is a Partner leading our Climate Risk & Decarbonisation Strategy team with over 10 years’ experience operating at the FTSE Board level – and his experience of supporting a large variety of large, complex listed companies enables him to bring a strategic, critical and innovative lens to his clients’ issues – bringing practical solutions to help Board’s move their strategic thinking forward.

Ian is KPMG’s Global Lead on several large telco and technology companies. He has led these relationships for over 8 years and, in addition, is Head of KPMG’s UK Technology, Media and Telecommunications (TMT) sector. Ian is also Joint Lead for KPMG’s C-Suite Programme which supports clients on their development to the C-Suite.

Euan has over twenty years’ experience in the professional services sector. He is a member of the National Markets leadership team, sits on the Investment Review Board and leads the firm’s digital transformation programme across its regional business.

Nick has over 25 years’ industry experience, of which the last 15 have been spent in information and data. Most recently Nick has been focused on information and data strategy, and information and data operating models.

Neill is a Partner with over 18 years cross-sector experience in the successful delivery of transformational change. He has led a multitude of business wide transformation programmes across the retail, construction and technology sectors. His strength is in the design and delivery of strategic transformation programmes.

Hannah is experienced delivering across a range of sectors, specialising in customer strategy transformations with a focus on brand and marketing.

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Don has over 25 years of experience of advising clients in the retail sector initially as an audit partner and National Head of Sector at BDO. His clients are, predominantly, private (family) or private equity owned and focused on managed growth to maximise shareholder value.

Luke is a member of KPMG UK’s Cyber team in Bristol, with a focus on security operations.

Mark is a Lead Partner within our People Practice, which advises our clients in the UK and Globally on workforce and HR solutions designed to address their key people and talent issues to drive business performance. His focus areas are Learning and Technology.

Becky’s core expertise is in leading large, complex, time-critical, multi-disciplinary programs with Insurance clients whilst driving large teams to deliver exceptional client outcomes. Becky’s current focus is on driving the Operational Resilience agenda for Insurance clients having worked with multiple insurance companies from brokers and commercial insurers to life insurers.

Halvor is the regulatory Market abuse, risk lead in surveillance covering all areas of the Financial Services sector, with over two decades of capital market experience in Trading and Behavioural risk.

With over 20 years of experience Rachel focuses on back office integration and transformation programmes across corporate clients including implementing new operating models, finance processes and systems and improving management information, board information and key performance indicator (KPI)s.

Will heads up the National Markets restructuring team in the UK. He has over 20 years' experience advising companies and their stakeholders in stressed and distressed situations. This includes corporates across many sectors, clearing banks, asset based lenders and VCs.

Mike is the Managing Director of KPMG Learning Services, which helps our clients transform how they build the capability of their people.