Meet The Team

PAUL JESSON

MANAGING DIRECTOR

Top 4 trained Chartered Accountant, Finance Director with nearly 30 years of accounting and commercial experience.  In the last 10 years Paul has majored in the SME world in which he has held several roles as employed Financial Director positions, in a number of sectors including engineering, manufacturing, renewables and SAAS businesses, helping these businesses grow whilst managing financial and commercial risk.
 

Paul is also MD of the Luton office of EFM, managing a team of professionals, offering their clients a range of value adding financial management services.
 

GRANT HAWTHORNE

FOUNDER DIRECTOR

Grant is an experienced operations and finance executive working with private equity backed companies across the biotech and tech sectors. 

 

He’s been CFO for a number of companies that have collectively raised over £100m from private equity sources, both HNWI and venture capital. Grant has led several of these companies through successful exits.
 

REBECCA WOODBURN

FINANCIAL CONTROLLER & COMPLIANCE SPECIALIST

Having spent 14 years as an audit professional with Ernst and Young, Rebecca left to set up her own small practice providing accounting services to local businesses, especially those in the high tech and biotech arena.

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Rebecca also runs training courses in finance for non-financial managers, and work with a major banking group in credit skills training.Her specialities include Accounting, Financial Reporting, Finance for Non-Financial Managers, Training and Coaching. 

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