PAUL A. HILL B.Sc. (Hons) F.C.A. – CURRICULUM VITAE

BUSINESS EXPERIENCE

Chartered Accountant (qualified 1977) with over 32 years experience in assisting proprietorial businesses.

Trained in Newport, Gwent with the major accounting firm Deloitte Haskins & Sells (now part of PriceWaterhouseCoopers following several mergers) dealing with a wide range of businesses. Promoted internally to be the manager dealing with the corporate side of the practice, including dealing with all company taxation and the personal taxation affairs of directors. Moved to Cambridge in 1986 to take charge of the Business Development Group dealing with mainly proprietorial business, some with venture capital finance. The group grew from four staff in 1986 to nearly 20 staff in 1990. Left what was then Coopers & Lybrand Deloitte in January 1991 to start own Chartered Accountants practice of Paul A. Hill & Co., when management changes following a merger proved unsatisfactory.

Industry experience covers virtually all areas from manufacturing and personal service companies to all forms of hi-tec, public schools, professional institutions and charitable and similar bodies. Work type experience includes audit, accountancy and taxation as well as all forms of investigation work; including advising on stock exchange floatations and assisting with management buy outs/ins and other start-up business plans.

TRAINING EXPERIENCE

Lectured extensively on technical and management topics for Deloitte Haskins & Sells and responsible for development of new teaching methods for technical courses.

Involved for 25 years with British Junior Chamber (The Jaycees), an "out of hours" management training organisation for people between 18-40. Developed a considerable number of courses and lectured and led seminars for Junior Chamber throughout Britain and abroad on management topics. Although not now a member, owing to age, still runs a number of courses and seminars for the Junior Chamber organisation.

Asked by Huntingdonshire Enterprise Agency to develop a two-day business skills seminar on bookkeeping and financial control for new business people. Delivered this from June 1991 in St Ives and from October 1992 additionally in Cambridge for Cambridge Enterprise Agency. Developed and delivered a four-day management training course for CambsTEC (the precursor to Business Link) and also a two-day bookkeeping course for Cambridge Chamber of Commerce.

OTHER EXPERIENCE

Hon. Treasurer (Finance Director) of Cambridge and District Chamber of Commerce and Industry 1989-2003, joining the board of the Cambridgeshire Chamber of Commerce on the merger of the Peterborough and Cambridge Chambers on 1 April 2003. President Cambridge Junior Chamber in 1989. National board director of British Junior Chamber in 1990 and 1992. Recognised by Junior Chamber International (JCI) as Senator No. 49094 in November 1991. Chairman of the Association of British Senators of JCI in 2002. General Legal Counsel to the Association of JCI Senators in Europe in 2006/07

From May 1990 until April 1992 appointed as a consultant to the Deregulation Unit of the Department of Trade and Industry advising the then Minister for Corporate Affairs (John Redwood) on deregulation in taxation and company law. From November 1991 to 1998 appointed by the Secretary of State for Health to be a non-executive director of Hinchingbrooke Healthcare NHS Trust in Huntingdon.

From July 1992 to 1999 appointed to the Tax Administration Committee of the Chartered Institute of Taxation (CIOT) and from July 1999 to date to its successor body the Technical Committee of the Association of Taxation Technicians (ATT). Appointed from that committee to be the ATT representative on the HM Revenue & Customs Operational Consultative Committee and other groups advising HMRC and ministers on the practical implementation of tax policy.

Author of articles on tax policy and practice for the CIOT/ATT member's journal - Taxation Adviser. Appointed by British Chambers of Commerce to act as their representative on an HMRC working party on the future of the personal tax system in the UK. Member of various working parties for the Institute of Fiscal Studies (IFS) (mainly on practical aspects of tax policy) and a speaker at IFS conferences on these issues.

Age 54, married to Carol with two daughters, Rhiannon (27) and Ceri (25).