Business and finance adviser Grant Thornton has boosted its senior management and leadership team in Leicester with the promotion of Tom Copson to Director.
Tom (34) has 16 years’ experience in professional services specialising in advising owner managed, private equity and VC backed businesses. He joined Grant Thornton in 2005, was promoted to Senior Manager in 2012 and Associate Director in April 2015.
He joins the firm’s seven-strong senior management team in Leicester alongside fellow Directors Phil Sayers, Sarah Major, Mustafa Abdulhusein and Tom Moore, and Partners Chris Frostwick, Kaushik Bathia and Ian Johnson.
As Director, Tom’s new role will involve working as part of Grant Thornton’s East Midlands regional leadership team to drive and develop the firm’s local advisory and business support services that it provides to a growing portfolio of innovative, dynamic businesses in and around the East Midlands.
Working with Phil Sayers and Tom Moore, Tom will also take an enhanced role in the development of Grant Thornton’s annual East Midlands Top 200 Report produced in partnership with the CBI. Now in its fifth year, the Report highlights the 200 fastest growing companies run and managed from the East Midlands on the basis of profit growth. This report delivers a snapshot of the health of the region’s economy.
Tom also leads all recruitment activities for Grant Thornton’s Leicester office, in particular its flagship school leaver and graduate trainee programmes. As a Director, Tom now extends this role to include developing the firm’s future talent as part of the Leicester senior management team’s succession strategy for longevity and sustainability.
Commenting on his promotion, Tom Copson said: “I am delighted to become a Director at Grant Thornton and for the fantastic opportunity to play an even greater part in the leadership and future of the Leicester office at a time when the firm is continuing to grow, develop and innovate.
“Grant Thornton is committed to working closely with ambitious and dynamic businesses in a way that unleashes the team’s skills to respond quickly to their business needs, delivering informed advice, and not just financial solutions, alongside local initiatives such as the new Business Growth Forum we are hosting later this month as part of the Leicester Business Festival,” he said. “This will be a tailored four-part event examining how Capital, Innovation, Leadership and Talent can be utilised effectively to maximise growth.
“This event, coupled with Grant Thornton’s national Vibrant Economy programme that is all about stimulating ideas and actions to realise the shared potential of businesses, cities, people and communities in the UK, demonstrates the way that the firm is adapting to the changing business environment in which we operate.
“We have a great team in the East Midlands, with further opportunity for others to develop their careers, and I am looking forward to playing an even bigger part in this and the firm’s future.”
Chris Frostwick, practice leader at Grant Thornton in Leicester, added: “Tom is a highly talented addition to our senior management team in Leicester and his promotion is very well-deserved. Tom embodies the firm’s commitment to nurturing and supporting ambitious and talented individuals whichever route they take to launch their professional services career. He is great example of how Grant Thornton operates in an all-inclusive way and ‘grows its own’ next generation of skilful leaders. A highly driven professional, Tom is passionate about his career, work, and the people who work with and for him, and is committed to providing the very best and relevant advice to clients so they can realise their potential.”
Grant Thornton has its East Midlands office in Leicester, where it has approximately 160 staff providing business and financial advice across Corporate and Personal Tax, audit and assurance, employer solutions, corporate finance, and sustainability, to organisations across the East Midlands.
