Meet the Team

Steve Lawrence

Steve is the Principal of Stonebridge Stewart. He is different because he uses his expertise to provide clients with advice on strategy, growth and profit improvement.  He is also responsible for ensuring that the quality of the Stonebridge Stewart service remains of the highest standard and will want to know immediately if you have any worries or concerns.

Steve looks after a portfolio of clients covering a wide range of businesses and personal cases. His strengths lie in his understanding of the pressures of being in business having spent time on secondment in industry on various assignments over the years. Steve is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales.

Steve is married to Carol and a father of 5 children. He is an ardent Tranmere Rovers fan and can be seen on the terraces at most home games. He is also an excellent cook and enjoys spending his weekends in the kitchen.

Hannah Hughes

Hannah is Senior Manager at Stonebridge Stewart, and strives to help clients with all their financial and business needs.

She is a member of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants, and has worked within accountancy practice for more than ten years whilst undertaking her studies, firstly completing the Association of Accounting Technicians NVQ before going on to complete the ACCA examinations.

Hannah is married to Dave and her hobbies include keeping fit, going to the cinema, and playing and watching tennis.

Mark Morris

Mark is the accounting and compliance Manager within Stonebridge Stewart. His strengths lie in attention to detail and involvement in individual clients’ needs.

Mark is a member of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants and a graduate of the University of Wales, Bangor.

Mark is a keen tennis fan and regularly plays at his local tennis club. He also enjoys snooker and pool and goes to the local gym.

Carrian Myhan

Carrian joined the team in June 2010 after having spent nine years working for a smaller firm in Wales.  Carrian qualified as an AAT Technician in 2003 and received a diploma in payroll in 2005.  After a period of maternity leave, she has renewed her knowledge by getting her certificate in Sage Payroll and Sage Line 50 software and completing a bookkeeping module.  Her duties include the day to day running of the payroll, bookkeeping and VAT services.

Carrian lives with her long-standing partner and their son and daughter in North Wales.  She enjoys camping and caravanning and getting together with friends.  Baking is one of her hobbies that she enjoys.

Joanne Bingham

Joanne is Accounts Technician at Stonebridge Stewart, focusing on business document management, a role which is evolving within the firm.

She joined the team in July 2007, following eighteen years with the Royal Sunalliance, working in various departments, starting in the Marine Accounts Credit Control and latterly as a Reconciliation and Technical Support Assistant.

Jo is married to Paul and they have a beautiful daughter. Jo has been a member of Wirral Alsatian Training Society for over ten years and her spare time is taken up training her border collie Jamie in Agility - she and her family regularly travel to agility competitions throughout the North West area.

Rosie Elliott

Rosie worked for the Corporate Office of Royal Bank of Scotland in Liverpool for 11 years before leaving to start a family in 2003. Having taken a career break, she joined Stonebridge Stewart in December 2010 as a Receptionist.

After a year in that role, Rosie decided she would like to consolidate earlier qualifications gained in bookkeeping and is now working towards her AAT exams.  She has also made the career move to Bookkeeper within Stonebridge Stewart.

Rosie is married to Barry and they have 2 daughters.  They enjoy spending weekends in North Wales in the beautiful Snowdonia countryside.  She also enjoys entertaining and loves getting together with family and friends.

Sam Gelling

Sam joined Stonebridge Stewart in August 2011 as a Trainee Accountant under the Apprenticeship framework and is working towards his AAT qualification.

Having started studying for his A Levels, Sam realised that he wished to pursue a career in Accountancy.  His Careers Guidance Officer at Calday Grange Grammar School directed him to Stonebridge Stewart - and the rest is history!

A keen Everton fan, Sam enjoys all sports especially rugby and football.  He also likes going to the cinema and spending time with his girlfriend.

Kane Harding-Jones

Kane also joined Stonebridge Stewart in August 2011 as a Trainee Accountant under the Apprenticeship framework and is working towards his AAT qualification.

Fulfilling a long-held desire to train as an Accountant, Kane successfully applied to Stonebridge Stewart through the National Apprenticeship website.

Kane spends his spare time going to the gym, keeping up-to-date with new releases at the cinema and socialising with his girlfriend and friends.  He is a keen football fan and enjoys most sports.

Jenny Horner

Jenny is the Practice Director at Stonebridge Stewart, responsible for the in house management of the firm.

She started working in the chartered accountancy profession in 1987 when she joined Deloitte Haskins & Sells in London as PA to one of the tax partners. She worked there for four years before transferring to the Liverpool office of Coopers & Lybrand. A brief spell there was followed by two years at Grant Thornton. With some time out to help her husband establish his own business and bring up two children, she rejoined the profession in 2005 as Practice Manager at Stonebridge Stewart.

Jenny is married with two children and spends a lot of her spare time watching them pursuing their hobbies of rugby and music. She also enjoys running and has been a school governor for many years.

Vanessa Davies

Vanessa is one of our Receptionist and Admin Support staff and is likely to be one of the first people that you meet at Stonebridge Stewart.

Vanessa worked for the Private Clients Area Office of HSBC Bank for 17 years. She then took a three year career break to look after her children and joined Stonebridge Stewart in July 2006.

Vanessa is married to Kevin and they have twin boys and a daughter. In her spare time Vanessa likes to escape to the local gym where she works out; she also and trains with the running club and takes part in occasional local running events.

Leigh Watson

Leigh joined Stonebridge Stewart in November 2011 as a full-time Trainee Administrator/Receptionist under the Apprenticeship framework and is working towards her NVQ2 qualification in Business Administration.

Having decided she would like an office-based position, Leigh successfully applied to Stonebridge Stewart through the National Apprenticeship website.

Leigh spends her spare time with family, friends and her boyfriend and enjoys socialising with them.  She also enjoys swimming and keeping fit.