Meet the council
The council of directors
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Dr Sarah Blackburn, DBA, MBA, MA, FIIA, FCA - President
Sarah Blackburn is Chief Executive of the Wayside Network – a consultancy specialising in governance, risk management and the development of assurance services. Over the last twenty years Sarah has been director of internal audit and risk management in three FTSE 100 companies and one public service organisation. She is also a non executive director and audit committee chairman at the Healthcare Commission and at the Identity and Passport Service; and a former member of the Governing Council of the Open University and of its Audit Committee. Sarah has been a member of the Council since 2005 and is currently chair of the IIA's Chartered status Steering Group. |
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Melvyn Neate, FCCA, CPFA - Deputy President
Melvyn is Director of Internal Audit for Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs. Melvyn has over 20 years experience working in internal audit and has held a variety of posts in both the public and private sectors, including Chief Internal Auditor positions with Unigate, a major milk and dairy produce manufacturer and the TSB group. Melvyn plays an active role in the wider Internal Audit profession and has given numerous presentations on audit and risk management. He is chairman of the IIA Professional Development Committee. |
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Philip Ratcliffe, ACMA, FIIA - Immediate Past President
After leaving Oxford University, Philip started his life-long career in internal audit with Unilever, where he gained an accounting qualification and attended his first IIA conference. Philip later became head of internal audit at an international electronics and engineering plc. Thereafter he occupied the same role at Bunzl Plc, Georgia-Pacific Europe and Minorco (now Anglo-American). He is currently Head of Group Operational Audit at DS Smith Plc. A long-term member and fellow of the IIA (in the UK, Brazil, and Belgium) Philip became a member of the UK Council in 2006, progressing to Deputy President in 2007, then President in 2008.
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Robert Beattie, MIIA, MCIBS
Robert Beattie is Head of Internal Audit at Friends Provident. He has previously been Head of Internal Audit at British Energy (FTSE 100) and prior to that, Head of Audit for Strategy and Development at HBOS. Robert has been actively involved in the Scotish District Society since 2004 and became its chair in 2006. He is a former UK Advanced Diploma (MIIA) Prizewinner and was awarded the IIA Volunteer of the Year in 2008.
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Maria Craig, MIIA
Maria has worked in Internal Audit for 17 years and began her Auditing career with Newcastle Building Society. She moved to the public sector in 2001 and is currently Head of Operational Audit at English Partnerships, the Government's National Regeneration Agency. Maria became an IIA volunteer through her membership of the North East District Committee in 2004 and has been active in the planning and hosting of local IIA events as well as the development of the District’s business plan and contributing, on an ongoing basis, to IIA strategic workshops and forums. Maria was appointed Secretary of the North East District in 2005 and Deputy Chairman in 2006. She has been a member of the IIA’s Audit Committee since July 2006 and joined the Council in July 2007. |
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Paul Haley MSc, MIIA, FIIA, GIAC
Paul is Director of Strategic Operations at BHBi Consultancy. His career has included roles as Head of Internal Audit at the Defence Aviation Repair Agency (DARA), Managing Director of a leisure & tourism company, and within internal audit at ECGD, where he began his internal audit career in 1990. He has been a Committee Member of Midlands District, Vice-Chair of the South West District and was inaugural Chair of the IIA Welsh District. Paul is also a Non Executive Member of Barry Regeneration Board, Chair of Pride In Barry, and is a Past-President of Barry Chamber of Trade.
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Pamela McDonald, PIIA
Pamela began her career in internal audit in 1991 with St. James’s Hospital, Dublin. In 1999, she moved to the Irish Blood Transfusion Service and subsequently to Dublin City University in 2003. She joined Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital, Crumlin, the largest paediatric hospital in Ireland in November 2007and is currently setting up the internal audit function there. Pamela has been an active Committee member of the Irish District Society since 2000 and has served in various roles, including Chairman from 2004 - 2007. She is a member of the Audit Committee for the Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources.
