S&W adds two independent non-executive directors to board

Ellichipuram Umesh

Mon, July 20, 2026 astatine 4:30 AM CDT 1 min read

UK-based accounting and advisory signifier S&W has added Stephane Kurgan and Luke Powell to its committee arsenic autarkic non-executive directors.

Kurgan and Powell are expected to lend "deep experience" successful scaling businesses, guiding analyzable organisations and supporting semipermanent worth generation, the institution said successful a statement.

The determination is expected to further grow the board's corporate skills.

Kurgan has been a task spouse astatine Index Ventures since 2020 and besides acts arsenic an enforcement advisor to Technology Crossover Ventures.

His vocation of much than 30 years includes respective elder roles successful the exertion industry.

Powell, a managing spouse astatine Macfarlanes, is presently successful his 2nd three-year word successful that post.

He became a spouse successful 2007 and antecedently co-led the company's firm and mergers and acquisitions practice.

Powell advises connected analyzable deals successful sectors including fiscal services, plus absorption and backstage equity, covering buyouts and secondary transactions.

S&W CEO Andrew Wilkes said: "These committee appointments fortify and heighten the breadth of skills and acquisition supporting S&W's semipermanent ambitions.

"Stephane's proven quality to physique and standard high-growth planetary businesses, combined with Luke's enactment wrong 1 of the UK's starring instrumentality firms and his heavy transactional expertise, volition bring invaluable strategical penetration and position to committee discussions.

"Their guidance volition beryllium instrumental arsenic we proceed to present our semipermanent maturation strategy."

S&W precocious selected Ben Sharpe arsenic planetary taxation spouse successful its London-based concern taxation squad to enactment its "continued maturation strategy".