David Marcussen

I should have been a professional racing driver, or if I wasn’t up to that an F1 team mechanic or something. But for all sorts of reasons that didn’t work out….

Instead, I started my professional career at Deloitte in London in the summer of 1990. At speed, I passed all my Chartered Institute of Tax exams, as well as various others, and progressed up through the ranks to senior management by my mid-twenties. It was then time to move on…..

A flash of inspiration one day saw me swiftly move out of London and down to Bath. I helped a local firm launch a tax consultancy in Bath, which was great fun, and I learned a lot about business and what happens in the “real world”. That business was then subject to an MBO, so it was an opportunity to try something of my own.

At 29 I founded my own tax consultancy, imaginatively named Marcussen Consulting. This was where my career really got interesting. My passion had always been working closely with clients, building solid relationships, and getting to know them as people, not just file numbers. Fast paced growth businesses also fascinated me, so that’s where the business has been focused – highly successful entrepreneurs and their amazing businesses.

Over the past 20+ years my team and I have been working with some of the country’s most successful entrepreneurs and their businesses to support them on the journey. Yes, we are tax advisers, but we are very commercially driven. This has always been our competitive advantage – commercial advice as well as the leading tax solutions (very often when others have said it can’t be done).

It was a great honour to also recently be invited to share my entrepreneurial tax planning experience at the Chartered Institute of Taxation annual conference at Cambridge University. Speaking at this prestigious event was not something I had ever seen myself doing, but a great experience all the same.

It's not all tax for me though. I did manage to make it as an amateur racing driver, so spend a few of my weekends each season driving – very fast - around in circles at racetracks in the UK and Europe. When I’m not doing that or spending time with my wife and 2 grown up kids, I’m a keen road and mountain biker, in the winter a snowboarder and then all year round kept fit by my son, who is a calisthenics personal trainer.