Editors & Contributors

Paul Boyle

Paul Boyle was the first CEO of the Financial Reporting Council and is now chairman of the whistleblowing charity Protect, formerly Public Concern at Work.

Katherine Bradshaw

Katherine Bradshaw is head of communications at the Institute of Business Ethics. As well as heading up the IBE’s PR and communications, Katherine is the author of five IBE Good Practice Guides, including "Communicating Ethical Values Internally". She has a particular interest in how stories create an ethical culture and writes scenarios for ethics training, developing the IBE's e-learning tool "Understanding Business Ethics", to sensitise employees to recognise and deal with ethical dilemmas. She is an advocate for responsible business communications, having written and presented on the subject for professional bodies including CIPR, IABC and PRCA, as well as the IBE.

Andrew Brady

Andrew Brady is a director within the shareholder activism team at SquareWell Partners, a shareholder advisory firm that primarily advises large public companies on investor relations, specifically relating to governance and sustainability. Andrew began his career in audit and risk assurance at RSM UK, where he also qualified as an ICAEW chartered accountant.

Domenic Brancati

Domenic Brancati is global chief operating officer at Georgeson. He began working for Georgeson in the UK in 2000, and has since played major roles in some of the largest M&A transactions and proxy fights in the UK, Europe, Asia and Australasia. Domenic is a trusted adviser to the firm’s clients on all matters relating to stakeholder engagement. He currently has responsibility for all Georgeson across UK/Europe and parts of Asia. Domenic had also spent time in Australia running the local Georgeson business.

Alice Breeden

Alice Breeden is a partner in Heidrick & Struggles’ London office and co-regional managing partner of the CEO & Board of Directors Practice in Europe and Africa. She leads work with boards and senior leadership teams worldwide on a wide range of talent advisory issues. Alice has more than 20 years of experience working at the senior executive and board level in some of the world’s largest and most complex organizations. Previously, Alice was a member of the Heidrick Consulting Global Leadership Team.

Niamh Brennan

Niamh Brennan is the Michael MacCormac professor of management at University College Dublin (UCD). Niamh has published on financial reporting, corporate governance, forensic accounting and clinical governance. In 2002 she established the UCD Centre for Corporate Governance.

Richard Brinson

Richard Brinson is chief executive officer of cybersecurity consultancy Savanti. An experienced FTSE 100 executive and board adviser, Richard has previously held the role of chief information security officer (CISO) at a number of well-known organisations including Unilever, Sainsbury’s, RS Components and Verisure. For his thought-leading work in transforming businesses to embrace the digital age securely, he was named in the media as one of the top 100 CISOs globally. Earlier in his career, he held senior consulting roles with KPMG and Cisco.

Neil Britten

Neil Britten CDir is a director at Britten Coyne Partners, international experts in board strategic risk governance. Prior to roles as a professional director, Neil was vice president for a major international consulting firm focused on strategy and strategic change, and an executive with a major oil and chemicals conglomerate. 

His experience spans work in the UK, France, Australia and more than 20 other countries, as an executive and advisor to mostly large, multinational corporations in technology, oil and gas, consumer goods, manufacturing, and financial services sectors. He has also acted as an advisor to private equity investors in start-ups and SMEs.

Marion Brooks

Marion Brooks is chief people officer at Apogee. She is an accomplished and adaptable HR leader whose HR career spans more than 25 years. Having worked both in the UK and internationally, Marion has previously held senior HR roles within the retail, engineering, and technology sectors. Marion is responsible for developing and executing the HR strategy that supports Apogee's overall company vision and strategy.

Gerry Brown

Gerry Brown is chair of Novaquest Capital, a private equity house focused on life sciences, and of G Brown Associates Ltd, a family company providing consultancy services.   Gerry was an Independent director of Quintiles, the world’s largest clinical research organisation, from 1998 until 2010, firstly as main board director and chair of the audit committee and subsequently chair of the EMEA business. He was also chair of Biocompatibles International plc, a medical technology company. Prior to his career as a chair/ independent director he was for many years an international senior business executive working in supply chain management. Gerry is a visiting fellow at Henley Business School and a mentor for European Women on Boards. He is also a member of the advisory board on corporate governance of the Institute of Directors.

Jann Brown

Jann Brown is a former finance director at Cairn Energy and is a co-founder of Magna Energy. She currently serves as the audit committee chair at John Wood Group and at Troy Income and Growth Trust.

Martin Brown

Martin Brown is the head of CMS’s UK Restructuring & Insolvency team, with over 20 years’ experience of advising creditors, debtors and insolvency practitioners on all aspects of financial restructurings and non-litigious aspects of formal insolvency proceedings. He also advises special situation investors on their investments, including the acquisition of non-performing loan portfolios, single credits and distressed businesses.