Meet the Team
Title: Principal
Current: Alan founded Alan Patient & Co over 31 years ago. He is a chartered accountant and registered auditor and a fellow member of the ICAEW.
Alan is a true professional and delivers excellent quality work. Alan strives to integrate both an understanding of our clients strategies and dreams. Alan will always try to stay upbeat and look for positive outcomes or compromise in difficult circumstances and focus on the good. He tackles every challenge that comes his way and encourages everyone around him to do the same. Alan will always explain things clearly for the teams and keeps projects moving forward.
History: Alan has been working in practice for more than 40 years, qualifying as a Chartered Accountant in 1979.
His responsibilities have included:-
- Working in the front line, managing many “fire fighting” accounting projects both in the U.K. and abroad, usually under time pressure and at short notice.
- A three month assignment on a North Sea oil rig salvage project based in Stavanger, Norway.
- Being a group financial controller at the London head office of an international group working in shipping. The company had offices in various ports in Europe, the Middle and Far East as well as the Caribbean and so at that time he became something of an international accountant as he did a lot of overseas travelling.
Interests: Classic cars and old movies
