Steve Rowan
Steve Rowan is a Law Graduate, Chartered Accountant and the founder of professional services advisory firm Mountain Ash Coaching & Advisory Ltd, a business combining advising professional service firms with executive coaching, mentoring and NED work. From December 2015 to December 2023, he served as CFO and Board member at RPC LLP before deciding to pursue a self-employed career.
Outside of his business he is also a volunteer advisory board member of Fifth Day Limited, an organisation linking business services professionals in the legal sector to skills-based volunteering opportunities and is the current Chair of the Finance & Operations Group of The Managing Partners Forum.
Steve's Story
Prior to setting up his business, Steve had over 30 years in senior management roles in international law firms (Dentons, DJ Freeman, Kendall Freeman, Edwards Wildman and RPC), based in London and over 20 years at FD/CFO/Deputy COO level. Most recently, he was on the Board of RPC from 2015 to 2023. He travelled for business fairly extensively during his career to Asia, the United States and the former CIS/Central Asia.
He was a mentor for the 30% Club for 4 years until 2023 and has mentored/coached less experienced colleagues for well over 20 years. Within RPC LLP he was co-leader of the firm’s Gender Equality community, part of the diversity, equality, inclusion and belonging environment. He has been and remains completely committed to helping people develop their careers.
Steve is married with two sons, a passionate road cyclist. He is a season ticket holder at Sheffield United FC and is also interested in history, biographies, wine, reading and many sports. He holds a Law degree from The University of Birmingham. He lives with his family in SW London.