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

Writefully

Writefully offers a high-quality thought leadership growth solution, helping businesses to tell their story, demonstrate their expertise and grow their reach online. 

One of writefully's tech products includes saystory: https://beta.saystory.co/

Here's a flavour of the different types of thought leadership content:
- SEO blog post
- Website copy
- Persuasive sales copy
- Sales ad copy
- Brochures
- Presentations
- ...loads more

To see a list of the content we can help you to create, visit the site and create a content bundle or take a look at the packages: https://writeful.ly/

Founder

Bubbli Digital 

Founder of Bubbli Digital, SEO agency. We help businesses rank on Google and drive more sales by running complete end-to-end SEO campaigns.

We run full end-to-end SEO campaigns including
- Technical SEO analysis and implementation
- Content SEO strategy
- SEO website copywriting
- SEO blogs
- Content outreach and link building

https://bubblidigital.com/

Barclays Investment Bank

Project Manager

Nomura

Project Manager, Market Risk

Project Manager, Equity Derivatives

Goldman Sachs

Agreed timelines with key business and IT stakeholders
Defined test plans for upcoming CCAR run
Identified risks and issues with mitigations
Running daily CCAR test execution calls with IT to deliver risk numbers for Risk Manager review

Accenture

Consultant

What if I said you can have it all…leads, influence – and the unparalleled confidence that comes with both?

Well, first let me tell you about writefully (https://writeful.ly/): a thought leadership service that helps brands to blossom – one freshly planted piece at a time.

We have a selection of content bouquets – hand picked just for you. This includes tone of voice, brand messaging, SEO copy, LinkedIn profiles and more.

If you’re after stand-out storytelling and content for your company, let writefully help you flourish.

Second is saystory: a brand new AI-driven app that combines the power of voice to create authentic thought leadership content – effortlessly.

If you’re a leader or marketing manager struggling with content, let saystory (https://beta.saystory.co/) save you time.

I believe in strategic risk-taking. 

As long as you have a clear direction for your business and prioritise open, transparent communication, wonderful things can happen.

I’ve seen that very paradigm play out at writefully – and now moving forward, saystory.

My best qualities:

ability to think on my feet
making strong business-based decisions that are commercially profitable
pushing the boundaries – never settling
delivering change

Home is currently Dubai, and I take real pleasure in speaking at conferences and seminars in the MENA region. Then outside of work, I enjoy playing football, watching movies, spending time with the kids and eating great food.

Let me take you places too…book in a strategy call: https://calendly.com/neil-sheth/45mins

Neil Sheth

Over the last 20 years, I’ve been working with companies to solve tech and growth problems. And I keep seeing the same three mistakes...

With everyone now rushing to “𝒂𝒑𝒑𝒍𝒚 𝑨𝑰”, these mistakes are about to get far more expensive.

𝐌𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐤𝐞 #1: 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐬𝐨𝐥𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬

I often hear leaders ask:
“How do we apply AI to our business?”

That’s the wrong question.

The right one is:
What critical problems do we actually need to solve?

The solution might be training.
It might be workflow redesign.
It might be automation.
It might be AI.

But when you start with the solution, you miss the problem.

That’s why only 5% of companies are achieving AI value at scale (BCG).


𝐌𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐤𝐞 #2: 𝐟𝐢𝐱𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐬𝐲𝐦𝐩𝐭𝐨𝐦𝐬, 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐫𝐨𝐨𝐭 𝐜𝐚𝐮𝐬𝐞𝐬

Ask senior leaders what the problem is and you’ll get one answer.

Ask middle management and you’ll hear a different version.

Ask the people doing the work and the story changes again.

None of them are “wrong”.

But problems are multi-layered—and organisations often lock onto the first explanation they hear and treat it as the problem.

Finding the real issue requires: 
→ conversations, curiosity, experience, and refusing to accept the first answer as the final one.

If your organisation can’t do that yet, start here:
→ be open to the idea that you might not be fixing the real problem.


𝐌𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐤𝐞 #3: 𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐦𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐢𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐛𝐥𝐞𝐦𝐬 𝐚𝐬 𝐨𝐧𝐞

Last week I spoke with a company that wanted help fixing an onboarding issue.

The deeper we went, the clearer it became: this wasn’t one problem—it was several.

From the outside, it felt like one issue.

Under the hood, it was a mix of process gaps, system limitations, and human behaviour.

When a problem depends on multiple things breaking at once, it isn’t a single problem.

It’s a system failure.

Progress only happens when you break problems down clearly, so they can be rebuilt in a way that actually works.

Founder codefully & saystory · Building seamless apps · AI automation · Thought leadership ·Tech & Growth Strategy with AI 🌱· Board advisor · Speaker · Building Startups

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