David is a director in the Burges Salmon’s technology and communications team, advising on a range of technology, intellectual property and commercial matters for clients in a number of sectors. David has extensive experience advising on data protection and GDPR issues, including responding to data breaches and associated regulatory investigation.
Daniel Veazey joined Georgeson in 2023 as corporate governance manager, specialising in stewardship, corporate governance, executive remuneration and ESG analysis. Daniel leads a team of governance analysts with responsibilities focused on engaging with companies and investors on upcoming shareholder meetings, shareholder activism and mergers and M&A scenarios. Previously, Daniel gained over 25 years’ experience within the asset management industry: he was head of corporate governance at Schroders Investment Management and has also worked for Wellington Management as stewardship practice leader.
Jeroen Veldman is a senior research fellow at Cass Business School. Jeroen is interested in the way the historical development of the corporate form can be understood from the perspective of organisation studies, and how these developments play out in and between discourses of law, finance, accounting, politics, corporate governance and public governance. He has published on these topics in the British Journal of Management, Critical Perspectives on Accounting, Business Ethics: European Review, Business and Society Review, ephemera, and M@n@gement. Along with Hugh Willmott he is engaged in a research project on corporate governance: https://themoderncorporation.wordpress.com/
Daniele Vitale is head of ESG UK/Europe at Georgeson. He joined Georgeson in 2010 and specialises in corporate governance and executive remuneration analysis. Daniele has over fifteen years’ experience advising institutional investors and corporations on corporate governance, executive remuneration and proxy voting issues. Previously, he worked as senior researcher at PIRC Ltd, a London-based proxy advisory firm, and at Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) and Deminor in Brussels.
Christian Voegtlin is professor of managerial responsibility at Audencia Business School. His main research interests are in responsible leadership and innovation, business ethics and neuroscience, and corporate social responsibility. He has published several academic articles on these topics. He is a former section editor of the Journal of Business Ethics and currently serves as associate editor for Business & Society.
Mark Walker is Of Counsel in the employment team at CMS Cameron McKenna Nabarro Olswang LLP. He advises on all aspects of employment law. Mark has particular expertise in the employment and pensions implications of business transfers, outsourcings, restructurings, and other corporate and real estate transactions, and drafting and negotiating the relevant employment indemnities and risk sharing mechanisms. He also has considerable experience of advising on staff transfers from the public sector. He has worked on many reorganisations/restructurings, including those with an international element.
Matthew is a partner in Burges Salmon’s dispute resolution team. He has broad experience of handling complex multi-party disputes as well as regulatory investigations and enforcement. He has a particular interest in insurance issues, including Directors & Officers and Warranty & Indemnity disputes. Matthew regularly advises directors, board members and NEDs on their professional duties.
Sarah Walker-Smith is CEO of legal and professional services group, Ampa. She is chief executive at Shakespeare Martineau and is the first female, non-lawyer CEO of a UK law firm in the legal top 50.
A trained chartered accountant, Sarah has worked for PwC and Deloitte, and has marketing and branding experience gained at Boots plc.
Sarah looks to challenge the norm in the legal sector and wider business world. She is passionate about levelling the playing field, encouraging everyone to bring their authentic selves to work. She is interested in exploring the relationship between leadership, purpose and trust.
Sarah is a governor at Nottingham Trent University, is a member of the Society of Leadership Fellows at St George’s House and is on the board of the West Midlands CBI Council. She is non-executive chair of We Are Radikl.
Graham Ward is adjunct professor of leadership at INSEAD and is the INSEAD Global Leadership Centre coaching practice director for the Transition to General Management (TGM) and LFR (Leading for Results) programmes. He has also worked on many company specific programmes including KPMG, Microsoft, Pfizer, Daimler Chrysler, TNK/BP, HSBC, Ernst and Young and SAP.
He is a member of the coaching faculty for the Management Acceleration Programme (MAP), Advanced Management Programme (AMP), and Executive MBA (EMBA).
Outside of INSEAD, Graham specialises in coaching C-suite executives and consulting around team dysfunctions. Prior to INSEAD he spent 22 years in finance, including 16 years at Goldman Sachs, where he co-led the European Equity business.
Kerrie is executive director of the International Corporate Governance Network (ICGN) and is responsible for delivering ICGN’s extensive work programme of policy representation, international conferences, education and guidance across 50 markets.
Mohamed Warsame is senior policy and external affairs executive at the Chartered Institute of Internal Auditors. He joined the IIA from the government Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, where he was a policy adviser and project manager for two years. Before that, Mo spent three years at the Department for Work and Pensions, first as an employment adviser and later taking the role of tactical solutions/service innovation lead.
