Dr. Liam Bastick FCA FCMA CGMA MVP Liam has over 30 years’ experience in financial model development/auditing, valuations, M&A, strategy, training, and consultancy. He has considerable experience in many different sectors (e.g. banking, energy, media, mining, oil and gas, private equity, transport, and utilities). Liam has headed Ernst & Young’s modeling team in Melbourne and was an Assistant Director in their strategic valuations team in London. He was also a senior member of the UK Post Office’s M&A and strategy teams and has worked for/assisted various other Australian modeling companies including BPM, Corality, Navigator Project Finance, PKF, and SumProduct. He has worked in the UK, Australia, Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Malaysia, New Zealand, Switzerland, and Vietnam, with many internationally recognised clients, constructing and reviewing strategic, operational and valuation models for many high-profile IPOs, LBOs and strategic assignments. He is a regular contributor to the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA), the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia and New Zealand (CAANZ), Certified Practising Accountants Australia (CPAA), the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA), Finance 3.0 and various LinkedIn specialist discussion groups. He is also an experienced facilitator for CAANZ. Liam is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants (ICAEW), a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Management Accountants (CIMA) and is a professional mathematician specialising in a probabilistic/strategic analysis. Liam has been recognised seven times by Microsoft as an Excel Most Valuable Professional in Excel, one of 103 in the world as at the time of writing.