Malcolm qualified as an ICAEW Chartered Accountant in 1981. He joined the ICAEW Council in 2005 and was elected President in 2024. He has worked in industry for the majority of his professional life, mainly as CFO of AIM-listed companies, across a wide range of sectors including property, childcare, mining, manufacturing, telecommunications, and construction. Amongst many other committee roles across ICAEW and its London District Society, he served as a member of the ICAEW Ethics Standards Committee from 2015 and was its Chair from 2018 to 2022. He is currently a member of HMRC's Administrative Burdens Advisory Board and of the Court of the Worshipful Company of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales.

Emily works to support the implementation of DSIT’s AI Opportunities Action Plan and unlock the opportunities of AI across the economy, whilst ensuring any associated risks are managed through the development of an ethical, trustworthy, and effective AI assurance ecosystem – a key pillar of the UK’s AI governance framework. She represents the UK at the OECD’s Working Party on AI Governance, and is also part of the OECD.AI network of experts, contributing to their Expert Groups on AI Risk & Accountability and Compute & Climate. Last year Emily was named as one of the Government AI 100.

Piers is a Technology Risk Partner at EY focusing on emerging technologies. He has been working on AI Assurance since 2017 when he co-developed EY’s initial global approach and has overseen delivery of a significant number of reviews and regulatory readiness projects at a number of clients (including EY). He is a FCA, CISSP, MBA and has served on a number of boards and Audit Committees including previously both on the ICAEW Technical Faculty and as Vice-Chair of the ICAEW Audit Committee. 

Tim co-founded Best Practice AI to educate and advise on AI strategy and governance. BPAI published the world’s largest directory of AI use cases, have worked with the World Economic Forum on their first AI Board Leadership Toolkit and co-produced the world’s first AI Explainability Statements under GDPR. Tim also co-founded Salus AI which uses AI for sales compliance checking. He has worked at the Boston Consulting Group, served on the board of a private equity-backed business, advised the Deputy Prime Minister of the UK and is a Trustee at Full Fact.

Gareth leads EY's UK Data & Intelligence Delivery CoE, comprising over 200 team members who specialise in supplying the data, technology and innovation needs of EY’s audit and assurance engagements. Working with data of any size from any system, the team encounters, deploys and innovates with emerging technologies, including AI. EY itself uses AI extensively, integrated into global platforms, embedded in discrete tools and as everyday working life CoPilots. EY’s Responsible AI Framework governs this deployment as well as being the backbone to EY’s audit response to companies using AI. Gareth lives in Yorkshire with his family, enjoying time outside work supporting local and national charities and digitally detoxing in the Dales.

Rachel is responsible for leading our product strategy, data science work and our risk scoring approach. Prior to joining MindBridge, Rachel was the Head of Data Analytics Research at the UK National Audit Office, leading a team of data scientists and analysts in developing unique data analytics capabilities for financial audit. Rachel is an ACA-qualified chartered accountant and holds an MBA from Imperial College.

Esther influences Technology policy to enable businesses, accountants and society to harness its benefits while limiting harm. Prior to joining ICAEW, she worked in technology internal and external audit roles, focussing on information and cyber security and operational resilience. She is also a qualified ICAEW Chartered Accountant, qualifying whilst at Deloitte.

Tim McGarr is the AI Market Development Lead in BSI Regulatory Services responsible for understanding new AI markets and developing AI services, including ISO/IEC 42001 certification and services related to the EU AI Act. Prior to this Tim was the Sector Lead for the Digital area within Knowledge Solutions in BSI. Tim has been working at BSI since 2009. Prior to BSI, Tim he spent 5 years working in the legal publisher LexisNexis in the strategy department. Before this, Tim he worked as a management consultant. Tim has an MBA from HEC in Paris, France.

Pauline is the CEO of Anekanta®AI and Anekanta®Consulting, which provide AI strategy, literacy and governance services aligned with the requirements of the EU AI Act and international pending regulations. The Company operates across sectors including facilities management, security, transportation, aviation, retail, and education. She previously held executive board roles in large international industrial video and high-risk AI technology companies. As leader in Responsible AI Pauline has driven good practice for over 20 years; recently focused on facial recognition guidance, standards and regulation, also AI policy and governance frameworks for Directors.