ProShare Annual Awards

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.

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.

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.

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.