Our Purpose
Our management team is drawn from some of the most accomplished advisers in R&D, in company valuations and in strategic consultancy, bringing together decades of experience in support of your business.
As founders of two of the UK’s most successful R&D-specialist tax-advisory firms, our chairman, Jeremy Tear, and managing director, Kevin Auchoybur, have delivered tens of millions of pounds in tax relief to client companies.
As founders of two of the UK’s most successful R&D-specialist tax-advisory firms, our chairman, Jeremy Tear, and managing director, Kevin Auchoybur, have delivered tens of millions of pounds in tax relief to client companies.

Kevin Auchoybur
Co-Director
IPA’s Founder and Managing Director, bringing over 15 years’ experience in R&D tax relief.

Jeremy Tear
Co-Director
IPA’s chairman with over 24 years’ experience in R&D and founder of the first R&D firm.
Our Expertise
Our valuation director, Fernando Da Cruz Vasconcellos, PhD, MRICS is a Chartered Member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS). He is also a former Senior Teaching Fellow at the University of Cambridge, where he remains an invited lecturer, with more than 1,000 academic citations to his name.
IPA’s strategy and communications director, Matt Scott, is a former national newspaper columnist and media commentator who provides strategic-communications advice to major global blue-chips.
IPA’s strategy and communications director, Matt Scott, is a former national newspaper columnist and media commentator who provides strategic-communications advice to major global blue-chips.










