Join us to hear from a panel of the Investor Relations Society's Best Practice Awards 2025 winners, across a range of award categories and caps. This event, kindly hosted by S&P Global, will also provide an opportunity for audience questions and networking.
Award winners joining the panel:
Lindsey Hall, Interim Project Manager, Norcros - Best Annual Report - Small Cap Winner
Ross Hawley, Head of Investor Relations, ZIGUP - Best Innovation in IR - Mid Cap Winner & Best Corporate Website - Mid Cap Winner
Rakesh Patel, Director of Investor Relations, Haleon - Best IRO - Large Cap Winner
Kieron Molloy, Creative Director, Conran Design Group for Best Annual Report - Mid Cap Winner (Tate & Lyle) and Best Annual Report - Large Cap Winner (SSE)
Agenda
08:00 Registration and networking with a light breakfast
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 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.
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.
Lindsey Hall is Project Manager at Norcros plc, leading the Group’s Annual Report and broader corporate communications.
She began her career auditing annual reports at KPMG, before moving to FTSE Small Cap groups MJ Gleeson plc and later Norcros plc. Across both organisations she has produced eight Annual Reports, with a ninth currently in progress. Lindsey specialises in bringing simplicity from complexity — creating clear, consistent messages that give investors and stakeholders plain‑language insight and informed understanding. Her focus is ensuring purpose runs through every communication and helping stakeholders grasp the unique nature of Norcros today, and the company it is becoming.
Ross is an experienced IRO with both an in-house and advisory background. Originally in equity capital markets banking, Ross has over 20 years of in-house corporate experience, including FTSE100 businesses such as Rolls-Royce, where he was Assistant Director of IR; and Man Group plc, the alternative investment manager, where he was involved in a very wide range of capital raisings and corporate transactions for over a decade. Ross has also set up and led the IR function for a number of smaller companies, and recently was Sustainability Manager for Virgin Atlantic before heading the IR activities at FTSE250 ZIGUP. He is a graduate of Cambridge University.
Kieron has been working in the design industry for over 25 years. It’s his responsibility to ensure the highest standards of creativity are met by the team throughout concept creation, design development and final delivery of the project. Leading a multi-disciplined team, Kieron has worked across brand and stakeholder engagement projects for an array of B2B and consumer clients, across a diverse range of sectors. He ensures the creative solution delivers against the commercial and strategic challenges of the client brief, forging strong working relationships with our clients in the process. He also plays a key role providing mentoring, guidance and support to other members of the creative studio.
Rakesh Patel is a Director, Investor Relations at Haleon having joined the company in 2022. Prior to this he was part of the Investor Relations function at IHG. Rakesh has extensive experience on the Sell-Side, having been an equity research analyst at Goldman Sachs.
