About Us

Rick joined the Hutcheon Mearns Board in 2016 to help guide the business through its rapid growth, providing direction and experience to the Board. Having spent 15 years as a Partner at KPMG before a career as CFO with private equity-backed businesses, Rick has the ideal blend of skills and experience for his advisory role with Hutcheon Mearns. Rick is also a partner in specialist investor Eos Advisory, a former trustee of the charity Dundee Heritage Trust and a non-executive director of the Insights businesses.   

Iain has over 15 years’ experience in the Scottish real estate market and is a specialist in agency, lease consultancy and investment transactions. Previously, Iain was a Director at CBRE in the National Agency Team having joined the business as part of the acquisition of Paul Gee & Co in 2008. Iain was also a key member of CBRE’s Global Energy Practice Group.

Craig is a Qualified Chartered Accountant with 15+ years of industry and Big 4 professional services experience. Prior to his founding role at Hutcheon Mearns, he was Group Finance Controller of Private Equity backed Reservoir Group, where he oversaw over 20 acquisitions and integration projects before the $500m+ sale to ALS Ltd while growing and managing a team of 55. Craig, who has significant systems implementation expertise, launched Hutcheon Mearns in 2015 to create a new proposition in the professional financial services sector and has led the market application of our highly successful business model. Today he is responsible for overall oversight of our operations.

Sarah brings a wealth of prior administrative experience and organisation skills to Hutcheon Mearns, having spent 10 years working in the Financial Services sector at a local law firm, where latterly she fulfilled the role of Administration Manager. Sarah supports the whole team at Hutcheon Mearns to ensure an exceptional level of standards is maintained for our clients.

Nathan’s career began in accountancy with Johnston Carmichael as an audit assistant where he was responsible for assisting in audits for SME owner managed businesses across a wide variety of sectors, including Oil & Gas Services, Food & Drink and Marine. Nathan was also responsible for assisting in the preparation of financial statements for SME businesses as well as Sole Traders. Nathan left Johnston Carmichael to join the accounts and audit team at Meston Reid where his responsibilities included the preparation of small company financial statements for a wide variety of clients across multiple sectors.

In 2019, Nathan left Meston Reid and joined the UKI Assurance Department of EY Aberdeen as a PQ Senior and latterly in 2021 was promoted to Assistant Manager after completing his ICAS Studies in May of that year. As an Assistant Manager, Nathan was a core member of his two clients: a FTSE 100 listed multi-national Energy Company and an International Pub and Brewery Company. His role within the teams was to manage the delivery of the group audit and quarterly reporting as well as the UK statutory reporting requirements of the UK subsidiaries. His other responsibilities included the detailed reviewing of work performed by junior team members and the detailed testing of impairment assumptions, decommissioning costs of E&P assets and detailed financial analysis. This work involved auditing key areas within complex valuation models and being a key contact to management and others within the internal team.

Adam joined Hutcheon Mearns in 2017 to lead our corporate finance and strategic advisory offering. Adam has over 15 years of corporate development and transaction related experience, ranging from Corporate Finance and Investment Banking to in-house Corporate Development for a Private Equity backed Oilfield Services group of companies. Latterly, Adam led PwC’s Oil & Gas Corporate Finance offering in the UK, prior to which he was in-house corporate development for Private Equity backed Reservoir Group and responsible for developing, executing and delivering the group’s strategic plans.

Naill graduated from the University of Aberdeen in 2014 with a first-class honours degree in Accountancy and Finance. Upon graduating Naill joined EY in Aberdeen where he completed his CA training, qualifying in 2017. Naill managed a diverse client base at EY. This was a mixture of E&P and oil services companies, from large international listed companies to private equity backed. He prides himself on his technical knowledge, understanding of upstream accounting and his ability to solve complex problems. Whilst at EY, Naill headed up Innovation for EY’s Aberdeen office, working as part of a network across the UK to develop and implement new methodologies and emerging technologies. Since joining Hutcheon Mearns, Naill has been a key member of the Advisory team as well as undertaking financial due diligence assignments and assisting our clients in interim financial controller roles.

Craig qualified as a chartered accountant with Price Bailey. He then worked for Arthur Andersen before joining RMD in Aberdeen where he was focused on audit and due diligence projects. Craig subsequently spent more than 16 years with energy investment bank Simmons & Company International where he accumulated considerable experience in the delivery of M&A and advisory assignments across a wide range of transaction sizes.