Events Committee

Claire Mogford

Head of Investor Relations, Segro

Bio to follow

Siobhan Andrews

Interim Head of Investor Relations, Smiths Group

Siobhán has more than 18 years’ expertise in Investor Relations, and more than 10 years’ capital markets experience in equity research and within investment management. She is currently Interim Head of IR at Smiths Group, and was previously Head of IR at Spectris and Deputy Head of IR at BG Group. Prior to her career in IR, Siobhán was a research analyst covering the utilities sector at UBS, and also worked at a leading UK investment management company.

Angela Catlin

Head of Investor Relations, Corporate Affairs and Brand, The Co-operative Bank

Angela joined The Co-operative Bank in July 2023 as Head of Investor Relations and her role was expanded to include media and PR, partnerships, ESG and Brand in June 2024. Before that Angela was Associate Director of Investor Relations at Lloyds Banking Group, where she worked in a variety of roles spanning 12 years. Angela is a chartered accountant and holds of the CIR qualification.

Louise Curran

Head of Investor Relations, Johnson Matthey

Louise has a decade of experience in Investor Relations across multiple sectors and for global companies spanning UK, US and Australian listing regimes. Louise is currently Head of Investor Relations at Johnson Matthey, having joined as Senior Investor Relations Manager in 2018. Previously she was Investor Relations Manager at Janus Henderson – formerly Henderson – where she was involved in the communication of a transformational, cross-border merger of equals. Prior to this, Louise worked for a strategy consultancy having initially qualified as a Chartered Accountant with KPMG. Louise completed her MChem in Chemistry at the University of Oxford.

Jenni Fulton

Chef Growth Officer - Emperor

Jenni's bio and photo to follow

Jane Henderson

Investor Relations Manager, BAT

Jane is an experienced IRO with both an in-house and advisory background. Jane joined the Investor Relations team at BAT in 2023, after working in the Investor Relations team at Tesco. Originally on the sell-side, Jane worked in the City for 20 years – at Citigroup (Equity Research and Corporate Access, working in both New York and London) and then Exane BNP Paribas, providing Corporate Access and IR advisory services to their corporate clients. Jane has a PhD in Animal Behaviour from Bristol University.

Alistair de Kare-Silver

Senior Client Advisor, Temple Bar Advisory

Alistair is an Investor Relations and Corporate Communications specialist with over a decade of experience advising management teams of UK and international companies.

He has helped management teams strengthen their relationships with investors, build support for their strategies and compete effectively for investment. He has successfully steered companies through critical moments including profit warnings, transactions, M&A, IPOs, placings, disposals, CVAs, administrations, restructuring programmes, crises and activism. He also has particular expertise across ESG, digital communications, crisis and issues management.

He holds both The Certificate and The Diploma in Investor Relations. Alistair has a degree in International History and Politics from the University of Leeds.

Ailsa Renton

Director, Hanover Comms

Ailsa heads up the financial communications team at Hanover supporting clients develop messaging to strengthen their relationships within the financial industry. She has navigated CVAs, restructures, positive and negative financial results as well as transaction communications for some of the UK’s largest household names.

More broadly, Ailsa is a corporate and crisis communications specialist. She has managed several CEO profiling programmes for businesses that have a particular policy ask. She has devised and led on campaign communications, narrative development and policy communications for clients including Amazon, Barclaycard Payments, Budweiser Brewing Group, Microsoft, Pizza Hut and Sky. Prior to Hanover Communications, Ailsa sat in the Corporate & Financial team at Edelman. She graduated from the University of Leeds, with a BA Honours degree in Latin & Spanish and also holds the IR Society Certificate for Investor Relations. 

Harry Rimmer

Sales Director, S&P Global

Harry Rimmer: Joined S&P Global’s Issuer Solutions team within the Market Intelligence division 4 years ago after spending several years practicing as a litigation lawyer and subsequently running two tech startups. Harry is a relationship manager and leads S&P’s commercial efforts to support UK Listed companies and their IR teams by providing them with shareholder intelligence and workflow solutions. Harry has been involved with the UK IR Society for the past 4 years and joined the Events Committee just over a year ago.

Josh Sparks

Head of Partnerships and Intermediaries, Corporate Markets EMEA, Link Group

Bio & photo to follow

Nick Stone

Senior Vice President and Global Head of Investor Relations, GlaxoSmithKline

Nick has more than 20 years of experience in the international biopharmaceutical sector and 10 years of extensive capital markets experience. He is currently Senior Vice President and Global Head of Investor Relations at GSK Plc, where he is accountable for delivering a fully integrated outreach programme across Europe, the Americas, and Asia Pacific that engages analysts, investors, and other stakeholders. Before joining GSK, Nick was part of the investor relations team at AstraZeneca Plc and previously worked in its commercial, business development, and corporate strategy teams. Nick began his early career as an associate lawyer and graduated with a bachelor’s degree with honours in Law and Criminology.

Anneka Finnane

Events Manager, IR Society

Anneka joined the IR Society in May 2024 as Events Manager. Her most recent role was at the Association of Foreign Banks as Senior Practice, Events and Training Associate. Prior to that, she has worked in various membership organisations such as the London Chamber of Commerce and Industry, British Council for Offices, and Industry and Parliament Trust, managing a wide variety of events and training programmes. Anneka has a degree in Event Management from Bournemouth University. Outside of work she enjoys spending time with her family.

Laura Hayter

CEO, IR Society

Laura is CEO at The Investor Relations Society. Formerly Head of Policy and Communications, Laura took on the role of CEO in 2019 and has been with the Society for over 13 years. Laura has been part of the IR community since 2001, and among other roles, she was formerly a director at the IR consultancy, Taylor Rafferty, providing IR advisory services to blue chip clients, both in London and New York. Laura’s particular interests within IR are around career progression, mentoring and professional development. She graduated from the University of Leeds, with an honours degree in German and management studies.