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 Hillingdon Borough Councillor, leader of the Liberal Democrat Group and member of the Pensions Committee. He is also the Vice-Chair of the Governing body of Whiteheath Junior School and Treasurer of The Nyumbani Trust.
Dermot Costello – Tax Director
Email: dermot.costello@coxcostello.co.uk
Qualifications: Chartered Tax Adviser
Experience and Specialisms: Dermot has over 20 years’ experience of advising private clients and owner-managed.
Outside work: Dermot likes to spend time with his family and enjoys playing golf and football.
Nick Bush – Finance Director
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 – Accounts and Audit Director
Email: zak.iqbal@coxcostello.co.uk
Qualifications: Member of The Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA)
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