Category: Meet The Team

Charles Ricketts

I have worked in the Training and FE sector for over 10 years and have first hand experience of supporting business growth through coaching and workforce development. It's my role to engage with new clients and demonstrate how working with AVN can make a profound difference to their practise and work life balance.

Lucy Ellis

My role includes the general running of the office, administration, digital marketing and managing all social media sites. If you have any problems, I’m only a phone call away!

Emma Slack

I trained in accountancy but developed the business consultancy and support "bug" when I saw how much more we could do to help business owners have real control over their business if we focussed more on how we could help them improve the key numbers rather than just reporting on the statutory accounts. In my [...]

John Wilkins

My role at AVN focuses on technology. This includes maintaining our internal hardware, network and all the various pieces of software that we use. I also maintain and support our various software suites and websites and I’m actively involved in the development of new software products.

Steve Pipe

Founder of AVN Speaker, strategist and Amazon 5 star rated business author with more than 470 LinkedIn testimonials. An FCA by background I am passionate about this great profession of ours. I firmly believe that accountants need to use their skills with numbers in a better way than ever before, so that they add real [...]

Jenny Lukas

Having been with AVN since 1999 I have a full overview of all our tools and resources and should be able to answer most of your questions! I am CIMA qualified and have used most of the AVN tools in practice so I can show you how to get the best out of them. I [...]

Shane Lukas

As AVN MD, I work with hundreds of accountants and help them overcome their challenges so that they, in turn, can help their clients do the same. I lead the amazing team of people at AVN, all of whom are as passionate as I am about helping and supporting our members. Through office visits and [...]

Andrea Higginbottom

I have been working for 20 years doing business development coaching and facilitating improvement projects, and have worked with CEOs in a vast array of businesses, and now love working with accountants to develop their businesses.

Andrew Miller

I’m formerly an accountant, working for KPMG for over 16 years. I left at the beginning of 2011, since when I have worked exclusively as a business coach. At KPMG, I worked in insolvency, meaning that my day job was actually running businesses – of all shapes and sizes, from building oil rigs to making [...]

Victoria Walton

My primary role is in coordinating our ever-increasing events calendar that we run throughout the year, ensuring that they are all amazing. If you have any questions about an AVN event, just give me a ring.