Crowe appoints three partners

Crowe has announced the appointments of Alex Conway, Mustafa Iqbal and Jayne Rowe as the firm’s newest partners, each joining professional practices, risk and assurance, and the non-profit teams respectively. 

As a partner with the professional practices team, Conway moved up from his previous position as director to become the youngest partner currently at the firm. He has 14 years of experience in tax and accounting, which includes spending time as head of tax at mid-market private equity firm Livingbridge. 

In his new role, Conway will be growing Crowe’s private equity offering by leading the fund, investment manager, and fund executive service, with a keen focus on guiding firms and executives through the intricacies of private equity taxation. 

Meanwhile, Iqbal joins the risk and assurance team as partner from a Big Four firm where he led the financial services technology internal audit practice, where he delivered projects focused on technology risk. He brings more than 20 years of experience with him, having started his career at Accenture.

As part of his role at Crowe, Iqbal will support the development of the firm’s technology risk assurance and consulting strategy nationwide, further growing the risk practice. He will be working with the team on third party risk and the firm’s wider offering to the financial services sector.

In addition, Rowe joins the firm’s non-profits team from an independent accounting firm where she was head of charities for four years. With more than 23 years of experience, Rowe spent over 19 years in the national charities and not for profit team of a Big Four firm. 

Alongside her work as a trustee of CBM UK, the overseas Christian disability charity, she will be responsible for the establishment of the charity leaders group in Cambridge, which provides a forum for charity trustees and senior management to discuss key issues facing the sector.

Nigel Bostock, chief executive at Crowe, said: “I can welcome Mustafa, Jayne and Alex to the partnership with great pride. The combination of attracting new talent with leading reputations in the market, as well as the promotion of existing talent from within, shows the strong position we are in and our commitment to building the best teams possible.

“In these testing times, our clients rely on Crowe for clear-headed strategic guidance. Our new partner appointments mean the firm is in a better position than ever to deliver this.”