Ian is the Office Senior Partner in Newcastle for KPMG, leading a talented and multi-disciplinary team of people, serving clients across the corporate and public sectors. He is responsible for maintaining a well-established and successful audit and tax business, supporting and growing a market leading deals practice, and seeking opportunity to continue the development of the firm’s award winning consulting team across the city region, the North East and Cumbria.He is increasingly focussed on business development and client relationship roles. He leads the firm’s relationship with people and organisations across a number of different industry sectors; working with family owned, entrepreneurial, PE, publicly listed and international groups. Ian works closely with his clients through all aspects of growth, acquisition, transition between generations and exit either through sale or IPO onto a public market. The key to his role is to ensure the businesses and organisations in the North East benefit from the the full breadth and depth of KPMG's national and global expertise and insights.Ian is a member of KPMG's Northern leadership team and leads the firm’s Family Business Advisory team across the North of England.Ian is a visiting professor at the University of Huddersfield and has also spent time at Chicago Business School and Harvard Business School studying leadership and strategy.