LCA tutors
One of the London College of Accountancy's greatest assets is its lecturing team. Our philosophy is simple - to ensure that only renowned subject specialists are selected to teach on our courses. Each of the LCA lecturers has many years of professional teaching experience and is expert at explaining difficult concepts in clear, simple terms and guiding you through your course. Their focus is on your examination success. They keep you motivated whilst you study and all courses are fully supported by all the study material required.
Here are short introductions to the team:
Ravi Gill FCCA - Chairman and Founder of LCA >
Steve Lumby BA MSc - Managing Director >
Doug Beardon LL.M, FCA, FCCA, AIIT - Lecturer >
David Benjamin FCCA - Lecturer >
Geoff Hughes FCA - Lecturer >
Michael Mainwaring MBA MSc - Lecturer >
Fred Keer MSc - Lecturer >
Tony Mock FCA - Lecturer >
Naraine Singh LLB Hons (London) Barrister - Lecturer >
Feroz Kassam-Kanji FCCA - Lecturer >
Nigel Grant FCCA - Lecturer >
Peter Keeling FCA - Lecturer >
Dianne Ramdeen
Dave Sexton MSc CPFA FHEA, Dean and Ex. Director >
Charles O'Dean MA MSc - Academic Director, Anglia Ruskin Programmes
Ravi Gill FCCA - Chairman and Founder of LCA
Ravi's teaching career in accountancy started at a public sector college in 1987, where he was ACCA Course Director and pioneer of weekend courses for the corporate market. In 1990 he moved into the private sector, where he was founder and Managing Director of the Professional Training College until 1997, when it merged with Emile Woolf College. He remained as Director of AT Emile Woolf until he decided to put his many years of teaching and business expertise into founding London College of Accountancy in 2000.
When he's not focusing on the needs of LCA's accountancy students, Ravi enjoys watching football - he is an avid Manchester United supporter - and is also known to relax over fine food and wine with his family and friends.
Prof. Steve Lumby BA MSc - Managing Director
Before becoming MD of LCA Education and the Principal of the LCA Business School, Steve held academic positions at the London School of Economics; Kings Collage, University of London and Brunel University. In addition, he has taught widely in the area of professional business education. He worked for the HJ Heinz Company for five yeas and was also a special advisor to the Parliamentary Select Committee on Energy. He is co-author of "Corporate Finance" which is now in its eighth edition.
Relaxation time for Steve is spent in the great outdoors, often on horseback, or at exam time, sitting on a beach in the sunshine. ^ top
Prof. Doug Beardon LL.M, FCA, FCCA, AIIT
After qualifying as a chartered accountant and obtaining post qualification tax experience at Coopers & Lybrand, Doug joined the University of East London as a lecturer on taxation, and has since spent significant time teaching in the private sector. He is a regular lecturer on practitioners' courses run by the ACCA, an examiner at a number of universities and for 10 years was tax and audit examiner for the Association of Accounting Technicians.
In addition to his lecturing responsibilities, Doug is a partner in a professional firm. When he takes off his accountancy hat, Doug practises martial arts and climbs rocks in his spare time.
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David Benjamin FCCA
David has been lecturing to students for more than 20 years, for private sector colleges, and for ACCA Study Schools. He has also co-authored texts on Management Accounting for both ACCA and CIMA, and has many years experience in commerce of management accounting. So, he's the LCA management accounting 'guru' for any questions you may have. ^ top
Geoff Hughes FCA
Geoff's 30 years of teaching experience spans chartered, certified and management accounting students, plus CPE/CPD courses given to qualified accountants and other accounting professionals in firms. He has also been responsible for conducting commissioned peer reviews of audit firms under the profession's regulatory requirements. His qualifying years were spent with a medium sized firm with a variety of private and listed company audit clients.
When he's not teaching, Geoff loves to be on holiday, both relaxing at home and jetting off to exotic places. ^ top
Michael Mainwaring MBA MSc
Having gained his MBA back in the 1970s, Michael spent the early part of his career in management consultancy before deciding that lecturing was what he wanted to do. A lecturer now for over 20 years, Michael has taught all over the world - in the Caribbean, India, Cyprus, Hong Kong, Eire and, most exotic of all, Walsall, although he now confines his overseas teaching to Singapore and Malaysia with the occasional dash of Mauritius. He specialises in teaching business strategy. ^ top
Fred Keer MSc
Fred has been lecturing in the area of corporate finance for more than 30 years and in that time has conducted courses in Singapore, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Mauritius, Jamaica and Zambia. Whilst now firmly based in the UK he still finds time to fly out to Uganda to teach and to enjoy a vacation on safari. He is the author of books on financial accounting, management accounting and financial management.
