ProShare Annual Awards

The ProShare Annual Awards Dinner is a sell-out event every year, celebrating the crème de la crème of the share plans industry. For 2024, we will be celebrating at the prestigious and stylish InterContinental on Park Lane.

As anyone who has attended previous ceremonies will be able to testify, the annual ProShare Awards dinner is the employee share plan sector's most spectacular night of the year! This year we will be celebrating the cream of the share plan world at our swish and stylish venue, The InterContinental on London’s Park Lane on Thursday 28^th November.

Date: Thursday 28th November 2024
Venue: Intercontinental Park Lane, W1J 7QY
Time: From 6pm - late

Book your tickets and tables now

If you are unsure which membership category your organisation has, please get in touch – team@proshare.org

We are equally delighted and excited to announce the brilliant Rhys James as the host for this year's ProShare Awards!

Rhys is a comedian, writer, and actor. He has appeared on Roast Battle (Comedy Central), Russell Howard’s Stand Up Central (Comedy Central), A League of Their Own (Sky One) and Live At The Apollo (BBC Two), and was a regular panellist on Mock The Week (BBC Two).

Rhys has performed six solo shows at the Edinburgh Fringe to sell-out audiences and critical acclaim. He has fronted the BBC Radio 4 series, Rhys James is…, Rhys James Isn’t… and Rhysearch. He also hosts the podcast Early Work in which he interviews celebrities about the creative writing they did before they were in their current vocation.

It’s going to be a lot of fun, so don’t miss out. You can still purchase tickets for the Awards, but you need to act quickly to avoid disappointment!

Schedule	Time
Drinks Reception	18:00
Dinner is called	19:15
Welcome – Murray Tompsett, Head of ProShare	19:30
A word from our Host - Rhys James	19:35
Starters Served	19:50
Presentation of First Awards	20:20
Main Course, desserts and coffee served	21:00
Prize Draw and presentation of remaining awards	22:10
Bar opens, and dancing begins	22:45
Bar closes, Taxis and Carriages	02:00

2024 Sponsors

Main sponsor

J.P. Morgan Workplace Solutions

J.P. Morgan Workplace Solutions is a holistic tech and service-based offering, created to empower your team to navigate their workplace incentives with confidence. From equity compensation management to financial education, wealth building and beyond, our intuitive solutions are designed to help you attract and keep talented people who believe in your company as much as you believe in them. Your participants are provided with their own account, where they can view and transact their shares, in their own currency and language of choice. Our executive services offering provides elevated, individual support with its own dedicated team and professional advice on wealth and equity, with a platform which neatly integrates with your Human Resource Information System and tax systems. More than just your equity compensation partner, we bring your reward strategy to life. Contact us today to find out how we can help empower your workforce.

Photobooth sponsor

Computershare

Computershare is the world's leading provider of specialist equity compensation and employee share plan services. We have been managing employee share plans for more than 30 years. With over 1,000 experts in 20 locations around the world, our expertise spans all types of plans: global and country-specific, discretionary and all-employee. We partner with over 1,500 clients supporting 5.2 million participants worldwide to help them build employee-centric, high-performing cultures

Prize draw sponsor

Equiniti

Equiniti are the UK's leading provider of share registration and associated investor schemes. With over 5,000 employees across 26 locations worldwide, we’ve been delivering innovative solutions to clients for over 70 years. Our expertise spans across multiple areas, including share registration, pensions, investment services, and employee benefits. Through our employee share plan services, we've helped hundreds of businesses to design, launch and administer their share plans, providing specialist solutions powered by technology we've developed. Our operational expertise supports the ‘employee to shareholder’ journey, putting employees at the heart every step of the way. To find more, get in touch!

Shortlisted

Congratulations to all ProShare Awards 2024 shortlisted companies

Judges

Independent Director, Cabinet Office

Janet Cooper OBE

Janet is an experienced Chair, non-executive director and trustee. Janet is a Non-Executive Director of Nurture Landscapes Group an Independent Director at the Cabinet Office, Chairs two remuneration committees and Chairs a group of 150 Remuneration Committee Chairs. Until recently Janet was Acting Chair of RNLI (Lifeboats). Janet has over 30 years’ experience of advising on global executive and employee share plans, with Chambers Legal Directory ranking Janet as the top lawyer in this area. Janet developed and led the employee incentives team at Linklaters, where she was a partner for over 20 years, and then co-founded specialist law firm, Tapestry, which she left at the end of 2020. Janet was involved in founding ProShare 30 years ago and now Chairs ProShare’s Advisory Panel. Janet also co-founded the Global Equity Organisation in 1999 and was appointed Co-founder and Vice Chair Emeritus.

Non-Executive Director, Scottish Widows, Aon UK Limited and H.M. Land Registry

Kirstine Cooper CBE

Kirstine is a seasoned executive with a successful career, spanning over 30 years in the Insurance/Financial Services sector. Latterly, Group General Counsel and Company Secretary, Head of the Office of the Chairman and an Executive Committee member of Aviva plc. Throughout her career at Aviva, she held various roles including Interim Chief People Officer, and has managed regulatory affairs, public policy, sustainability and group investigations. She has worked closely with Government departments including BEIS, DCMS and HM Treasury to drive legislative change. She is currently a Non-Executive Director of Scottish Widows Group and Aon UK Limited and is the Senior Independent Director of HM Land Registry.

Board Member, CGIUKI

Silvana Glibota-Vigo FCG

Silvana joined the Board of The Chartered Governance Institute UK & Ireland in August 2023, having been a co-opted member since March 2022. She joined Keller Group as Group Head of Secretariat in October 2020. She has been working in corporate governance since 2004 and for UK premium listed companies, including FirstGroup, British Land, International Distributions Services (formerly Royal Mail) and Prudential, since 2006. Silvana is a member of the Institute’s Thought Leadership Committee, a member of the Governance Officer Apprenticeship Trailblazer Group, a practitioner member of the European Corporate Governance Institute and a member of the Association of Corporate Secretaries of Latin America.

Independent Reward Consultant and Advisor

Richard Hortop

Richard has over 30 years' of experience in senior reward leadership roles with multinational organisations including Comcast, Sky, Serco, Capital One and Hewlett Packard and has been a previous ProShare Award winner with the plans at Sky/Comcast. He currently advises organisations on all aspects of reward strategy and design through his independent consultancy, and provides business coaching support to charity leaders through the Pilotlight 360 programme. In his spare time, among other things, Richard is an active member of Misbourne River Action group, which aims to monitor and influence the water quality and environmental management of the Misbourne, one of our rarest chalk streams, which flows through the Chilterns.