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Martyn joined FRP in 2017, and is a Partner in the Restructuring Advisory team in Teesside. As a Chartered Certified Accountant, Licensed Insolvency Practitioner and member of the Turnaround Managers Association, he has significant experience advising businesses and not-for-profit organisations, usually during times of financial distress.

Well-connected throughout the North East region, Martyn has extensive experience working with clients ranging from owner-managed businesses to large multi-site operations, rescuing as many as possible. He is increasingly engaged in advisory assignments working with existing management teams to maximise stakeholder outcomes, and has particular experience dealing with retail, construction, charities, licensed trade and manufacturing businesses.

After initially working in a range of bookkeeping and accounting roles, Lucy took up a role in a team administering the £17 billion pension fund of one of the Top 3 UK banks. Later moving on to a project working with an international partner to scope a new pensions administration system. This work drew on expertise in:

• Workflow Management
• Process mapping
• Systems design
• Test design and implementation
• Interpretation of scheme rules and legislation

After a career break, Lucy went into practice as a bookkeeper, growing and developing a successful bookkeeping practice that she then sold. Whilst in practice as a bookkeeper, Lucy developed and implemented policy and processes to ensure that the business was compliant with all legislative requirements, including Anti Money Laundering legislation.

Having successfully sold the business, Lucy worked for one of the supervisory bodies supporting members to meet their legislative obligations and satisfy professional standards. In this role Lucy provided training, worked to raise awareness, and provided advice to a wide variety of members – alongside overseeing the mandatory penalty regime and developing an independent appeals process.

Ben Brophy is an ICAEW Chartered Accountant, Industrial Fellow, and founder of Brophy Accountancy & Advisory Limited (BAA Group); an innovative firm blending finance and technology to support small businesses and individuals. With over a decade of experience in practice accounting, Ben brings expertise and outlook, to both the professional and academic arenas. He is an award-winning champion of entrepreneurship, a regular speaker at one of the UK's leading startup hubs, and an Industrial Fellow supporting a highly-ranked UK business school. Ben also serves as Co-Chair of BBHSCA’s Digital Accountants Group and is part of its management team as Duty and then Vice President. Ben’s passion for AI and emerging technology has led to exciting developments in both academia and practice, where he explores real-world use cases of AI in the fast-evolving accountancy landscape

Damon Rands CISSP is a cyber security expert, with over 30 years in the Information security industry. Having worked in development, support and installation he has helped companies across the globe build secure systems and implement best practices to protect their intellectual property and private information. Damon is the founder of PureCyber, who have recently been named “Most Innovative Cyber Security Company in the UK”, “Best International Cyber Security Consultancy Firm in the UK” and named as the highest placed cyber security organisation in the UK Fast Growth Index 2024. Headquartered in UK and operating in over 85 countries, Damon leads a team of fifty employees who are cyber experts with a broad spectrum of specialist knowledge of the latest trends, technologies, and attack vectors. PureCyber work with a diverse range of businesses in the UK and internationally offering a unique mix of services across the three key pillars of security: Offensive, Defensive and Governance providing businesses with a single point solution for their cyber security needs. Damon is a member of several advisory boards across education and government, helping shape cyber resilience and education standards for the nation.

I’m a Chartered Accountant, Sustainability Consultant, Lecturer, and Speaker with international experience helping finance and audit teams integrate sustainability and climate risk into business strategy, risk, and reporting, with a strong focus on ISSB, TNFD, UK-CFD, and CSRD readiness.

After senior roles at KPMG and MHA (Baker Tilly UK), I now work independently, supporting businesses to turn sustainability frameworks into practical, credible tools for audit readiness, risk assessments, and long-term value creation. I’ve presented at venues including ExCeL London and the House of Lords, sharing practical insights on climate risk, strategy, and reporting.

Alongside my technical work, I also advocate for wellbeing and high performance in the profession, sharing my own journey of rebuilding energy and resilience through mindset, weightlifting, and cellular health.

Marta has worked extensively in the sustainability transformation of several economic sectors, including the energy, food, built environment and finance sector. She has 20+ years of experience in assessing the value provided by nature, people, and society to inform and transform decision making.

Previously, she was Senior Director at the Capitals Coalition, where she was leading and advancing approaches to measure and value impacts and dependencies on nature, people and society. She is author of an extensive list of guidance and training materials, which she has been promoting across the world.

She has been advising several leading organizations, including the Taskforce on Nature-related financial Disclosures (TNFD), Science-based Targets Network (SBTN), Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the Impact Management Platform (IMP), the G7 Impact Taskforce, the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and the Value Accounting Network (VAN). She is currently Ambassador of the Capitals Coalition.

As a head of Strategic Solutions at OmniPro, Lindsay’s focus is on helping practices achieve on-going best practice compliance, providing in-house training and technical assistance in audit and financial reporting.

Lindsay is a member of the South African Institute of Chartered Accountants and Chartered Accountants Ireland. She trained with KPMG in Johannesburg and specialised in external audit of financial services companies. She then spent six years lecturing audit and financial reporting to under-grad and post-grad students at Rhodes University in South Africa before moving to Ireland and returning to practice in a small, and then a medium sized firm where she was an audit manager. She is passionate about combining her academic and practice backgrounds to provide technical information in a useful and practical way.

Outside of her accounting qualifications Lindsay holds a PGDiploma in Higher Education from Rhodes University, an MBA from Trinity College Dublin and a Diploma in Forensic Accounting from Chartered Accountants Ireland.