In-person and virtual: Paris Marriott Champs Elysees Hotel, France
Europe’s leading investor relations teams gathered in Paris on October 6 to perfect their IR strategy in preparation for 2023.
The IR Magazine Forum was Europe’s largest gathering of investor relations officers and CFOs. The conference helped public companies understand changes in the capital markets, provided insight into next-level investor targeting and improved ESG practices by showcasing award-winning investor relations case studies.
Those who joined us in Paris attended roundtable discussions, networking sessions and in-depth panel talks about investor relations’ most pressing issues. The format, far removed from a traditional conference, consisted of fast-paced panel discussions, face-to-face networking, champagne roundtable discussions, and a networking drinks reception.
In a unique new format, the IR Magazine Forum – Europe takes exclusive IR Magazine data collected from thousands of responses from both heads of IR and investors and looks at solving some of the challenges our research reports have uncovered.
Those who joined us in Paris in October gained data-driven insights into the changing nature of investor relations in 2022 and beyond.
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08:30 AM
Registration and networking
08:55 AM
Welcome to the IR Magazine Forum – Europe
Laurie Havelock, editor-at-large, IR Magazine
09:00 AM
Opening keynote: Investor relations in uncertain times
As part of our opening keynote, we look at the impact of a bear market on investor relations priorities and activities, to prove their value, and maximize opportunity in tough times.
Moderator: Laurie Havelock, editor-at-large, IR Magazine
Joanna Darlington, partner, capital markets advisory, FGS Global
09:30 AM
Delivering roadshow and corporate access success
Economic trends and changes to how we work and communicate approaches have drastically transformed the roadshow space. In this session, we examine how these trends impact shareholder registers and advise on strategies to maximize quality engagement with investors.
Moderator: Laurie Havelock, editor-at-large, IR Magazine
Thomas France, investor communications partner, DS NORDEN
Sophie Palliez-Capian, vice president of corporate stakeholder engagement, BIC
10:00 AM
Morning refreshments and networking
10:30 AM
ESG during a bear market
The notion of ESG is increasingly scrutinized by a portion of the capital markets community. We debate whether the ESG backlash is a signal of maturity or if the change in perception is due to economic pressures.
Join this session to explore sentiment around ESG in this environment, the impact of inflation and employment changes on human capital management, and changing expectations around various environmental, social, and governance factors.
Moderator: Laurence Taylor, senior conference producer, IR Magazine
Joanna Darlington, partner, capital markets advisory, FGS Global
Ronan Marc, group vice president of IR, financing and treasury, Legrand Group
Sarah Spray, head of investor relations, A.P. Moller-Maersk
11:30 AM
Tech-talk: Enhancing your digital IR strategy
Events from the past two years have increased the importance of a digital presence for investor relations. Opportunities for investor relations officers increase as technology advances, and this session helps you understand how investor relations teams are changing their approach to technology and IR websites.
Moderator: Steven Wade, head of event content, IR Magazine
Markus Holtz, head of investor relations, Baloise Group
Ben Riley, UK business development specialist, Lumi Global
12:00 PM
Next-level earnings calls
In a volatile environment, concise, consistent, and comprehensible communications are a must, especially around the financial health of your business. In this session, we explore data related to the earnings call and understand how you can refine your practices to better communicate with the market.
Moderator: Tim Human, senior reporter, IR Magazine
Cynthia Alers, director of investor relations, RM
Jean-Benoit Roquette, senior vice president of investor relations, Ubisoft Entertainment
Joanna Trup, head of SparkLive, London Stock Exchange
12:45 PM
Lunch
13:45 PM
Targeting and engagement in a downcycle
This session investigates how companies and IR professionals can access capital in the current market and explores what the investment community expects from their meetings with companies in the current environment.
Moderator: Laurence Taylor, senior conference producer, IR Magazine
Daniel Alvarez, investor relations associate director, HelloFresh
Guillaume Moinet, co-CEO and founder, Scalens
Richard Whiteing, vice president, head of investor relations, SES
14:30 PM
Afternoon refreshments and networking
15:00 PM
Progressing your IR career: Opportunities in today’s environment
Reflect on the changes to the labor market and understand to progress further in your investor relations career (and beyond.)
