CFA 2019 Winners
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2019 Corporate & financial awards Corporate & financial awards Contents 4 Judges 8 Winners 10 Best corporate website: FTSE 100 11 Best corporate website: FTSE 250 13 Best corporate website: AIM or Small Cap Corporate communications has never been more important. Never before have so many groups of 15 Best corporate website: International or Unlisted stakeholders had access to corporate information or the ability to influence that company’s brand. 18 Best printed report: FTSE 100 The Corporate & Financial Awards celebrates excellence in all aspects of City communication. 20 Best printed report: FTSE 250 Protecting companies in times of crisis, communicating corporate messaging to investors 22 Best printed report: AIM or Small Cap and shareholders and developing a strong relationship with the media require skill, strategic 23 Best printed report: International thought and creative processes. Excellence in these areas of communications is exemplified by the 24 Best printed report: Unlisted winners here tonight. The ‘Best annual report of the year’ award goes 25 Best online report: FTSE 100 to Coca-Cola HBC this year as judges recognised the expert integration of business strategy, 26 Best online report: FTSE 250 sustainability storytelling and engaging design, making the report a showpiece in best practice. 28 Best online report: AIM or Small Cap Ageas takes home the ‘Best in-house team of the year’ award for its strategic advice during a period 29 Best online report: International of business transformation and Bladonmore nabs the ‘Best PR consultancy of the year’ prize after a 30 Best online report: Unlisted year of improvements and updates to the business’ operations and structure. 32 Best CSR or ESG report Congratulations to these and all of the winners at the 2019 Corporate & Financial Awards! 34 Best meeting Brittany Golob Best M&A communications Publishing editor, Communicate magazine 35 Best IPO communications Most effective crisis communications 37 Best use of digital media 39 Annual report of the year 41 Best in-house corporate & financial communications team 42 Best IR agency or PR consultancy 2 3 T8097 Brightsparks_275x210.indd 1 20/08/2019 09:02 Corporate & financial awards Corporate & financial awards Judges Judges Danny Calogero Jarrad Comley Gary Davies Jesse Karjalainen Colin Mayes Susan McKenzie Board director Executive creative director CEO Corporate communications manager Head of UK PR Head of CEO comms Lansons MerchantCantos Investor Relations Society SCISYS plc Aon Deloitte Danny is a board director and financial Jarrad leads MerchantCantos’ global Gary has been CEO of the Investor Relations Jesse is the corporate communications Colin is director of PR for UK & Ireland at Susan is head of CEO communications at services specialist. With a particular focus creative offer, with responsibility for brand Society since July 2018. Prior to this, he manager at SCISYS plc, a software and Aon. He joined the organisation in 2002 Deloitte in the UK. She is responsible for on the investment management industry, and digital design. His career has spanned had a 30-year career at GSK working IT-solutions company serving the media after leading media relations in Europe managing internal and external leadership Danny has over a decade of experience consumer and corporate branding, with across corporate communications, product and broadcasting, commercial, defence for real estate consultants Cushman & communications and strategy. In her advising companies on marketing strategy, a focus on bringing business messaging communications and investor relations. He and space industries. He joined the AIM- Wakefield. Prior to this, he worked at previous role at Deloitte, Susan led the communications and branding. Danny’s to life. Beginning at a digital startup in was director of investor relations at GSK for listed group in 2015 after a decade of PwC and the London Stock Exchange production of the Impact Report – the experience spans institutional, wholesale the 1990s before moving into corporate 10 years. He holds an MBA, has achieved international roles in journalism, publishing, in both media relations and corporate firm’s annual report demonstrating its and retail markets and includes work for communications, he has a different the certificate in investor relations from the editorial, design and marketing. He has a communications roles, having gained his impact on clients, people and society. some of the world’s most recognisable approach to understanding how creativity IR Society and, in 2017, became the first BA in journalism, a Master’s in marketing initial experience in consultancies including She works with Deloitte’s PR, internal financial services brands, including Willis and