Background of DNA Accountants

Ian and Gillian met as young 21 year olds in the main audit room of Ernst & Whinney (as it was then) in 1985. They both qualified as Chartered Accountants (managing to squeeze in a wedding during exams!) and then followed different career paths at Ernst – Ian joined the Corporate Advisory department and Gillian went into personal tax in the Small Businesses Unit and took her tax exams to become a member of the Chartered Institute of Taxation.

Once Jessica joined the French family in 1992, Ian moved to BG Exploration and Production in the Finance team and Gillian went to work for Andrew Nevill of Denyer Nevill in Epsom on a part time basis. Josh then joined the clan in 1994.

In 1996, the opportunity arose to move to Milan with BGE&P where we lived for 3 years enjoying la dolce vita and learning to speak Italian (always easier after a bottle or two of Chianti!).

We moved back to Epsom in 1999 and the opportunity arose for Gillian to become Andrew Nevill’s partner at Denyer Nevill. In 2002, Ian had had enough of life in industry and we both bought out Andrew and incorporated the business to become Denyer Nevill Accountants Limited.

Since then we have had an office move to Walton on the Hill and have taken on Elaine to join us with Gavin there. We also decided to change our trading name at the time of the office move and are now known as DNA Accountants (easier to spell and say!).