Gary Simon is a highly sought after lecturer and trusted provider of 'thought leadership' and analysis about finance and business systems for CFO's around the world. He is a Fellow of the British Computer Society; a Chartered IT Professional; a Fellow of the Institute Of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales; a Graduate of Queen Elizabeth College (now Kings) London University and the author of four books on financial software and information systems.

He addresses thousands of finance professionals annually about the issues and challenges affecting the CFO’s role. The bulk of Gary Simon’s professional experience has been as a senior consulting partner with Deloitte, one of the largest professional services organisations in the world. His field of expertise is information strategy, performance management and financial reporting systems working at Board level with global 2,000 companies, large public sector organisations and central government as well as spells in the mid-market. After almost 17 year as a consulting partner he set up his own highly successful publishing house FSN Publishing Limited in 1995 and works extensively as a popular market analyst, running FSN's popular Modern Finance Forum on Linkedin for more than 36,000 CFOs around the globe.