IR Webinar: Reputation at Risk: Navigating Cyber Incidents

Senior Managing Director, Sodali & Co

Rory Godson is Senior Managing Director at Sodali & Co, founder and former CEO of Powerscourt, ex-Goldman Sachs corporate affairs director, and former Business Editor at The Sunday Times. He chaired the Ireland Funds GB and studied journalism at Dublin Institute of Technology.

Senior Managing Director, Sodali & Co

Alison joined Sodali & Co. in 2023 and is responsible for designing and overseeing the strategy around IR, ESG and shareholder engagement services to clients across the UK and Europe.  Prior to joining Sodali & Co., Alison spent 12 years at Orient Capital and D.F. King Ltd in various senior leadership roles, and most recently as their Global CEO, working with some of the world’s largest companies to support shareholder engagement and investor relations activities.  Previously she spent seven years at Capita plc as Managing Director of IR Services. She started her career within investment banking at Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein. 

Alison has a French & German Languages degree and began her IR career working in-house for a mining company in Canada.  She is a Deputy Chair of the UK Investor Relations Society and current chair of the Membership Committee.  

Manager, Cyber & Crisis Communications, Sodali & Co

Jenny is a Manager at Sodali & Co and has targeted expertise on cyber-related issues and concerns. Having spent nine years working as a senior risk consultant for a global insurance broker, before joining Sodali & Co in 2024. During her career, she has led a variety of consulting engagements, including reputation risk assessments, quantification analyses, incident communication plan development, and runs stress testing exercises. Following the recent retail sector attacks, she has been advising organisations on cyber incident readiness, ensuring practical measures are in place for an effective response.

Global Risk Consulting Leader, Commercial Risk, Aon

Richard Waterer is the global leader of Aon’s risk consulting business, overseeing the advice, analytics and risk management solutions delivered by his team of 1500 colleagues to multinational clients around the world. Richard has worked in risk management advisory for 30 years, beginning in boutique consulting firms before moving into the insurance industry in 2000. In late 2022, Richard spearheaded Aon’s acquisition of Pentland Analytics’ renowned reputation crises database and algorithms, which today enables his team to profile and model the financial impacts of reputation risk events for clients. Richard graduated with a BA (Hons) in Politics and Communication Studies from the University of Liverpool and is the co-author of the forthcoming book Strategy and Change: Finding Opportunity in Disruption through Insight, Choice, and Risk, which will be published by Wiley in September 2025.