London Society of Chartered Accountants
The LSCA is the largest of the 22 district societies affiliated to the ICAEW.
LSCA OFFICE HOLDERS 2010-11
PRESIDENT: Samantha Russell, Mazars LLP Audit Partner
At Mazars she has two main areas of focus. First as an audit partner on large private and listed businesses, UK and international, predominately the US and India. Secondly she works in transaction services, as reporting accountant for AIM and main market flotations and on due diligence assignments.
It is the variety of clients and work that has led to her remaining in practice, combined with the people she works with. Prior to Mazars, Samantha Russell spent nine years at Deloitte, which she joined after university and where she started her career.
Over the last few years she has taken a more active role with the ICAEW and the LSCA. She is also on the ICAEW Young Professional Advisory Board and is the Vice Chair of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) Panel.
She was elected to the LSCA Main Committee in 2007 and is a member of the LSCA Younger Members’ Services Group.
DEPUTY PRESIDENT: Grant Jones
Grant is the London partner of the East Midlands-based medium sized practice of Cooper Parry LLP. Grant's business activities are wide-ranging; in accountancy, in the law and in commerce.
He holds various directorships in companies ranging from wind power to finance. A qualified lawyer and chartered accountant, Grant is a practitioner in both fields. As a lawyer he retains a number of legal consultancies.
Grant’s main business, as a licensed insolvency practitioner, is that of a Cooper Parry partner. Grant sits on the ICAEW Council and is also a non-executive director of a small accountancy practice .Grant’s professional mix assists his book writing, and he has written several books on financial matters. From August 2009 Grant is appointed Special Professor in the School of Law at the University of Nottingham for a three year period.
VICE PRESIDENT: David Symes
David Symes, MD and founder of Compliance Recruitment Solutions …….
David is involved in recruiting Compliance & other Corporate Governance staff both in the UK and increasingly internationally with a joint venture in Dubai and a recently set up Wall Street office. He also works occasionally as a consultant advising on FSA Compliance issues
David’s aims on becoming Vice President are to increase the reach to business members and in particular liaison with the financial services faculty where he has recently joined the board.
He was elected to the LSCA main committee in 2008 and is a member of the LSCA Business Board
