"I enjoy being part of the process through which business people achieve their commercial objectives."

Peter founded the practice in 1983. He did so with the express aim of creating a technically excellent firm providing entrepreneurs and owner-managed businesses with the highest standard of client care.

From the outset Peter considered that ensuring the firm provided a team based service environment in which capable young professionals could pursue meaningful and rewarding careers was essential to achieving this aim.

As Warrener Stewart developed, Peter found his own skills, as a business adviser with insight into both corporate and personal finance, to be increasingly in demand by business owner managers.

Much of Peter’s work is in the area of SME corporate mergers, acquisitions, sales and reconstructions, working alongside clients throughout the process of planning through to finalisation.

Peter regards the ability to provide sound business advice as and when required as one of the most important factors that sets the good accountant apart from the rest. Client advice has always been and remains a key element of the firm's raison d'être.

Jerry Broers has led Warrener Stewart’s tax department since joining the firm in 1994. Jerry studied Accountancy at the University of Kent, qualified in 1982 and moved into the specialised area of tax. He had always been sure that a career advising individuals and businesses would combine the intellectual challenge and personal interest he was looking for. Experience at a number of small accountancy practices and at Arthur Andersen enabled him to build up a wide range of expertise and additional qualifications.

Married with three children, Jerry enjoys family life and keeping fit. Playing cricket in the summer is a highlight, particularly since his son now plays for the same team.

Since 1994 the tax department has grown steadily in size and reputation. It combines a caring attitude to the problems taxation can pose, with the technical knowledge needed in this rapidly changing area. Every transaction has its own unique taxation angle and the department is ideally placed to deal with these. Leading a team of highly qualified, motivated people is a pleasure and a challenge that Jerry thoroughly enjoys.

The current team are able to offer excellent support to the other departments and the wider client base. Consultancy and advice as well as standard compliance work will help clients develop their businesses and realise their ambitions tax efficiently. Jerry knows that he and his department will go the extra mile to help and support all their clients. This care and commitment will continue to develop the tax department and Warrener Stewart as a firm.

After a biology degree at London University, Nick Morgan trained in the City with Deloitte Haskins & Sells (latterly Price Waterhouse Coopers). Shortly after qualifying, he moved into general practice in a smaller firm environment.

Working in the City with a Top 5 firm had many attractions, not least, involvement with Blue Chip Clients and opportunities to specialise and travel. However, Nick wanted more direct involvement with owner managed businesses, to be part of running his own business and to have more control over his own future.

Nick now has over twenty years experience of servicing the many different needs of a wide variety of owner managed business clients, ranging from large companies to individual consultants. For more than half of that time he has also been working with his fellow partners to manage and develop the growing business that is Warrener Stewart. With responsibilities for staff, facilities, administration and accounting he can identify very closely with many of the issues and problems that face his own clients.

Away from Warrener Stewart, Nick is Treasurer of Rosslyn Park Football Club, a national league rugby union club. He is also actively involved with teenage youth work (not least his own two teenagers!) and enjoys sport in general and the great outdoors.

'I am involved in helping clients realise their ambitions and get where they want to be. It is very rewarding.'

Colin Edney studied languages and linguistics at the University of East Anglia in Norwich and is fluent in French and Swedish, with a good grasp of German and the other Scandinavian languages.

From university, Colin took a training contract with BDO, one of the top ten international accounting practices. He then went on to gain valuable post qualification with both KPMG and BDO, developing his skills in providing business advice and working on ad-hoc assignments and contractual matters.

In 1995, Colin joined Warrener Stewart because he wanted the opportunity to become more closely involved with an entrepreneurial client base and also wanted to work in a practice where he felt that his efforts would genuinely make a difference.

Colin now divides his time between advisory matters, including business planning, due diligence and transactional work, whilst looking after a portfolio based on a small number of the firm’s larger, high profile clients, including those listed on AIM.

His partnership responsibilities include budgeting and assisting in the firm's forward strategic planning and he also takes responsibility for the practice’s IT and data management systems.

Colin believes that the people at Warrener Stewart are firmly fixed on a forward vision rather than short-term planning, which makes it a very exciting and rewarding firm to be part of.

‘Working with smaller businesses is very rewarding.
I feel like I can make a real difference to the way they work and I enjoy being able to provide a personal service.’

Gary Chapman joined the firm in 2001, bringing with him expertise in audit and accounts and an impressive track record in advising small businesses.

Gary trained and qualified with a medium-sized, London-based firm where he worked for ten years and where he become a manager overseeing a large and varied portfolio of clients including a wide variety of different owner managed businesses.

Prior to joining Warrener Stewart, Gary worked for KPMG in London, as an audit manager, managing a portfolio of larger audit clients. This experience was invaluable. However Gary knew that his skills and interests were more aligned to working with the privately owned businesses typical of Warrener Stewart’s client base.

Gary is a member of the London Society of Chartered Accountants Audit and Accounting Technical Committee and chairs the sub committee for on audit matters. Membership of this Committee ensures that firm is involved in all aspects of auditing and accounting and remains completely up to date with proposed changes to rules and regulations.

In heading up the firm’s audit and accounts department, Gary is responsible for the firm’s audit procedures and also for the scheduling and quality control of audit work. Gary is also responsible for student recruitment and training, enabling the firm to maintain its strong commitment, as a registered training office, to Chartered Accountants of the future.

In addition to these duties Gary is at the heart of the client service team, utilising his broad range of experience in managing a varied portfolio of business clients for the firm. Gary enjoys all aspects of his client work as well as the friendliness and commitment of his partners.