Moderator: Laurie Havelock, editor-at-large, IR Magazine
Louis Igonet, head of investor relations, Tikehau Capital
15:30 PM
Champagne Roundtables
Settle down with a drink and discuss today’s topics with your fellow attendees in this interactive session.
Share your thoughts, experiences, challenges, and feelings while hearing your peers’ advice and perspective on the most critical topics facing IROs in this environment.
Moderator: Laurie Havelock, editor-at-large, IR Magazine
16:30 PM
Summary and drinks reception
Laurie Havelock, editor-at-large, IR Magazine
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Thomas France
Investor communications partner
DS NORDEN
Renaud Lions
Senior vice president of investor relations
TotalEnergies
Renaud Lions began his career in 1997 as a wellsite geologist in Exploration & Production. He then alternated between operational duties in France, Libya and Nigeria and business-oriented positions, notably as a negotiator for new ventures. He joined the Corporate Acquisitions/Disposals Department in 2015, where he notably participated in the Maersk Oil acquisition, and became Vice President Exploration North & South America, based in Houston, in 2018.
Renaud Lions is a graduate of Ecole Nationale Supérieure du Pétrole et des Moteurs (ENSPM) and holds a Master of Science in geology from the University of Grenoble.
Joanna Darlington
Partner, capital markets advisory
FGS Global
Joanna is a senior member of the Capital Markets Advisory and Investor Relations practice, helping companies enhance valuation, market impact and communication with investors. Prior to FGS Global, Joanna started her career in Investment Banking as Head of Equity research at ABN AMRO and BNP Paribas. She subsequently worked as a Partner at Capital Markets Advisory boutique, KPMG Makinson Cowell, responsible for the European Practice. Joanna also has extensive in-house experience, spending 8 years as Eutelsat, the global satellite operator, as Head of Investor Relations, Group Communications and ESG. She is a board member of video content delivery specialist, Ateme, where she has chaired the remuneration and ESG committees
Sarah Spray
Head of investor relations
A.P. Moller-Maersk
Ronan Marc
Corporate vice president of investor relations, financing and treasury
LEGRAND
Born on March 9, 1974, Graduate of ESSEC, Ronan Marc joined the Group in 2000 after a first experience at Ernst & Young Audit.
He headed up the Group Internal Audit from 2003, then focused on M&A from 2006 before going through several experiences as
country CFO in France, Russia and India.
He is appointed Corporate VP Investor Relations, Financing & Treasury in January 2020.
Jean-Benoit Roquette
Senior vice president of investor relations
Ubisoft Entertainment
Sophie Palliez-Capian
Vice president of corporate stakeholder engagement
BIC
Sophie Paillez-Capian joined BIC in 2007. Following several years as Investor Relations Director, she served as External Relations Director for five years before assuming the role of Vice-President Corpoarte Stakeholder Engagement in 2018. In this role, she is responsible for developing and communicating BIC’s purpose, vision, strategy and business results to shareholders, global NGOs, public authorities, the regulator, and global media.
Prior to joining BIC, she was Deputy Head of Investor Relations at France Telecom. This role followed investor relations activities at Groupe GAN and Lafarge.
Sophie Paillez-Capian holds a Master’s degree in Corporate Communication and Public Relations from cELSA Sorbonne Université. She is also a Board Member and Vice-President of IR CLIFF.
Louis Igonet
Head of investor relations
Tikehau Capital
Daniel Alvarez
Investor relations associate director
HelloFresh
Daniel heads up the Investor Relations team at HelloFresh SE, having joined the company in 2021 to initially focus on ESG and Sustainability stakeholder engagement. Daniel moved to HelloFresh from Barclays, where he developed a career in investment banking, gaining expertise in equity capital markets and sustainable finance. Daniel graduated from Imperial College Business School with a Masters in Finance.
Richard Whiteing
Vice president, head of investor relations
SES Satellites
Markus Holtz
Head of investor relations
Baloise Group
Lindsey Stewart
Director of investment stewardship research
Morningstar
Lindsey Stewart is the Director of Investment Stewardship Research on Morningstar’s global manager research team, where he analyses asset managers’ ESG policies and practices with a focus on their active ownership strategy. He joined Morningstar in 2022 from the Financial Reporting Council – the UK’s audit accounting and corporate governance regulator – where he was Head of Stakeholder Engagement. Prior to that, his career spans over 20 years in investor relations consulting, equity research, financial reporting and communications at KPMG and Makinson Cowell. Lindsey is a Chartered Management Accountant, and he holds the Chartered Financial Analyst® designation and the Certificate in ESG Investing from the CFA Institute.
