Sarah joined the Employee Incentives Team of CMS as an Of Counsel in 2019. Sarah has over 20 years’ experience in dealing with all aspects of employee incentives and employee share schemes, from a legal, tax and reward perspective. She works with a broad spectrum of clients, ranging from FTSE 100 companies to private companies and start-ups.

Sarah also assists global groups with the extension of their share plan arrangements into multiple jurisdictions and cross-border employee taxation questions.

Ian is the share plans manager at The Weir Group plc, one of the world’s leading engineering technology companies providing services to clients in the mining industry. Before joining Weir 4 years ago, Ian worked in trust and share plan administration for RBS, RBC and Global Shares. Ian has over 25 years’ experience in share plan services.

Elliot is Associate Director, Relationship Management at Computershare and has over eight years of experience in the share plans industry. He holds a Bachelor of Business Studies and Finance degree as well as a Certificate in Employee Share Plans (Cert. ESP), and he is also a member of the Global Equity Organisation UK Chapter.

Shahena is the Senior Governance and Secretariat Manager at Vistry Group PLC, a FTSE 100 company and the UK’s leading provider of affordable mixed tenure homes. She manages Vistry’s all employee share plans and executive plans. Prior to joining Vistry 3 years ago Shahena worked for DWF Group plc and Capita plc.  She is a Chartered Secretary with over 10 years’ experience in share plans and share plan administration.

Tom has spent the majority of his more than 20-year finance industry career in Employee Incentives, primarily in the provision of trusteeship and administration services to a broad cross-section of clients, from multinational and FTSE 100 companies to small private companies. Tom is responsible for the Employee Incentives Team at Fiduchi, following leadership roles at a large, listed financial services provider and a law firm affiliated trust company. He is also a member of the Fiduchi Board of Directors.

Tom is a qualified accountant with a first-class honors degree in Applied Accounting and has a strong technical ability. He favours a solutions-driven approach, balanced with integrity and commerciality, to ensure clients are provided with efficient service tailored to their specific requirements.

Liam Cox is a Legal Tech Product Manager at CMS, focussed on the rollout and adoption of the firm’s Generative AI tools. Liam has been at CMS for 6 years and was previously an Associate in one of the firm’s Banking and Finance teams before making the shift into Legal Tech in 2022.

Mark Higgins is responsible for WPP’s share plans and supporting executive compensation strategy within the global people team.  Mark leads on all aspects of running share plans, including governance and design, operational effectiveness, and communications; helping the c.60,000 or so WPP people in c.70 countries participating in WPP’s plans recognise and realise value from them.

Before joining WPP, Mark managed share plans for Vodafone, where a highlight was leading employees through the world’s largest ever return of value to shareholders.  Prior to that, Mark spent over 10 years in roles with a bank and a firm of stockbrokers, supporting share plans for over 50 FTSE and global companies including Axa, Diageo, Michelin, Pearson, and Unilever.

Mark is a regular speaker at share plan events and has been a member of the UK Chapter team for over five years.

Outside work, Mark enjoys cultural and sporting events with his three children, as well as serving as club secretary, coach, and occasional player for his local cricket club.