Steve Rowan
I am an accredited executive coach, chartered accountant and former CFO, Law Graduate and the founder of Mountain Ash Coaching & Advisory Ltd, a business combining executive coaching, mentoring & advising high-performing, senior professionals in or progressing towards senior leadership roles. I focus on helping clients' leadership effectiveness, career progression and during periods of career transition, with an understanding that factors outside the work environment regularly play a significant role in real positive change. I have over 30 years' senior leadership experience and over 20 at director and C-suite level. From December 2015 to December 2023, I served as CFO and Board member at RPC LLP before deciding to employ my experience through executive coaching and mentoring for the benefit of high potential, talented professionals and teams.
Outside of my business I am 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 I am on the Advisory Board of and 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.