GRANT THORNTON has launched the next wave of its attack on the mid-market with three senior lateral hires from within the Yorkshire professional community.
The three recruits, who have all joined as partners, are Martin Barron, who rose to director in Deloitte’s restructuring team over a 15-year period, former EY tax director Rachel Engwell, and Dan Rosinke, who headed Yorkshire Bank’s specialist and acquisition finance team in the east of England.
“This is about the firm taking its opportunity,” said Andy Wood, practice leader for Grant Thornton in Leeds. “We have the stated objective of being the go-to firm for growth.
“Clearly, Dan, Martin and Rachel are all quality individuals in the marketplace, but they also get the brand and understand the vision.”
Grant Thornton has sought to establish itself as a category-of-one firm, positioning itself as a different proposition to the big four.
Nationally it has recorded five consecutive years of growth, with turnover reaching £521m in the year to June 2015, generating pre-tax profits of £82m.
The firm also stresses its culture, which is being led by chief executive Sacha Romanovitch, whose first months in the role has seen her, among other things, voluntarily cap her own pay, at 20 times the average earnings of a Grant Thornton employee, and be very active on Twitter.
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