technology can influence brands. graduate of the society’s diploma in investor communications and is a member of the Good Relations. He is a graduate of Queen communications and corporate marketing Towers Watson, UBS Wealth Management At MerchantCantos, he has created relations. Prior to becoming CEO, Gary was CIPR. Jesse hails from Scandinavia and Mary, University of London and is a teams to align corporate messages and and BlackRock. award-winning campaigns, brands a member of the society’s education and speaks two languages fluently, but grew up member of the CIPR. strategy. Susan previously worked in and corporate collateral. examinations committees. in Australia. He is also the published author event-driven equity sales and is a former on English grammar and language. newswire journalist. Gavin Haycock Holly Gillis Anna Howard Martha McKenzie-Minifie Stephen Nightingale Simon O’Brien Head of communications Head of investor relations Head of corporate communications Head of corporate communications Director of investor relations Corporate communications consultant 10X Banking The Go Ahead Group Paysafe ING UK Britvic Vesuvius plc As head of communications at 10x Future Holly is head of investor relations at the Anna joined global payments Martha is ING UK’s head of corporate Having qualified as a chartered Simon has worked in corporate Technologies, Gavin leads external and Go-Ahead Group plc. She has 14 years provider Paysafe as head of corporate communications. Her experience in management accountant, Stephen’s career communications for over 15 years, both internal communications. Gavin joined of experience in finance and investor communications in 2016. The FTSE 250 marketing and communications includes has included commercial finance roles at in-house and agency side, and across a 10x in 2017 after nearly two years relations roles in the UK public transport company was privatised in December almost 10 years as a journalist before P&O, Lloyds TSB and Cleanaway before range of sectors from manufacturing, to with online payments business Paysafe sector. Holly believes transparent 2017 following its acquisition by CVC and joining ING in 2009. Martha has been a joining Britvic. In 2008, he joined the oil and gas and food and drink. Currently, where he worked as SVP of corporate corporate reporting is the cornerstone of Blackstone. Previously, Anna was vice spokesperson on consumer economics Britvic IR function, becoming IR director he is providing communications advice communications. Before that, he spent five good IR and is committed to continually president of communications at AIM- for several years and appeared live on in 2014. His IR career has covered the at Vesuvius plc, the global molten metal years with payments technology business improving the quality of reporting. Holly listed mobile money technology company broadcast news during that time. She range of events that any company is likely engineering company. Prior to that, he was Monitise as head of communications and is an ACCA qualified accountant and has a Monitise, responsible for internal and has lead the UK communications team to face. In the early years the company at Coats Group plc for eight years, with brand, and three years with AOL amid its BSc in psychology. external communications globally. Before since 2016. Martha sits on the board of faced several profit warnings, a product responsibility for its corporate brand and separation from Time Warner and global moving in house, Anna spent a number of Women in Banking and Finance as head of recall and an aborted merger. In 2013, a online strategy. rebrand, leading UK and then European years in consultancies, including Weber marketing and communications. Martha new CEO has seen a significantly improved corporate communications. Before his Shandwick and Lewis PR. holds a Master’s in journalism from the performance with three acquisitions and an move into business communications, Gavin University of Queensland and an advanced equity raise added to the CV. was a journalist and editor, working with certificate in PR from the CIPR. Reuters and Dow Jones. 4 5 Corporate & financial awards Corporate & financial awards Judges Mark O’Sullivan Sergii Pershyn Alice Revels Head of corporate reporting Senior advisor Head of corporate reporting PwC EM BP Mark leads PwC’s corporate reporting Sergii is senior advisor at EM, the Alice joined BP last year and heads up their and governance team in the UK. He has independent financial PR and investor corporate reporting function, ensuring BP over a decade of experience in advising relations agency for clients from emerging responds to current reporting requirements organisations on current and best markets. Sergii moved to New York from and best practice developments. She has practices in reporting,