Mark Smith is Ayming’s Partner for Innovation Incentives in the UK. Mark has a MEng. in Chemical Engineering, is a Chartered Accountant and Chartered Tax Advisor with a wealth of experience in the R&D incentives environment.

About Us: Ayming is the leading international consultancy firm specialized in Business Performance. We constantly create and implement new ways to bring extra and authentic Sustainable Business Performance to our clients.

We advise the C-Suite across all industries and geographies on their critical issues and opportunities, supported by three major pillars: Operational Excellence, Employee Commitment and Innovation Management. 

After more than 30 years, we are still just as passionate about achieving better results for our clients. This is thanks to our consulting experience and an approach, which combines vision, hands-on action and the human touch.

We use our capabilities to help our customers make better business performance decisions, to save them time and money. This results in better outcomes for all their stakeholders, delivering tangible short- and long-term results through a multi-specialist approach. The success of the Ayming approach is reflected in our 90% client retention rate and our shared business performance model.

Ayming has a global footprint and the Group is present in 16 countries: Belgium, Canada, China, Czech Republic, France, Germany, the UK, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Slovakia and USA with a staff of approximately 1,400. In 2017, it achieved a turnover of €157m .

The Ayming culture is defined by a positive attitude, one of trust, high levels of innovation, as well as employee engagement and organizational agility. We support our people by empowering them with trust so they can be successful in their professional lives.