Meet the team
Managing Director Ian started the business in 2014 and has been advising companies on R&D tax credits since the year 2000 when they were first introduced. He is a Chartered Accountant and Chartered Tax Adviser with over 15 years’ previous experience working within the corporation tax departments of both PwC and BDO in Belfast. During these…
Trish is a Chartered Tax Advisor with over 20 years of experience advising businesses, individuals and trusts on a wide range of tax matters. She obtained her qualifications with PwC London after spending several years specialising in expatriate tax issues. Before joining IF R&D Tax Credits Ltd, Trish spent 14 years with Baker Tilly Mooney…
Before joining IF R&D Tax Credits Ltd, Malinda worked for Grant Thornton as a Senior Personal Assistant for 2 years. As part of this role, she was the personal assistant to all Belfast Partners and the wider Audit/Tax team. Her previous work experience also includes A&L Goodbody Solicitors where she was the Personal Assistant to…
Engineering & Manufacturing Team
Chris brings a significant amount of technical expertise to the company. He has worked in Engineering, Technical and Business roles for companies based in Manufacturing, Information Technology and Facilities Management. During his career, Chris has dealt with organisations in the UK, Europe and globally on New Product Development and Engineering matters. He also has a…
Paul graduated with a BSSc (Hons) degree from the Queen’s University Belfast. During his subsequent career, he spent 12 years working for Whale Pumps (Munster Simms Engineering Ltd) who design and manufacture high quality low voltage pump, plumbing and heating systems for use in remote locations. As part of this role he led the new…
Andrew studied for a degree in Structural Engineering & Architecture at Queen’s University. This built on a passion for R&D that he developed from an early age, helping his inventive father with scientific experiments in the family kitchen. He has not looked back since, becoming a researcher of a novel type of cement. He was…
Science & Software Team
Sean has a strong scientific background, having graduated from Queens University with a first-class honours Master’s degree in Chemistry. While there, he developed his already strong IT skills with a thesis in computational calculations, writing scripts and optimising the process in addition to analysing the chemistry. Since then, he’s added to his skills by teaching…
David gained a first-class honours degree and then a PhD in Chemistry from Queen’s University Belfast. On achieving his doctorate, he spent 15 years working for GlaxoSmithKline in various management roles. During this employment he was integral in starting-up a new purpose built £25 million pharmaceutical manufacturing facility. He also worked for two pharmaceutical consultancy…
Susan achieved a first-class honours degree and PhD from The University of Glasgow in Earth Science. Susan assisted her father in Lawther Drilling as a geologist and since then she has gained experience in Gold Exploration, set up her own business and has been involved in research into Geopolymer cement in an academic and industrial…