Evelyn Partners Bristol celebrates growth with six staff promotions

By Peter Davison

7 August 2023

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Kelly Jones, Sarah Fox, George Oliver, Alison Kingaby, Justyna Kukielka and Ben Hamar

Evelyn Partners, integrated wealth management and professional services group, has announced more Bristol promotions in the assurance and business services team.

Ben Hamar becomes a director in the national assurance technical group, providing financial reporting, audit and assurance support to the company. An Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland (ICAS) qualified accountant and auditor, Ben trained with KPMG before joining the group in 2006 as a qualified audit senior.

Auditor Sarah Fox has been promoted to associate director in Evelyn Partners’ audit team, having joined the group in 2021 from Ernst & Young. Sarah has 13 years’ experience advising medium-sized and large businesses.

After four years with Evelyn Partners, pensions audit specialist Alison Kingaby has been promoted to associate director.

George Oliver makes senior audit manager, having first joined the team in 2022.

In business outsourcing services, Emily Fleet and Justyna Kukielka become assistant managers.

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Emily specialises in working with high-growth businesses with experience in management, statutory and VAT reporting. Justyna has more than eight years’ experience in accountancy, having joined the group as an accounts assistant in 2019.

Partner Kelly Jones, head of assurance and business services in Evelyn Partners’ Bristol office, said: “We are always keen to acknowledge and promote rising talent at all levels of the business.

“These are the latest in a series of promotions and new appointments across our teams here in Bristol following the continued growth of our professional services business.”

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.