Anthony Paine

Co-CEO & Co-founder

Designability

Designability is a national charity that creates innovative products and services with and for disabled people, removing barriers and helping them to live with greater independence.

Business Development Lead

King's College London

Supporting the brightest and highest potential ventures from across the King's ecosystem to reach their potential.

Expert in Residence

Stashbee

Advisor & Board Member

Stashbee is the simplest, smartest, most sustainable way for anyone to share and fill storage space. Whatever your situation or ambition, we have spaces of all sizes for people at all stages.

CEO & Co-Founder

Babbasa

Consultant

We believe that young people’s aspirations & opportunities should not be determined by their background, and that every young person has a unique skill or talent which, if explored and nurtured, can advance humanity in a significant way.

Head of Operations

Senior Business Engagement Lead

Founder Jumpstart

Giving entrepreneurs the mental tools to thrive

Chief Jumpstarter

Elixirr

Elixirr is a different type of consultancy. We challenge ineffective convention - changing the game in our own industry and helping our clients change the game in theirs. Everyone’s talking about the future, a new digital world, but few are doing anything about it. We deliver actionable strategies and practical implementation. We focus on short-term results and long-term transformation. 

That's why we are the UK's Best New Consultancy, as voted by the Management Consultancies Association (MCA).

www.elixirr.com

Manager

Career Journey International

Responsible for Career Journey International (CJI) in Brazil, including market entry & strategic planning, business development and operational oversight.

Head of Operations Brazil

Accenture

Technology Consultant

Diageo Portugal

Consumer marketing at Diageo Portugal.
Planning and implementation of national advertising campaigns, budget control & planning, deep dive product analysis, ROI/brand performance tracking.

Assistant Brand Manager - Whiskies & Wines

Warner Bros. Entertainment Group of Companies

Marketing Intern - Warner Home Video (New Releases)

⭐ Helping disabled people live with greater independence @ Designability
🚀 Supporting early-stage entrepreneurs @ KCL Entrepreneurship Institute
📦 Founder @ Stashbee

Blu Sky Chartered Accountants

CEO and Co-Founder

XERO MID-SIZE FIRM OF THE YEAR 2018 and 2022 Finalist: Let me introduce you to Blu Sky Chartered Accountants, an award winning accountancy practice. 

We are strong believers that your finance team should be your most important ally when growing your business.

You need to be able to rely on your finance function to get the essentials right so you can sleep at night. Your financial controller needs to provide timely, forward looking financial insights focused on getting more cash into your business quicker. Your CFO should own helping you shape an innovative business strategy that drives your business forward.

Your specialist Blu Sky finance team will own your business like it’s their own. Collaborating with a finance team that has deep commercial experience in the tech, digital and manufacturing sectors ensures you will have time again to focus on growing your business. Whatever the strategic challenges you face, we’ll help provide the foresight and support for you to overcome them.

Co-Founder

GE Money

-Project managed onshoring project including recruitment of 20+ team and stakeholder communication.
-Led 30+ finance team during significant change program.

Finance Manager

Norwich Union Life

- Led various projects associated with the Reassurance and Intercompany Finance processes.
- Managed month end Oracle and Smartsteam close.

Deloitte

-Delivery of audit services within the manufacturing, retail and service sectors including financial reporting review and stat account production.
-Financial due diligence and long-form reporting.
-Completion and management of multiple group audits across subsidiary sites, with heavy focus on the improvement of financial and operational control efficiency and risk management. 
-Post ERP implementation reviews.
-Design of SAP financial controls.
-Review and re-engineering of business processes including process mapping and documentation of financial and operational controls.  
-Delivery and facilitation of Risk Workshops.

Senior Audit Manager

CoFounder and CEO at Blu Sky Chartered Accountants, an award winning accountancy practice. 

I am a strong believer that a scaling business's finance team should be a founders most important ally when growing their business.

My career as an accountant started with Arthur Andersen in Leeds where I gained experience of working with a variety of clients and met some great and wonderful people. Following the demise of Arthur Andersen (nothing to do with me I must add!!), I joined Deloitte as an Audit Manager where I had responsibilty for delivering a full range of audit services, business process advice and assurance to growing medium sized and FTSE 100 firms across the UK.

After working in the Big Four for six years I decided it was time to leave practice and see what was going on in the real world!!!  So to get this new perspective I ventured into the Financial Service Sector, firstly working for Aviva and then more recently GE Money and Santander. 

In 2009 I cofounded BLU SKY with Dave Gibson.  Our vision is to develop a practice that is known nationally for delivering value driven, 'top notch' client service and business advice.

Having said all of the above though the biggest compliment that anyone has ever given me is 'you are not really an accountant are you!'....

Specialties: Today - delivery of accountancy, taxation and business services that are tailored to the needs of high growth scale up businesses across the UK. Harnessing the latest cloud technology to create robust efficient financial processes.

In the past - Business Process GAP Analysis including the full spectrum of Internal Audit Services, Risk management, Change and Project Management and most other aspects of Financial Management needed in a blue chip environment.

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