Thea is a UK maths graduate and chartered accountant having trained with Peat Marwick (London and Bristol) and Coopers and Lybrand (Cambridge) in the mid-eighties. She has over 20 years post-qualification experience.

Thea has wide-ranging experience particularly having worked with the needs of small growing high tech businesses both in practice and outside. She has worked within the life sciences business sector before gaining overseas experience working in Norway between 1995 and 1999, reporting under both US and UK GAAP.