Gill Barron
Gill joined Kaplan Hawksmere 5 years ago, and is responsible for delivering financial training in areas that includes audit and risk management; corporate governance and Sarbanes-Oxley; and business and financial control. She also has a particular skill in delivering financial training to non-financial professionals covering both core finance topics such as understanding financial statement and budgeting
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Gareth Batterbee
Gareth has been part of the Kaplan Hawksmere team since 2007 and specialises in Management and Leadership development, including Emotional Intelligence, Negotiation skills and Coaching. He also works as part of our internal audit trainer team, with a focus on the behavioural aspects of Audit, Governance and Risk Management.
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Graham Bloor
Graham has worked for Kaplan Hawksmere for a number of years where his leading specialism is IFRS. As well as his leading specialism in IFRS, Graham trains extensively in UK GAAP and Company Law.
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Jeff Bulled
Jeff has worked for Kaplan Hawksmere for a number of years and is their lead trainer on project and performance management and is heavily committed to helping organisations get the most from their investments particularly through written communication.
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Bruce Cowie
Bruce has been a trainer with Kaplan Hawksmere for 24years and specialises Financial Reporting topics. As well as his leading specialism in IFRS, Bruce trains extensively in UK GAAP and US GAAP, and has a particular interest in worldwide GAAP convergence.
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Roy Daintaith
Roy has worked for Kaplan Hawksmere for over 20 years and is one of their most highly experienced economics and finance facilitators. Most recently, Roy has been delivering training on monetary policy and interest rates, current economic issues, bonds and money markets, foreign exchange markets, corporate finance, ethics and behavioural finance.
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Chantal Dunham
Chantal has trained for Kaplan Hawksmere for several years and in that time has designed, developed and delivered global finance training programmes for large blue-chip clients, covering subject areas such as internal control, risk management, intercompany and internal audit.
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Gordon Faragher
Gordon has worked with Kaplan Hawksmere for 26 years and is one of their leading authorities in direct tax, working closely with a range of practice and industry clients in the design and delivery of their technical updates and bespoke training solutions.
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Charles Gubbins
Charles is one of Kaplan Hawksmere most senior trainers and has been developing and presenting practical training courses for over twenty years during which time he has earned a universal reputation as one of the leading presenters on financial reporting and auditing matters with specialist skills in auditing, financial reporting, company law and corporate governance.
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Marion Hodgkiss
Marion has an accomplished career in delivering tax courses and updates to the latest developments in the area of VAT and Tax. She is a regular contributor to the CPD programmes of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales, The Chartered Institute of Taxation and the Chartered Certified Accountants Marion and regularly delivers informative updates at senior tax conferences on latest taxation developments.
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Dave Kingston
Dave has been a training consultant with Kaplan Hawksmere for 14 years and has most recently focused on the design, development and delivery of financial training solutions for the public sector.
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Bob Phelps
Bob specialises in technical courses on financial reporting and related matters including UK, IFRS and US GAAP. Other companies that Bob has trained in include British American Tobacco, Sony, Barloworld, Esso Petroleum, The Walt Disney Company, Warner Bros, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, PWC, and KPMG.
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Paul Robins
Paul has worked for Kaplan Hawksmere for 9 years where he specialises in Financial Reporting and Auditing. His training success includes a wide range of companies in both the public and private sectors, including the Audit Commission, the Learning Skills Council, the DVLA, Somerfield, Next, Orange and Grant Thornton.
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Mike Sarwar
Mike specialises in delivering Financial Reporting courses for exam based and in-company training.
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Michael Steed
Michael is Kaplan Hawksmere’s leading authority on indirect taxes, working closely with both practice and industry clients providing highly bespoke products to meet their exact training needs. He has worked with the likes of HMRC, AAH pharmaceuticals, The AAT, Grant Thornton and Barclays Wealth Management.
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Stephen Walmsley
Stephen delivers a wide variety of finance courses and has a particular specialism in finance training to non-finance managers particularly those in the legal sector. In his time with Kaplan Hawksmere he has delivered training for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and the Home Office.
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David Wilson
David has successfully delivered technical financial updates to qualified financial staff as well as designing and delivering in-company training solutions. At the moment he is engaged on projects to help a bank on the implementation of the new IFRS 9 and advises a FTSE 100 company on the effects of the implementation of all IFRS's
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