The Team
Penny Bowen
Penny is Rod’s wife. She is a trained airline pilot and hopes to return soon to short haul flying but in the meantime, she is helping organise Bowen May LLP behind the scenes as our office manager.
email penny@bowen-may.co.uk
Louise Edwards
Louise took her ATT exams in 1989 whilst training with Charlton Baker, a Devizes based firm of chartered accountants. She has subsequently worked as financial and management accountant for several small firms in Wiltshire. After 9 years of working as an accounts software consultant for the motor trade, Louise decided to return to accounting practice work in 2006 and secured a position with Bowen May LLP as the accounts assistant. Her interests are holidays abroad, photography, walking and swimming.
email louise@bowen-may.co.uk
Toby Miles
Toby started working in accountancy in 1998, training and qualifying for AAT with local firm Pearson May. He is now working as practice accountant at Bowen May LLP.
In 2005 he moved and was employed as a senior auditor for national firm RSM Bentley Jennison where he also qualified as a member of The Institute of Chartered Accountants of England and Wales.
In the years since starting his accountancy career, he has developed a wide experience of business areas from owner managed companies to multi million pound turnover groups.
In his spare time he enjoys time with his friends and family, travelling and sport, especially golf, where he represents his local club.
email toby@bowen-may.co.uk
Sue Reynolds
Sue started her career in banking, working for National Westminster Bank Plc for 9 years before switching to accountancy in 1994. She studied the CIMA Professional Qualification and passed her final exams in 1998 to become an Associate of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants.
Sue has worked in a number of industries preparing the management accounts, including life assurance, leisure, property and computer components and is currently a subcontractor accountant for Bowen May LLP.
Sue is married to Chris and they have two young boys called James and Thomas, who will both be at school with Rod and Penny's son, William, from September. Whilst taking time out to look after her family Sue has also been Treasurer of the local pre-school, implementing financial systems, and she is currently on the Friends of Seagry School committee as Vice Treasurer. She has been an active fundraiser for both groups as well as for Bristol Children’s Hospital where Thomas underwent open heart surgery in 2004.
When there is free time Sue enjoys reading, history, the theatre as well as most types of sport – especially rugby in which she holds a Preliminary Coaching Award.
Debbie Ryall
Debbie began her career in accountancy in 1989 with Midlands based firm Cooper-Parry where she qualified as a chartered accountant. From there, she moved to national firms RSM Bentley Jennison and BDO Stoy Hayward.
Debbie has experience of clients from a variety of business sectors with different structures and sizes. More recently her work has focused on family run, owner managed businesses as well as small charities and church accounts.
Outside of work, Debbie enjoys relaxing with family and friends, keeping fit and is a keen Volkswagen Beetle enthusiast.
email debbie@bowen-may.co.uk
Summer Watson
Summer has nearly 20 years' experience in computerised accounting which she gained by setting up and running accounts for small to medium companies in London and the West Country. In this time she has also run several of her own small businesses which means that she really understands what it is like to be a business owner and she enjoys helping other entrepreneurs be successful.
Although Summer graduated as a Production Engineer her first employers, Marconi Instruments, decided that she was best suited to technical publicity and she eventually became press officer for the company. After then working freelance for several years, she found she had a flair for book-keeping and became self-employed helping companies set up their management accounts on computer. She now works with Bowen May LLP on a self-employed basis, as our Quickbooks training consultant. In her spare time Summer is keen on keeping fit and mind -body health although she has yet to learn how to say no to chocolate!