Graham Allen is a partner in Marriott Gibbs Rees Wallis, Chartered Certified Accountants, in Sheffield.  Graham trained as a Chartered Accountant with a ‘big four’ accountancy firm after university, where he read law, and has since had wide experience of working in industry and in private practice.

His career has brought him into close contact with a very wide variety of commercial, industrial and charitable organisations. 

Graham was born in Chingola, Zambia.  He came to live in England as a teenager and subsequently went to Sheffield University.  His family originally came from Sheffield and his grandfather emigrated to South Africa in 1904.  Graham has spent his career working in South and West Yorkshire and, in particular, in Sheffield.  He is a keen gardener and hill walker and a life-long supporter of Sheffield Wednesday Football Club, his family connections with Sheffield Wednesday going back more than one hundred years.  He is married, with a son and daughter.