Wednesday, December 19, 2007
The winners: Accountancy Age Awards 2007
All the winners from the 2007 Accountancy Age Awards ceremony. Find out who won in the areas of practice, business, software, the internet, individual achievement and, of course, the reader-voted categories
ANNUAL READER AWARDS
Accountancy Age Personality of the Year
Winner: Alex Horne, Wembley Stadium
This was the closest vote ever in this category had and special mention must go to Michael Izza, chief executive of the ICAEW. But the winner is Alex Horne. He joined the Football Association in 2003, became group finance director three years later and then took on the role of interim managing director at Wembley Stadium the end of 2006. He trained at Coopers and Lybrand and specialised in business restructuring while in practice. His job at Wembley was to see the stadium through the tricky financial stages of completion and handover, a task for which he has now been rightly recognised.
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