The FD pundits

* Jo Iwasaki is ICAEW's head of corporate governance p16 * Stephen Herring is a tax partner at BDO p17 * Jon Coker heads the investment team at MMC Ventures p26 * Jass Sarai is UK technology leader at PwC p26 * Valeria Miceli is a lecturer at the Catholic University of Milan and coauthor of the book Sovereign Wealth Funds: A Complete Guide p38 * Pars Purewal is leader of UK asset management at PwC p38 * Andre Loese-Krug Pietri is chairman of A Capital p38 * Russell Gould is head of Wonga for business p40 * Christopher Shaw is chief executive of invoice trading company Platform Black p40 * Lee Hopley is chief economist at manufacturers' association EEF p40 * Peter Ewen is managing director of ABN Amro Commercial Finance p40 * Alan McGill is a sustainability partner at PwC p46 * Gary Davis is operations director at environmental accounting developer Ecometrica p46 Access all areas Adam Brown, CFO of The Access Group, previously helped Harpur grow its UK market share by 40% and also increased annual gross margin for Avid by £3.2m Opinion, page 18 Wish you were here Julia Bradley, CFO of online travel site TripAdvisor, has had a busy seven months since joining the company in the midst of a spin-out process Feature, page 26 Tasty filling Nick Candler, FD of Pret A Manger, has helped improve operating profit by 14% to £52.4m in the last year, while increasing total sales by 15.2% to £377.3m Interview, page 30 The black stuff Keith Padgett, CEO and former FD of the Falklands Islands Government, is on the brink of £116bn tax windfall from offshore oil drilling contracts Interview, page 36 The nth degree Ronnie Smith, CFO of Six Degrees Group, secured £25m of funding from Clydesdale Bank to support its growth in the managed data services market Personals, page 7