Aim: “Creating solutions to clients’ problems and co-ordinating resources to give the service they need.” Expertise: Accounting, audit & business compliance Work and Clients: Guy is an audit principal with specialist knowledge of the requirements of various regulatory bodies and specific sectors such as financial services and professional practices. His clients include unit trusts, open-ended investment companies and legal practices, as well as a variety of other clients such as commodity traders and property companies. He also looks after Shipleys information technology requirements. The route to Shipleys: Qualified as a chartered accountant with Deloittes. He had a spell working for a merchant bank in corporate finance and investment management before joining Shipleys in 1978, and becoming a principal in 1979. Memberships: Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales.

Most entertaining deal or case: “I was in charge of a due diligence exercise for a client and received the report and supposedly complete file a few hours before I was due to leave on holiday. It was obvious to me that the target company had double counted some of its assets and was seriously overpriced. I conducted my end of the resulting meeting standing on skis up a mountain in the Alps.” What I like about my job: “Contact with a huge variety of people – clients, colleagues and other professionals.” Proudest professional moments: “Devising a structure for the de-merger of part of a financial services group. The structure proved appropriate for the de-merged business, which has gone from strength to strength. As Managing Principal of Shipleys I presided over the modernisation of our business which included a move from inefficient old fashioned premises to a smart modern building and the introduction of our IT systems, which are now highly sophisticated, usable systems that enable us to operate more efficiently.” Interests outside work: Sailing, skiing, horse racing and reading. Guy has walked the Inca trail in Peru for charity, run half marathons in Berlin, Lisbon and Nice.