Name
Anna Purchas
Job Title
London Office Senior Partner & Vice Chair
Company
KPMG
Speaker Bio
Anna is the London Office Senior Partner for KPMG, Chair for the London Region and a Vice Chair of the UK firm. She leads our work with Private Enterprise clients out of London, and our Professional Services client base across the UK. In addition to chairing the ‘London Leaders’ Circles’ Anna is responsible for building strong relationships with a broad range of organisations across London
Prior to this role, Anna held COO roles and from 2017 – 2020, was Head of People for KPMG in the UK and Executive Board member. She was responsible for the strategic and operational aspects of HR, Learning and Culture with in the UK, enabling KPMG’s ambition to be a Magnet for Talent through attraction, development and retention of talented people at all levels of the organisation.
Having joined KPMG in 1992, Anna’s career includes time spent working as a client facing professional within KPMG’s Audit, Tax and Transaction Services businesses, where she specialised in sell-side due diligence for private enterprise and large corporate clients. She has extensive experience of working for global organisations across multiple jurisdictions.
Anna became COO for Deal Advisory in 2010, before becoming COO for the firm’s newly formed Advisory function in 2012 to 2014.
From 2014 to 2016, Anna relocated to Copenhagen, Denmark to set up and establish a new KPMG member firm there. She was its first COO and a founder member of the Executive Committee.
Anna has a strong track record of designing and implementing strategies, technologies and processes to improve organisational performance and growth through both her COO and Head of People roles. She led the change management workstream for the introduction of KPMG Business Services , and the formation of KPMG UK’s offshore Advisory client team in India.
Anna leads teams advising clients in the Professional Services sector across our Consulting, Assurance, Tax, Legal and Deals functions. She chairs regular roundtables for senior leaders in the sector on key topics from cyber security to ESG.
Anna was invited to present to the Economy Committee of the London Assembly on the subject of the Professional Services Sector in 2021. She was nominated to join the Learning and Professional Development board of the ICAEW in early 2017 and was a Route Panel member for Legal, Finance and Accounting, Institute for Apprenticeships 2017-2019. She is a member of the Forward Institute.
Anna, with the Mayor of London and the Bishop of London, co-chairs the campaign to Make London a Living Wage City. She is a founder member of the London Chamber of Commerce and Industry’s Women in Business Advisory Group.
Prior to this role, Anna held COO roles and from 2017 – 2020, was Head of People for KPMG in the UK and Executive Board member. She was responsible for the strategic and operational aspects of HR, Learning and Culture with in the UK, enabling KPMG’s ambition to be a Magnet for Talent through attraction, development and retention of talented people at all levels of the organisation.
Having joined KPMG in 1992, Anna’s career includes time spent working as a client facing professional within KPMG’s Audit, Tax and Transaction Services businesses, where she specialised in sell-side due diligence for private enterprise and large corporate clients. She has extensive experience of working for global organisations across multiple jurisdictions.
Anna became COO for Deal Advisory in 2010, before becoming COO for the firm’s newly formed Advisory function in 2012 to 2014.
From 2014 to 2016, Anna relocated to Copenhagen, Denmark to set up and establish a new KPMG member firm there. She was its first COO and a founder member of the Executive Committee.
Anna has a strong track record of designing and implementing strategies, technologies and processes to improve organisational performance and growth through both her COO and Head of People roles. She led the change management workstream for the introduction of KPMG Business Services , and the formation of KPMG UK’s offshore Advisory client team in India.
Anna leads teams advising clients in the Professional Services sector across our Consulting, Assurance, Tax, Legal and Deals functions. She chairs regular roundtables for senior leaders in the sector on key topics from cyber security to ESG.
Anna was invited to present to the Economy Committee of the London Assembly on the subject of the Professional Services Sector in 2021. She was nominated to join the Learning and Professional Development board of the ICAEW in early 2017 and was a Route Panel member for Legal, Finance and Accounting, Institute for Apprenticeships 2017-2019. She is a member of the Forward Institute.
Anna, with the Mayor of London and the Bishop of London, co-chairs the campaign to Make London a Living Wage City. She is a founder member of the London Chamber of Commerce and Industry’s Women in Business Advisory Group.