Mark Troman is deputy head of EMEA equity research at BofA Merrill Lynch Global Research, a post
he has held since March 2019.
Based in the London office. Mark was previously head of the Pan Europe Capital Goods research
team, which covered around 40 stocks. Mark’s research focus was on larger electrical equipment
companies but he also has extensive experience of the industrial machinery sector. The team was
consistently highly ranked by the major investor surveys for over a decade.
Prior to joining Merrill Lynch, Mark was a manager at LEK Consulting working on numerous
projects, including the launch of the low-cost airline GO.
Mark holds an MA in Engineering and a post-graduate distinction in management and finance, all
from Cambridge University.

Ben Riley is one of the UK’s leading AGM and Investor Relations experts and has wide ranging experience of delivering successful AGMs and shareholder engagement days across the global marketplace, acting for both Issuers and non-listed organisations.

His technical expertise has helped companies successfully harness the power of virtual and hybrid meetings and, coupled with Lumi’s leading on-premise capabilities, has delivered hundreds of successful physical, hybrid and virtual AGMs and Investor Relations meetings.

Based in London, Jonathan Dickson is responsible for the OTC Markets Group’s business development efforts in Western Europe.  In this role, Jonathan helps issuers to navigate the U.S. capital markets, globalize their investor relations outreach and implement best practices to maximize the success of cross-trading. Prior to joining OTC Markets, Jonathan was co-branch head and a portfolio manager at Redmayne Bentley where he managed bespoke investment mandates for private clients throughout the UK and Europe. Jonathan holds a BA from the University of Surrey and is a Chartered Member of the Securities and Investment Institute.

Emily is Head of Investor Relations and Strategic Projects at Bakkavor Group plc. Bakkavor is the leading provider of fresh prepared food in the UK and has a presence in two high growth markets, the US and China. Emily started her career at PwC, qualifying as a Chartered Accountant and subsequently performing financial due diligence for corporates and private equity clients on M&A opportunities within the retail and consumer sector. In 2018, Emily joined Bakkavor as part of the Group Strategy team, leading on acquisitions, strategic reviews and capital projects. In 2020, she completed a secondment to Bakkavor’s US business as Finance Director of the Los Angeles manufacturing site and in May 2021 was appointed to her current role as Head of Investor Relations.

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).

Amit Bhalla is the Senior Vice President and Head of Investor Relations at Schneider Electric based in London. Amit started his career in consulting and has over the years worked in diverse corporate and finance leadership roles in multinational corporations across UK, Singapore, China, France and India. Amit is a qualified Chartered Accountant with management courses from Insead and UNC.

Martin has an undergraduate degree from Durham University in History and qualified as a Chartered Accountant at PricewaterhouseCoopers.

He then moved to Credit Suisse in London as an Analyst, before joining BAE Systems in 2002 as a finance controller in the customer solutions and support.

From there Martin joined the M&A team and led acquisitions in the US, Australia and UK along with the shipbuilding consolidation in the UK.

In 2008, Martin became the Finance Controller of UK/RoW before becoming Finance and IMT Director of Mission Systems and then Finance and IMT Director for Maritime Services.

In June 2016 Martin became the Investor Relations Director for BAE Systems a role he holds today.

Sue Lloyd’s appointment as Vice-Chair of the International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB), effective 1 March 2022, was announced in January 2022.

She served as a member of the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) from 2014 and as IASB Vice-Chair from 2016. She also served as Chair of the IFRS Interpretations Committee from 2017.

In addition to her IASB responsibilities, she played a leading role in the establishment of the ISSB from 2020, including as a member of the Technical Readiness Working Group, which was created by the Trustees to give the ISSB a running start.

Prior to becoming an IASB member, Ms Lloyd worked for the IFRS Foundation as a senior technical director, leading the development of new IFRS Accounting Standards, and as director of capital markets with responsibility for the IASB’s reform of accounting for financial instruments. She also worked for the IFRS Foundation from 2002 to 2004 as a technical project manager.

Ms Lloyd has held various positions in investment banking both in the UK and in Australia and has served as a member of the Australian Accounting Standards Board (AASB). She has a Master’s degree in accounting and finance from the University of Auckland in New Zealand.

Ruben Segura-Cayuela is a Managing Director and the head of Europe Economics Research. The Europe economics team was ranked #1 in the 2019, 2020 and 2021 II Global Fixed Income Research Survey. Prior to joining the firm, Segura-Cayuela was a senior economist at the International Affairs Directorate of Banco de España, where he was responsible for the coverage of global fiscal and structural policies as well as macroeconomic analysis and academic research. He has also worked as an advisor in macroeconomic and financial issues to the Deputy Minister for Economic Affairs in Spain. Segura-Cayuela was awarded a PhD in Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and holds a master’s degree in Economics and Finance from CEMFI.

Azhar Joined CtrlPrint in April 2014, he heads up UK & Asia Delivery, started his career with BT Major Business, Azhar now helps deliver CtrlPrint’s software as a service to issuers across the globe from Australia, Singapore, Hong Kong, Dubai and Europe.  When it comes to the human experience of reporting, it’s not uncommon for lives to be disrupted and huge challenges can result, such as stress, sickness, higher cost of processing the production of corporate reports, not just in energy and man-hours but errors and corporate reputation. Joining April 2014,  Azhar helps his clients reduce these challenges and improve the human experience of corporate reporting. Through this process, Azhar also helps build better relationships both internally with reporting stakeholders and with his client’s suppliers, such as Design Agencies and consultants.  Azhar read Biomedical Science at Brighton University, is a MSCA and loves dog walks in the countryside and picnics at Blenheim Palace when The Duke of Marlborough hasn’t shut it to the public. Azhar has a passion to help in a real tangible way to change reporting process behaviours to suit the future we want to build.