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• Chartered accountancy and business advisory firm Chantrey Vellacott DFK has promoted corporate tax director Kevin Voller to partner. Based in the
Thames Valley office, Voller has over 15 years' experience in providing business and personal proactive taxation advice for both owner- managed businesses and high-net-worth individuals. He has considerable expertise in the areas of corporate restructuring and transactions, venture capital schemes, R&D tax relief, capital allowances and international tax, and provides advice for a diverse portfolio of clients across a variety of sectors including property and construction, retail and manufacturing.
• Michelin-starred chef André Garrett MCA has been appointed executive head chef at Cliveden House in Berkshire, and will take up his position on October 7. Garrett’s appointment at Cliveden will coincide with the opening, this autumn, of a new restaurant. Garrett was formerly head chef at Galvin at Windows restaurant in London, and his exceptional skills and talents have been developed over the past two decades in the hospitality industry. Starting his career in 1989 as a commis chef at ‘Hunstrete House Hotel’ near Bath, after three years Garrett moved to London to join Nico Ladenis working across his three award-winning restaurants: ‘Simply Nico’, ‘Chez Nico’ and ‘Nico Central’ where he became the youngest-ever head chef. In 1998, he was appointed sous chef at ‘The Dining Room’, an independent restaurant at the five-star Landmark Hotel and then joined Chris Galvin in 2000 at the ‘Orrery’ where after one year he was promoted to head chef at this Michelin-starred restaurant in London’s Marylebone. In 2002 Garrett won the prestigious Roux Scholarship and took the opportunity to move and hone his culinary skills at the prestigious ‘Guy Savoy’ in Paris for a year, before moving back to the ‘Orrery’. Garrett was appointed head chef in 2006 of Chris Galvin’s newly-launched ‘Galvin at Windows Restaurant & Bar’ where he became renowned for his elegant modern French cuisine, and in 2010 he was awarded his first Michelin star. He is keen to nurture the next generation of chefs and actively works with the Academy of Culinary Arts for the Annual Awards of Excellence, Young Chefs Award and MCA.
• Henmans Freeth LLP has announced that Rachel Wos, private client solicitor, has passed with 'distinction' the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners (STEP) Administration of Estates exam. STEP is the worldwide professional association for practitioners dealing with family inheritance and succession planning. The Society helps to improve public understanding of the issues families face in this area and promotes education and high professional standards among its members. Wos qualified into the private client department in September of last year. She advises on the
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• Specialist financial advisory firm Beaufort Asset Management has appointed marketing manager Hannah Mills to lead the firm’s marketing and business development strategy. Mills brings a wealth of experience in professional financial services marketing. “I am very excited to work for Beaufort and use my experience and skills to help take the business to a new level. Mills has six years experience working in the marketing department for leading accountancy firm RSM Tenon and holds the Chartered Institute of Marketing Professional Certificate.
• Top 25 UK chartered accountancy and business advisory firm Wilkins Kennedy LLP has appointed Rick Schofield as tax partner. A qualified chartered accountant and chartered tax adviser, he joins Wilkins Kennedy from Baker Tilly in Manchester. He has extensive experience in tax advisory and tax planning for medium-sized corporates and substantial partnerships. Schofield will be based in the Orpington and Ashford offices of Wilkins Kennedy and will deliver tax advisory and compliance services to a broad industry range of domestic and international clients across the Wilkins Kennedy portfolio. He will work with tax partner Sandra Harrison to further develop and strengthen the tax planning offering across the Wilkins Kennedy southern region group of offices.
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administration of all types of taxable and non-taxable estates including those with a charity element. She also advises on Wills, estate planning, lasting powers of attorney and trusts.
• KPMG has bolstered its management consulting and risk consulting teams in Reading with two senior staff appointments. The firm has appointed David Walker (top left) as the head of its management consulting team in the south. Walker joins from KPMG’s team in London, where he was the chief operating officer for the management consulting business. He specialises in helping businesses to improve their operational efficiency, reduce their costs and get the most out of their systems and investments. KPMG has also appointed Anant Modi
(top right) to head up its risk consulting team in the south. Previously based in KPMG’s London office, Modi helps businesses to protect themselves against fraudsters and works with them to strengthen their systems to guard against cyber attacks. He has led numerous forensic assignments and has worked in many jurisdictions including the US, Europe and the Middle East. He advises a wide range of companies, from technology and telecoms companies to clients in the financial services and the oil and gas sectors.
THE BUSINESS MAGAZINE – THAMES VALLEY – SEPTEMBER 2013
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