Ghal is Client Director with over 20 years’ experience within Equiniti’s Corporate Dealing department. He provides dealing and custodial services in equities for both corporate and institutional investors, as well as for offshore trusts and directors. He specialises in share plan trading, as well as IPO custody and sell downs.

Hayley is a strategic reward leader with extensive reward, benefit and share plan experience in complex multi-national organisations. Passionate about designing affordable reward frameworks and solutions that are aligned to business strategy, meet business needs and attract and retain talent. Experience includes grading, benchmarking, global pay reviews, incentive design and implementation, global share plan management, policy development and executive remuneration. A true believer that reward strategy, programmes and interventions can only be leveraged when truly embedded into the organisation and well understood by colleagues, and so needs to be underpinned by simple and engaging employee communications.

Lorna is a Senior Associate and on the Board of Directors at Tapestry Compliance. Lorna specialises in all aspects of global and UK employee share plans and executive remuneration. She advises many leading global companies and banks on their global share plans including advising on global due diligence and securities filings, stock plan design and drafting plan documents. Lorna also advises companies on the impact of transactions on their global share plans. Lorna leads on a number of our large global clients such as Dell Technologies, Morgan Stanley, Rolls-Royce and TripAdvisor.

Mitan joined Fidelity in 2018 and is based in London. Mitan explores business opportunities in key global markets, while supporting Fidelity’s equity compensation platform and business growth ambitions.
Mitan has extensive experience in both broad-based and executive compensation plans on an international level. He began working in the international equity compensation industry in 2000. Prior to joining Fidelity, Mitan held senior roles at Equatex (formerly part of Swiss bank UBS), Computershare, Morgan Stanley, and Citigroup.
Mitan was elected as a board member of the Global Equity Organization (GEO) in July 2016, and has served as the co-chair of the GEO Provider Council. Mitan received a bachelors degree in mechanical engineering from Brunel University in London, and has held the ICSA certificate in Employee Share Plans since 2003.

Kathryn is a partner in Deloitte Legal, specialising in employment and labour law. Kathryn has 20 years’ experience in advising clients on Fair Pay, ensuring compliance with minimum wage, holiday pay, gender and ethnicity pay gap reporting, and pay equity/equal pay. Kathryn leads on Pay Transparency and compliance with the EU Pay Transparency Directive, working with legal and reward advisory colleagues across Europe to advise clients as they plan their roadmap towards its implementation in 2026.

Liz is a partner in our Global Employer Services practice and leads Deloitte’s incentives and reward legal team. She is a solicitor with 20 years experience advising on all aspects of incentives and reward.

Liz advises on the full breadth of services relating to share plans, including the design of new plans, implementing plans and their day to day operation and has substantial experience advising on all related incentives matters and the impact of corporate transactions on share plans. Liz also has a deep technical knowledge on the tax aspects of incentives.

Liz’s clients include major listed companies and financial services clients and she sits on the consultation board for LexisPSL and is a regular speaker on incentives matters.

Cathy is an Of Counsel in the CMS Employee Incentives team with over 15 years’ experience advising clients on their share plans. Cathy assists a full range of clients from start-ups to large listed multinational companies, advising on the design and implementation of a diverse range of share plans including tax and compliance advice. She regularly hosts workshops on share options for start up companies and founders and has presented at Global Equity Organisation and ProShare events in the UK and Europe.
As part of her role, Cathy advises clients on the impact of takeovers and investments on share plans, assists with operating employee benefit trusts and implementing tax advantaged share plan arrangements. Cathy has a wealth of experience working with international share plans, working with ShareReporter and CMS to create the ShareReporter database.

Andrew is a partner in the Employee Incentives team, specialising in the design and implementation of employee equity plans. Andrew acts for a broad range of clients, including growth companies, private equity houses and large listed companies, advising on both legal and tax issues relating to the operation of equity plans. He is a regular speaker at industry events.
At the beginning of 2021, Andrew led the successful launch of the ShareReporter joint venture between CMS and a highly-experienced tech team led by Mike Pewton. ShareReporter is transforming the global share plan market through the creation of technology-led solutions, underpinned by a worldwide database of legal and tax information which is managed by CMS. Andrew sits as a non-executive on the board of ShareReporter, helping to shape the company’s future strategy.

Chris is a partner with over 24 years of service with KPMG UK and is KPMG’s global Head of Reward.  KPMG’s UK Reward practice specifically consists of over 60 people, providing tax, legal, reward consulting, accounting and valuation advice to a broad range of clients.  The global practice extends this to over 400 reward professionals working in different capacities across the Americas, ASPAC and Europe.  He works with a broad range of businesses around both strategic and tax efficient compensation design, with a particular focus on domestic and global businesses in the private capital space.