Gareth is a qualified Chartered Accountant and has been involved in professional accountancy training for nearly 20 years. He has spent the last decade setting up and running accountancy colleges and has enjoyed helping thousands of students start their careers in finance. Gareth has taught many prizewinners and was awarded UK Accountancy Lecturer of the Year in 2011.

Stuart qualified with a local practice firm before he started teaching accountancy students over a decade ago and has twice been nominated as Lecturer of the year. He set up First Intuition in Cambridge in 2009. Stuart teaches Financial Reporting, Auditing, Risk Management and Law.

Tim has been one of the most significant figures on the East Anglian training scene for over 30 years. He spent 27 of those years directly responsible for delivering student education and client care in the Eastern region at another training provider before moving into a national role that took him away from the student, employer and colleague relationships that he loves. Tim is excited that his move to First Intuition will allow him to return to the local environment that has always been ‘home’ for him. Tim was President of the East Anglian Society of Chartered Accountants in 2009/10 and continues to take an active role in the society as City Head for Norwich and the locality.

Carol qualified as a Chartered Accountant in a medium sized practice in Oxford. She worked as a Financial and Tax Accountant in the railway industry for ten years where she also qualified as a Chartered Tax Adviser. She started teaching accounting in 2009 part time and loved it so much that eventually she had to give up the day job just to teach! Carol teaches Financial Reporting, Taxation and Auditing.

Jos qualified and worked as a teacher in a grammar school for several years. He then spent two years in the commercial sector, including a year working with a food and beverage company in New Zealand, before joining First Intuition Cambridge as a Skills and Development Coach in October 2018.

Jon joined First Intuition in May 2019. Following seven years working in Education, with various skills and knowledge from a Teaching and Coaching background, Jon joins the Apprenticeship team as a Skills & Development Coach.

Bianca joined First Intuition in March 2020, she has 13 years’ experience in customer services and administration. She worked in our Customer Services team for 18 months and has now joined the Client Team. She works closely with clients across Norwich, Ipswich, Cambridge & Peterborough maintaining great working relationships.

Laura qualified as a chartered accountant with a big four firm after studying a history degree, she spent a number of years working mainly in audit and getting a chance to work with a very wide range of different companies and their finance teams, before getting involved in tutoring. Laura now teaches different papers with a focus on audit and assurance, management accounting and financial reporting.

Sophie qualified as a Chartered Accountant in East Anglia, working in practice. Sophie has experience of preparing company, management and medical partnership accounts. She has also spent time working in audit and medical divisions. Sophie teaches a variety of papers with a focus on Financial Reporting, Taxation and Management Accounting.

Harriet joined the First Intuition team in August 2021, having over 10 years of customer service experience. Harriet works with the administrator team for Cambridge, Peterborough, Ipswich and Norwich.