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Quarterly Seminar 5 December 2025

5 December 2025

9.30- 1.00pm

Join us at the final Quarterly Seminar of 2025 to catch up on all the latest news for internal auditors in insurance and financial services, network with industry colleagues and hear speakers discuss topical issues including financial crime, the challenges faced by a customer centric business in tough times and the Horizon Post Office scandal. Post event all attendees will be entitled to claim up to 3 hours CPD.

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Join us for our final Quarterly Seminar for the 2025 season to meet and network with colleagues and industry peers, and hear presentations covering:

  • Financial crime risk exposure in the general insurance industry​

Graeme Morrison, Group Financial Crime Director, Ardonagh Group

Graeme's presentation will look at the prevalent financial crime risks such as fraud, bribery and corruption, money laundering, sanctions and facilitation of tax evasion that the general insurance faces and how these risks are managed and mitigated.

  • Development Strategy in Tough Times

Simon Guillford, Chairman, Ardonagh Advisory

Simon will explore how organisations need to differentiate themselves during tough times. Specifically, he will look at the critical difference between strategy, planning, budgeting and forecasting. Most importantly he will examine why there are so many challenges associated with trying to be truly customer centric in this service-based industry. 

Typically, Simon is both thought provoking and at the same time controversial and guarantees to stimulate debate.

  • A Forensic Insight Into the Horizon Scandal​

Dr Kay Linnell, Kay Linnell and Co

Between 2000 and 2014, the Post Office prosecuted 736 sub-postmasters and sub-post mistresses in what has since become known as the Horizon scandal, and which despite High Court judgements, TV dramatisations (Mr Bates vs the Post Office) and ongoing litigation remains unresolved for many of those wrongly accused. 

Since her appointment by the Horizon victims, to verify the work of Second Sight, the forensic accountants chosen by MPs to investigate the Post Office’s ‘Horizon’ computer system, Dr Kay Linnell (with Barbara Jerimiah JP) has acted as their accountant and tax adviser. 

Using the knowledge and experience gained from this, Kay will provide delegates with an insight into the causes of losses, the legal and technical challenges, the tracing of funds, redress and lessons for the future.

The Seminar will begin with registration and refreshments at 9.30am, will include a mid-morning coffee break with refreshments (extended to 40 minutes to allow more time for networking), finishing with a festive buffet lunch at 1.00pm.

As this is our last meeting before Christmas all attendees will be entered in our traditional Christmas Raffle and two lucky winners will go home with a Christmas hamper full of seasonal goodies. 

Seminar attendance is £75 per head and payment is via bank transfer- credit card payment facilities are not available.

Full booking terms and conditions are available in the Knowledge section of the website under Governance and Policies. Any cancellations made within 7 days of the event will not be entitled to a refund and if it has not already been paid, the outstanding fee will still be due. 

 

             

Deloitte

2 New Street Square

Greater London

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Speakers Profiles

Simon Guillford

Chairman

Ardonagh Advisory

 

 

Simon began his career as an academic, becoming Head of Faculty at Ashridge Business School . He was also a Visiting Professor at Cass Business School as well as a Visiting Fellow at the University of Cambridge Judge Business School.

In his mid 30's, he entered the Corporate World and has been Chief Marketing Officer of a variety of large companies including:

Sears, EMAP,Barclays, Standard Life, Harper Collins, EasyJet, Worldpay

In addition to this he has carried out major strategic projects for:

Deloitte, BDO, Marks and Spencer, Guardian Media, Tata, Gieves and Hawkes, McDonalds, Prudential, BBH, De Beers, Forte, Aramark, British Airways

He has been a serial entrepreneur and since the age of 16 has created, developed and sold several successful companies in activities as diverse as car retailing, cothing distribution and behavioural economics.  He has also been a non-executive director for St James Place, Morgan Sindall, Aegon, William Jackson Food Group, Rotary Watches and Linn Products.

Currently he is Senior Non-Executive Director of Horton Estates, Non-Exec Director of Admiral Financial Services Ltd and Chairman of Ardonagh Advisory.

Between 2012 and 2024 Simon was Executive Chairman of Hendy Automotive Ltd where he transformed the business into one of the largest and best Automotive Retailers in Europe.

He is an expert both at people development and creating truly customer centric organisations.

Dr Kay Linnell OBE

Director

Kay Linnell & Company

 

 

Kay Linnell practices as a forensic accountant. She is a Chartered Accountant, a Chartered Arbitrator, a Certified Fraud Examiner, a CEDR accredited Mediator, a life member and Fellow of the Expert Witness Institute. She has a PHD from the University of Portsmouth, a Master of Business Administration degree from the University of Sheffield and is a Part time lecturer at the University of Portsmouth. She was awarded an OBE in 2025 for services to justice.

Kay has an international Forensic Accounting practice and gives evidence to arbitrations and Courts worldwide in civil, commercial and criminal cases. Kay has acted as advisory accountant to the Justice for Subpostmasters Alliance since 2012 when she was recruited to assist by Barbara Jeremiah JP, this work is ongoing.

Kay was the Board of Inland Revenue’s Chief Investigating and Prosecuting Accountant and Head of Accounting Profession and became the first Chief Executive of the Joint Insolvency Monitoring Unit Limited. She was a Governor and Vice Chairman of the Expert Witness Institute until July 2022. She was a Vice President member of the Governing COMEX committee of the EEEi (European Expertise & Expert Institute) based in Paris. Kay is on the Legal Process Working Group of the Fraud Advisory Panel to advise on current issues and legislation based on her experience as a professional Expert Witness in both criminal, civil and family cases in the Courts and Tribunals. She sits as an Arbitrator and deal in commercial and construction disputes worldwide and was a member of the Dispute Board Federation 
in Geneva. 

Kay is a Past Master of the Worshipful Company of Arbitrators, a Freeman of the City of London and a member of the First XI past masters’ association. Kay is a member of Aldgate Ward Club and the Lady Masters Association.  Kay has been a Soroptimist initially in Derby, then South London, Sheffield, Greater London, Southampton and Winchester clubs since 1979

Graeme Morrison

Group Head of Financial Crime

Ardonagh Group

 

 

Graeme is an experienced financial crime prevention practitioner, based in Perth Scotland. He is accountable for the design of the Ardonagh Group’s financial crime and sanction frameworks, which encompasses the UK (from Retail to London Market) and across its international operations in Europe, the USA, South America, Asia, Australia and Africa.

He brings over 20 years of experience in working in Risk & Compliance roles, with majority of the time working in Financial Crime Prevention, and another 10 years working in Finance and in Project Management roles.

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