Category: Meet The Team

Joanne Wharam

I am a business coach and my passion is to support business owners throughout the UK to take the frustrations out of running their business and maximise their potential. Whether that is their own individual potential, their team potential or their business potential. This enhances motivation and increases return on the investment they make in [...]

Bernard Keavy

I originally trained in accountancy when I left university and I am also a Chartered Financial Planner.  I spent nearly 20 years with Clerical Medical Investment Group, winning several sales accolade awards, and was a leading member of the team responsible for developing and marketing their pensions products. For the last 10 years I’ve run [...]

Alan Woods

As well as being a Practice Growth Expert for AVN, I’m also founder of Woods Squared, Capium Brand Ambassador, a Capitalise Industry Adviser and a Practice Ignition Product Champion. I love working with people to help them achieve their business and personal goals and after more than a decade of doing this, there is nothing [...]

Kerry Riley

I deal with all things Shane. From diary management to tasks, deadlines, procedures, recruitment. I make sure Shane is where he needs to be at the right time! I work on different projects when required, helping the team to move forward AVNs goals. I also deal with all things database related, and reporting including our OnePagePlan!

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.