Vandana Saxena Poria
OBE, ACA, FCCA, CEO
Vandana Saxena Poria qualified as a UK Chartered Accountant with HW Fisher. After qualifying, she spent 10 years living and working in a multitude of countries in Central and Eastern Europe, initially for Ernst & Young. She went on to become the CEO of BPP International, the international division of Europe's largest listed professional training company with a turnover in excess of £160 million. In this capacity, she was responsible for all training outside the UK. She was also responsible for drafting the first versions of the IFRS and ISA material for BPP. Vandana was also a very successful tutor and consistently achieved top student ratings. Accountancy education is Vandana’s passion.
Vandana also works closely with the British Government to foster international trade for the UK and has given numerous presentations for/to UKTI. She has held several positions with the British Chambers of Commerce in several countries including Chairperson.
Dipak Poria
Chairman
Dipak is a double graduate in Maths and IT from Imperial College, London. He spent the first 15 years of his career working for some of the world’s largest investment houses (Bank of America, LGIM, Colonial Mutual, Kuwaiti Investment Bank) in various R&D and IT related roles in the City of London. In 2001 he was appointed R&D Director at BAM, an international hedge fund trading arbitrage from emerging markets as well as derivatives on the major global markets.
James Cooper
FCA, CFA
James joined GTG as a non-executive director in May 2008. He is a Chartered Accountant and CFA charter holder. He has over 25 years experience in accountancy, financial training and the publishing industry. He spent 7 years with FTC (now Kaplan) as a lecturer and director of professional studies before moving to BPP where he headed up the professional education division. Under his leadership, BPP expanded from its London base to build a network of training centers across the UK and Europe.
Peter Keeling
FCA
Peter is GTG's UK director and has 30 years experience in ACCA training, both in the UK and abroad. Peter is associated with the London School of Accountancy, one of London's most successful ACCA tuition providers.
TEAM GTG
Team GTG does not simply comprise of our dedicated staff but of an army of vested interests all keen to promote the systematic development of low-cost, high-quality
professional material that can be accessed by students across the globe.
Staff
We employ an international team of highly qualified professionals dedicated to the production of original and innovative accountancy and financial content. Our staff comprises of accountants, researchers, tutors, authors, academics, people in business, learning and education experts, linguists, graphic artists and IT professionals.
Consultants
Many well-known names involved with accountancy training from all over the world are actively involved with developing the GTG model and its low-cost, high-quality material.
Students
We have taken the input of thousands of ACCA students from all levels to develop our content. We have a research and development facility where we try out techniques and material on students in both the classroom and home-study environments.
Corporate
We work in partnership with leading MNC’s to ensure knowledge derived from our material is in a style that will create a genuine interest in the subject taught. This gives students the curiosity needed to gain real-world understanding.
Tuition Providers
We work with colleges and tuition providers to ensure the highest standards of quality tuition are delivered to students.