Anthony Nelson is Vice Chairman of Citi and is based in Canary Wharf, London.
At Citi, Anthony Nelson is responsible for a number of senior relationships with corporate and sovereign clients in Europe, the Middle East and South Africa. He joined Salomon Brothers in 1997 to head and build the UK investment banking business, becoming a Vice Chairman when the company merged successively with Citibank and Schroders.
In addition to his responsibilities at Citi, Anthony Chairs Gateway to London, a public private partnership concerned with the regeneration of East London. He was also Chairman of Southern Water from 2002–3.
Prior to joining Citi in 1997, Anthony was Minister for Trade and Industry from 1995 to 1997 and was Economic Secretary and Minister of State at H M Treasury between 1992 and 1995. In these offices he was responsible for the UK financial system including banks, financial services and the insurance industry. Previously Anthony served as Parliamentary Private Secretary in the Ministry of Defence and the Ministry of Housing and Construction. He was also a member of the House of Commons Select Committee on Science and Technology.
Prior to his political career, Anthony had joined N M Rothschild & Sons as a graduate trainee, becoming an equity research analyst and then an investment manager.
Anthony was educated at Harrow School and Cambridge University where he received a Masters degree in Economics and Law. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.
Phil is Head of Employee Share Plans at Equiniti. He represents Equiniti in the share plans arena, has responsibility for all the employee share plan services we provide to clients as well as market-facing communications covering Equiniti’s employee benefit solutions. He also has a strategic business development, market and product development role.
Phil joined the Lloyds TSB Group in 1979 and worked in the branch network, finance, electronic banking and personnel and training departments. Transferring to Equiniti, Phil has been involved with employee reward and benefits administration for the last 17 years and is on the board of the Global Equity Organisation, the Faculty Board of ifs ProShare, a founder member of the Share Schemes Advanced Studies Group, on the ESOP Centre Academic Advisory Board and President of the WECC.
Janet has been a lawyer with the international law firm, Linklaters, for nearly 25 years and leads the global Employee Incentives team, which extends over 25 countries with over 70 lawyers.
Janet has worked on a variety of employee share schemes, related financial products and corporate government issues around executive pay, and has published a book with Tolley's on directors’ remuneration.
She led her team’s development of the first online database offered by a law firm, Blue Flag Employee Share Plans, to support companies operating their plans globally and developed the only recognised qualification available in the UK for share plan professionals, the ICSA Certificate in Employee Share Plans.
As well as being a member of the ifs ProShare Faculty Board, Janet is also a director of Global Equity Organisation (GEO), the European Centre for Employee Ownership, a committee member of the UK Share Plan Lawyers Organisation, a co–founder member of the Share Schemes Advanced Studies Group, a member of the Institute of Directors, the Institute of Business Ethics and the Recruitment Society.
Janet’s wider interests include human rights and corporate responsibility and she has been appointed the patron of Unifem London (United Nations Fund for Women) and is on the advisory board of Crucible College, a college at Roehampton University specialising in human rights and corporate responsibility.
Before launching ShareGift in 1996, Claire pursued a career in the City, joining UK Provident in 1981 as an investment manager, then moving to manage pension funds at Henderson. Between 1990 and 1991 she worked as a consultant to Invesco MIM, charged with devising a structure for, then setting up and marketing worldwide, the first pan-East European private equity fund.
In 1992 Claire joined Peregrine Securities, specialising in the Korean market. During this time, she lived in Seoul for four months helping set up the first domestic and international brokerage house by a foreign organisation in Korea.
Claire left the City in 1995 to plan and structure the concept for ShareGift, developing the initiative into its current position as a high-profile problem-solver for companies and shareholders. ShareGift now has an annual turnover of £1m+ and works with over half the FTSE 100 and very many smaller companies. Her achievements have been recognised with several awards, including a Beacon Prize and a special award at the Harpers Bazaar/Chanel Business Woman of the Year Awards 2006.
Richard joined HBOS in 1980, fulfilling roles such as Business Development Manager and Head of Sales and Marketing before being appointed Head of the Halifax Employee Share Services (ESS) in September 2005. Richard was instrumental in the successful merger of Halifax ESS with Mourant Equity Compensation Services to create HBOS Employee Equity Solutions in 2006.
Matthew was a personal member of the London Stock Exchange and a director of stockbroking firm Quilter Goodison until 1987 before going on to set up the Debenhams’ share shops. In 1989 he co-founded Killik & Co, one of the UK’s leading private client investment houses, and was its Managing Partner and Chief Executive until 2006. Although he remains a partner of Killik & Co, he started the documentary and feature film production company Robson Orr Entertainment and Spark in 2007.
He continues his entrepreneurial interest through advising and investing in new and developing companies. In 1996 he co-founded Sharegift, the UK based charity share donation scheme, with Lady Claire Mackintosh. Orr and Mackintosh were awarded the prestigious Beacon Fellowship Prize in 2006 for their efforts in venture philanthropy.
Matthew also devotes time to his interest in promoting wider financial learning. He is a former member of the ifs School of Finance Board of Governors and a former chair of the ifs ProShare faculty. He remains on the ifs ProShare Faculty Board and continues to chair WoFED, a group he initiated to develop ideas for Workplace Financial Education.
Martin is the Managing Director of Killik Employee Share Services and a partner of Killik & Co, having previously worked in Employee Shares plans at Lloyds TSB Registrars.
Alan is Director of Corporate Governance at BT Group.
Gavin is a graduate of three universities, holding degrees in philosophy and economics, classics and history of art. Gavin became Chief Executive of the Chartered Institute of Bankers in 1994 (the organisation changed its name to the ifs School of Finance in 2006) having been a journalist in the UK, the Middle East, Asia and parts of South America for over 20 years at the Financial Times, then as Editor of The Banker and Managing Editor of FT Extel.
Karen is Head of Business Development & Information Services at the London Stock Exchange.
Tiffany is Share Plan Services Manager for BP.
Phil worked for a number of educational institutions in China as well as the University of Chichester before being appointed Senior Research & Press Assistant to an MP in 2002. Phil then joined the ifs School of Finance & ifs ProShare as Press & Public Affairs Manager in 2006, was promoted to Head of Media & Public Affairs in 2007 and took overall responsibility for ifs ProShare in 2008.
