Mark joined Kreston Reeves in 1999, becoming a Partner in 2018. He now leads the business growth team. His background in statutory audit means he has first-hand experience working on a client base across varying sectors throughout the world. His specialties include business growth, funding, external audit and corporation tax.

Sarah works directly with a remarkable team to best serve all audit and accounting customers, banks, partners and more. With 15+ years of client-facing roles in software and financial services under her belt, Sarah combines industry knowledge with customer conversations to create the best possible outcome for the future of audit and accounting professions.

Fay has had a varied career, starting as a Data Analyst, working on Audit Analytics assignments, whilst studying towards her ACA. Since qualifying, she’s worked at Mazars in their Accounting and Outsourcing team, but more recently as Digital Skills Lead within Innovation. In this role, Fay is exploring ways of upskilling and reskilling staff in digital topics such as Data; striving to make training relevant, contextual and accessible for all, to keep up with the ever-changing technology landscape that we face.

Sam is an ACA qualified Chartered Accountant and Auditor, with a passion for data and automation. As a trained auditor with experience all the way through from graduate trainee to Audit Manager, Sam gained insights into how to drive efficiencies, improve risk focus and overall quality output. He recently joined Circit to put his experience into practice as a Product Manager for the new Verified Analytics matching engine product.

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With over 20 years experience in the staffing industry, Jez has helped many businesses adopt innovative strategies to attract, retain and develop niche data talent whilst helping job seekers position themselves for hire. Building the right workforce, selecting the most relevant technologies and utilising education within advance technologies can enable and resolve your business problems, our service is here to help you make sense of tomorrow's intelligent world.

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Stuart is the Strategic Business Development Director at the ODI. He is passionate about opportunities for people across society to use technology, data and machines to learn new skills and shape a better future. Stuart has a diverse entrepreneurial and executive leadership background, with experience in venture-backed, publicly listed and mission-led high growth technology, training and consulting organisations.

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Hannah is a passionate advocate for frequent straight-talking conversations between accountants and their clients. Back in 2003, she bought a pub in Devon and became frustrated with the accounting world. This led her to start Futrli and begin a lifelong mission to make communication between accountants and their clients simpler, quicker and easy.

Having started out in accountancy, back in 2004, Dan became a qualified accountant whilst working for Spofforths LLP, a regional practice in Sussex which later merged with Kreston Reeves and subsequently became a top 30 UK accountancy firm. Having worked in accountancy practice himself for over 16 years, he is familiar with the challenges faced in scaling advisory and is using those experiences to support our partners moving forwards.

Nick helps business to develop solutions that align and progress their capabilities whilst adding business value. His goal is to enable businesses to have a sustainable data strategy, enabled by analysing how to extract value from existing systems and by empowering your internal teams with knowledge transfer. Having built a successful consultancy, within Eden Smith's unique services of Consulting, Staffing and Education, Nick specialises in supporting businesses by delivering data solutions that enable organisations to garner high value insights from their data.

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Mark is the visionary CEO of Inflo, the leading data analytics platform used by UK auditors. Mark has been instrumental in developing the data analytical skills of accountants, partnering with the ICAEW to incorporate the Inflo platform into the ACA qualification. Globally, Mark is empowering the greater use of data by leading the development of data standards in the US and evolving international auditing standards to increase the use of technology.

Franki maintains an academic sideline researching open accounting data. In a previous role as Head of the Data Analytics Research Team at the UK National Audit Office, Franki lead a world-leading team of auditors and data scientists to develop data analytics tools for the audit of government bodies in the UK. Franki is a trained data scientist and auditor, is involved in multiple transnational audit, tax, and public finance initiatives, and sits on the ICAEW Ethics Advisory Committee as well as the Data Analytics Community Advisory Group.

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Greg has over 14 years of experience in Digital Financial Audit, spanning technology and data risk matters, including risk and finance analytics, data strategy and data governance, to name a few.

Ian joined ICAEW as Head of Data Analytics and Tech in March 2022, looking at the role that analytics and technology solutions play in the profession, and supporting ICAEW's members in their exploration and development of knowledge around technology. Prior to this, Ian worked for over 10 years at PwC in Data Analytics, specialising in External Audit and Data Acquisition and developing robust data transformation processes. Ian is passionate about digital upskilling, and has previously trained as a secondary school teacher and a musician.

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Dr Phillips is a pracademic and erstwhile sculptor who specialises in the human centred design of analytics. She has a degree in Applied Mathematics and gained her PhD while working in industry as a Business Analyst. She is a Director/Trustee at the Operational Research Society and a Senior Lecturer at Liverpool John Moores University.

Dr Schlobohm is an active voice in the Artificial Intelligence space and has been an ICAEW member since 2015. After a PhD in particle physics, she completed a graduate scheme at PWC in Audit and Data Assurance. As a director in Financial Crime Compliance at HSBC, she used data science to fight money laundering and terrorist financing. She's recently been developing future generations of Machine Learning Engineers to work alongside clients from the FTSE 100 and beyond.