Cynthia Alers
Director of investor relations
RM
Cynthia has held senior roles as Investor Relations Director for FTSE100 and 250 companies, after beginning here career in corporate broking and equity capital markets with JP Morgan Cazenove. Her experience spans the UK, European and North American markets, new NASDAQ listing, IPOs and M&A transactions. She is also a non-executive director for Orwell Housing Association where she chairs the Audit Committee and was previously a non-executive director with the Port of Dover, where she also chaired the Audit Committee. In her spare time, Cynthia is an active fund-raiser for the charities she chairs and is passionate about education in improving life prospects. She holds an MBA/MA in Finance & Accounting and International Management from Wharton Business School and a BA in Economics from Yale University.
Guillaume Moinet
Co-CEO and founder
Scalens
Guillaume is co-founder and CEO of Scalens.
Before founding Scalens, Guillaume accumulated a rich and varied experience in the financial industry acquiring expertise in the fields of equity capital markets, M&A, capital raising and investment strategies at Deutsche Bank, JP Morgan and Rothschild.
Guillaume holds a MBA from ESSEC Business School, major in finance, and a degree in business law from Pantheon-Assas University
Joanna Trup
Head of SparkLive
London Stock Exchange
Joanna has 14 years of Investment Banking experience, having started her career at Société Générale Investment Bank, based within Corporate Finance in 2007, covering covered the UK, Northern Europe and Italy. She spent 2 years within the Debt Capital Markets and M&A teams, working on a number of deal executions across sectors. She then moved over to Equity Capital Markets, covering the UK, Northern Europe and CEEMEA, for all Equity products. From 2013-‘21, Joanna Headed the UK Corporate Access team. She was responsible for the origination and execution of roadshows, conferences, sales teach-ins and bespoke investor events across various sectors. She regularly lead and managed large conferences across jurisdictions and themes. She also set up a Corporate Broking initiative to advise clients on their shareholder engagement and acquisition strategy, presenting to Management Boards and IR teams.
In 2021, Joanna moved to the London Stock Exchange to look after SparkLive, their webcasting service. Joanna has works on the origination and execution of AGMs, CMDs, Results Presentations, Deal Roadshows and bespoke investor-focused events, partnering with Issuers and Banks. Joanna has a degree in Mathematics with Management Studies from UCL.
Ben Riley
UK business development specialist
Lumi Global
Ben Riley is one of Lumi’s leading IR and AGM experts, and has wide ranging experience of delivering successful results presentations, quarterly updates, capital market days and wide ranging IR events in many markets. His technical expertise has helped companies successfully harness the power of virtual meetings and, coupled with Lumi’s leading on-premise capabilities, has delivered hundreds of successful physical, hybrid and virtual investor relations events.
Tim Human
Senior reporter
IR Magazine
Tim Human is senior reporter at IR Magazine. He rejoined the publication in 2019 after two years working as a freelance writer for a range of international clients. Previously, he was editor of IR Magazine between 2013-2017. He has also written for Corporate Secretary, IR Magazine’s sister publication, and CorpComms, the UK-based magazine for corporate communications professionals.
Laurence Taylor
Senior conference producer
IR Magazine
Steve Wade
Head of event content
IR Magazine
Laurie Havelock
Editor-at-large
IR Magazine
Why partner with us?
The IR Forum – Europe brings together some of the most influential people in the IR community from across Europe.
The event offers an effective approach to targeting clients when they are exploring how they can improve their IR practice. Through our unrivalled knowledge of the subject matters and commitment to in-depth agenda research, our events are guaranteed to attract a qualified audience.
The unique buzz we create at our hybrid events – a far cry from a traditional conference – makes them multi-faceted and highly interactive with great engagement in particular from heads of IR and IR teams. This allows our partners to have meaningful conversations with corporates who are deciding which parts of their IR program to invest in, which service providers to engage and which consultants to retain. By partnering with us on an event, you can generate leads, showcase your thought leadership and position yourselves as the partner of choice to the IR community.
