PwC reveals new faces on top team
FINANCIAL services firm PwC has boosted its Birmingham team with a two partner promotions and 15 staff stepping up to director level.
The new partners based in the city are Tom Copeland in the corporate finance deals team and Sarah Phillips in the audit practice.
Mr Copeland leads the national consumer sector team within corporate finance and has over 12 years of experience of both sell-side and buyside advisory, working extensively with privately owned and private equity-backed businesses on UK and cross-border transactions.
Ms Phillips is an audit partner, specialising in listed and multinational
audits.
Alongside working with many of the Midlands-based listed companies, she also leads consumer markets for the Midlands, bringing 18 years of experience of working with a broad range of clients, supporting them through transactions, organisational and regulatory change.
The 15 employees promoted to director level in Birmingham are Alex Smith (audit), Nick Durrans and Viswanathan Swaminathan (consulting), Krushi Hindocha, Neil Houston and Tim Higgins (deals), Victoria Broadhurst (internal firm services), Anoop Gandhi, Christian Hilpert, Emma Brittain and Vanessa Tufnell (risk) Matt Hughes, Reena Fursier and Tracey Crowder (tax) and Simon Wootton (technology and investment).
Across the wider Midlands business, which also encompasses offices in Castle Donington and Milton Keynes, there have been 270 promotions to senior manager, manager and senior associate posts, making the total number of promotions 289.
PwC said it was experiencing client demand in fields such as environmental, social and governance, with partners increasingly focused on net zero strategy, diversity and inclusion priorities, corporate governance and transformation.