Our team

We’re here to help

Our staff are key to our success.  We recruit outward looking people with strong technical and communication skills.  Above all they have an ongoing wish to develop and learn.

Our key team members are:

Mark Hjertzen, Managing Director; Sue Watson, Audit, Assurance and Charity specialist; Liam Ryan, Audit, Assurance; Yvette Neill, Personal taxation; Usha Duggall, Payroll and Bookkeeping; Alison Rickels, Payroll and Bookkeeping; Carmen Aattouch, Accounts production; Zane Kiforda, Accounts production; Chris Hodge, Accounts production; Kerry Loach, Secretary, Administrator and Company Secretarial; Amanda Dorgan, Administrator and Company Secretarial; and Sue Howlett, Credit Control; Kim Richardson, Secretary, Administration and Company Secretarial.

Mark Hjertzen

Mark Hjertzen

Managing Director

I am the managing director of HW Associates Limited and the proprietor of HW Associates.

Subsequent to qualifying with a top four firm of Chartered Accountants and thereafter working for an international quoted company I entered partnership in Hitchin in the early 1980’s.

I advise owner managed business clients on a broad range of matters from start-ups to sale or succession and all points in between.

I have many years’ experience of giving practical integrated commercial, transactional, compliance and taxation advice to owner managed businesses, not-for-profit entities and private clients. I understand what makes a business a success and what increases its value.

I am pleased to be the liaison between HW Associates and Accelerate.

Liam Ryan

Liam Ryan

Subsequent to qualifying with an independent firm of Chartered Accountants in Cambridge, thereafter working in practice and industry around Hertfordshire.  I joined HW Associates in 2015.

I work in audit, accounts preparation and give general business advice to SME’s.

Yvette Neill

Yvette Neill

As an experienced Financial Controller in the private sector, I joined the team at HW Associates in 2012, bringing with me a wealth of commercial knowledge.

I now provide the following personal tax services to our clients, standard compliant self-assessment returns, capital gains, Benefits in Kind and registering and completing trust returns.

Alison Rickels

Alison Rickels

I advise and train clients on cloud based systems suitable for their businesses.

I also look after their day-to-day bookkeeping requirements, administer their payrolls and advise on VAT compliance.

I hold QuickBooks Advanced Certification.

Usha Duggal

Usha Duggal

As a widely experienced bookkeeper and payroll specialist I am pleased to have established strong, long lasting relationships with many of our clients engaged in a diverse range of activities.

I hold QuickBooks advanced Certification.

Chris Hodge

Chris Hodge

Zane Kiforda

Zane Kiforda

Carmen Aattouch

Carmen Aattouch

Kim Richardson

Kim Richardson

Amanda Dorgan

Amanda Dorgan

Kerry Loach

Kerry Loach

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We work with you and for you, not against you.
Our experience, expertise and practicality will complement your own skills and can only enhance your business.