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Stuart Ells

Partner, Chief Growth Officer and FACD Lead

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Highlights

More than 30 years of professional experience.
Responsible for forensic accounting expertise covering business valuations and economic damages, compliance and risk management, complex investigations, class actions and anti-trust issues compliance across EMEA and APAC.
Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales.

Services

Business Valuation | Forensic Accounting

Expertise

Stuart Ells has more than 30 years of corporate experience in the professional services, media and entertainment sectors. His focus at HKA is to accelerate and support the growth agenda for the EMEA region working with the EMEA Leadership Team in identifying and sourcing growth opportunities for the region, including securing individual senior talent, and team lift outs, as well as M&A opportunities that help the firm on its growth journey.

Most recently, Stuart served as Chief Executive Officer at Forensic Risk Alliance (FRA), where he was responsible for all operational planning, running and reporting of the business globally. During his time with FRA, Stuart successfully recruited a number of senior fee earning individuals, grew the Partner base by over 25% and opened international offices in the Middle East and Asia.

Prior to FRA, Stuart was Managing Director & Chief Administrative Officer for Alvarez & Marsal (A&M) Europe & Middle East, where he was responsible for the management, effectiveness and efficiency of the corporate support functions in the EMEA region. His role included future proofing the support structure to make it scalable to support the very significant growth of A&M in the EMEA region in recent years.

Stuart has also served as Managing Director, CFO, COO and CEO in a range of companies involved in filmed entertainment, TV production, recorded music, music publishing, theatre production and theatre management during which time he has led or advised on multiple mergers and acquisitions.

Stuart started his career at Ernst & Young and he is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales.

Background

Stuart’s experience as a chief executive officer includes responsibility for all operational planning, running and reporting of a global business. He has successfully recruited senior fee-earning individuals, grown a partner base by over 50%, and opened international offices in Europe, the Middle East and Asia. He has held senior executive roles in professional services firms as well as in large global corporates involved in filmed entertainment, TV production, recorded music, music publishing, theatre production and theatre management.

Stuart is a fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales.