Howard Graham

Howard  joined Westbury in 1985 after training with a top 20 firm of accountants and qualifying in 1983. He became a Partner in 1987.

Howard’s main area of professional involvement has been in the area of financial and business development focusing on strategy and planning. He is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants Faculty of Information Technology, a Fellow of the Institute of Directors and also holds the Financial Planning Certificate from the Chartered Insurance Institute.

Over the last few years, much of Howard’s focus has been on the development of the award winning Made Simple Group Limited. This culminated in it receiving the Institute of Chartered Accountant's award in 2006 for best use of the internet for it's company formation website and being a finalist in the Nat West sponsored Thames Gateway Awards for Business of the Year in 2007. The Made Simple Group concentrates on providing support services online to the small business sector and is the largest online company formation agent in the United Kingdom. It also provides online services covering credit searches, virtual offices, banking, insurance, business forms, and many other areas.

Howard’s other business interests include involvement with a fruit and vegetable company supplying hotels and restaurants jointly with Greg Wallace of Masterchef fame, a leisure goods operation and a property company.

Howard is actively involved in the local business community being a founding member of Clerkenwell BNI and the Clerkenwell Business Network and also a regular speaker at business events having regularly appeared on the Midas Touch panel at the Business Start up Show with Dragons, Peter Jones and Rachel Elnaugh.

Howard is married to Lesley, has two children, aged 20 and 17 and lives in north London. His interests include all sports particularly football where blue is truly the colour. He is also a keen cricket fan being both a member of the MCC and a Lord’s Taverner. Other interests include most sports, bridge, theatre, music and reading and spending time in Spain.

To e-mail Howard click :   Howardg@westbury.co.uk