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Mike is an experienced analyst, having worked at UBS Global Asset Management and Numis Securities, before becoming a founding director in the Panmure Gordon Liverpool office. In his current role, Mike is Head of Research at Zeus and has been instrumental in attracting a number of key corporate clients, and has also played a role in some of the company’s largest deals. During his career, Mike has been rated as a top three analyst in the business services sector in the Extel Survey and has also won numerous awards with Starmine and The Wall Street Journal.

Rosanna manages the Artemis Global Select Fund and Mid Wynd International Investment Trust with Simon Edelsten and Alex Illingworth. After graduating in economics from Bocconi University in 1996, she joined Paribas Asset Management as a junior fund manager. In 2000, she moved to M&G as a fund manager and director responsible for pan-European equity portfolios. As a senior European portfolio manager at Shell Pension Management Service from 2004, she controlled £710m of assets. Then, in 2006, Rosanna became a partner and pan-European fund manager for FrontPoint Management (UK). She came to Artemis in 2011 and is an Ambassador of the Diversity Project.

Heinrich Ey has worked at Allianz Global Investors since April 2006.

He is Co-CIO for European Small caps since 2016 and manages in his function retail and institutional money together with a team of 5 members. Before taking on his current role, he was managing an analyst team of six regional telecom and media analysts and covering 30 telecom stocks with his own modelling and formal recommendations. He was also the lead portfolio manager for the Allianz Telemedia funds, which has won several awards from Lipper and Euro Finanzen in the last couple of years. His focus had been also on digital disruption trends and their impact on traditional business models within his industries, and he is part of the jury for the German Stevie Awards since 2016.

Before taking on this role, Ey worked for four years as an analyst at AGI. Prior to that, between 2000 and 2002, he managed European and global equity funds for institutional and retail clients and was a member of the TMT sector team at Allianz Asset Management. He started his career in asset management in 1995 as a buy-side trader for equity, fixed income and derivatives at Allianz.

Simon is responsible for the Howdens Annual Report and Sustainability Report, both of which have won various awards in recent years.

He’s a qualified Chartered Accountant with a Literature degree, so he recognises that audited and consistent data is the essential starting point, but that the best companies build on that and find engaging ways to tell their own individual stories.

Simon has a keen interest in developing best practice in reporting and is a member of the Advisory Group on the FRC’s Future of Corporate Reporting project. He is a member of the IR Society, and holds their Certificate in Investor Relations.

Gunhild started her career in the European Natural Resources Corporate Finance team at Deutsche Bank in 2002. She originated and executed M&A, equity and debt capital market transactions in the utilities, oil & gas and mining sector. In 2008, Gunhild joined German utility RWE where she headed the London IR office, looking after the IR programme for the UK and US as well as taking care of the company’s shareholder register, targeting and investor perception studies. In the recent company restructuring, Gunhild was a key member of the project team preparing the IPO of RWE’s subsidiary innogy, being responsible for the equity story and offer structure. Since October 2016, she has been Head of Investor Relations at RWE. In April 2020, Gunhild will become Head of Financial Planning and Risk Management.

She sits on the Supervisory Boards of RWE Generation and RWE Supply & Trading. Gunhild co-established EIFFEL, a company-led investor conference for utilities. She studied International Business Administration at Vienna University and holds a MScie in Business management from ESCP-EAP.

Karl Mahler, Head of Investor Relations, joined Roche in 2002.

Karl started his professional career at Ciba Geigy Switzerland as Head of Investment & Strategic Planning worldwide in 1987, and founded a cancer research hospital in Germany – the Tumor Biology Center Freiburg in 1991/2.

In 1994/5, he accepted a position as General Manager for Pharma with Ciba Geigy in Shanghai, where he ran one of the first joint ventures in China. This was followed by leadership roles in China where he continued his work as General Manager in Beijing. Before he joined Roche, he was Deputy Investor Relations Head for Aventis in Paris and Strasbourg.

Karl studied economics and sociology, and did his Ph.D. at the institute of Mathematical Economics at the University of Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany. Karl is based in Basel.

Robert joined MOL, a leading Central European oil&gas company, as Head of Investor Relations in 2015 and he has also been heading ESG at MOL since last year.

Previously, he had been on the sells-side, working 15+ years as an equity analyst covering Emerging European oil&gas companies. He spent 11 years with Unicredit in Budapest before he moved to Prague in 2011 to head the Energy research product at the leading CEE investment services provider Wood & Co and also to become Head of Equity Research, managing the award-winning research team of around 20 analysts. Between 2007 and 2015 he was consistently ranked as a Top3 research analyst for the CEE region and for the oil & gas sector by Extel and Institutional Investor.

Robert holds a Masters degree in Finance from the Corvinus University of Budapest and also studied at the Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh. He has been a CFA charterholder since 2003.

Madeleine Szeluch is Head of Investor Relations at the UK Government’s Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS). She has 14 years of experience across Low Carbon Energy, Financial Services and Climate Change.

In her role, Madeleine is responsible for global investor, regulatory and banking relationships across a range of asset classes, with a focus to shift of financial capital towards low-carbon energy and climate-change solutions. Madeleine advises on the UK’s low-carbon Energy Transition and emerging policy and regulation to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050. Madeleine also leads on independent thought-leadership research for the Department, evaluating risks and opportunities of emerging market trends and regulatory developments for Investors, Industry and Government.

Harry joined SEGRO plc as Head of Investor Relations at SEGRO plc in 2013, having previously been Head of the European Real Estate Equity Research teams at UBS, Evolution Securities and Citigroup in a sell-side career dating back to 2002. In 2018, he became Commercial Finance Director at SEGRO, where he is now responsible for the Treasury and IR teams and the FP&A team.

Gervais Williams is Head of Equities at Premier Miton Investors and manages a number of funds and trusts that aggregate to over £1.5bn, he joined the group in 2011. His fund management career extends over 30 years including 17 years at Gartmore Group Ltd, where he was Head of UK Small Companies investing in UK smaller companies and Irish equities. Gervais is a member of the AIM Advisory Council, and a board member of the Quoted Companies Alliance. He was a member of the Patient Capital Review panel with the Chancellor of the Exchequer two years ago where the recommendations were put into legislation in the subsequent budget. Gervais Williams has published three books, ‘Slow Finance’ in the autumn of 2011 (Bloomsbury), ‘The Future is Small’ published in November 2014 (Harriman House) and ‘The Retreat of Globalisation’ published in December 2016 (Harriman House).