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GRAEME BROWN HEATHER ELLIOTT HELENA TURNER
BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT MANAGER, ACCA STAKEHOLDER MANAGER, HMRC ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT,
US TAX & FINANCIAL SERVICES LTD
Heather is a member of the Customer
Graeme is ACCA ‘s Business Helena Turner has over 20 years US
Development Manager for Scotland, Readiness and External Stakeholder expatriate tax experience with a specific
after having spent two years managing Team. She is an engaging speaker who expertise on cross-border taxes with the
in ACCA’s Licensing and Compliance represents HMRC at external events UK. Prior to joining US Tax & Financial, she
team. An ACCA member with and workshop. Her focus is helping began her career with the international
experience in practice and in education, professional agents and their clients get Big 8 firm of Coopers & Lybrand and
Graeme brings a wealth of wide-ranging ready for Making Tax Digital for Business. has since managed global assignment
experience to his role helping ACCA She attends HMRC consultative forums programs and worked with high net
employers. to give updates and lead discussions on worth individuals for Ernst & Young, Grant
MTD for Business. Thornton and for US Tax & Financial. MEET THE SPEAKERS

INDI TATLA IVO WEEVERS JACQUIE MOUNT
HEAD OF MARKETING, CAPIUM CEO, CO-FOUNDER, ALBERT DIRECTOR AND HEAD OF TECHNICAL POLICY, ICB
Marketing expert with over 10 years’ Ivo is a successful executive design leader with Jacquie Mount has over 20 years
experience across digital marketing, over 15 years of experience in creating award- experience in teaching adults and
brand communications, proposition winning mobile products for companies such young people in a further education
development and commercial strategy. as Natwest, RBS, Vodafone, Mercedes, Ubuntu, environment, covering business studies,
Ranked the Chartered Institute of and several startups. He headed up the design bookkeeping and IT. She is a qualified
Marketing’s Fast Track Marketer of teams for RBS and Natwest, and the Ubuntu examiner and external verifier and has
the Year in 2013 and selected by the operating systems. Products received multiple worked for a number of examination
Marketing Academy as 1 of only 30 awards including the Cannes Gold Mobile bodies in these roles. She finished her
Scholar’s in the UK in 2012. Lion, Best in Show at Mobile World Congress, time in FE as a Senior Manager at a
the BIMA innovation award, and resulted in large FE College in Kent and first joined
Google’s first UK banking app feature. ICB in 2000.

JOE GALLARD JORIS VAN DER GUCHT JULIA WEDGWOOD
CEO, REDUCER CO-FOUNDER, SILVERFIN SOFTWARE INSIGHTS LEAD, ACCOUNTANTS, SAGE
Prior to being CEO here Joe set up and Accountants are in contact with a lot of Julia is a Sage expert on Making Tax
ran finance teams at two of Europe’s people, and all of these people generate a lot Digital and has held multiple roles across
fastest growing and most successful of information. Incoming data from various our product and sales insight teams.
technology businesses. He has seen accounting software suites, as well as emails, Julia works closely with accountants on
first-hand how technology has changed letters, documents, spreadsheets,... This is their action plans for Making Tax Digital,
industries from car buying to grocery why Tim Vandecasteele and myself founded including supporting with client evaluation
shopping, and how the most progressive Silverfin, an online platform that connects and segmentation, mapping Sage
accountants (in both practice and accountants directly with their clients’ product solutions with practice and client
industry) are already using technology data, and at the same time streamlines the requirements, and sharing her knowledge
to fundamentally change the value they internal workflow of financial services firms. and experience at external events.
can give to their clients.

KAREN REYBURN LAURA SHIELDS LAUREN AMOS
MD, THE PROFITABLE FIRM FINANCE CONTROLLER, SEC SALES EXECUTIVE, ACCOUNTANCYMANAGER
An expert female voice in a male- Laura has been Finance Controller at I began my career as a Sales Executive
dominated industry, Karen is well Scottish Exhibition Campus (SEC) since at AccountancyManager in December
sought after as a speaker, presenting 2016 and is responsible for running 2017 and have since gone on to lead
and speaking for organisations such the Finance team. She was elected the sales team. James Byrne, CEO &
as Xero, The Institute of Chartered Chair of ACCA Glasgow and West of Co-Founder of AccountancyManager
Accountants of England and Scotland Members Network Panel in spent time helping me understand the
Wales (ICAEW), BKR International, 2017, making her the representative for industry and passing on his knowledge
AccountingWeb, and Thriveal CPA ACCA’s members and students in the of sales and marketing through growing
Network, to name a few. West of Scotland. his own accountancy practice.

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