Tutors & Presenters

English / Bulgarian

Ros Aala

Qualifications

MA DipCG FCA

Career history:

Ros Aala worked in audit with PricewaterhouseCoopers in Plymouth, UK and is a fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW). He travelled extensively with PwC on assignments in the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Kazakhstan and South Africa, as well as working in their training department in London, where he developed internal accounting, audit and personal develpment training courses. Ros conducts leadership and development courses for the Royal Air Force in the UK. He joined the BPP team in Slovakia in 2000 and specialises in audit, corporate governance, international accounting, leadership skills and marketing.

Contact details
Email: rosaala@bpp.com

 

Irena Teneva

Qualifications

ACCA

Career history:

Irena Teneva graduated from Sofia University with a BA in Business Administration. She gained her ACCA qualification in June 2004  while working in the audit department of Ernst & Young Bulgaria, and later worked in internal audit at the Bulgarian Telecommunication Company. Irena joined the BPP team in 2005 and she is based in Bulgaria.
She teaches accounting, performance management and audit both in Bulgarian and English. In December 2008, Irena prepared and presented a tailored course on IFRS update in Bulgarian for Petrol Holding AD. Before that, she prepared and delivered tailored finance for non-finance courses for the legal department of Ernst & Young, OMV and the sales team of Goodyear Dunlop Bulgaria. Irena has a rich international teaching experience; she has taught in Slovakia, Turkey, Greece, Romania, the Channel Islands,  Poland, the Netherlands, Ghana and Nigeria.

Contact details
Email: irenateneva@bpp.com

 

Georgi Kirilov

Qualifications FCCA CF

Career history:

Georgi is a fellow of the Association of Chartered and Certified Accountants (ACCA). He is a Corporate Finance (CF) qualified member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of England and Wales (ICAEW) and holds a Masters in Accounting and Finance from the London School of Economics (LSE). He has completed level 1 and 2 of the American Society of Appraisers (ASA), the US business valuation certification institution.

Georgi has significant professional experience in accounting, consulting and corporate finance areas. He worked for seven years in London and Geneva, prior to returning to Bulgaria at the end of 2005, where he spent three years as a Manager of the Financial Advisory Services of Deloitte Bulgaria, leading due diligence, valuation, and buy and sell side advisory engagements for major international and Bulgarian clients such as EON, KBC Bank, Magyar Telecom, BTC, BBB Group, Business Park Sofia, OCK, Gorubso Madan, SEAF, Mercuirus, etc.

He  specialises in corporate finance, performance management and management accounting.

Contact details
Email: georgikirilov@bpp.com

 

Erica Gibbon

Qualifications BA FCA

Career history:

Erica qualified as a Chartered Accountant (ICAEW) while working in audit and tax with BDO Binder Hamlyn in the UK. She was subsequently Management Accountant and Human Resource Manager for PricewaterhouseCoopers in Romania before setting up BPP operations in Slovakia in 1999. Erica specialises in teaching IFRS Accounting and Tax, and as a qualified practitioner of Neuro Linguistic Programming she also has a keen interest in Personal Development Coaching.

Contact details
Email: ericagibbon@bpp.com

 

Alexander Fawcett

Qualifications ACCA

Career history:

Alex has significant professional experience as an IFRS and ISA consultant and training expert. He has worked on a numerous international projects related to IFRS and diverse accounting reforms in many countries in Central Asia, in Russia, Ukraine, Armenia, Poland, Czech Republic, Romania, Lithuania and Macedonia. In Azerbaijan, Alex was involved in a project for converting local accounting standards to IFRS. Later on, Alex was working on an EBRD project advising banking sector in Macedonia on IFRS. In Russia, Alex was involved with ACCA and the Institute of Professional Accountants of Russia to work on a curriculum reform and capacity building for the accounting profession. Alex was working with the Asian Development Bank to develop an accounting technician’s qualification with the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nepal. In Armenia, Alex was an advisor helping to reform the local accountancy qualification as part of a project sponsored by USAID. Alex has also been an ACCA marker and trainer for a number of years. He specialises in financial reporting, audit and assurance and corporate governance.

 

Aled Joyce

Qualifications
ACMA 

Career history:

Aled is an experienced Commercial Accountant who qualified ACMA while working overseas in the late 90s. Following several years in the British Army and experience in various industrial positions, he commenced his accounting career while with the Post Office in 1985. Since then he has had several Senior Management Commercial positions in the UK, Eastern Europe and Asia Pacific. The subjects he teaches are Financial Accounting,  Management Accounting, Economics and Law.

Contact details
Email: aledjoyce@bpp.com

 

Jonathan Snary

Qualifications FCA

Career history 

Jonathan is managing director of BPP's centre in the Czech Republic. He qualified as a Chartered accountant in 1997 with PricewaterhouseCoopers where he worked in their corporate finance department. He joined BPP in London in the same year and later moved to BPP's largest regional office in Bristol, where he became director of CIMA studies. Jonathan moved to join BPP in the Czech Republic at the end of 2000, having taught in Central and Eastern Europe since 1997.

Jonathan has many years of teaching experience in business, IT and management faculties.

Contact details
Email: jonathansnary@bpp.com