Meet the team

WHO WE ARE AT TC GROUP

With over 1500 people across our business located in over 50 offices, our team’s made up of individuals helping business owners and their growth goals.

With TC Group by your side, no matter how complex your financial situation may be, we have the resources and expertise to help you navigate it successfully.

Here, you’ll find our Partners and Heads of Service Lines.

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Jonathan Bregman
Regional Managing Partner
Jon’s a Regional Managing Partner in our Hertfordshire office and is a fellow of both the ICAEW and the ACCA with over 27 years’ experience.
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He specialises in providing audit, accountancy, and tax advice to Owner-Managed Businesses.

Jon takes a proactive and hands-on approach with his clients, providing them with the support and advice required to navigate their business and personal affairs. He has advised clients across a number of sectors and has been involved in over £2 billion of transactions relating to the acquisition and disposal of client’s businesses and companies.
Stacey Hart
Manager
Stacey’s a Manager based in the Truro office. As a Chartered Accountant with 8 years’ experience, her day-to-day role is overseeing compliance work and supporting owner managed businesses with their accounting and tax affairs.
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Jack Hamon
Head of Practice Quality
Jack’s an ACA Chartered Accountant with a background in commercial audit and is the Head of Practice Quality at TC Group.
Neil Stevens
Partner
Having grown up in St Just, Neil joined TC Bromhead in 2008. Neil has a varied portfolio of clients and can provide advice across all aspects of accountancy and tax. Neil enjoys working with socially conscious and ambitious organisations – particularly in digital, tech, and charitable sectors.
Michelle Cameron
Partner
Michelle’s Plymouth born and bred. On leaving school she joined TC Bromhead and in 2000 qualified as a Chartered Tax Advisor securing a distinction and indeed also a prize for the highest mark nationally in one of the papers.
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Michelle has extensive experience and works for a wide range of clients within TC Bromhead providing practical business & taxation advice.
James Groves
Partner
James joined TC Bromhead in 1998 and became a Partner in 2000. He acts for a wide range of clients, especially numerous solicitors and dentists. James enjoys providing practical business advice to enhance profitability and ensure taxation burdens are minimised.
Gemma Redmond
Practice Director
Having grown up in Plymouth, Gemma joined TC Bromhead in 2002 as an AAT apprentice. She later qualified as a Chartered Accountant and held a client manager position for many years. Gemma’s now TC Bromhead’s Practice Director, and is responsible for staffing, systems, and training.
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Getting to grips with a new system and improving the practice is what she really loves to do! Relationships are key to her career and she enjoys coaching the team and working with clients whilst watching their businesses grow.
Kate Howitt
Associate Partner
Kate’s been a qualified accountant for nearly 20 years and gained fellowship status with the ACCA in 2004. She previously worked for a FTSE100, heading up corporate finance and working as a key member of the leadership and management team at strategy level.
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Kate’s a self confessed accounting nerd and her attention to detail allows her to tax plan for her clients in a highly efficient manner, optimising their individual situations.

Her style of working is to get to know her clients and their businesses in detail so she can help them plan for the future taking into account the wider picture.
Fay Brooks
Associate Partner
Fay qualified as an accountant in 1999 and gained fellowship status in 2004. She has extensive experience managing large finance teams and processes across a variety of sectors including media, communications and advertising.
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Fay strives to offer exceptional customer service, and her open, friendly, straight talking manner ensures good long term relationships are built between her team and clients.
Liam Davies
Associate Partner
Liam’s an Associate Partner in our Portsmouth office and joined TC Group in 2015. He works with owner managed businesses across various different industries.
Matthew Archer
Audit Manager
Matt’s a Manager in the TC Knill James Audit and Assurance team. Having qualified as a chartered accountant in 2019, and been an audit manager since 2020, he has overseen numerous audits of owner-managed businesses for small, medium and large companies and groups with turnover ranging up to £145m.
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With the significant experience gained across a wide variety of industries, including leisure, construction, renewable energy and motor vehicles franchises, he enjoys advising clients on the more technically complex areas of financial accounting.
Jacquie Wood
Payroll Manager
Jacquie’s worked in the payroll sector for over 30 years and her experience covers the whole range, from single employee payrolls to Umbrella payrolls in the construction industry, processing over 15,000 employees per week over multiple frequencies.
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As head of TC Knill James’ Payroll Bureau, Jacquie aims to provide a friendly, professional, accurate and personalised service to all our clients, large or small.
Lauren Empringham
Audit Manager
Lauren’s a Manager in the Audit and Assurance team and is responsible for a mixed portfolio of clients, including corporates and those in the Not-For-Profit sector.
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Having trained at TC Knill James, she has experience across a wide range of industries and uses this knowledge to support both her clients and colleagues within the firm. Lauren also jointly manages our ACA training programme, facilitating the learning and development of the firm’s trainee Chartered Accountants.
Michael Williams
Tax Manager
Michael’s a Manager specialising in Corporation Tax matters and more complex projects as part of Corporate Finance transactions.
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He has significant experience in a broad range of tax services, including compliance, advisory and tax accounting and assists clients ranging from large groups of companies and inbound subsidiaries to owner managed businesses.

In addition to Corporate Tax, Michael advises on employment tax issues, including the off-payroll working (IR35) rules.
Zelie Byrne
Tax Manager
Zelie’s a Manager in the Tax team and focuses on corporation tax and employment taxes. She joined TC Knill James after training at KPMG and has over 15 years’ experience working in tax.
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As well as managing the tax compliance of our largest clients, she also advises on R&D and capital allowances, venture capital reliefs, employment benefits, and compliance obligations. She also works with our Not-For-Profit clients on tax compliance obligations and structuring.