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Mayor's merger madness
The great and good were all in attendance at a bash thrown by the Lord Mayor in London last week ‘to mark the contribution of the accountancy profession’.
Having gathered various regulators and institute chiefs together, John Stuttard wasn’t about to waste his platform and he didn’t: telling the assembled institute bigwigs to stop squabbling and merge. Half the room were left squirming in their chairs while the other half (the non-institute half) goaded them.
Current ICAS president Isobel Sharp applied her best poker face as
Public Oversight Board chief Paul George did his best to wind her up.
Her chief exec Anton Colella and past president Ian Robertson were
diplomacy personified in the bar afterwards. CIMA’s Charles Tilley
played down the speech as did CIPFA president John Butler.
The views of no fewer than five former ICAEW presidents in the room
(Graham Ward, Peter Wyman, Michael Groom, Roger Lawson and Baroness
Noakes) went sadly unrecorded.
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