Our team

Mark Smith  -  Regional Chairman Mark is the Chairman of the Midlands practice and Senior Partner for the Birmingham office. He leads teams at offices in Birmingham, Castle Donington and Milton Keynes.
Mark Shires  -  East Midlands Senior Partner Mark is the Senior Partner for the East Midlands office heading up a team of over 300 and also the Head of Advisory for the firm in the Midlands.
Stuart Wallace - Tax  Stuart leads our tax practice in the Midlands, overseeing three offices and approximately 300 staff. Stuart is an Indirect Tax specialist and advises clients on complex international Indirect Tax issues and on major UK Indirect Tax issues.
Phil Harrold  -  Audit and assurance  -  East Midlands Phil is head of the Assurance practice in the East Midlands. As a specialist in overseas owned businesses, he also leads the entire Midlands practice in all issues relating to overseas owned businesses ensuring overall client satisfaction.
Matthew Hammond  -  Business recovery  -  Birmingham Matthew heads up our Midlands Business recovery services team leading around 50 professionals across our Birmingham, East Midlands and Milton Keynes offices.
Eddie Williams  -  Business recovery  -  East Midlands Eddie leads the Business Recovery Services team in the East Midlands. They support local businesses of all sizes in riding out dips in performance and raising finance or structure their operations in a more efficient and profitable way.
Michael Kitts  -  Consulting and Government & Public Sector Michael leads both our Consulting practice and Government and Public Sector business across the Midlands. He is an accountant and worked in the public sector for 20 years, most recently as a local authority finance director, before joining PwC in 2000.
Matt Waddell  -  Corporate finance - Birmingham Matt leads our corporate finance business in the Midlands, advising on acquisitions, disposals and private equity transactions
Victoria Marcer - Corporate finance - East Midlands  Victoria leads our corporate finance business in the East Midlands, advising on acquisitions, disposals and private equity transactions.
Ranjit Auluk - Forensic services  Ranjit is a partner in PwC's UK Forensic Services practice and a Qualified ACA. Ranjit leads PwC's Midlands Forensics team of 25 forensic professionals who assist companies and their lawyers by providing financial accounting, economic and statistical support in relation to transactions and other commercial disputes.
Jeremy May - Human resource services  Jeremy heads up our Midlands Human resource services practice. He is a qualified Actuary and joined PwC in 1997 to set up the Pensions team. His team advise a wide range of organisations on pensions, reward, employment tax, international mobility and HR strategy and process.
Jonathan Evans - Indirect tax  Jonathan leads the Indirect Tax practice in the Midlands. He joined the firm in 2002 as a VAT partner and has been involved in VAT since 1986, starting his career in HMRC. Since that time Jonathan has advised a wide range of businesses including multinational retailers, international automotive manufacturers and financial services organisations.
Helen Nixseaman - Risk assurance services  Helen leads the Risk Assurance services business in the Midlands, focusing on systems and process assurance, governance, risk and controls, internal audit, technology assurance and data management.
Russell Worrall - Transactions services  Russell leads the Midlands Transaction Services team in Birmingham, East Midlands and Milton Keynes. Over the last 15 years Russell has worked alongside both corporate and private equity clients on a wide range of transactions including buy side, sell side, IPO's, rights issues, capital restructuring.
Sue Wallbank - Performance Assurance   Sue leads our Performance Assurance team in the Midlands which covers third party and non financial assurance, regulatory reporting (including CSR) and internal reporting to management on internal processes and controls relating to performance information.