Stephen Burke
Group Director
Stephen has nearly twenty-five years’ professional services experience, firstly as an auditor and then as a regulatory consultant primarily at PricewaterhouseCoopers where he was director of their UK Investment Management Practice until 2006. Stephen has considerable regulatory experience covering authorisation, ad-hoc advice, enforcement and error remediation. He has a BSc in Economics and is also a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales.
After leaving PwC Stephen joined IMS as Director of Consulting, initially to lead the development of our regulatory consultancy business which he continued until the end of 2009. In 2008 Stephen became a partner in IMS Buzzacott LLP our successful accounting, tax and company secretarial business developed in a joint venture with Buzzacott Chartered Accountant. Stephen’s focus is currently on business development and he actively promotes our services to clients and other stakeholders. He still takes an active interest in our regulatory consultancy business supporting many of our larger clients and relationships. Stephen is currently a member of the Prudential Advisory Group of the Investment Management Association





