Sarah Prescott qualified as a Chartered Accountant with PriceWaterhouseCooper almost twenty years ago and has spent over 20 years in public services and not for profits. She has held senior leadership roles in a number of Welsh housing associations, most recently at Valleys to Coast (top 10 housing association, turnover £32m, 250 FTE) where she was CFO. She is also an experienced Interim (including Interim COO at Be First Regeneration, responsible for around 25% of London’s affordable housing). She founded her own company Redyn Consulting in 2021 and has successfully operated over a variety of value-based sectors in both profit and non-profit settings. She holds NED positions at Tai Pawb and Institute of Welsh Affairs amongst other NED positions and is a member of and active within the Wales Board of the Chartered Institute of Housing.

Robert Lloyd Griffiths OBE is ICAEW’s Director for Wales. He holds several non-executive and advisory positions and, following an early career in Marketing and Communications, was previously the National Director for the IoD in Wales. He has chaired a number of Welsh government Task and Finish Groups and Reviews and is Chair of The Duke of Edinburgh Awards Business Advisory Group in Wales. He has a degree in Banking and Finance from Cardiff Business School, is a Fellow of The Chartered Institute of Marketing and was awarded his OBE in the 2014 Queen’s Birthday Honours for services to the economy and voluntary services in Wales.

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