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Our people

ForrestBrown’s team gives clients access to unrivalled breadth and depth of technical expertise across a range of innovation incentives.

Our team is 100-strong and comprises chartered tax advisers, chartered accountants, lawyers, sector specialists, former HMRC inspectors and quality assurance experts.

  • Christopher Penfold

    Commercial Director

    • Leads commercial strategy, revenue growth, market expansion and client success.
    • Passionate about supporting businesses to grow by unlocking innovation funding.
    • Member of ForrestBrown’s executive leadership team.
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  • Alex Price CTA

    Director

    • Works with strategic partners to support businesses to access innovation incentives.
    • 20 years’ tax experience.
    • Qualified chartered tax adviser (CTA).
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    Alex Price

  • James Gore

    Corporate Affairs Lead

    • Delivers our external communications and thought leadership.
    • Works with stakeholders to help shape the future of R&D tax.
    • Brings experience from sectors including aviation and financial services.
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    James Gore

  • Kelly Oakley CTA

    Associate Director

    • Qualified chartered tax adviser (CTA).
    • More than a decade of R&D tax experience.
    • Builds relationships with our accountant partners.
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    Kelly Oakley

  • Sarah Jackman

    Senior Communications Manager

    • Leads on content creation
    • Over 20 years’ experience in B2B publishing and journalism
    • Internal and external communication
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  • Thomas Wood

    Senior Business Development Manager

    • Experienced in helping UK businesses access valuable R&D tax relief.
    • The first point of contact for businesses.
    • Studied History at the University of Leicester.
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    Thomas Wood

  • Lauren Balasco MCIM

    Digital Marketing Manager

    • Manages our digital marketing presence.
    • Diploma from the Chartered Institute of Marketing.
    • Defence and security background.
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    Lauren Balasco

  • Elliott Parsons BEng

    Business Development Manager

    • Helps innovative businesses access R&D tax relief.
    • Engineer with commercial experience in the software and technology sectors.
    • Passionate about supporting UK innovation.
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    Elliott Parsons

  • Corrie Bisset

    Pipeline and Activity Manager

    • APM project management qualification.
    • Provides key insights into the business and clients.
    • Construction project management background.
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  • Luke Davis

    Assistant Digital Marketing Manager

    • Delivering on ForrestBrown’s digital strategy.
    • Background in legal services and optics.
    • CIM Diploma in Professional and Digital Marketing.
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    Luke Davis
Our people careers

Want to work for us?

We’re ForrestBrown, and we were ranked in The Sunday Times best small companies to work for in 2018, 2019 and 2020. Regionally, we were ranked number one across all companies to work for in the South West in 2018. Everyone at ForrestBrown is valued for who they are as well as what they can do.

We all share a common purpose: to help innovative businesses grow. If you’re thinking “where next?”, we’d love to hear from you.

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