Work and clients: Carol is Shipleys' financial controller, overseeing the administration team based in the Godalming office and assisting the principals on compliance matters and the IT department with planning.

The route to Shipleys: Carol qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 1976, joining a predecessor firm to Shipleys in 1977.

Memberships: Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales

Interests outside work:

Carol is married with two grown up daughters and lives in Guildford, tending a large garden and researching the history of the local Arts & Crafts architecture.