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 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 (1996-2008). 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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Mary Jackets

Mary has over 10 years of corporate valuation experience and joined Valuation Consulting in 2009 as a Director, based in the London office.

After qualifying as a Chartered Accountant in 1993 with BDO Stoy Hayward, Mary spent 4 years working in the Corporate Finance team, where she was focused on M&A. In 1997 she joined PwC Corporate Finance and specialised in corporate valuations. Mary progressed within the valuation division to lead the Commercial and Industrial Products team. She prepared valuation reports for private and quoted companies for a range of commercial purposes, such as M&A activity, fairness opinions, share scheme requirements and strategic option reviews.

In 2001, Mary moved into investor relations, initially working as a consultant for the Maitland Consultancy, before joining Cadbury Schweppes plc in 2003 and becoming Director of Investor Relations at Old Mutual plc in 2008. Cadbury Schweppes had an active strategic and M&A agenda during this time, including the first UK to US demerger the market had seen in a decade. Mary worked closely with senior management to ensure that the market understood the strategic rationale, practicalities and financial implications of the various management actions and regularly met with analysts and investors to explain company operations and business performance. This experience has given her an in-depth understanding of the key drivers of value and the financial and valuation models used by city analysts and investors. Mary also worked alongside the central finance teams on internal valuation models for the businesses and intangible assets held by the group.

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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 Robertson

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.

Following the acquisition of Valuation Consulting by Atisreal in June 2006, Wendy joined the team valuing private companies and their shareholdings, intellectual property (trademarks, patents, copyright) and intangible assets (brands, workforce, free goodwill, R&D etc). Valuation assignments include goodwill and business valuations for both fiscal and non fiscal purposes; Valuations of specific IP in connection with financing, transfer pricing, corporate restructuring or disposal/acquisition; Purchase Price Allocations under IFRS 3; share option valuations and valuations in connection with dispute resolution.

Prior to joining VC, Wendy was a Director within the Corporate Valuations team at Atisreal Limited, also a wholly owned subsidiary of BNP Paribas where she 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.

Wendy is a member of the RICS and the SSBV (Society of Share and Business Valuers).

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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.