Lewis Dulley is an Associate at Tapestry Compliance, an award-winning UK law firm specialising in global equity incentives. Lewis advises on all aspects of global incentive plans, including the design, drafting, implementation and operation of executive and employee incentive plans. 

Lewis advises a number of Tapestry’s largest clients on their legal, tax and governance requirements in respect of their incentive plans and tax-qualified arrangements. Lewis has also twice been published in The Law Reviews: The Executive Remuneration Review, which outlines the regulatory framework for executive remuneration in the EU. 

I am passionate about employee share ownership and its benefits for both individuals and corporations. My career has been dedicated to working in Employee Share Plans, and I am eager to continue in this industry, helping to shape the future of Global Equity and providing best practice, peer analysis and market insight to the Global community. I hold a Cert. ESP qualification in Employee Share Plans.

I have been fortunate enough to gain experience in many areas of Employee Share Plans to date. I spent several years building a scalable Share Plan communication product to support share plan issuers with educating employees and increasing participation in all-employee plans. I also was part of a team that delivered an industry-first personalised video campaign for a global audience to better help executives understand the value of their discretionary awards.

I then moved into a consultative role which enabled me to support issuers in launching new global share plans, both for all employee and executive populations. I worked with colleagues across the globe and within the GEO community to achieve successful roll-out of share plans. My work also spanned companies looking to introduce share plans as part of a major IPO, enabling me to work closely with clients, legal advisors, and IPO specialists to deliver several complex, global, and cross-border IPO projects which delivered equity to employees.

I have been a member of GEO since 2017 and have proudly served on the UKCI GEO Chapter Team since 2021. In this role, I have taken on increased responsibilities for strategy, business development, and leading our UKCI logistics, contributing to some of our most well-attended events in the GEO UKCI team.

I have attended GEO events as part of my professional development, including the Annual Conference in Edinburgh in 2023 and GEO PERE events in London and Berlin. These experiences have reinforced my pride in being part of the equity community and motivated me to continue my work in the share plans industry. At the Berlin GEO PERE event in 2023, I had the opportunity to speak on two panels, gaining valuable experience in delivering content aligned with attendees’ needs and requirements.

I am excited at the prospect of joining the GEO Future Leaders Program as I believe it will provide a platform to expand my knowledge, network and expertise in employee equity and help me contribute to shaping the future of GEO and the employee equity industry.

Melanie has over 20 years' experience in people and HR functions. Currently a scaleup advisor and consultant, her most recent role was as Chief People Officer at Lendinvest, where she led the business through an IPO on the AIM market in 2021.

Will Clifton is an associate in the Employee Benefits Group, part of the Employment Department of the London office of Baker McKenzie. He is a member of the Firm’s Global Employment and Compensation Practice Group, which provides tailored advice in respect of a variety of corporate, tax and labour law issues. Will joined Baker McKenzie after more than 8 years at PwC where he worked in the Reward & Employment and Global Mobility business units.
Will advises on a wide variety of matters relating to employee taxation, including share incentives, executive remuneration, disguised employment and the impact of corporate transactions. Will has a particular focus on employees with an international working pattern and the associated complications which arise with this.

Amy's creative vision and 20 years of industry experience is what leads the wonderful world of employee share plan communications at Deloitte. With an innovative mindset, she's always focused on what our market craves next and how she can help clients meet their objectives.

Currently, her role at global technology company Amadeus, listed in Spain, covers executive pay, incentive plan, global mobility, pay equity and broad-based reward strategy. Holly has worked as a leader in Reward with various technology players. Holly’s focus has been executive pay, equity, and incentive schemes. Having lead Reward functions for US and British companies, before Amadeus, she has experience in job architecture, M&A, strategic reward and change management. She has advised on organizational design, IPOs mergers & acquisitions and demergers. With US/UK dual nationality, Holly holds a Doctorate in Law from Emory University School of Law. She worked initially as a US benefits tax lawyer, moving to the area of executive pay in the UK in the early 2000’s.

Rebecca is a Managing Associate and specialises in all aspects of global employee and executive incentive plans for many leading global companies, including establishing and designing new plans, drafting plan documentation, advising on global tax arrangements, including tax-qualified structures across multiple jurisdictions, global due diligence and compliance. As well as presenting at industry events, Rebecca leads Tapestry’s Summer Spotlights and global webinar programmes. During her time at Tapestry, Rebecca was also an elite athlete who represented England in the 100 metres.

Tom Stevenson is an Investment Director at Fidelity International. He writes and speaks on markets, investments and personal financial issues, appearing regularly in the national press and in broadcast media. After a 20-year career as a financial journalist, working for, among others, The Independent and Daily Telegraph, he has been at Fidelity for 16 years in a number of editorial and client-facing roles. He writes a highly regarded weekly column in the Telegraph.

Tom is Relationship Director on Equiniti’s Corporate Dealing team. He has 15 years’ experience in employee share plans, with 5 years working with EQ’s dealing team. He manages bespoke share dealing and custodial services for corporate clients and high net worth individuals. He deals with large share plan vestings, including employee dealing at IPO.