Partners & Managers:
| Shakar Elahi FCCA- Founder and Principal Partner | ||
| Shakar is a Chartered Certified Accountant and has over 22 years experience working in the accountancy profession and industry. He has developed his business and technical skills essential for growing SME’s, making him an invaluable Business Advisor. He is also a qualified Mortgage Advisor and specialist in Property and Business Tax. Before establishing Elan & Co in 1997, Shakar was a Senior Manager at Deloittes. | ||
| Bernadette Teuma CA - Partner | ||
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Bernadette is a Chartered Accountant and she has over 22 years experience working in the profession and industry. Whilst working in practice, she worked with SME’s, gaining invaluable skills in financial and management accounting, auditing and taxation. Whilst in industry she worked in financial management for a number of multinational firms including Colgate, AEG and 10 years at Shell enhancing her business process & systems skills. She joined Elan & Co as a Partner in 2002. | |
Brian Herbert – Practice Manager |
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| Brian was a senior manager at a top 25 firm of Surrey based chartered accountants for 23 years; where he gained a wide range of experience, principally dealing with all aspects of the accounts and tax affairs of small to medium sized family businesses. Before that he worked at an international firm of Dutch accountants and also a top 3 firm of accountants. Brian has also worked as a Financial Controller in commerce. |
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| Waqas Mahmood - BSc(Hons) ACCA - Portfolio Manager | ||
Waqas has several years of experience in managing and advising a diverse portfolio of clients. These range from small including business start-ups right through to medium sized companies. He has an excellent working knowledge of wide variety of sectors, which include Real Estate (Property Managements and Developers, Mortgage Brokers), Pubs, Hotels and Restaurants, Retail Businesses, Professional Practises (Solicitor, Barristers, Architects, Designers, Business Consultants, Recruitment Consultants and IT Professionals) Musicians, Manufacturing, Car Retailers, Financial services, Charities and Clubs. |
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Elan & Co have alliances and memberships with a number professional organisations. Click here below for links to their websites which you may find useful.
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