Shaw Gibbs announces three senior promotions

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Peter Davison

Oxfordshire-based accountancy firm Shaw Gibbs has promoted three of its senior team.

Nik Ioannidis now holds the position of Partner with Darshil Shah and Daniel Watkins being elevated from Manager to Associate Director positions.

Nik (left) is an auditor with a specialism in international groups, he has been with Shaw Gibbs since 2012.

Darshil (middle) is in outsourcing, specialising in inbound clients with overseas owners, he has recently reached his five year anniversary with the firm.

Daniel (right) looks after accounts clients and has an interest in the healthcare sector, he is the newest addition having started in November 2021.

Peter O’Connell, Managing Partner for the firm said: “I am so proud to see these three individuals achieving promotion.

"Their dedication to client service alongside the strides they have made in their own professional development means they have played, a vital part in Shaw Gibbs success to date.

We are great believers in growing our own talent and the investment into the success of our future leaders is a priority.

"I am happy to say that Nik, Dan and Darshil have grasped all of the opportunities offered via our management development programme, mentoring and one-to-one business development support.

I have no doubt that these three will continue to flourish and I look forward to working closely with them on the continued success of our practice.“

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.