Kelvin joined the Government in 1970. His early career was spent with the Government's Share Valuation (SV); which is responsible for all of the private company, business, intellectual property, and intangible asset valuation requirements of Government: the Capital Taxes Office (CTO) and Policy and Management Divisions. In both SV and the CTO, Kelvin held senior positions in the HQ units, dealing with the most complex cases.

He left the Government after 17 years to establish a Valuation Unit for a large accountancy practice and, before the founding of Valuation Consulting, was the MD of a specialist valuation company within a major international Swiss bank. He has undertaken corporate finance work.

Kelvin is frequently asked to lecture for professional bodies and training organisations about commercial and tax valuation. As well as founding the Society of Share & Business Valuers in the UK he is a contributor to many journals, television and radio. He is a contributor to books (Business Valuation Digest – Thomson, Intellectual Property Rights and Their Valuation – Gresham, Due Diligence Law and Practice – Sweet & Maxwell, The Trademark Handbook amongst others).

His new book Valuation and Exploitation of Intellectual Property and Intangible Assets was published by EMIS Professional Publishing in May 2003. Read the reviews

He has been one of two separately listed UK Expert Witnesses in the areas of intellectual property and intangible asset valuation and one of the five separately listed unquoted company Experts in The Law Society Directory of Expert Witnesses (1996-2006). He is a founding expert of Lord Woolf’s Expert Witness Institute, member of the Licensing Executive Society, Chartered Institute of Patent Agents (Associate), International Association of Consultants, Valuers and Analysts, Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (Fellow).

He has been involved in a number of major recent cases including the professional negligence case Ball (the co-founder of The Eden Project) v Druces and Attlee concerning IPR, business valuation and royalty rates. Trademark litigation clients include Levi Strauss.

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Tony has a Music degree and is a Licentiate of the Royal Academy of Music. After a career as a professional orchestral musician and musical director Tony joined the Inland Revenue in 1983, becoming an Inspector of Taxes in 1985. In 1990 he moved on promotion to the Shares Valuation where, as a member of the Special Cases team, he dealt with the larger and more complex issues. Later he specialised in the valuation of goodwill and was instrumental in the development of the Revenue’s current policy and practice in this difficult area.

In 1995 Tony was elected a member of the Association of Taxation Technicians, and in the same year was approached by what was then Coopers & Lybrand Corporate Finance to join their London valuation team as a senior manager. There he gained experience in a wide variety of valuation scenarios including the fiscal valuation requirements of large multinational businesses and the intangible assets often found in such organisations.

Tony has a particular specialism in the valuation of shares and intellectual property for fiscal purposes, he is a member of the Society of Share and Business Valuers (the only UK professional body concerned solely with the valuation of unquoted companies, businesses and intellectual/intangible assets) and is a Law Society accredited expert witness (1999 – 2006) in respect of both share and IP valuation.

Tony’s recent expert witness work includes, in the High Court, Goldstein v Levy Gee and before the Tax Tribunal, DeVere Hotels and Leisure. He has written numerous expert witness reports for tax, divorce and other dispute purposes.

Tony is active both as a writer and on the conference and lecture circuit. He regularly gives talks on all aspects of valuation for organisations such as the Licensing Executives Society, ACCA, Scottish Institute of Chartered Accountants and the Chartered Institute of Patent Agents as well as in house for larger corporate clients and professional firms.

Tony’s hobbies include sailing – he is the proud owner of a Gibsea77 and has a RYA/DOT Coastal Skipper ticket.

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Ian Brewer is the Director in charge of Valuation Consulting’s Northern Office. After completing a degree at Leeds University, he joined the Inland Revenue in 1975. During his early career in Government he worked on all aspects of Inheritance Tax and then became a member of the Inland Revenue’s Central Training Section. While there he undertook the Civil Service College’s Training of Trainers Diploma which covered all aspects of training including distance learning and computer based training. His last job before joining the Shares Valuation was working directly for the Board of Inland Revenue on areas including the Budget and the Board’s Report.

In January 1991 he joined Shares Valuation on promotion. After a short time he became a member of the training team responsible for training new entrants to the division. This also included assisting in the writing of both the SV Training Manual and the Instructions. At the time he left SV he was working on a distance learning project to enable some of the SV training to be done at the desks instead of in the classroom.

In May 1996 he joined the Leeds office of PwC. Ian's clients and valuation work for both tax and commercial purposes took him all over the North of England. He worked for existing PwC clients and for accountancy firms and companies who did not have the necessary expertise within their own organisations. Ian lectures extensively to various professional bodies and is a member of the Society of Share and Business Valuers.

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Wendy qualified as a Chartered Surveyor in 1998 following a first degree in European Finance and Accounting and the German qualification, Diplom Betriebswirthschaft (European Finance and Accounting) from the Hochscule Bremen.

Wendy’s surveying and valuation career started at Dunlop Heywood where amongst other matters she worked for 5 years on the management of the City of Westminsters’ Investment Portfolio dealing with rent reviews, lease renewals and handling a rent roll of around £4,000,000.

Since joining Corporate Valuations in Atisreal, becoming a Director in 2004, Wendy has specialised in the Corporate Occupier sector and the provision of valuation and strategic advice to clients such as MOD; Royal Mail; BBC; Sainsburys and Barclays, utilising a variety of financial valuation techniques and models relating to cash flow, market and replacement cost. Much of this has related to valuation for accounting (UK GAAP and IFRS), Red Book, loan security, portfolio strategy, corporate account management etc.

Following the acquisition of Valuation Consulting by BNP Paribas Financial Services early in 2006 Wendy joined us in 2007. Her interests include hockey, golf and music, being both a piano and violin player.

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After graduating in 1982, Ascanio developed his experience in the field of corporate finance at international firms including Deutsche Bank in Frankfurt, Prudential Bache in Cologne and Merril Lynch in both New York and Munich.  In 1998, he joined KPMG where he became a manager of the firm's valuation department in Italy.  In 1990 he registered as a chartered accountant and auditor, becoming an independent consultant in the field of valuation of businesses, business interests and intangible assets.  Based in Rome and Milan, where he is also a member of the team of professionals lead by Prof. Luigi Guatri, former dean of renowned Bocconi-University Faculty of Economics, Ascanio has been an associate with Valuation Consulting since 1998.  He is an accredited expert witness in Italy's civil and criminal courts.  He is also an expert accredited at the International Chamber of Commerce in Paris (ICC-WTO).

During his professional career, Ascanio has been involved with us in numerous valuations and appraisals, particularly in the context of business combination valuations and impairment tests of intangible assets, both for quoted and unquoted companies including for investment, arbitration, court trials and proceedings.

Ascanio is multi-lingual and has been a speaker for professional and industrial associations and at seminars and courses related to business and IPR valuations.  He is also an author on the same subjects.