Anna Voinitskaia is the Head of Share Plans at Monzo, where she designs and manages employee equity programs. With over 20 years of experience in managing employee share plans, she is an expert in areas like deferred compensation, global tax and legal compliance, and she recently led a successful employee secondary event to provide liquidity for Monzo's employees.

Dave is a Director in Deloitte's Equity & Incentives team in the UK and is a qualified chartered accountant.  

Dave is an incentive specialist with more than 18 years experience in the field. Dave has significant practical experience of working with employers to deliver all aspects of incentives to their employees and works directly with a range of different clients from quoted companies to smaller private companies and across a wide range of industries.

Dave also leads Deloitte's national accounting for share based payments practice and has extensive experience assisting a wide range of clients by valuing their share based payments and helping them understand the accounting implications of various forms of incentive arrangements.

Phil Roper is a Partner in KPMG UK’s Global Transfer Pricing Services practice with more than 25 years of experience advising on international tax matters including transfer pricing. Phil advises multinational groups on designing, implementing, documenting and defending transfer pricing policies. As KPMG UK’s National Technical Leader for Transfer Pricing Phil regularly advises on transfer pricing issues relating to employee share based remuneration and has helped clients successfully navigate tax authority examinations. Phil has also authored articles on this topic Share based reward: the transfer pricing cost conundrum | KPMG UK. Prior to joining KPMG in 2012 Phil worked in the tax department of a leading global pharmaceutical company.

Alison Hughes is a Director in KPMG UK’s Reward Services practice with more than 25 years of experience of employee incentive matters. She advises clients on the tax, regulatory, design, market practice and corporate governance aspects of incentive arrangements with a particular focus on global share plans. She has worked for a wide range of UK and global clients both privately owned and listed. Prior to joining KPMG she worked as a solicitor advising in the corporate tax department of an international law firm.

Mala Patel is a Senior Associate in the Employee Incentives practice at international law firm CMS Cameron McKenna Nabarro Olswang. Mala assists a full range of clients from start-ups to listed global companies and private equity houses, advising on the design and implementation of all types of cash and equity-based employee incentive arrangements and providing tax and compliance advice. Mala also advises clients on the impact of takeovers and investments on share plans, assistance with operating employee benefit trusts and implementing tax advantaged share plan arrangements.

Mala is a clear and strategic thinker, consistently delivering commercially attuned advice that goes beyond the legal framework to consider broader business implications. Her ability to ask the right questions and anticipate “what if” scenarios ensures that her guidance is both practical and forward-looking.

Prior to qualifying as a lawyer, Mala spent nearly 15 years in industry as a brand manager for a number of consumer goods brands. As a second-career lawyer, Mala brings a wealth of prior experience and a fresh, valuable perspective to employee share plans.

Lucy Anderson is the Head of Growth and Client Solutions at Howells, with nearly 20 years of experience in stockbroking, including the past 9 focused on employee share plans. Her background in broking gives her a distinctive perspective, enabling her to understand client needs beyond technology and deliver solutions that create real impact.

Passionate about the role of equity in engaging and motivating employees, Lucy works with clients to provide solutions that not only meet corporate objectives but also help participants appreciate the value of becoming shareholders. She is equally committed to supporting employees after vesting, ensuring they have the tools and knowledge to make the most of their equity.

Lucy draws on her extensive industry experience and strong professional network to provide clients with bespoke, practical solutions tailored to their goals. Known for her collaborative approach, she combines strategic insight with a deep understanding of how share plans work in practice.

Beyond her role at Howells, Lucy co-founded a networking group focused on developing the next generation of share plan professionals, encouraging knowledge-sharing and growth within the industry.

Dan is an ICSA certified share plan professional who has worked within the share plans industry for almost 16 years. He started his career in one of the largest global share plan administrators, working in a variety of share plan roles over a nearly 10-year period, before moving to the issuer side. He now supports Sage’s Share Plan Director as the Share Plan Programme Manager, through the management and delivery of Sage’s global share plan events across both their discretionary and all-employee suite of plans.