Paul Dodd – Managing Principal, East of England

Paul has a degree in law and is a chartered accountant. Most recently he was group finance director for ANT Plc, a software company in Cambridge where he was part of a team which took the company from a VC-backed, debt-funded company to a successful AIM IPO in 2005. Immediately before ANT, Paul was a partner and head of tax in Ernst & Young’s Cambridge office for 9 years, having joined as a manager in 1990. Before joining Ernst & Young Paul had a variety of roles between 1979 and 1990 at Arthur Andersen, Schlumberger, Plessey and Parmentier-Arthur.