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• John Rossiter has joined Grant Thornton in the Thames Valley to lead its indirect tax practice. Previously a VAT director at Deloitte, Rossiter has over 19 years' experience advising businesses on VAT and customs duty matters. He has significant international experience, having worked in the UK, Canada and Ireland, and has advised a number of large multinational groups on international VAT issues and compliance, including supply chain efficiency and indirect tax risk management. This has included a number of ERP implementation projects. His specific focus will be to grow Grant Thornton's VAT business
serving large international organisations. The Thames Valley office has appointed Andy Ka as its new associate director. Ka, who originally joined the Thames Valley office in 2001 and from 2007 has worked in the firm's Hong Kong and London offices, is excited to be returning ‘home' to the Thames Valley. His specialist areas are fast-growing dynamic businesses, energy, technology and international clients. He is a key member of the firm’s China Britain services group and also advises clients on complex financial reporting matters such as IFRS/ FRS 102 conversions, IPOs and restructuring.
• As Reading prepares to capitalise on the wave of new investment in the town and its highly-skilled workforce, Reading UK CIC, the town’s economic development company, has added significant capacity to the experience of its board with the appointment of eight new directors. Between them, the new board members boast huge knowledge and expertise from the worlds of property, education, retail, transport and the media. The new appointments are: Tom Pierpoint, regional development manager of First Great Western; Eirwen Parker, managing director of
• The Reading office of chartered accountants Haines Watts has announced the promotion of Adrian Williams to managing partner. Williams has been a partner at the firm since 2009 and takes over from John Bailey. He joined Haines Watts in 2005 as senior manager of audit and assurance services and was made associate partner in 2007. As well as being both FCCA and ACA qualified, Williams has over 25 years of experience in general practice. He was previously
senior portfolio manager with Tilbury Young and, before that, worked for Herbert Parnell and Co.
• The largest law firm in Aylesbury, Parrott & Coales LLP, has appointed a sixth member to its residential property team. Brinder Randhawa is an associate solicitor from London with five years' experience in residential conveyancing. She specialises in freehold and leasehold property, sales and purchases, re-mortgages, new builds and transfers of equity.
Global Heart 96-107; Adam Jacobs, owner of Jacobs the jewellers and chair of Reading BID; Kim Cohen, partner at Barton Willmore Partnership; Rory Carson, director of asset management at Oxford Properties, which owns Green Park; Aaron Pope, asset manager at M&G Real Estate; Graham Mountford, general manager at Broad Street Mall; and, Sir David Bell, vice-chancellor of the University of Reading. Reading UK CIC was established in 2007 to promote and sustain the economic development of Reading through programmes that drive its world-class economy.
THE BUSINESS MAGAZINE – THAMES VALLEY – FEBRUARY 2015
www.businessmag.co.uk
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