His simple philosophy is to enjoy life both inside and outside of the classroom.
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Tony Mock BA FCA
Over his many years as a lecturer, Tony has specialised in teaching the quantitative aspects of accounting and finance. Prior to joining the LCA team, Tony was a director with two of the other leading accountancy tuition providers in the market, and has had examiner responsibilities, both as an internal examiner and on public examining bodies.
Tony's extensive experience in business tuition has been gained both here in the UK and various other parts of the world, so he will be able to greet you in many foreign languages as you enter his classes. ^ top
Naraine Singh LLB Hons (London) Barrister
Naraine has almost 40 years experience teaching students. The majority of his experience was gained during his 22 years lecturing at universities in the public sector. He then joined AT Emile Woolf in 1987 to lecture in the area of business law before starting at LCA in 2001. He also spent 10 years as Chief Examiner of the Legal Aspects of Business and Advanced Commercial Law papers for The Royal Society of Art.
When he's not helping students towards exam success, Naraine loves to watch cricket or a little boxing. ^ top
Feroz Kassam-Kanji BSc FCCA
Feroz spent the first five years of his professional life with a professional accountancy firm focusing on audit, financial reporting and tax. In 1979 he moved across into lecturing mainly in the area of accounting and corporate reporting. He is co-author of two textbooks on Financial Reporting.
Lunching and travelling to exotic places feature high on Feroz's spare time pleasures list, as does the creation of 'nouvelle cuisine' delights for entertaining family and friends. ^ top
Nigel Grant BSc FCCA
Nigel is a very experienced lecturer, having taught in both the public and private higher education sector since 1995. He spent the years prior to this working as an accountant, and studying for a BSc Hons in Applied Chemistry and a PGCE. He joined LCA's team in 2001, and is also a marker for one of the key UK professional accountancy bodies.
Leisure time is spent poring over new technology gadgets, and going to the occasional football match. ^ top
Peter Keeling BSc FCA
Peter is a Chartered Accountant with over twenty years’ experience in lecturing to students around the world. In recent times he as come to specialise in the key area of Corporate Governance. Prior to joining the LCA team, Peter had his own business which provided the major international accountancy firms with training courses. He has also worked as an examiner for ICAEW.
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Dianne Ramdeen MSc
One of the youngest members of the team, Dianne raced through her professional accounting education and wrote her final exams at the age of 19. She then went on to undertake an MBA. She is a past student of LCA and is delighted to find that her past lecturers are now current colleagues. In her earlier years, Dianne spent a considerable amount of time in the family business gaining useful insights into the financial and structural aspects of running a company. This, along with her passion for teaching, makes her lectures both stimulating and thorough.
Outside the classroom, Dianne enjoys a good game of cricket (if the West Indies are winning!) and watching Formula 1 racing. ^ top
Dave Sexton MSc CPFA FHEA - Academic Dean
Dave spent several years as a group accountant before moving into lecturing over 15 years ago. Since then he has taught on professional, undergraduate and postgraduate coursesand is now the Academic Dean of the LCA Business School. in management, strategy, and accounting. Dave was Head of Accounting at th Lord Ashcroft International Business School at Anglia Ruskin University before joining LCA. He is also an external examiner for a numer of universities. Dave remains the national examiner for strategy with CIPFA, and sits on a number of CIPFA education boards.
When not working, Dave loves rugby, tennis and large dogs!. ^ top
Charles O'Dean BA MA MSc - Director of Studies, Anglia Ruskin Programmes
Charles spent a number of years working within the Aviation and Financial sectors before moving into the Education sector. He joined LCA from the University of London (SOAS) where he was a Subject Lecturer in International Business and previously worked at the University of Essex. Charles has prior Course Directorship experience for programmes of the University of Sussex and London Metropolitan University as well as extensive lecturing experience on undergraduate and postgraduate degrees of Glamorgan, Sunderland and Heriot Watt universities.
His specialist academic areas are in International Marketing, Management, Organisational Behaviour and Corporate Strategy. Charles' research interest is in the influence of culture on the perception of international advertising campaigns and outside of work, his activities include sailing and scuba diving. ^ top
