Name: V is for VLOOKUP and other fanciful Excel tales | Vaughan Grandin
Start: 2026-11-12T18:00:00Z
End: 2026-11-12T20:00:00Z
Location: Canada Water Library

Did you know that November is the only month of the year containing the letter “V”? That makes it the perfect time for the valiant, vibrant and versatile Vaughan Grandin, Head of Financial Modelling at Teneo, to venture into a varied discussion, starting with the venerable (and controversial) **Vlookup** formula (valuable in the 90s, less so now) and ending up with the most important “V” in spreadsheets - **Value**.
Attendees can expect practical views, cutting edge and vintage formulae discussions, and vivid stories to revitalise oneself on a cold November evening.

This is an in-person only event live in London.
The event is held at
Meeting room 3
Canada Water Library (literally joined to Canada Water tube station)
21 Surrey Quays Road, London, SE16 7AR

Alan Murray

Tea Kuseva

London Excel Meetup Group

London Excel Meetup

Provides organisation and marketing services to the group.

Computergaga

Provide hosting services for the online events.

Datel Productions

Technology

Data Analytics

Microsoft Excel

Spreadsheets

Power Pivot

Microsoft Excel PowerPivot

Power Query

Vaughan leads Teneo’s Financial Modelling team within the Financial Advisory business. In this role, he combines deep financial forecasting expertise with extensive corporate advisory and consulting experience to guide companies and stakeholders through complex, high-stakes and highly scrutinised situations. The team brings together commercial insight with cutting-edge Excel methodologies to deliver a differentiated modelling proposition— producing rapid, innovative solutions in mission-critical scenarios.
 
With more than 20 years’ experience in corporate advisory, finance and restructuring, Vaughan has supported corporates, lenders and investors across a broad spectrum of challenging scenarios, often involving financial distress, regulatory pressure or political visibility. His engagements range from supporting a UK bank through a £17 billion financial mis-selling issue, to developing business-plan forecasts and debt transaction analyses for a $7 billion aircraft leasing company, to assisting an EU sovereign in establishing a distressed-asset bank. His work spans the full breadth of financial modelling—including short-term cash flow forecasting, LBO and transaction modelling, integrated business-plan forecasts, tactical tools, litigation counterfactuals and entity-priority models.
 
Vaughan has significant experience in financial services and has also advised clients in the retail, real estate, manufacturing, technology, energy and transport sectors. He holds an Honours Degree in Commerce from the University of Natal, Durban, and is a qualified Chartered Accountant (SA), having placed 8th nationally in his final Board examination. He was also a finalist in the 2025 and 2026 UK Excel Championships.

Vaughan Grandin