A managing director from Forest Hill has been named as a finalist to the 2021 British Black Business Awards.
The annual awards celebrate both the best outstanding professional achievements as well as the personal work they are doing to defy stereotypes and reshape the business world around them.
In total 39 remarkable black professionals from across the UK have been selected for the 2021 BBB Awards, including David Frederick.
Frederick is representing Lewisham after he was named as a finalist in the Senior Leader section.
The Forest Hill local is the founder and managing director of an accountancy firm and has been working across south east London for over 25 years.
Winners for each category, as well as the Black British Business Person of the Year, will be revealed at the Black British Business Awards Virtual Ceremony taking place on 7 October 2021.
Frederick is currently the president of the Association of Accounting Technicians with 130,000 members and students in over 100 countries.
He is a specialist ICAEW accountant and the managing director of Marcus Bishop Associates Accountants which he established in June 1995.
David used Marcus Bishop Associates, to provide access into the profession for numerous members of the next generation of accountants and he continues to mentor others at different stages of their accountancy journey.
For 10 years he was the Accounting Chief Examiner for the Chartered Governance Institute and external examiner at several universities in South East England.
David has authored six accounting and business textbooks and delivered accounting and business training across the globe.
He is a regular speaker and contributor at business and accounting forums; and since 2010, David has been a financial columnist for SE Magazines (SE21 and SE22) monthly magazines.
Sophie Chandauka, Executive Founder and Chair of the Black British Business Awards said: “After an extraordinarily challenging year, I am thrilled that for the eighth year running we are highlighting the resilience and abundance of brilliant, Black talent in Britain.
"Our finalists have delivered tremendous commercial value across sectors in volatile markets where entrepreneurs, in particular, have been decimated.
"They have been strategic advisors to their companies and boards as global corporations are challenged by investors to address systemic racism.
"Despite the pandemic and social unrest, they are fiercely competitive and remarkably ambitious, creative and commercially savvy, leveraging technology as their differentiator.
"They are global in their outlook and ambition and represent the very best of being British in a post-pandemic, post-Brexit Europe.”
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