Directors

Andy Miller ACA

Director

Andrew joined BPU in 2003 from Cardiff University and qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 2006. He was soon promoted to manager and became a Director of BPU in 2013. With over 10 years experience in the profession, Andrew has built a large portfolio of SME clients primarily in the media, leisure and construction industries. These companies range in turnover from £100,000 to multi-million pound businesses and groups based across Wales and South West England. Andrew also has extensive experience of dealing with the sale and purchase of businesses on behalf of clients and advises on business planning, strategy and raising finance.

Nick Toye FCA

Director

Nick is Director and Staff Partner focusing on audit, advisory and compliance as well as leading on corporate finance and transaction support services. Having trained with PwC he then worked in industry with Associated British Ports for over five years before moving back into practice. Nick served as a Director in the Cardiff office of national practice PKF before joining BPU. This range of experience gives Nick an excellent focus on business issues from practical experience in industry as well as a sound technical base. Nick has an engineering background prior to this and is also a former President of the South Wales Society of Chartered Accountants.

Huw Palin

Director

Huw is Managing Director of BPU and has been with the firm for 15 years having spent 10 years post-qualification working as an Audit and Accounts Manager for Ernst & Young in Cardiff. He has extensive involvement in advising small and medium-sized enterprises on financial and business planning issues and has assisted many companies to expand their operations and improve their business processes. He has extensive experience in assisting businesses both to identify and obtain grant-funding from UK and European grant bodies.

President of the South Wales Society of Chartered Accountants

Colin Russell - BPU FCCA, ACA, DChA

Director

Colin joined the firm in 1990 and is BPU's Auditing and Technical Director.

A long standing Fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (FCCA) Colin is an Associate of the Institute of Chartered Accountants In England and Wales (ACA).

Colin also has a Diploma in Charity Accounting and deals with our not for profit sector and manages the audit/accounts/independent examiner review for a number of charities. He is also responsible for the delivery of accounting services to a number of WEFO funded projects and has direct experience monitoring and audit of WEFO funded schemes.

In addition, Colin is also responsible for the audit and accounts work for many of the firm's SME clients through to larger organisations (turnover varying from £1m upwards to £40m).