ProShare Annual Awards

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ProShare Awards

The annual ProShare Awards are the most prestigious and highly sought-after accolades in the share plan industry, celebrating excellence across the sector. The following categories below showcase outstanding plans, initiatives, strategies, individuals, and teams that have made a significant impact over the past 12-18 months.

The 2025 Awards were held in November, and you can read about the winning plans, individuals and teams in our winners book

Award Winners 2025

Congratulations to our 2025 winners

Winner - Caledonia Investments

Commended – Pollen Street Group Limited

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Winner - Personio

Commended – Grant Thornton UK Advisory & Tax LLP

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Winner - Diageo PLC

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Winner - Crest Nicholson Holding plc

 

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Winner - Haleon

Commended – Rolls-Royce plc

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Winner - Anglo American plc

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Winner - Vinted

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Winner – Carlsberg Britvic

Commended – Anglo American plc

 

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Winner – Monzo

Commended – Stark

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Winner – easyJet

Commended – Wise

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Winner – JD Wetherspoon

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Winner – Barclays

Commended – Saudi Aramco

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Winner – BT Group plc

Commended – Centrica plc

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Winner – Diageo PLC

Commended – Monzo

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Winner - Bryony Wilson, Equiniti

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Winner - Liz Pierson

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Winner - Jay Foley

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Awards 2025 Gallery

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2025 Sponsors

Thank you to our awards sponsors. If you'd like to sponsor this year's event, please email team@proshare.org

ProShare Awards 2025 Judges

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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.
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Former Group Company Secretary, Kingfisher plc

Chloe Barry FCG

Chloe will step down as Group Company Secretary of Kingfisher plc in November 2025. Chloe joined Kingfisher – owner of B&Q and Screwfix among other DIY brands – in January 2019 and was appointed Group Company Secretary in December 2021. Chloe started her company secretarial career at PWC in both London and Jersey and has since held a number of company secretarial roles at leading FTSE 100 companies, including BG Group, Centrica, Intercontinental Hotels Group and Electrocomponents. Most recently, Chloe was Group Company Secretary of Sophos Group plc a FTSE 250 company specialising in security software and hardware. Chloe is a Fellow of the Corporate Governance Institute and is a member of the Institute’s Accreditation Panel for Board Performance Reviewers.
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Board Member, CGIUKI

Silvana Glibota-Vigo FCG

Silvana joined the Board of The Chartered Governance Institute UK & Ireland (CGIUKI) 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 CGI’s Global Policy & Advocacy Committee Thought Leadership Committee, a member of the Governance Officer Apprenticeship Trailblazer Group, and a practitioner member of the European Corporate Governance Institute.
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Chief Reward Officer, Unilever

Carl Saunders

In April 2025 Carl joined Unilever as Chief Reward Officer. In that role he shapes and leads Unilever’s reward agenda in over 100 markets all around the world. Carl has over 20 years’ experience in the FMCG industry and over the last decade he has also led the reward agenda for The Coca-Cola Company, based in Atlanta, USA as well as at Coca-Cola European Partners, based out of Brussels, Belgium. The teams that Carl has led have a common connection: they have all demonstrated a strong commitment to employee share ownership, implemented scaled international employee share ownership programs, and many have been past ProShare winners!
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2024 Highlights

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Awards 2024 photos

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The Winners Book 2024

2023 Highlights

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The Winners 2023

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Awards 2023