Tony Allen

Tony is a Chartered Trading Standards Practitioner with over 25 years of experience in age restricted sales, law and practice. He is Co-Chair of the UK Government's Expert Panel on Age Restrictions and Vice-Chair of Digital Policy Alliance Internet Safety and Policy Group. 

He is author of the Law of Age Restricted Sales in England and Wales, now in its 2nd Edition. He is an approved trainer for Highfield Qualifications. 

Nick Bate

An experienced Investor, Chairman and NED of a portfolio of listed, private equity-backed and private organisations across the Data, Communications, Software and Financial Services sectors - helping to plan and deliver growth agendas. During the past 12 years my companies have generated exit proceeds of over £330m.

Specialties: My specialty focus has been in the IT software sector over the past 25 years, having also previously held financial lead roles within the manufacturing sector.

John Cassin

As our Senior Certification Officer, John has 22 years experience working in trading standards and has been with us for over 10 years. He now leads our team of Certification Officers and uses his extensive knowledge of age restricted sales law, enforcement, test purchasing and auditing to ensure the smooth, effective and efficient audit and certification of our clients.

Danielle Bradbury

Caroline McGahan

Darren Hughen

Darren joined our team in June 2019 and brings with him a wealth of Trading Standards experience where he successfully worked on a number of complex and large scale investigations.  Darren also has an abundance of experience in working with children both as a Primary School PE teacher and also in a voluntary capacity as an FA qualified coach. His experience and professionalism in both these differing backgrounds drives his enthusiasm in promoting a healthy bright future for the wellbeing of children and young people of the world.

Isavella Chrysanthou

Isavella Chrysanthou is a data scientist born and raised in Cyprus. From a young age, she has been fascinated with technology, including software engineering and gaming, which lead her to study computer science. While studying computer science she developed an interest in data mining, and so she decided to apply for master’s in data science. During her time in ACCS company, she has been able to apply her skills in data mining to uncover interesting information such as using data from visits that test people carry out and visualising them.

Maria Luiza Gabardo

Maria Luiza is a proactive professional with over five years of experience in Digital Marketing and Communications in different countries around the world, including Latin America. Malu joined the team in 2020 seeking to reach new levels of visibility and engagement on Social Media platforms and achievement of stakeholders loyalty. Enthusiastic, ambitious and hard-working, with a creative approach to new challenges and an in-depth knowledge of the arts, she has a genuine passion for the creative industry and its audiences.

Rebecca Burgess

Rebecca joined Age Check in 2020, after deciding to return to work from raising her four children and completing her degree. She has had over nine years investing in her children at home whilst on the side carrying out Mystery Shopping assignments. The company’s values and what we strive to achieve is one of the reasons she accepted the job. With having children it is important to her to protect the future generation, so working for a company where her work is valuable and worthwhile is crucial.

Victoria Gale

Victoria worked in Trading Standards from 2006 until 2014 at Cheshire West and Chester Council and Vale of Glamorgan Council respectively. She dealt with all aspects of Trading Standards including the enforcement of underage sales legislation, with a specific remit for all tobacco related matter. She started working for ACCS in 2014 and part of her remit as a Certification Officer is to conduct audits of retail premises where she helps and supports retailers to ensure compliance with underage sales legislation.

Nicola Elkin

Nicola has over fourteen years experience in Age Restricted Sales, Law and Investigations. She obtained a Degree in Consumer Protection Law at Manchester University and learnt her craft in local government working in Trading Standards. Working her way through the ranks, she ultimately lead a team of officers in the Commercial Conduct team and was Lead Officer for Underage Sales. Her passion for travel led her to Australia where she heads the Asia and Australasian office for ACCS. 

Cristina Durigu

Previously, Cristina worked as a Information Security Risk Assessor in IBM with more than 10 years experience in Data Security and Privacy techniques, framework, processes and procedures. She also worked in Procter and Gamble as a Process Manager for Travel expense accounting team. Among her previous roles, she was also a Customer Data Quality Specialist and a Stock exchange listing advisor for a big public company in Romania.

She considers  that processes can be improved, and that building strong relationships is the best way to succeed in life and in career. She is passionate about digital transformation and ways to automate different tasks and job-related activities.

Obi Udanoh

Having lived in four different countries, Obi Udanoh brings an understanding of global cultures to his role as Business Development Manager.

He has worked across various sectors; from clients in natural resources to companies securing contracts to deliver remanufactured and recycled products in the West African region.

At ACCS, He is responsible for customer acquisition, accounts management and developing our commercial opportunities. He enjoys networking and building relationships which provide solutions that help clients improve their businesses and succeed.”

Kevin Darby

Kevin Darby was brought up in Pubs then served in the Army as a Military Policeman. He also was an officer in Greater Manchester Police. This has given him great insight into the importance of compliance and enforcement in this sector. During his spare time, he walks with his dog and try to play golf.