Karen Eckstein

Karen is a specialist in risk for tax and accountancy professionals. Having spent over 30 years defending claims against the profession, she saw where claims arose and decided to put her experience and expertise to use in preventing them instead of defending them.

She has written a book on the subject and, as well as being a qualified solicitor and CTA, is also is a cert IRM, so has the technical expertise as well to help professionals and businesses. She is a practical and pragmatic adviser and a regular and popular speaker on risk issues. She advises accountancy firms and is a part time General Counsel, and assists professional services firms, corporates and other GCs through her innovative Fractional Risk Officer service, where she supports businesses with a wide range of risk management, growth and resilience support advice.