Martyn Jones     

Martyn Jones is Chairman of the Advisory Group on Audit Software, Methodologies and Training and of the ICAEW ISA Implementation Sub-Group.  He is also a member of the ICAEW Council and of its Technical Strategy Board.  He is a member of APB's International Committee. 

Martyn is the National Audit Technical Partner of Deloitte UK and a member of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu's Audit Technical Advisory Board.

He is Chairman of the CCAB Ethics Group and of the ICAEW's Ethics Standards Committee.  He is also a member of the CBI Companies Committee.

Martyn is a former Secretary to the CCAB Auditing Practices Committee and a former Technical Adviser to the International Auditing Practices Committee. 

He is a member of the larger firms' Policy and Regulatory Group.

John Kellas

John Kellas was Chairman of the International Auditing and Assurance Standards Board (IAASB) for the five years to December 2008. This had become a full time role from 1 October 2004. He had been a member of the IAASB and its predecessor, the International Auditing Practices Committee, since 2000.

Mr Kellas was previously a partner at KPMG LLP in London, where he headed the Department of Professional Practice from 1990-2004.  He also served as Chairman of KPMG’s Global IFRS and ISA Panels and of its UK Assurance Technical Committee from 1999-2004.

Mr Kellas was an alternate member of the Urgent Issues Task Force of the Accounting Standards Board in the UK from 1994-2002.  He also served as a member of the Auditing Practices Board (APB) from 1991-2002.

In 2009, Mr Kellas was appointed to the Professional Oversight Board of the FRC, and the Supervisory Board of the European Financial Reporting Advisory Group (EFRAG).

He read mathematics at Pembroke College, Cambridge, and qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 1975.  He was awarded the CBE in 2009.

Jon Grant

Jon Grant has been the Executive Director of the Auditing Practices Board since 1996, before then he was a partner in Price Waterhouse. Jon was appointed to the International Auditing and Assurance Standards Board (IAASB) in 2008 after having served as Technical Adviser to the UK member since 2002.  He is also a member of the EU group advising the EC on auditing standards.

Diana Hillier

Diana Hillier became a member of the IAASB in 2006 having served as a technical advisor from 1998 to 2000 and 2002 to 2005. She was nominated by the Transnational Auditors Committee.
Ms. Hillier is a partner in Global Assurance Standards with PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP in London, where she is responsible for the firm's overall strategy for the IAASB and International Standards on Auditing. She has served on the firm's Global Audit Policy Board and related subcommittees since 2001. From 1985 to 2000, Ms. Hillier worked for the Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants, where she served as director of Assurance Standards from 1996 to 2000.

Sha Ali Khan                      

Sha Ali Khan is Director - Practice Monitoring at ACCA.  Practice Monitoring is responsible for monitoring ACCA registered audit firms in the United Kingdom and Ireland and for conducting visits under the practice assurancescheme, ACCA Quality Checked.

It is also responsible for rolling out ACCA’s quality assurance programme to ACCA practising members throughout the world.

Sha’s responsibilities include:

• Overseeing the team of compliance officers who undertake monitoring and practice assurance visits
• Overseeing the development and maintenance of effective monitoring systems and methodologies
• Overseeing the referral of firms and members to ACCA's Admissions & Licensing Committee
• Directing the implementation of ACCA’s global quality assurance programme
• Providing advice and assistance to international accounting bodies and governments on regulatory and monitoring issues

Lesley Clarke

Lesley joined the ICAEW in 1993, having previously gained extensive experience within the UK auditing profession. She has since led monitoring visits to firms of all sizes, including the Big 4, and is heavily involved in developing and refining the QAD’s audit monitoring processes.

Lesley represents the QAD on the ICAEW’s ISA Implementation sub-group and contributes to other audit-related projects within the ICAEW.

Keith Billing

Keith Billing is a Projector Director at the Auditing Practices Board.  He is a member of the team that produced the International Standards on Auditing (UK and Ireland) and Practice Note 26 on smaller entity audit documentation.

Sue Field

Sue qualified as a chartered accountant with a small firm in London before moving to Binder Hamlyn, where she worked in corporate tax for four years before starting her own practice.

Sue is a sole practitioner, employing seven staff, handling a mix of small practice work and specialising in the charity and voluntary sector.

Sue has been a support member almost since the inception of the scheme and chaired the Steering Committee 2002-2005, president of London Society 2005-2006, is a member of the Audit and Assurance Faculty Committee and the Practice Advisory Board and was elected to the ICAEW council in June 2007.

Peter Hollis

Peter qualified as a chartered accountant in 1980. Peter joined Hawsons in Sheffield as an audit manager, dealing mainly with listed companies. In 1986 he joined Haines Watts as a partner, where he advised a portfolio of owner managed businesses.

Peter founded Hollis and Co in 1990 providing business and taxation advice along a wide range of family companies and individuals.

He has been president of the Sheffield & District Society of Chartered Accountants.

Peter’s involvement within the ICAEW includes chairman of the General Practitioner Panel between 2004–2007, before it’s conclusion. Chairman of the ICAEW Practice Strategy Review 2005 and also founder member of the Practice Society Committee.

Trevor Smith

Trevor joined the ICAEW in 1991 just prior to the commencement of the UK audit monitoring regime, having previously gained extensive experience within the UK auditing profession.

He is one of two senior staff overseeing the ICAEW monitoring function and has specific responsibility for audit monitoring across all of the UK. In recent years Trevor has led audit monitoring visits to all sizes of firm including many of the current top 20 audit firms. 

He has contributed to many forums and working groups in areas related to regulatory standards, monitoring regimes and quality assurance schemes and has been heavily involved in seeking innovative ways to continually develop and improve ICAEW's own audit monitoring processes.