Mr Stanford is an English Chartered Accountant and Chartered Tax Adviser. After graduating from Trinity College, Cambridge University, with a degree in mathematics, he joined a predecessor firm of Deloitte LLP and became a tax partner in their London office in 1984. After a period between 1996 and 2001 when he was European Tax Partner representing Europe on the Global Tax Committee he returned to the Deloitte London office and retired from the firm in 2007. Mr Stanford now advises families on their business structures and financial affairs.