Jon Dodge – Managing Director
Jon founded JDC in 2004 and continues to lead the practice. One of the most experienced Business Advisors and Corporate Finance specialists in the East of England, and one of the most experienced share valuers in the UK, Jon qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 1991 and is the trusted lead advisor to many business owners.
In addition to Jon’s retained client relationships, he has acted as lead M&A adviser in over 100 successfully completed corporate sale transactions. He has also led numerous capital restructuring, MBO and private equity transactions, positioning him as a highly effective strategic adviser to many private company owners.
In his valuation work, Jon provides services to individuals, corporate clients and in High Court cases and has been appointed as an expert share valuer on over 900 occasions over a period of 30 years.
Rob Whitefoot – Director
Rob is a Chartered Accountant with over 20 years’ post qualification experience. He provides strategic, accounting and tax services to various corporate and personal tax clients and is also an experienced share valuer – a skillset which is hugely valuable to the JDC client base when considering employee incentivisation issues, shareholder reorganisation events and full or partial value realisation events.
In addition to his JDC role, Rob also provides forensic accounting services (often as a court-appointed Single Joint Expert) as part of the FRP Forensic Services team. His experience in this regard can be found HERE.
Matt Field – Tax Director
Matt is a Chartered Tax Advisor and joined JDC in 2018 to provide dedicated tax services. Providing tax advisory and compliance services to the JDC client base, Matt has significant experience in tax planning and transactional matters.
Matt is pivotal to the provision of specialist tax input for the JDC client base, notably in relation to minority shareholder exits and employee incentivisation projects, and also provides ad hoc tax input to an array of personal and corporate queries arising from the JDC client base.
Janet Parker – Director
Janet joined JDC in 2006 and has over 40 years’ experience in providing financial and business advisory services to a long-standing and broad portfolio of corporate and personal clients.
Janet, who has an MBA as well as being a qualified accountant, uses her experience and skills to understand and advise businesses in a straightforward and honest way on a wide range of management matters. She always engages, and fully participates in, the process of improving business performance – seeing this as an essential step in helping her clients achieve growth and development.
Jude Corbett – Assistant Manager
Jude is an ACCA qualified accountant with over 9 years’ experience. Jude is client-facing and prepares limited company and partnership accounts and management accounts, plus personal tax returns and corporation tax returns.
Jude also has share valuation experience, a valuable specialism relevant in multiple scenarios across the lifecycle of a business.
Emma Crick – Assistant Manager
Emma is an ACA qualified accountant with over 7 years’ practice experience. Emma joined JDC in December 2023, working with and advising a wide range of owner-managed businesses across a variety of sectors, providing services in accountancy, tax and company secretarial.
Emma also assists in the preparation of personal tax returns for business owners to give a comprehensive compliance service.
Jackie Collier – PA and Office Manager
Jackie has been an essential part of the JDC story for over 20 years, providing a very wide range of practice administration and management-based responsibilities with absolute focus and dedication.
Jackie oversees our back office administration function and continues to have a critical role in assisting with matters concerning regulatory compliance.