We’d love to have a chat with you about how you can get in front of a truly engaged and motivated audience. Get in touch with Ross Ingram or call on +44 78265 38072.
Forum Partners
FGS Global is a strategic advisory and communications firm, helping organizations navigate mission-critical situations across audiences in a fast-moving interconnected world.
We deliver strategic advice, deep experience, a 360º perspective, real-time intelligence, and flawless execution across the disciplines of strategic communications, crisis management, and advocacy.
We support our clients with unmatched expertise and tools, to seize opportunities and confront challenges — 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, anywhere in the world.
For more information please visit our website.
Lumi is the leading digital platform facilitating in-room, hybrid and virtual AGMs for the world’s largest corporations, membership organisations, associations, legislative bodies, faith based organisations and partnerships.
It is the only platform that digitises the entire lifecycle of an AGM in a single solution that enables sophisticated meeting facilitation before, during and after the live meeting – including authenticated registration, live secure polling, Q&A management and relevant reporting.
Lumi is headquartered in Hampshire, UK where central functions including finance, product development and marketing are based, but has offices in 11 countries across EMEA, APAC and the Americas. Highly differentiated in the majority of markets where it is active, Lumi benefits from extremely strong, experienced and renowned MDs who head up each in-country team.
Its mobile solution enabled Lumi to facilitate the UK’s first electronic AGM held by a listed company, Jimmy Choo, in June 2016. The onset of the COVID-19 global pandemic rapidly accelerated the adoption of the Lumi virtual meeting platform, and Lumi has run over 2500 virtual and hybrid AGMs during 2020, in 35 different countries, including several hundred here in Canada.
For more information, visit www.lumiglobal.com.
Scalens is a software company providing listed companies with digital solutions to manage more efficiently their investor relations.
We deliver to top management, behavioral and qualitative data about investors’ expectations and opinions with the objective to ease benchmarking and targeting exercise.
Scalens serves 70 corporations representing 300 paying users and covers 600 companies in Europe.
Please visit our website: www.scalens.com
Supporting Partners
Association of Bulgarian Investor Relations Directors /ABIRD
For 12 years now, the Association of Bulgarian Investor Relations Directors /ABIRD/ has been actively working to unite the interests and improve the qualification of local Investor Relations Directors – members of the organization, to improve the investment climate in Bulgaria and introduce high standards for presentation of the Bulgarian public companies to investors in the country and abroad.
We unite more than 110 Investor Relations Directors of public companies and other issuers of securities, and in 2016 we opened the doors of ABIRD for all colleagues who disclose information in accordance with the Bulgarian and European legislation, and communicate with institutions such as the Financial Supervision Commission, BSE – Sofia and the Central Depository.
ABIRD is an active participant in the Bulgarian capital market, a basic corrective in terms of amendments to the regulation and implementation of the European legislation. Our activities are focused on enhancing the professional qualification of Investor Relations Directors and all of the other officials engaged with investor communication and communication with the institutions on the capital market with the purpose to improve the best disclosure and transparency practices in the activities of public companies and other issuers of securities. We actively cooperate with all institutions and participants in the Bulgarian capital market.
The Association of Bulgarian Investor Relations Directors is a collective member the National Corporate Governance Commission, the Capital Market Development Council in Bulgaria, the Corporate Social Responsibility Council to the Minister of Labor and Social Policy, the Bulgarian Industrial Capital Association. Together with our national partners we strive to make Bulgaria a more attractive place for investments.
Contacts: +359 2 9882413 and [email protected]
Web: www.abird.info
Since 1991, AERI has been bringing together the most relevant IR professionals and other stakeholders in Spain, focusing on the development of best practices, but also on providing the best possible options for networking. AERI Members are well known for their top performance in the capital markets, always developing the highest standards in the Investor Relations world.
For more information, please visit www.aeri.es
For more information, please visit www.ir-romania.ro.
Supporting the Investors Relations in Belgium. We are a community that actively exchanges experiences and ideas around investor relations. We help people grow active in investor relations by networking, knowledge exchange & meetings.
