Hodgens Global

Chief tax adviser at Hodgens Global providing international citizens with support on their personal UK tax matters.

Chief Tax Adviser

Created to support your tax reporting and compliance needs, regardless of location., Hodgens Global exists exclusively for the private individual who is obliged to declare worldwide income for taxation purposes. If you are planning to transition from one tax regime to another, or need guidance and tax agent support to manage your tax concerns, we are here to provide you with a dedicated service.

Director

EDA Professional Services Ltd

Specializing in US and UK expat taxation, providing a wide range of services including self-assessment tax return preparation and filing. Providing tax planning advice in full compliance with both IRS and HMRC guidelines and reporting requirements ranging from basic income tax to reporting on far reaching issues such as inheritance tax, trust taxation, capital gains and the territorial tax issues.

Senior Tax Advisory Manager

Various international companies

Following the great recession of 2008, there followed a tumultuous period of job changes as I tried to navigate a future in employment while maintaining a stable home environment for the family as an expat, working with many other expats in a similar situation.

Senior financial management and consulting services

Halcrow, a CH2M Company

A leading UK multi-disciplinary firm of civil engineering and infrastructure development specialists (later acquired by CH2MHill who were then acquired by Jacobs) where I oversaw a rapid period of growth in revenue, headcount and profitability in the region, with improved commercial management of projects and the working capital employed in these long term projects, building focused and improved relations with the banks, providing greater visibility of the business. Arranged banking facilities that led to improved trade finance deals, an increase of personnel in the region from 400 to 1,300 and tripling regional turnover. Continual long range forecasting and planning.

Regional Head of Finance - Middle East

V.Ships

A diverse international ship-management consultancy business overseeing several large scale acquisitions of the company during a strategic program of growth. Responsible for monthly and annual consolidated financial reporting and analytical reviews in co-operation with international finance teams throughout the group. Key successes included the sale of a UK based entity within the group, a new company set up for a JV with Radisson Seven Seas Cruises in the UK, in full compliance with CAA regulations, and a reorganization of Italian based entities into a tax efficient holding structure.

Group Financial Controller

Galaxy Energy Group

A privately owned $3billion trading business responsible for monthly executive reports of marked to market trading results, consolidated financial data for the group, with analytical reviews. Developed internal controls, finance teams and banking relations in Geneva, Monaco, Houston and Singapore.

Fisons plc

Initially appointed as Group Internal Auditor, based at head office in London, of this listed multi-billion dollar pharmaceutical/scientific equipment corporation, later assigned to a permanent role as the Nordic Financial Controller for the Group in Sweden where key successes included controlling a multiple currency transaction base to successfully protect the balance sheet, creating an effective management of the taxation issues arising on cross border transactions in the Nordic territory. Set up strong systems to ensure all after sales service activities of the high value instruments sold to universities and biotechnology companies were correctly monitored, reported and analysed - such as warranties, provisions for installations of the instruments and implementation of analytical software programs, stocks of spare parts, and working with the engineering teams providing the customer support.

Nordic Financial Controller / Group Internal Auditor

Sea Containers

Internal auditor, based at Group HQ, of this listed international container business with port operations throughout the world. Subsidiary activities included a leading passenger ferry shipping business, SeaLink, with operations between the UK, Ireland and continental Europe and Venice Simplon-Orient-Express transport and hotel operations. In 1989 the shipping business was acquired by Stena Line which was later acquired by P&O, a company which has since been acquired by DP World.

Group Internal Auditor

CLB Littlejohn Frazer

Audit senior, with ICAEW training, at this City of London based firm of chartered accountants, specializing in Lloyds of London insurance syndicates and Members' agents. Other clients were engaged in large-scale freight forwarding operations.

Audit Senior

I like to provide solutions, to help expatriates progress with their lives and their careers without having any uncertainty about their tax position. I am happy that I get to resolve problems for so many people, and to resolve tax worries that needn’t have existed in the first place.

I am inspired by others who make a success from their opportunities to pursue an expat life. The Hodgens Global business was created in Scotland with the expats' needs for clarity and tax agent representation in mind. We now have a representative office in the UAE.

Hodgens Global represents an international client base providing tax advisory support, enabling them to be fully tax compliant, preparing and filing tax returns and advising on various taxation issues including capital gains, trusts and inheritance tax. We are client focused with a professional, international expat background. No matter where you are located, or the nature of your enquiry, you will receive courtesy, respect and swift professional assistance. 

Having been an expat for most of my career, I can relate to most of the concerns where people often need help.

