Claire Knott
Tax Conferences Manager
claire.knott@lexisnexis.co.uk

Claire launched the Tax Conferences portfolio for the division in 2002. After four years of managing the Tax Conferences portfolio, Claire has expanded the range of one-day conferences on offer from its initial 10 events, to 50 events in 2006. Claire works with professional advisors, both internally and externally, to achieve this high number of successful events in all areas of direct tax, indirect tax, accountancy and private client tax issues - serving the training needs of the professional in-house and advisory tax market. A recent addition to the Tax Conferences portfolio is a new series of one-day, tutor led, practical tax courses looking at various different topical direct tax, employment tax, VAT, IFRS and audit issues facing corporates today.

Chris Jones
Director of Tax Training and Professional Development
chris.jones@lexisnexis.co.uk

Chris is Head of Tolley Tax Training and is also a co-founder of Online Tutors the company that designed and produced the first audio-visual tax learning product which is known as "Tolley's Tax Tutor."

Chris lectures extensively to a whole range of audiences, from district societies to large training-providers and major firms of accountants and has a reputation for designing and delivering first class seminars.

He also advises a range of clients on many tax planning and compliance issues and is a member of the Council of The Chartered Institute of Taxation

Paul Gasowski
Head of In-Company Training
paul.gasowski@lexisnexis.co.uk

Paul helped start LexisNexis In-Company Training and has over seven years experience in this area.

He comes from an electronic publishing background before moving into the world of conferences and training.

Paul is extremely customer focused and believes that a combination of tailored programmes delivered at a time convenient to our customers is an ideal and cost effective solution to their training requirements.

Sarah Wells
Head of Employment Law Conferences & Training
sarah.wells@lexisnexis.co.uk

Sarah joined LexisNexis in April 2006, from Informa plc. She was a practising solicitor before moving into legal conferences, education and training. Sarah has over 8 years experience in the conference industry and is committed to providing quality training and conferences that are both timely and commercially relevant to employment law market. She works with some of the UK 's leading experts in employment law to deliver a high number of successful events in all areas of employment law.

Simon Groom
Head of Tax Training
simon.groom@lexisnexis.co.uk

Simon has been involved with the CTA and ATT examinations in some form or another for the last 16 years, ever since sitting the CTA (then ATII) exams in 1990. Initially, he worked for The Financial Training Company lecturing to ATT and CTA students, before taking over responsibility for Tax Training within FTC. At Ernst & Young, Simon was involved in developing the firm's policies with regard to ATT and CTA examinations, and, in particular, the new ADIT qualification. He joined LexisNexis Tolley Tax Training in May 2006. Since July 2003 he has been a member of ATT Council and made use of his training background by becoming heavily involved in the implementation of the ATT new syllabus

Marcella Barron
Head of Legal Conferences
marcella.barron@lexisnexis.co.uk

Marcella joined LexisNexis Butterworths in 2005 as Head of Law Conferences. Having spent her early career in practice at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and Denton Wilde Sapte, she moved into the conference industry to develop cutting edge conferences for the legal market. At LexisNexis she is able to offer a comprehensive portfolio of events for legal professionals.  Each event is thoroughly researched to ensure it addresses the issues of direct concern to the audience and is carefully designed to deliver the information in the most succinct, practical and accessible way. As one of the most respected names in legal publishing, we are able to attract the most eminent speakers, many of whom have been directly involved in the legislative or regulatory process

Rita Alphonse
Customer Service Supervisor
rita.alphonse@lexisnexis.co.uk

Rita has 15 years' experience in dealing with our customers' needs and is passionate about making all your dealings with LexisNexis Professional Education as pleasant as possible. If you have any queries regarding invoices, bookings, or joining instructions, please give Rita a call on 020 7347 3551.

Vicki Taylor
Head of Care Conferences
vicki.taylor@lexisnexis.co.uk

Vicki began working at LexisNexis Professional Education in January 2001 as a Conference Co-ordinator across the division on a range of training products. She moved to concentrate specifically on the GateHouse portfolio as a Conference Producer in January 2002. Her areas of responsibility included the Training and Development course guide and in-company training, as well as conferences, all aimed at NHS professionals. In July 2004 Vicki took on the post of Head of GateHouse Training full-time (having been in the post for 15 months covering maternity leave). The GateHouse approach to training for NHS staff and related professions is customer-focused, high-quality and cost effective.

Carol Rodgers
Administration Manager
carol.rodgersr@lexisnexis.co.uk

Carol joined IRS - now under the umbrella of LexisNexis - in June 1981 as a Conference Administrator, and now heads up the team dealing with all logistics for our events. She has over 30 years experience in conference administration, so you can feel confident that the professionalism of our conferences and quality of our course documentation will meet your expectations.

Stuart Allison
Tax CPD Seminars Manager
stuart.allison@lexisnexis.co.uk

Stuart joined LexisNexis Butterworths in February 2003 as a Conference Developer within the GateHouse portfolio. In April 2004, he moved over to Tolley ®  Tax Training in order to concentrate on the development of the Tax and Accounting CPD classroom seminars. Stuart previously worked for CCH Seminars and now brings his experience to LexisNexis, together with another former CCH employee, Graham Jones, to develop the regional programmes.  Over the last two years the number of regional programmes has expanded from 5 to 18 and now more than 1,800 delegates subscribe to the service