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New President for Thames Valley Society of Chartered Accountants

Graeme Gordon, a lecturer for accountancy training company Emile Woolf International, based in Berkshire, is the new president of the TVSCA.
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Graeme Gordon

President

Graeme Gordon is a senior member of the ICAEW national Council and a member of their Business Board.

Whilst Graeme lectures on Management Information, Business Strategy, Business Law and Corporate Reporting, amongst others, for Emile Woolf (the Accountancy Training company), he is also responsible for Pakistan within Emile Woolf International.

Graeme was a leading member of the team used by both ICAEW and the London Stock Exchange to train their members and those of the investment community, during the transition to IFRS; delivering lectures and seminars in London and around the UK.

Graeme has over 25 years of senior business experience since leaving the Royal Navy. These include being the Group Finance Director of multi-national listed Software Company Macro 4 plc, where he was not only responsible for, but managed and lectured in, their training regime.

Graeme has also been COO/Compliance Director for Durlacher plc (a long established London City Bank) and before that CFO for Regent Technology Ltd, an investment Bank.

Graeme was nominated as Finance Director of the Year in 2005, by readers of “Investors” magazine, and was until he left Macro 4, a member of the London Stock Exchange ‘main board’ advisory panel.

Michael Cooper

Deputy President

Michael Cooper read Modern History at Christ Church, Oxford and qualified as a chartered accountant with Price Waterhouse (now PricewaterhouseCoopers) in 1990. He joined the Civil Service in 1993 and works as a Senior Civil Servant in the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra).

His roles have spanned policy and delivery, including projects to set up the Meat Hygiene Service and Food Standards Agency. He was Finance and Corporate Services Director of the Rural Payments Agency between 2006 and 2007, before taking up his current position as Director of the UK Co-ordinating Body for the Common Agricultural Policy, which is jointly owned by Ministers in Defra and the devolved governments. He is a member of the Audit Committee of the British Computer Society and of the Institute’s Public Sector Advisory Board.

Michael is married to Felicity and has three children. He is a churchwarden and a Court Assistant of the Worshipful Company of Parish Clerks, incorporated in 1442.