Directors
Mike Cox – Managing Director
Email: mike.cox@coxcostello.co.uk
Qualifications: BSc. Fellow Chartered Accountant (FCA)
Experience and Specialisms: Corporate Finance – arranging finance and facilities for new and existing clients. Mergers & Acquisitions – assisting clients buy and sell businesses including management buy outs. Audit and statutory accounting work – acting as independent auditor and/or providing statutory accounting work in small and large companies including PLC work. Business Consulting – working with management to improve systems and processes including acting as quasi finance director. Tax advice – providing proactive and timely personal and corporate tax advice.
Outside work: Mike is a Governor of both Whiteheath Junior School and more recently Uxbridge College and also acts as a trustee of HSG Swallows Foundation, a sporting and athletic charity based in West London. He has considerable experience in the Charitable Sector with a leaning towards sporting charities and accepts that his sporting expertise these days is more in the financial aspects rather than as a competitor!
Dermot Costello – Tax Director
Email: dermot.costello@coxcostello.co.uk
Qualifications: Chartered Tax Adviser
Experience and Specialisms: Dermot has over 20 years’ experience advising private clients and owner-managed businesses. He has several professional services clients which include personal service companies. He has advised on many corporate reorganisations and identifies tax planning opportunities for high net-worth individuals. Dermot is head of the Tax and People Services team at Cox Costello & Horne and his responsibilities include personal and corporate tax, payroll, company secretarial matters and IT systems.
Outside work: Dermot enjoys holidays with his young family, including camping in the UK and Europe. He also plays golf and football, and enjoys watching rugby.
Nick Bush – Director of Business Services
Email: nick.bush@coxcostello.co.uk
Qualifications: Associate member of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (ACMA)
Experience and Specialisms: Nick has over 35 years financial experience having worked in many corporate finance departments, including Safeway, Glaxo and Aquascutum. He spent 10 years working for Tibbett & Britten Group, one of the UK’s largest logistics providers in a number of senior roles, including Finance Director of a Joint Venture with IBM. In 2000 Nick joined Cox Costello & Horne and heads up the management accounting and outsourcing department. The department has grown significantly and continues to provide valuable support to their clients.
Outside work: Nick is married with two grown up children. He helps his wife run her own children’s nursery and is a member of Grimsdyke Golf Club.
Zak Iqbal – Director of Audit and Forensic Services
Email: zak.iqbal@coxcostello.co.uk
Qualifications: BA (Hons), Fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (FCCA)
Experience and Specialisms: Business start ups, accounts and audit (Registered as a Senior Statutory Auditor), of a wide variety of companies in many business sectors including the audit of solicitors practices, and general insurance. Zak also has extensive experience in Forensic accounting and litigation support, intellectual property disputes, dispute resolution, expert witness and due diligence, professional negligence, and share valuations. Commercial: debt collection and management, Zak is also a business consultancy, advisor to owner managed businesses and their directors. Taxation compliance and planning, providing proactive personal and corporate tax and commercial advice.
Outside work: Zak is a keen cricket all rounder playing in the Hertfordshire League. He has a questionable taste in music and continues to enjoy attending concerts and gigs in London and Leeds.