Jan 2024 – Oct 2025 · 1 yr 9 mos

• Investor Relations
• Built successful IR team and given further responsibility for Treasury from beginning of 2024
• Actively involved with strategic advisers in developing defence strategy and materials in relation to acquisition and activists
• Managed an activist situation with our core strategic shareholder who went public in December 2024. Led over 3 years of interactions across Chair, Senior Independent Director, CEO and CFO with top shareholders
• Communicated and explained the rationale for the £1.8bn disposal of a division, representing 80% of the market cap of the company, and the return to shareholders of £1.4bn
• Evolving the equity story as the business pivots following the disposal, to simplify and focus on cash generation
• Extensive experience in developing global IR programmes as the JM equity story has evolved
• Actively involved in business reviews with CEO and CFO, with regular input to the group strategy. This involves building strong relationships across the group to enable the strategy and performance to be communicated transparently to investors and analysts
• Provides an external view to senior management across the group, updating on competitors, customers and relevant external markets
• Leads the board engagement with investors for Group Chair and Committee Chairs
• Prepares key investment messages, analysis and presentations to communicate financial performance, business conditions and company strategy to investors and sell-side analysts
• Managed one CEO and two CFO transitions
• Performed two broker reviews and appointed and onboarded two new corporate brokers
• Created and led numerous Capital Markets Days and other investor events
• Treasury
• Responsible for the Treasury function globally including the front, middle and back office teams and daily activities. Also managing the relationships with core banking partners
• Conducted refinancing in US private placement markets and the Group's revolving credit facility

Jan 2018 – Dec 2023 · 5 yrs 11 mos

Jul 2015 – Dec 2017 · 2 yrs 5 mos · London, United Kingdom

• The team was ranked number one in Institutional Investor, Extel and Greenwich surveys regularly
• Number one team internally by broker votes at Deutsche Bank
• Worked on a number of IPOs including Covestro, Evonik and AZ Electronic Materials as well as a number of non-public deals
• Primary coverage of Air Liquide, AkzoNobel, Croda, DSM, Johnson Matthey, Lanxess, Umicore, Victrex, Synthomer and secondary coverage of all other major stocks in the sector
• Extensive exposure to senior management of companies under coverage (e.g. Chair, CEO and CFO) including presentations and discussions with feedback/views of investors
• Marketing to major investors globally; US (East coast, West coast and Mid-West), Asia (Hong Kong and Singapore) and Europe (all major financial centres)
• Origination of substantial thematic pieces of research such as the Petrochemical Yearbook, which required coordination of global teams within the sector and other sectors
• Organised numerous roadshows and reverse roadshows for corporates and investors, including longer investor trips covering a number of corporates in Europe, China (based around Shanghai) and in the US (based around Houston)
• Continuous development of team product (UK Chemicals Monthly, Petrochemical updates, European Chemicals Monthly)

Sep 2007 – May 2014 · 6 yrs 8 mos · London Area, United Kingdom

• The team was ranked number one in Institutional Investor, Extel and Greenwich surveys regularly
• Number one team internally by broker votes at Deutsche Bank
• Worked on a number of IPOs including Covestro, Evonik and AZ Electronic Materials as well as a number of non-public deals
• Primary coverage of Air Liquide, AkzoNobel, Croda, DSM, Johnson Matthey, Lanxess, Umicore, Victrex, Synthomer and secondary coverage of all other major stocks in the sector
• Extensive exposure to senior management of companies under coverage (e.g. Chair, CEO and CFO) including presentations and discussions with feedback/views of investors
• Marketing to major investors globally; US (East coast, West coast and Mid-West), Asia (Hong Kong and Singapore) and Europe (all major financial centres)
• Origination of substantial thematic pieces of research such as the Petrochemical Yearbook, which required coordination of global teams within the sector and other sectors
• Organised numerous roadshows and reverse roadshows for corporates and investors, including longer investor trips covering a number of corporates in Europe, China (based around Shanghai) and in the US (based around Houston)
• Continuous development of team product (UK Chemicals Monthly, Petrochemical updates, European Chemicals Monthly)

May 2014 – Dec 2014 · 7 mos · London Area, United Kingdom

• Advising corporates on financial communications with particular focus on their equity story
• Recommending best practice with regard to disclosure and transparency
• Origination of business with a focus on building the Chemicals and Industrials Practice and looking to expand to other sectors

Apr 2001 – Sep 2007 · 6 yrs 5 mos · London Area, United Kingdom

• Chemicals Equity Research team. Assumed role as Head of team in 2006.

Nov 1998 – Apr 2001 · 2 yrs 5 mos · London Area, United Kingdom

• Audit of various global businesses of ING Barings, liaising with senior management of the bank. Location of audits included London, Singapore, Hong Kong, Moscow, Warsaw, Prague and New York.

Sep 1995 – Nov 1998 · 3 yrs 2 mos · London Area, United Kingdom

• Qualified as ACA November 1998