Laurence Hodgens

Useful Studios

A Useful Studio intent on making change happen that isn't guaranteed or obvious. Watch this space.

Founder

PlayTreks

I'm an early investor in PlayTreks, an ML/AI-driven SaaS data analytics company for the music, media and entertainment industry, offering  solutions for musicians and artists everywhere.

Seed Investor

Dlala Studios

I'm an early investor in Dlala, an award-winning independent games studio started by some of the brightest and most dedicated people I've ever met in the gaming industry.

Unity

- Leading an internal game studio with designers, artists and engineers.
- Inspiring and creating games for Unity professional services customers.

Studio Head - Solid Studios - A Unity game studio

- Led teams, strategy and partnerships for strategic parts of centralised tooling and process within Unity R&D
- Leader for the infra and on-prem data centre group within Unity's internal engineering services group.
- Established continuous improvement of systems, productivity and success through a focus on people's strengths and leadership capability.

Senior Engineering Manager - Unity Developer Effectiveness 

- Leadership of quality engineering focused on Core technology and Release.
- Coached and directed quality managers for release and sustainment, resulting in positive growth in terms of a direct impact on customers
- Established a Customer QA function with the team in Lithuania. Hiring a strong manager to build and direct technical teams on solving customer problems through code and issue management
- Working with VP of Core engineering and engineering directors - resulting in clear quality built-in strategies and closer partnerships with release & quality engineering

Head of Quality Eng: Core & Release Eng

Microsoft

- Leadership of Microsoft teams across several key XBOX franchises and development studios/locations: Quality-focused engineering for Forza Horizon, Minecraft & Sea of Thieves
- Transitioned teams away from conventional games testing to a world where everyone was responsible for the quality of their work. 
- Encouraged and developed a team culture where trust was increased and performance was measured not just from results, it came from how much others were helped along the way.
-  Increasing impact and quality of teams and deliverables while also eliminating waste & reducing costs by 30%
- Established long term partnerships, frameworks, deliverables and measurements with internal and external quality partners (vendors, contractors)

Principal Software Engineering Manager -  Xbox Game Studios

- Head of quality teams for Europe Microsoft Studios & Minecraft globally
- Transitioning mindset from test focus to quality engineering focus
- Led the direction for distributed teams across Lionhead studios, Rare, Minecraft & Turn10 publishing

Senior Software Engineering Manager - Microsoft Studios

- Head of Eng quality & release at Lift London Studios
-Established a consumer operations team focused on entertainment as a service, ensuring community management, customer service, test, and release were fully integrated, giving the customer a voice across the studio
- Established a test engineering function resulting in an improved test bias across key  development functions
- Restructured release from a discipline to a process – reducing headcount need and overall cost

Senior Program Manager - Lift London (a Microsoft game studio)

Test and quality leadership for entertainment franchises and propositions at Microsoft studios

- Introduced and implemented agile test management methods into teams
- Managed multi million dollar test projects, completing on time and under budget
- Directed large and distributed test teams across parallel product
- All projects released through certification first time without failure
- Top in manager feedback 3 years running

Projects: Fable 3, Fable: Coin Golf, Fable Heroes, Fable: The Journey

Senior Test lead - Microsoft Game Studios

Electronic Arts

- Developed and implemented key specialist testing principles for EA Europe
- Created new and innovative QA consultancy and release processes, reducing cost and increasing submission success
- Managed local and distributed teams driving solutions for QA & test on EA franchises such as Burnout, Battlefield, Crysis & Harry Potter

Senior QA Manager (QA shared services) - EA Europe

QA manager - multi-platform certification, multiplayer labs and technical testing

QA Technical compliance manager (specialist testing) - EA Europe

QA Technical supervisor - EAUK

From writing my first game on my home computer as a young boy, to leadership in the gaming industry as an adult.

After joining Electronic Arts I focused on building effective teams and integrating creative gaming passion, doing more with less, and engineering principles for problem solving. My journey continued with Xbox at Microsoft, where I contributed to iconic games such as Fable, Forza and Minecraft. 

At Xbox, I evolved into a specialist in modern game development & test. The world of gaming engines beckoned next, leading me to Unity Technologies. My role there expanded beyond gaming content, delving into technical aspects of Unity's game engine and then merging both engine and content where I created and led an internal game studio making games for Unity customers.

Outside of my work, I'm a husband and father, and love time with my family. Through my website, marcuspurvis.com, and here on LinkedIn, I create content that emphasizes effective living and making a positive impact, both in and out of work.

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