Aynsley Damery

Aynsley is a chartered accountant, multi-award-winning entrepreneur and international keynote speaker.

He has advised thousands of businesses around the world and sits as an advisory board member on a number of companies and charities. He is considered one of the most influential accountants in the UK and has co-authored an international best seller.

Aynsley believes in inspiring entrepreneurs to create a better world. From a very early age he was introduced to small businesses through his father’s and other family businesses.

He gained a deep understanding of the issues that small business owners have to overcome, and saw first-hand the reliance families place on the success of their business, often left with nowhere to go and with no one to help.

He graduated with an honors business degree from the National University of Ireland and previously worked as an assurance manager with KPMG in the Channel Islands; specializing in the audit of banks, trusts and captive insurance companies. Aynsley left KPMG in 2000 to become a partner in Tayabali Tomlin, a multi-award-winning accounting firm in the UK. Aynsley was instrumental in transforming the business from a traditional regional accounting firm.

In 2014, he founded the niche business advisory practice, Accounting for Entrepreneurs, to help small business owners make more of an impact, winning further national and international awards. The firm was named as one of the World’s Most Inspiring Accountants, a global runner-up in Intuits’ Firm of the Future and was awarded Best Advisers to Small Businesses in the UK at the end of 2016. It was also named Most Innovative Accounting Firm in the UK for three years in a row for the way it did business. In particular, Accounting for Entrepreneurs' work was recognized in the areas of brand, culture, social purpose, customer value propositions and use of technology.

Aynsley sold Accounting for Entrepreneurs in 2018 to Crowe, one of the world's largest accounting networks.