Emma Roberts

Emma is Creaseys' Chief Executive.

Emma started her accountancy career with Creaseys small business unit in 1991. After qualifying in 1995, she transferred to the firm's audit and business consultancy division and became a partner in 2003.

Dealing with so many of Creaseys clients over the years has provided Emma with invaluable hands on experience. Emma has always followed Creaseys philosophy of establishing long term relationships through working alongside our clients. It is not surprising therefore that Emma's portfolio includes a number of the firm's larger owner managed businesses and landed estates.

Listening to clients and addressing their needs with care commitment and enthusiasm is Emma's particular forte.

Rob Blundell

Rob Blundell joined Creaseys as a trainee accountant in 1995. After qualifying in 1999, he has risen steadily through the ranks and was appointed a partner in May 2005.

His in-depth knowledge of Creaseys’ clients and his enviable technical skills enables Rob to specialise in looking after the needs of some of the firm’s largest audits.
Rob helps companies comply with the many statutory and regulatory reporting requirements they face, by delivering sound, timely and relevant business advice.

Rob is responsible for overseeing the audit division’s technical standards in addition to being a key member of the firm’s business consulting team.

Richard Holme

Richard Holme's combined experience of working on the tax affairs of entrepreneurial businesses as well as his international tax expertise makes him eminently qualified to have a major role in one of the most highly skilled tax departments outside the country's largest practices. Creaseys are past winners of the Butterworths Tolley Tax Award for the best tax team in a small to medium sized practice in the UK.

Richard's initial tax experience was gained while working as a Senior Tax Manager in the London office of what is now Deloitte on some of their best-known household name clients.

His work in Creaseys covers an extensive range of issues with particular focus on owner-managed businesses, high net worth individuals, and international matters. Minimisation of tax is always a key priority and recent areas have included business and company sales, cross border planning, start-ups, capital gains tax planning and company reconstructions. Richard writes regularly in the taxation and financial press and besides being a Chartered Accountant and Chartered Tax Adviser, he is a member of several international tax organisations. He is a past Chairman of the Kent branches of both the Chartered Institute of Taxation and the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners. He is co-author of Tolleys Property Tax Planning.



Mark Howard

Mark is a partner in the Private Client Practice.

Having originally trained and qualified with the firm he rejoined in 1983 after spending some time in London with an International firm.

He became a partner of Creaseys in 1985 and is a past-president of West Kent Chamber of Commerce. Mark now specialises in trusts, farms and estates and enjoys helping clients understand the complexities of inheritance tax and estate planning.

For many years Mark headed up the Professional Practices Team and maintains his Audit responsibility for some of the firm's major clients. More recently he has been involved in the formation of the firm's probate department and sees this as a helpful addition to the services offered to Private Clients.

Tim Page

Tim joined Creaseys in May 2008 after a spell running his own tax consulting business.
He heads our Private Client Practice.

After qualifying as a Chartered Tax Adviser with KPMG in Kent 1992,
Tim moved to their London office and worked with a number of prestigious clients.
In 1996 he left KPMG to join Watson Wyatt, another global consulting business.

Tim was promoted to Tax Partner at Watson Wyatt in 1998 and was in charge of the tax and corporate finance work for Watson Wyatt in their European Region. He set up his own business, Page Consulting in 2005 after advising on the merger of Watson Wyatt's European and North American businesses.

At Creaseys, Tim leads a group of talented accountants and tax advisers who provide a full range of services to Private Clients.
The group is especially renowned for their excellence in personal tax planning, trusts, farming and partnerships.

James Pearce

James is primarily an audit and business advisory partner, with experience of assisting clients ranging from sole traders to listed multi-nationals, and also has transactional due diligence experience. He has a particular focus on the media, technology and telecoms sectors, and on working with start-ups and early stage businesses, helping them to raise funds and navigate the challenging first stages of development. He has a strong technical bias, particularly in International Auditing and Financial Reporting Standards.

James works closely with other members of the business consulting team to ensure that the firm’s clients receive the best and most timely advice possible.

Up until joining Creaseys in November 2009, James’s career had been spent entirely with accountancy practices in the top 15 in the country, as a partner since 2003. The experience he has gained since joining Andersens as a graduate and qualifying in 1997 has proved invaluable to the businesses that he has worked with.

Elizabeth Robertson

After graduating with a degree in Geography from Cambridge University, Elizabeth qualified as a Chartered Accountant and then joined the London tax department of Deloitte. Whilst there, she gained a wide variety of experience including the tax affairs of large listed plc’s and professional partnerships but found that for her the most challenging and interesting work came from the middle-market sector.

She now gives tax advice to both existing clients of Creaseys and also to those recommended to us by their own professional advisers who need specialist assistance. Businesses will, at various stages in their evolution, be in need of particular tax expertise such as when making acquisitions, involving employees in share ownership, providing flexible remuneration packages for their directors as well as planning for an exit such as passing the company on to other members of the family or management team or selling to a third party. Elizabeth particularly enjoys working with businesses and their owners to ensure that they achieve their goals in the most tax effective way.

Graham Turpin

Graham became a partner in Creaseys in 2007. Having taken up a training contract with the firm in 1993 he qualified in 1997 with a prize-winning result in his Final ICAEW Examinations. After qualification he combined his role in the audit and business consultancy division with his special interest in IT.

He has been involved with the firm’s IT provision throughout his time at Creaseys and has been instrumental in building the firm’s reputation for embracing the most up-to-date IT systems, as well as helping many of Creaseys’ clients with software selection and implementation.

Always keen to expand his repertoire Graham is now also becoming involved in the firm’s business valuations work.

Graham’s combination of strong audit, accountancy and IT skills make him uniquely placed to offer a wide range of help and advice to Creaseys’ business clients supporting Creaseys’ philosophy of striving to provide our clients with the best possible service.

Roger Ward

As head of Creaseys Charities Unit, Roger Ward’s experience of handling assignments within the voluntary sector, enables him to adopt an approach he considers essential to modern accountancy - the ability to listen to and understand clients wants and to care for their needs. This enables him to assist owners, managers and users interpret their financial information and to help them develop strategies for future development.

As well as specialising in advising charities, Roger’s portfolio includes a number of family companies. Over the years Roger has developed a keen interest in the interaction of corporate and personal taxes, an area which can prove complex for small and medium sized businesses. Whatever area of work he’s engaged in Roger is committed to the Creaseys philosophy of providing client care with a personal touch,believing that this approach is the key to long term rewards for everyone.