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.

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.

Mark Sheen - Consultant

Qualifications: FCA CTA

Experience and Specialisms: Mark works with us as a consultant, specialising in taxation and offers many years of experience, having worked previously with Barlow Andrews and before that with Cooper Lancaster Brewers.

James Taylor - Consultant

Experience and Specialisms: James works with us as a consultant VAT specialist and comes with many years of experience, including have worked with HMRC as a VAT inspector.