Meet the Team

Colin Raeside FCCA

Colin has specialised for nearly 30 years in insolvency.

On qualifying as a certified accountant with the ACCA, Colin managed an insolvency department at Grant Thornton, before taking on a project coordinating the firm’s national approach to insolvency, primarily through standardisation, technical and training support. The role also encompassed marketing and practice management the latter providing him with extensive experience of partnership related issues.

Some fifteen years on, in 2003, Colin formed Nova with the specific aim of providing a similar, quality service to smaller practitioner firms.

Projects to date include: practice reviews, writing standard documentation, training, IT, marketing, undertaking reviews for RPBs and various ad-hoc issues using his considerable partnership experience.

Colin’s interests include sport, travel, photography and classic cars.

Colin Raeside

Telephone: +44(0)7814 488907

Email: colin.raeside@nova-consultants.com

 

Joanne Quinn MIPA, MABRP

Having qualified as an insolvency practitioner in 2004, Joanne has over 20 years experience of the insolvency profession, spending the first seven years with Leonard Curtis in Manchester, before moving to Zolfo Cooper (formerly Kroll) in 1998, taking up the position as Head of Compliance and Professional Risk in 2002.

Prior to this, Joanne managed corporate and personal insolvency situations across a broad spectrum of industries.

Joanne is passionate about promoting and developing systems and procedures which support compliance and risk avoidance. She has spent the last six years at Zolfo Cooper managing its technical and compliance function, providing internal technical support and training and being responsible at Director level for compliance and systems.

Using a structured but flexible approach, Joanne possesses the requisite skills to understand the needs of a busy practice and specialises in developing compliance management solutions tailored to individual client requirements

Joanne is a member of both the Insolvency Practitioners Association

(IPA) and R3 and currently sits on the IPA & Practice Guidance, Ethics and Standards committee.

Telephone: +44 (0)7770 380788

Email: joanne.quinn@nova-consultants.com

If you would like more information on our services or if you would like to discuss your particular requirements, call either Colin or Joanne on one of the numbers above or send an email and we’ll be in touch.