Meet the team

We use experts in their fields in order to be able to offer such a broad range of business services.

Jill Chinnery

The Rural Business Office team is headed by Jill Chinnery, who has over 25 years industry experience in both marketing and systems. As a systems contractor in the 1990s she ran several successful IT projects for businesses in the manufacturing and distribution sectors. She has also a wealth of “hands-on” experience in setting up businesses from the ground up, and has been providing support services to business for the last 5 years.

Richard Stevenson

Richard is our expert in strategy development, finance and business consultancy. His career includes over 25 years strategy consulting in capital industries and he has held several international executive directorships.  He is also recognized as a world class system dynamics practitioner and has unique experience applying system dynamics to long term business valuation. Richard also has excellent communication, facilitation and training skills.

In his spare time he likes to fly gliders and follow his godson’s rugby team (Wasps).  

Julie Pocock

Julie is a full member of the Association of Accounting Technicians (MAAT) and has had a decade of experience in offering accountancy and bookeeping services. She is also our expert on corporate and personal taxation, and can produce business plans for submission to funding resources.

In her spare time, Julie enjoys eating out, weekends away, music, films or a good book!

Daniel Chinnery

Daniel is a solutions architect and lead developer with more than 12 years experience in Software & Web Development.

His skill set includes: jQuery / Ajax / xHTML / CSS / PHP / MySQL - more than enough to pull together very impressive websites!

Daniel enjoys good food and plays competitive cricket in his local team - currently Chiang Mai expats!

Sandra Searle

Sandra has completed the Royal Society of Arts Bookkeeping Stages 1 & 2 and is able to help with all aspects of general bookkeeping.  She has over 25 years experience of providing financial services such as budget management & monitoring, financial year end functions and the preparation of central government financial and statistical returns. She is fully up-to-speed with computer systems, including SAP financials.