Adam Sutton, Chair, ICAEW Valuation Community
Adam is a UK valuation partner with over 20 years of experience covering restructuring, M&A, financial reporting, tax, pensions, and contentious valuation situations.
He has spent most of his career in London focused on valuations in the technology, media and telecoms sectors. More recently he spent three years leading a well-known valuation practice in Singapore, building Asian business experience across a broader range of sectors.
Adam has a particular interest in and regularly work with DB pension scheme trustees, employers, and regulators on valuation related issues impacting DB scheme covenants.
Has also developed expertise in, and methodologies for, valuing data.

Yael Selfin, Chief Economist, KPMG
Yael is Chief Economist at KPMG in the UK and a Fellow at the National Institute of Economic and Social Research.
She has been advising clients on the global economic outlook and its impact on their strategy for over 20 years. Her experience spans private sector clients across a wide range of industries and geographies, as well as public sector bodies.
Her research looks at the impact major shocks, as well as new technologies, could have on the economy and on individual businesses. Her work at the National Institute of Economic and Social Research looks at ways to lift growth across UK regions.
Yael is a regular commentator on economic issues in the media. She won City A.M. Analyst of the Year award in 2016 for the research she published on the outlook for interest rates, global trade and equity markets, and was named one of City A.M. Power 100 Women. She is a member of the Council of Management of SUERF.

Alexander Aronsohn, Director of Technical Standards, IVSC
Alexander Aronsohn FRICS is a Chartered Surveyor with long and wide-ranging experience encompassing residential asset management, commercial and residential development, rating, national and international valuation and investment. Alexander assists the IVSC Standards Review Board and its Asset Boards on drafting IVS, perspectives papers, presentations, training and articles. In addition, Alexander has a leading role in various International Standards Coalitions and prior to joining the IVSC Alexander was the RICS Director of Technical Standards.

James Harrington, Director, Kroll
James Harrington is a Director at Kroll and provides technical support on client engagements involving cost of capital and business valuation matters. He is a leading contributor to Kroll’s efforts in the development of studies, surveys, online content and tools, and firmwide valuation models. James is co-author of the “Valuation Handbook” series with colleagues Carla Nunes and Roger Grabowski and is a contributing author to Cost of Capital.

Jenny Nelder, Partner, Bruce Sutherland & Co
Jenny Nelder is a partner in Bruce Sutherland & Co, an independent firm of unquoted company share and business valuation specialists. She has been involved in valuing shares and businesses for many different purposes since 1981, when she left Touche Ross (now Deloitte). She lectures on share and business valuations for a number of professional bodies and contributes articles on the subject to the professional press.

Carla Nunes, Managing Director, Kroll
Carla Nunes is a managing director in the Office of Professional Practice (OPP) of Kroll, based in the Philadelphia office, and a Kroll Institute Fellow. She has over 25 years of experience. In her OPP role, she provides firm-wide technical guidance on a variety of valuation, financial reporting and tax issues. She is also the global leader of Kroll’s Valuation Digital Solutions group, which produces the cost of capital thought leadership content and data housed in the Cost of Capital Navigator.

Andrew Strickland, Consultant, Scrutton Bland
Andrew is a Chartered Accountant with many years’ experience of corporate transactions with specialism as a business valuer. He is also a main contributor to ICAEW’s quarterly newsletter and presents regularly to service users. Andrew is a consultant to Scrutton Bland where he indulges in work related to business valuation, litigation support and corporate finance transactions, acting for both buyers and sellers, advising value, on the main terms and on the tax implications of transactions.

Steve Thomas MRICS, Assistant Director, HMRC
Steve was one of the first shares and assets valuation valuers to become a full Member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors. Steve’s role as an assistant director requires him to oversee and advise some of the most experienced valuers in shares and asset valuation. He is currently leading the office’s position in several contentious policy areas and advises HMRC on the valuation implication of proposed legislation changes.

Rommel Johnson, EMEIA Financial Services Valuation, Modeling & Economics Partner, Ernst & Young LLP
A trusted advisor to EY insurance and financial services clients across EMEIA. Thought leader on the valuation of FinTech businesses and emerging technologies.
Rommel jointly leads the EY Financial Services Valuation, Modeling & Economics (VME) team in London, serving corporate clients and financial investors in the insurance and financial services sectors. He advises EY clients on valuation matters in the context of strategic, capital-raising, transaction-related, regulatory, tax, and financial reporting considerations.

Sue Gull, Audit Partner, Scutton Bland
Sue has been a partner at Scrutton Bland, together with Andrew, for many years. Her specialism is close advice to corporate clients, including audit, valuation advice and succession planning. Sue has previously presented to the valuation group on valuation issues in the energy sector

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