For more information, please visit www.belgian-ir.be
Created in 1987, the Cliff is the French association of financial communication professionals and is a recognized voice for the profession in France. With an active programme fostering the sharing of experiences, of expertise and of evolving topics, a successful education training programme in partnership with a renowned French University (Paris-Dauphine) and its contribution to the annual publication of the “Financial Communications: Framework and Practices” together with the OCF, the Cliff helps promote the status of Investor Relations professionals.
For more information, please visit www.cliff.asso.fr
About DIRF
The Danish Investor Relations Society (DIRF) was established by investor relations officers, financial and communications executives in a few Danish companies in 1988. The objective was and still is to promote communication between listed companies and their investors thereby increasing investor interest in Danish shares and company bonds.
DIRF represents some 270 members from approximately 100 companies. Members are primarily listed companies, and the member base represents about 95 per cent of the Danish market cap. However, also not-listed companies, organisations, service providers and consultants working with financial communications are represented, cf. DIRF members list.
DIRF activities
The DIRF network seeks to meet its objectives by arranging members’ meetings and conferences dealing with current IR-topics, sessions with academics researching in IR-related areas, trends and new ways of performing the IR-profession, new media developments, new evaluation methods, and once a year the Copenhagen Stock Exchange hosts a network meeting etc. Members’ meetings normally take place 5-6 times a year.
For more information, please visit www.dirf.dk.
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IR Club is a well-established investor relations community that allows IR professionals to network with peers from all over the world.
IR Club was formed in 2011, to address the need for an online investor relations community. Since then, it has become an overwhelming success and has around 1,400 members!
The main objectives of IR Club include the promotion of networking, communication, exchange and transfer of knowledge among investor relations professionals – we are particularly interested in the use of social media in investor relations.
IR Club is open to anyone interested in investor relations such as scientists, students and those wishing to make a career change. For the opportunity to mingle with practising IROs at all levels, as well consultants and service providers. Colleagues from the areas of private equity, open-end and closed-end funds, unlisted companies and of course all those who deal with the communication with lenders (creditor relations / fixed income) are welcome, too – we are all one ecosystem.
It takes no time to register as a member and it’s free of charge!
IR Club
Patrick Kiss
Email: [email protected]
Tel.: +49 177 232 0001
The IR club Schweiz was founded 1992 to promote the interests of the IR profession among Switzerland’s publicly-quoted companies. It is an interactive forum for the exchange of ideas, the discussion of current IR issues and the development of practical solutions.
For more information, please visit www.irclub.ch.
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Our attendees are leading IR practitioners with an established track record and strategic role within their company.
Below is a sample of some of our past attendees:
| Job title | Company | Job title | Company | |
| Associate director, IR | HelloFresh | Head, IR & communications | Savannah Energy | |
| CEO | Sharewoods | Head, IR & data intelligence | Wendel | |
| CFO | CVA | Head, IR & sustainability | Cembra | |
| Chief investor relations officer | SAP | Investor communications partner | Norden | |
| Director | OTP Bank | IR coordinator | QIAGEN | |
| Director, communications & IR | Pandox | IR manager | Nokian Tyres | |
| Director, IR | ALRO | Manager, IR | Pharming Group | |
| Director, IR | Aviva | Manager, comms & corporate access | Sobi Orphan Biovitrum | |
| Director, IR | Vestel Elektronik Sanayi ve Ticaret | Senior analyst, ESG | Banco Santander | |
| Global head of corporate access | Kepler Cheuvreux | Senior associate, IR & corp comms | Seanergy Maritime Holdings | |
| Group VP, IR, financing and treasury | Legrand Group | SVP, head, comms & IR | Swedish Orphan Biovitrum | |
| Head, group communication | Immobel | SVP, IR | GSK | |
| Head, group IR | UniCredit | SVP, IR | Ubisoft Entertainment | |
| Head, IR | Baloise Group | VP & head, IR | SES | |
| Head, IR | Caverion Corporation | VP, corp stakeholder engagement | Societe BIC | |
| Head, IR | Nexity | VP, head of IR & communications | Innate Pharma | |
| Head, IR | Rothschild & Co | VP, IR & corporate affairs | Adevinta | |
| Head, IR | TotalEnergies | VP, treasury & IR | SUSE |
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