Key Personnel

Michael Cox - Managing Director

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.

Ash Shah - Director

Qualifications: Chartered Accountant (ACA)

Experience and Specialisms: Proficient and commercially focused individual with years of solid track record of operating at a wide level, in challenging and complex roles across multi jurisdictions and geographies. Ash advises clients across a broad range of industry sectors from early stages of owner managed business to well established national and international groups. His areas of specialisms are audit, taxation, regulatory reporting, transactional services and HNWI advisory. Ash is passionate about growing and establishing new and dynamic businesses by contributing to their business strategy and succour them through the ever changing world of digital evolution.

Nick Bush – Consultant

Qualifications: Associate member of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (ACMA)

Experience and Specialisms: Nick has over 45 years financial experience and has been with Cox Costello & Horne for 20 years. He has previously worked in many corporate finance departments, including Safeway, Glaxo and Aquascutum and 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.