Gerald Dunn Joins AIGAS™ Advisory Board | PPCS
Gerald Dunn Joins the AIGAS™ Advisory Board
We are pleased to announce that Gerald (Ged) Dunn has joined the AIGAS™ Advisory Board. Gerald brings over 35 years of experience across change management, financial control, financial services technology, business process automation, and digital transformation.
Gerald (Ged) Dunn
AIGAS™ Advisory Board Member
Digital Transformation & Automation Advisor
Financial Control
Business Automation
AI in CRM & ERP
A senior transformation and financial control practitioner with deep experience across financial services, enterprise technology, process optimisation, and practical AI adoption.
A Particularly Meaningful Appointment
This is a particularly meaningful appointment on a personal level. I first worked with Gerald back in 2004 at MiNC Property Enterprises, where we were already exploring ways to automate accounting workflows using tools like MYOB, Visual Basic, and Excel.
Even then, the focus was on improving efficiency, structure, and control through technology — themes that are now central to how firms are approaching AI.
What started as accounting workflow automation has now evolved into one of the defining governance challenges for firms: how to adopt AI safely, practically, and with proper control.
That continuity matters. AIGAS™ is not being developed as an abstract standard. It is being shaped around the real operational questions that firms face when technology becomes embedded into everyday professional work.
Introducing Gerald Dunn
Gerald brings over 35 years of experience spanning change management, financial control, and financial services technology. His career began as an army officer before moving into senior roles across organisations including Dell Computer, Cazenove, RBS, Barclays, and JPMorgan Chase.
He now runs his own technology and consulting business, working hands-on with organisations to improve operational performance through digital transformation, automation, business planning, and process improvement.
Gerald’s experience includes:
- ✓Over 35 years in change management, financial control, and technology-led transformation
- ✓Senior experience across Dell Computer, Cazenove, RBS, Barclays, and JPMorgan Chase
- ✓Hands-on work in business planning, modelling, process optimisation, and automation
- ✓Practical experience integrating AI with SaaS CRM and ERP platforms, including Microsoft Dynamics and Salesforce
Gerald Dunn — Full Bio
Gerald Dunn has over 35 years of experience in change management, financial control, and financial services technology. His career began as an army officer before moving into senior roles across organisations including Dell Computer, Cazenove, RBS, Barclays, and JPMorgan Chase.
He now runs his own technology and consulting business, helping organisations improve operational performance through digital transformation, process optimisation, business planning, financial modelling, and automation.
With the acceleration of the AI revolution, Gerald is a hands-on practitioner of emerging AI tools, using them to augment human and system capabilities in ways that are performant, reliable, safe, and ethical.
In particular, he is working with AI integration across SaaS CRM and ERP platforms, including Microsoft Dynamics and Salesforce, where governance, control, reliability, and business value must come together in practical operational settings.
Gerald is a graduate of the University of Oxford, where he studied Modern History. He is also a Fellow of CIMA and a certified Professional Business Analyst with the IIBA.
Digital Transformation & Automation Advisor
Good AI governance cannot just be a policy. It needs to work as a system — with clear requirements, evidence, testing, assurance, and practical controls that organisations can operate and improve over time.
Strengthening the AIGAS™ Vision
Gerald’s appointment comes at an important stage in the development of AIGAS™.
One of the core challenges we are addressing is the gap between what good AI governance looks like in theory, and what firms are actually capable of implementing in practice.
There are, broadly, two ways to approach this problem:
- ▸Designing a world-class governance framework, with deep structure, rigour, and technical sophistication
- ▸Building something that 1,000 accounting firms can realistically adopt and implement
These are not the same problem.
Gerald brings a perspective that leans strongly toward the former — how to design governance systems that are robust, structured, and capable of standing up to real scrutiny. His thinking pushes towards treating governance as a system, not a document: something that includes clear requirements, evidence, testing, and assurance.
AIGAS™, by contrast, is deliberately focused on adoption. It is designed to be practical, accessible, and aligned to the realities of accounting firms that are still early in their AI journey.
The value of this combination is in the tension.
By bringing these perspectives together, we are able to challenge assumptions on both sides: ensuring AIGAS™ does not become a superficial, tick-box exercise, while also avoiding the trap of over-engineering something that firms cannot implement.
This balance is critical if AIGAS™ is to become both widely adopted and meaningful in practice.
Looking Ahead
As AIGAS™ continues to evolve, Gerald will play a key role in shaping the standard’s structure, clarity, and long-term direction.
His contribution will help support:
- ➤The structure and clarity of AIGAS™ controls and requirements
- ➤The move toward more testable, evidence-based governance
- ➤The longer-term vision of AIGAS™ as a product-led governance system
- ➤A practical bridge between strategy, automation, controls, and execution
His experience across both operational transformation and emerging AI tooling provides a valuable bridge between strategy and execution.
We are delighted to welcome Gerald to the Advisory Board and look forward to working together as AIGAS™ develops into a practical, trusted standard for AI governance within the accounting profession.
Interested in Joining the AIGAS™ Advisory Board?
We are continuing to build out the AIGAS™ Advisory Board with a small number of carefully selected individuals. We are particularly interested in hearing from professionals with experience in:
Accounting & Professional Standards
Digital Transformation
Regulation & Compliance
Systems & Assurance
If you believe you can contribute to shaping the future of AI governance in the accounting profession, we would welcome a conversation.
Please get in touch:
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