With just under 2 weeks to go until the sold-out R3 SPG Forum, we have some really significant news to share with you. Some of you may already have heard rumours, or even had the heads-up from us, but this is the official announcement:
Gareth Limb is retiring on Friday, 28 March 2025!
Gareth’s large, old, and battered shoes will be filled by Katy Walker, a licensed insolvency practitioner who helped when we were first drafting our now famous document packs. Katy starts with us in January, but will attend SPG and the IPA Personal Insolvency Conference with us. Please come to our stand at SPG, or hunt us down somewhere near the coffee at the IPA conference, and say hello.
This is obviously going to be a huge change that we find very exciting, not least because our average age will plummet and Katy will bring some excellent practical experience from her time as a manager in a large firm and an IP in some of the biggest IVA volume providers. However, we will have more to say about Katy and her potential impact in the early part of next year. This notice is (nearly) all about Gareth.
Gareth first worked in insolvency when the Romans left Britain. He has held nearly every significant job in insolvency regulation and helped shape the profession as it is today. He ran what was IPCU at the Insolvency Service, directly regulating IPs and acting as Regulator of Regulators for the multitude of regulators that existed in the 1990’s. He moved to ACCA and ran their IP monitoring unit for 5 years, during which time he sat on the Joint Insolvency Committee. He joined Bill at Compliance On Call in early 2006 and hasn’t been able to relax since. As well as making sure that Bill didn’t get too enthusiastic, he sat on R3 Council and the SPG committee for ages. He has been a major driving force behind the best document packs in the country and he has given technical advice to so many IPs over the years that it is likely that nearly everyone in the profession has been touched in some way by his influence. Although our clients have benefited directly from interaction with him, Gareth has had a much wider influence on the whole insolvency profession for over 30 years. He has probably earned his retirement 10 times over just for putting up with Bill!
So, SPG will be the start of nearly 5 months celebrating Gareth’s career. If you will be there, or at the IPA Personal Insolvency Conference later in the month, we look forward to meeting up with you. If not, please get in touch to help celebrate anyway. Bill and Jenny, together with Katy in due course, will ensure that Compliance On Call moves from strength to strength and provides the same top drawer service that we have given for nearly 20 years. July 2025 marks 20 years from Bill’s first circular email announcing the arrival of then-sole-trader Compliance On Call. Although we will mark that milestone in due course, we want to spend the next few months celebrating Gareth, so please join us when you get a chance.
