Andrew Robinson

Trainer at Informa Connect Academy

Trainer

Andrew is a Business and Financial Consultant currently working as an Independent Director and Audit Committee Member for five businesses and has been based in the United Arab Emiratessince 1995. He is a qualified Chartered Accountant and Treasurer and has worked with public companies, multinationals, family firms and government organisations, throughout the Gulf Region.

He completed a career of auditing and business advisory services of over 30 years in the UK, North America and the Middle East until Andrew took early retirement from the partnership of KPMG in 2014. His experience covers a wide range of industries including trading, construction, oil and gas, media, financial services and transport. Transaction related advisory projects successfully completed in the past four years have included:

• Due Diligence, valuation and negotiation of the acquisition of a group of companies in the safety and marine business
• Due Diligence of a manufacturing company in Kuwait
• Business valuation of a printing company in the UAE
• Financial modelling to support a decision to acquire a trading business in Oman
• Sell side advisory for a media business in the UAE (in progress)
• Assisting an entrepreneur with the sale of an entertainment business (in progress)

Andrew particularly appreciates the opportunity to provide support to family businesses and is a Non-Executive representative on the Audit Committee of a UAE family Holding Company.