Senior Management Team
Our Senior Management Team is highly qualified, experience and have worked with a full range of healthcare organisations. They lead the audit and counter fraud service to clients from locally based, multidisciplinary teams. Being locally based enables them to be visible and integrated with our client staff and to respond quickly and effectively to needs.
Amanda Lowe
Director of Audit and Assurance Services
Philip Rogers
Assistant Director of Audit and Assurance Services
Senior Management Team
Amanda Lowe | Director of Audit and Assurance Services
Amanda is the head of service and works with our client base to influence and inform the development of internal audit and governance arrangements both nationally and locally.
Philip Rogers | Assistant Director of Audit and Assurance Services
Phil is the overall lead for the Bristol and Exeter teams and also acts as overall strategic lead of marketing of new services and products.
Our People
- Appreciate and understand the unique challenges of the local communities we serve
- Act as a sounding board to Boards and Governing Bodies providing support as it is needed
- Are locally based and can provide a speedy response to your needs
- Have long standing relationships with and deliver internal audit and counter fraud services to the providers and commissioners across Bristol, Devon and Cornwall
- Have organisational memory
- Have built up and continue to develop crucial relationships with Boards and senior management teams
Paul Thomas | Assistant Director of Audit and Assurance Services
Paul is the overall lead for the Torquay, Plymouth and Cornwall teams and also acts as overall strategic lead on IT Audit and high level specialist assurance services
Paul Thomas
Assistant Director of Audit and Assurance Services
Vikki Popple | Associate Director of Quality, Professional Standards & Continuous Improvement
Vikki is the overall lead for the development, delivery and management of quality and standards for internal audit and counter fraud services and is also responsible for supporting with the design and integration of ASW Assurance’s long-term strategic plans.
Matt Curtis | Associate Director of Counter Fraud
Matt is the lead for the development and implementation of the overall counter fraud agenda across ASW Assurance’s client portfolio, to increase the awareness and deterrence of fraud.
Vikki Popple
Associate Director of Quality, Professional Standards & Continuous Improvement
Vickie Gould – Deputy Director and Chief Audit Executive
Vickie assists Amanda with the running/strategic direction of ASW Assurance and acts in the capacity of Chief Audit Executive. Vickie has over 13 years of experience in leading and developing audit teams and assessing governance and risk management frameworks within complex public sector and not for profit organisations.
John Wakefield – Associate Director of Digital Assurance
John leads the specialist Digital Assurance function at ASW Assurance and is a highly experienced Digital and Cyber Security Audit and Assurance professional with over 20 years’ experience delivering IT audit, cyber assurance, and risk management across the public and private sector. A UK Cyber Security Council accredited practitioner and Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA), he has held senior audit and assurance roles within the Central Government, the NHS and Professional Services, specialising in strengthening governance, cyber resilience, data security, and regulatory compliance within complex and highly regulated environments.
Vickie Gould
Deputy Director and Chief Audit Executive
John Wakefield
Associate Director of Digital Assurance
Matt Curtis
Associate Director of Counter Fraud
