Accountancy firm HB&O welcomes two new co-owners

By Peter Davison

31 August 2023

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HB&O has announced the promotion of two new co-owners: Simon Turner and Stuart Grosvenor

Midlands-based accountancy and finance firm HB&O has announced the promotion of two new co-owners: Simon Turner and Stuart Grosvenor.

The new ownership structure will see Simon and Stuart join Directors Mark Ashfield, Helen Coombes and Wayne Gutteridge.

The firm has offices in Leamington Spa and Coventry and employs over one hundred people. Their key service offerings are tax, audit, compliance services, Virtual Finance Office and corporate finance.

Mark Ashfield, Managing Director, commented, “This is a momentous milestone in the progression of HB&O and has been something we’ve been working on with Simon and Stuart since they joined.

"Bringing another two co-owners onto the Board enables us to really accelerate our growth plans whilst continuing to provide the very best service offering to our clients.

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"Both Simon and Stuart are highly experienced accounting and business professionals, bringing years of extremely valuable expertise to our team, and we are delighted to have them on board to strengthen and support HB&O’s leadership.”

By Peter Davison

Peter Davison is deputy editor of The Business Magazine. He has spent his life in journalism – doing work experience in newsrooms in and around Bristol while still at school, and landing his first job on a local newspaper aged 19. By 28 he was the youngest newspaper editor in the country.

An early advocate of online news, he spent the first years of the 2000s telling his bosses that the internet posed both the biggest opportunity and greatest threat to the newspaper industry and the art of journalism. He was right on both counts.

Since 2006 he has enjoyed a career as a freelance journalist. He lives in rural Wiltshire with one wife, two children, and three cats.