Partners
Peter Agius - Partner
Peter gained tremendous experience dealing with small businesses, whilst working for Touche Ross and Kingston Smith. Later on in his career he worked for a thriving practice in Pinner - now incorporated into Harwood Hutton.
Over the years he has tackled a wide range of accounting issues, such as personal and corporate tax and insurance brokering. One of his key specialisms is acquisition and disposal work. Peter is responsible for developing and reviewing the firm's in-house technical group. He is an influential member of the Harwood Hutton team and devotes all his time to his clients' affairs. Peter relishes the constant variety of issues involved with running his portfolio and he is always keen to improve the productivity and tax structure of his clients’ businesses.
Email: peteragius@harwoodhutton.co.uk
John Brace - Managing Partner
After qualifying John spent the early part of his career in senior finance posts with two national construction groups. This led to John starting his own construction business in 1973, which he sold by way of a management buy out in 1980. When John joined Harwood Hutton in 1981 it was a three-partner practice and he has played an influential part in the growth of the firm. He is particularly proud of the part he played in enabling Harwood Hutton to become one of the first accountancy firms in the UK to achieve ISO 9001 status.
In addition to his considerable accountancy experience, he has worked as an expert witness mainly in professional negligence, matrimonial and business disputes. John was President of The Association of Chartered Certified Accountants from 2004 to 2005. He contributes to the development of the accounting profession through membership of committees that represent the profession in the UK and Europe.
Email: johnbrace@harwoodhutton.co.uk
Jon Cable - Partner
Jon trained as a Chartered Accountant with a London-based general practice and on qualifying in 1972 went to South America to work as an auditor with a major international accounting firm. In 1981 he returned to the UK to join the Oxford office of a large national firm as Business Services Manager.
Jon moved to Harwood Hutton in 1992, becoming a partner in 1998. His career, spanning over 30 years, brings Jon back to his roots in general practice having gained extensive experience with all types and sizes of companies, from multinationals to small owner-managed businesses.
Email: joncable@harwoodhutton.co.uk
Graham Corney, Partner
Graham Corney started life as a trainee accountant in a rapidly expanding West London practice that eventually merged with a top 20 firm. He was given wide- ranging experience and responsibility early on in his career. He dealt with the liquidation of several medium-sized businesses and experienced at first hand the importance of effective and up-to-date cash flow and management information.
Arriving at Harwood Hutton in 1975 Graham became a Partner two years later and triggered the firm's successful participation in Investor in People. Graham believes passionately that he needs to be part of a client's team to provide the best service and use of his time. He likes to gain intimate knowledge of his clients' businesses to enable him to offer the right advice based on that knowledge. He always tries to be on hand to help make those important decisions and match the client's own dedication to their business.
Graham lives locally in Beaconsfield and has recently been elected as a town councillor.
Email: grahamcorney@harwoodhutton.co.uk
Richard Hutton - Partner
Following his training with a medium-sized firm in St Albans, Richard joined Coopers & Lybrand in London. He gained invaluable experience, which he was then able to use in a number of senior accounting roles in industry. Later, he formed the Harwood Hutton partnership with Michael Harwood and since has continued to help grow the firm.
Richard now manages a large client portfolio and is heavily involved with the development of the "Business Solutions" advice side of the practice. He believes very strongly that imagination plus experience is a potent force for growth, and is always pleased to act as a sounding board for clients. He says "We should look five years ahead to decide what we should be doing now".
Email: richardhutton@harwoodhutton.co.uk
David Jones - Partner
Prior to joining Harwood Hutton, David was assistant to a partner in a medium-sized accountancy firm, in London. The experience he gained in this role was tremendously wide-ranging and has proven invaluable. He was able to work on all types of projects and fully expand his skills. Having obtained this excellent grounding he decided to focus on owner-managed businesses. He hoped to bring added value to clients and particularly wanted to work in a smaller firm to enable him to have a more “hands-on” approach. To this end, David joined Harwood Hutton in 1997. Over the next 3 years he worked closely with many of the firm’s clients, and in 2000 he was appointed a partner.
David still handles a wide variety of accountancy issues, and has been particularly instrumental in obtaining finance for a number of his clients. In addition he has worked with several start-ups, helping them to grow into multi-million pound companies. One other area in which he specialises is business disposals. David finds the diversity of work at Harwood Hutton both challenging and interesting.
Email: davidjones@harwoodhutton.co.uk
Adam Stronach - Partner
Adam read Economics at St John’s College, Cambridge and joined Deloitte after graduation in 1990. He is a Chartered Accountant and spent the first part of his career advising many smaller managed entities through his work in the Deloitte Audit and Business Services Groups. For the last ten years Adam has specialised as a forensic accountant. He has undertaken a variety of assignments including expert witness work, expert determination assignments, completion accounts disputes, business valuation work, international arbitration cases, forensic investigation assignments and anti-money laundering reviews.
In July 2004, he joined Harwood Hutton as the firm’s Director of Forensic and Resolution Services. Adam believes an expert led service is the key to the production of forensic reports that focus on the important issues in a case. He is passionate about building successful dispute teams and has worked with clients, solicitors, barristers, industry specialists and other experts to help resolve disputes on many occasions in the past.