The Team

Rodger French– Managing Director

After 20 years of international corporate life, Rodgers attitude to client service, support and interaction is vastly different to those in traditional practice. This extends to the development of the business but more importantly the superb team who are the true drivers within Clark Howes

A personal ethos that encourages direct communication between the team and clients gets things done. In turn this allows us to be both highly competitively priced and offer a true breadth of B2B services.

A Certified Accountant, Rodger qualified whilst serving with Unisys before roles with European and UK publically quoted IT companies In 1998 he exchanged corporate life to join Clark Howes and now focuses on our growth, development and B2B philosophy as well as an idiosyncratic client base.

RodgerF@clarkhowes.com

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Chris Munro – Head of Small to Medium Business

Chris is responsible for the smooth running of all the Clark Howes offices. She joined us after many years in a senior position in a local practice. With her broad knowledge of small firms’ accounting and

business needs she is well placed to manage our large portfolio of owner-managed businesses in our Bicester office in addition to covering personal and corporate tax work. Chris also has overall responsibility for the small business teams throughout all our offices.

ChrisM@clarkhowes.com

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Diane Prestland – Head of Outsourcing

Diane joined us from the commercial world having worked in a variety of financial roles in different businesses over a number of years. She began her career in Barclays Bank and now brings this considerable expertise and knowledge into her role as department head of our outsourcing team. Diane is responsible for all international sales and development activities and works closely with both local and overseas owner/managed clients. This role also involves marketing, customer relations and the development of this significant business area.

DianeP@clarkhowes.com

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Edward Porter – Head of Audit and Assurance

Edward is responsible for the management and development of this business segment, M & A and corporate services. A Chartered Accountant he began his career in the City working extensively with international groups and listed plc’s. He was responsible for advising on International Accounting Standards, compliance with UK and US GAAP and assisting companies with the listing process. He then spent two years in a senior position with the largest independent practice in the Thames Valley with a client portfolio ranging from owner-managed businesses to international groups. He also has experience of corporate finance in sales and acquisitions.

EdwardP@clarkhowes.com

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Mini de Silva – Chairman

Mini specialises in providing need-specific operational and management assistance to our European and International clients. Mini has been UK and International Controller for various quoted company’s predominantly in the IT industry. An MBA and Chartered Management Accountant with her high-level experience she assists in implementing strategic and operational solutions to companies establishing a UK or European presence and has the ability to provide short-term management consultancy services or assistance with the recruitment of senior finance managers or controllers.

MiniDS@clarkhowes.com

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Local Support Teams

It’s vital we provide experienced, qualified and specialist expertise to each client whatever their size together with a direct relationship to suit personal needs. The support teams are all part-qualified accountants, accounting technicians, tax specialists or have a practical breadth in business and accounts experience. The work together to solve  business, accounting, tax or payroll problems and are well used to dealing with “real” business problems. We encourage the team to continue formal education in specialist and new technical areas as well as providing local youngsters with work experience placements.
Our ethos in the training and development of a dynamic team is built around our strong network of fully qualified office managers. These locally positioned leaders are assigned as mentors for junior staff to help them with day to day assistance, work setting, reviews and an example to follow.

Becci Allen – Aylesbury

Becci is the client manager for the Aylesbury office. She joined Clark Howes in 2005 as a trainee accountant. She joined the Clark Howes training program and at the beginning of 2010 passed her final exams to become a certified accountant.

BecciA@clarkhowes.com

Juliet Gillett - Aylesbury / Bicester / Buckingham

Juliet is one of our team of client managers working across all of the offices. She graduated with a BA Hons in psychology and continued her studies with Clark Howes when she joined us in 2004 then gaining her ACCA in 2007.

JulietG@clarkhowes.com

Ann Hannigan – Bicester

Ann is the SME Client Manager in Bicester, as well as being training & development manager for the company. Initially training with PWC, Ann gained her ACCA in 2006. Ann has worked in practice for 20 years, including Clark Howes for 6. She specialises in building good relationships with owner managed and family run businesses, being with them every step of the way. Ann has a vast knowledge of corporate tax, personal tax and year ends.