Sarah joined WEALTH at work in 2021 and heads up the new business team based from her home in Yorkshire. Sarah has extensive experience in both broad based and executive compensation plans on an international level and has over 20 years’ experience in the quality plans/employee benefits market. She is passionate about all aspects of wellbeing in the workplace and in particular financial wellbeing to help improve peoples lives. A keen runner having participated in many marathons and is proud to have raised over £28,000 for Breast Cancer charities. In her spare time Sarah is also a Rugbytots coach.

With over 15 years of experience in building and managing high-value business relationships worldwide, Adva plays a pivotal role in driving the growth of ShareForce’s global client base. She is instrumental in refining and adapting ShareForce’s offerings to meet the diverse needs of regional and global clients, delivering innovative and effective solutions for share-based plan administration.

Adva’s extensive background in investments and financial markets further strengthens ShareForce’s expertise. Her experience in structuring and implementing multi-managed investment solutions for both retail and institutional clients adds depth to ShareForce’s global capabilities.

A passionate advocate for a seamless and integrated approach to equity compensation, Adva focuses on strategic partnerships, technology-driven efficiencies, and client-centric innovation. She actively contributes to industry discussions, shaping the future of share plan administration and reinforcing ShareForce’s position as a market leader.

Marcus´s current role is EMEA Director of Client Management and Business Development.

He has worked within financial services during over a 25  year career and has held a variety of roles from Regional Treasury,  Structured Products Management  & Client Management positions in Citi, to leading the Share Plans European Relationship Management team in Morgan Stanley. Marcus has also worked as a Portfolio Client Manager for Abbey National in the International Financial Services Centre in Dublin and in Corporate Banking in the UK.

Joining Computershare in 2013, he has held senior management positions in the EMEA region and has worked directly with many of the largest plans and Issuers in the Share Plan industry for many years, helping the Issuers adopt best practice through technology and effective administrative processes.

Marcus is fluent in Spanish and holds a Masters Degree in Finance with the University of Barcelona, while he co-ordinated  of GEO Spanish Chapter and is a regular speaker at industry conferences and events.

Helen is Client Technical Director within the Share Plans team at MUFG Corporate Markets.  Helen has over 35 years’ experience in the share plan industry mostly working for service providers in operational teams and acting as an SME for share plan system development.  She joined MUFG (previously Link) in 2004 and has held several key roles within share plan operations, implementations and as a product specialist.

Helen is a Chartered Secretary, holds a Master of Research (MRes) in Management from Birkbeck, University of London and is a part-time lecturer for KCB.

Andrew joined Admiral Group in July 2011 and is responsible for the design, strategy and operation of Share Plans across Admiral Group, together with his team. The team cater to approximately 15,000 people around the globe.  Based in Cardiff, Admiral Group are the only Welsh FTSE100 company.

Emma is head of share plans at Flutter Entertainment plc, a duel listed company (NYSE and LSE), managing a small team who oversee all of Flutter’s equity plans across 30 countries. She is based in the UK and has worked in the share plans industry for more than 35 years in both provider and issuer roles with experience in corporate governance, executive remuneration, incentive design and implementation and global mobility. Prior to Flutter she worked in similar roles in other global companies including SSL International plc, Aggreko plc and abrdn plc. Emma is a Chartered Governance professional.

Carolina Ellerker is the Director of the Global Equity Team at Google. She is responsible for Alphabet’s stock plan administration which includes monthly releases for 150K googlers, global compliance including mobile employees in over 60 countries, and some of our Bet's equity plans. Prior to joining Google, Carolina was a director at PwC with over 10 years of experience in the area of stock plan tax treatment and compliance, cross-border incentive compensation and strategic global mobility consulting. Carolina has over twenty years of experience in the equity compensation field. She holds a Law Degree and is a Qualified Lawyer in Colombia. She also is a member of the Chartered Institute of Taxation in the UK.