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Peter McKenzie, PIIA, FIIA
Peter is Head of Risk management at Accent Group, a Housing Association based in Shipley, West Yorkshire. An internal auditor for the last 20 years, Peter has worked at Hepworth Building Products and Hanson plc as well as within local government during that time. He has been a member of the IIA North East District Committee for the last twelve years, serving as Chairman for six of those years and is currently a member of the Housing Association Internal Audit Forum (HAIAF). Peter has been a member of the IIA's Council since Decemer 2006.
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Dr Ian Peters - Chief Executive
Following completion of his Phd, Ian began his career in public relations consultancy joining Burson-Marsteller as Account Director. After a five year spell at the CBI as Deputy Director and Head of the SME Unit, where he had responsibility for policy, lobbying and service development for the CBI’s SME members on a pan-european level, Ian became Deputy Director General at the British Chambers of Commerce (BCC). At BCC Ian significantly broadened his general management responsibilities. In 2001, he became External Affairs and Marketing Director at the Engineering Employers Federation (EEF), deputising for the Director General. Prior to his appointment to the Institute in 2009, Ian also worked as a consultant leading the development of the ‘Manufacturing Insight’ initiative for BERR and undertaking ‘Hampton reviews’ of the Gambling Commission and the Maritime and Coastguard Agency for the Better Regulation Executive.
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Dave Reynolds, BA, FIIA, MIoD
Dave is a Managing Director of MorganFranklin Ltd, the UK subsidiary of a US based consultancy". Prior to this he had a long career in BT, where he rose to the position of Director Internal Audit & Regulatory Compliance with responsibility for a team of 100 audit and compliance professionals across BTs global operations and a £7m budget. For three years he held the position of visiting lecturer in Governance and Internal Audit at Nijenrode University in the Netherlands. Dave is well known in West European Internal Audit circles and speaks regularly on the professional conferencing circuit. Prior to his election to Council, Dave was Chair of the IIAs Scottish District.
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Alec Richmond, FCA, FIIA
Alec joined Thompson McLintock in Leicester in 1979 where he subsequently qualified as a Chartered Accountant. He remained with the firm through the merger with Peat Marwick and became an Audit Manager for the newly formed KPMG. In 1989 Alec moved to Cadbury Schweppes and in 2000 was appointed to lead the company's global internal audit service. In 2005 he became a Director for RSM Robson Rhodes and then in 2007 he took up his current role as Head of Internal Audit for Severn Trent plc. A past member of the Turnbull Review Group, Alec joined the Council in 2003 and was elected President in 2006-07. |
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Nicola Rimmer, MSc, MIIA
Nicola is a Director with Mazars specialising in governance, risk and internal control across all sectors. She started her career in internal audit at General Accident in 1998, before joining the Bank of Scotland (latterly HBOS) in 2000, where she attained an MIIA and an MSc in Audit Management and Consultancy. Prior to joining Mazars, Nicola was the Head of Internal Audit for the Medical Defence Union. She is a member of the IIA's Professional Development Committee and also holds the voluntary position of Non-Executive Director/Supervisory Committee Chair of Camden Plus Credit Union.
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Vic Watson, QiCA, FIIA
Vic Watson has been a member of the IIA for over 17 years and has served on the South West District Committee for much of this time as committee member, Computer Audit Discussion Group facilitator, Vice Chairman and Chairman before becoming Regional Director. He joined the Council in 2005. |
The Council is supported by the Company Secretary:
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Kirsty Semple, ACIS, LLM
Kirsty is a Chartered Secretary in Public Practice and acts as secretary for a range of organisations. She also works as a consultant and trainer in the fields of corporate governance and company secretarial practice, specialising in charities and professional bodies. Before going into public practice, Kirsty was company secretary for Scope. She is an advisor to the Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators and also edits one of it newsletters “The Charity Secretary”. Kirsty has been the IIA's Company Secretary for the last five years.
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