Knowledge. Expertise. Experience.
Whatever your path, employee equity brings opportunities — and questions.
ProShare Private Markets gives private companies access to knowledge, specialist expertise and practical insight across the employee equity landscape.
Employee equity. Private company perspective.
ProShare has been at the heart of employee share ownership in the UK since 1992.
ProShare Private Markets extends that experience into the private-company landscape, creating a dedicated programme focused on the issues that matter — from managing and communicating employee equity to valuations, liquidity, evolving arrangements and IPO readiness.
The programme brings together specialist expertise, practical insight, company experience, learning and industry developments.
What to expect
Ask the experts.
Hear practical insight from specialists across share plans, tax, legal, governance, valuations, communications and more.
Stay informed.
Keep up with regulatory, market and industry developments affecting private-company employee equity.
Meet the right people.
Connect with expertise from across the private-company equity ecosystem through events, discussions and learning.
Our next focus group:
Monday 30 November 2026
In collaboration with: Tax Advantaged Share Plans Focus Group and SME (Small to Medium Sized Enterprise).
Part of the new ProShare Private Companies Program, this focus group brings together private companies and industry specialists to explore the opportunities and challenges of employee incentives in private companies.
Open to private companies, with free participation for the first 12 months.
Meet the Private Markets Committee
Anna Voinitskaia
Anna Voinitskaia leads Share Plans at Monzo, overseeing the strategic design, governance and delivery of employee equity programmes. With 20 years of experience across financial services and professional advisory firms, including Deutsche Bank, Macquarie, Barclays and EY, she brings extensive expertise in global share plans, executive remuneration and equity incentives. Her work focuses on developing scalable equity structures, supporting international expansion and creating liquidity opportunities for employees in private companies.
Sarah Long
Sarah joined WEALTH at work in 2021 and is Head of Share Plans based from her home in Yorkshire. Sarah has extensive experience in financial wellbeing, pensions and share plans both broad based and executive compensation plans on an international level and has over 30 years’ experience in the equity plans/pensions/employee benefits market and most recently she is proud to have been appointed as Chair of the ProShare Private Markets Programme, currently a DC committee member for Pensions UK and having been a Global Equity Organisation Board Member. She is passionate about all aspects of wellbeing in the workplace and in particular financial wellbeing to help improve people’s lives. A keen runner having participated in many marathons and is proud to have raised over £28,000 for Breast Cancer charities. In her spare time Sarah is also a Rugbytots coach.
Amy Reynolds
Amy leads the Forvis Mazars Equity Reward team in the UK, where she advises a wide variety of private, entrepreneurial and large, multi-national businesses, across a range of sectors on structuring appropriate equity reward plans to incentivise their employees. Amy is an active member of ProShare – the principal lobbyist of employee share plans in the UK – in particular focused on private companies, and is proud to Co-Chair the ProShare Private Markets Programme.
Amy has over 20 years of experience supporting and advising businesses, their owners and stakeholders on equity reward incentive plans. She combines analytical rigour with a practical, relationship‑driven approach, ensuring that recommendations are both evidence‑based and commercially grounded. Amy is known for her clear communication style, her ability to navigate senior‑stakeholder environments, and her commitment to producing high‑quality work that supports strategic decision‑making.
Amy is also a member of Forvis Mazars’ Governance Council and is Chair of Forvis Mazars’ Remuneration Committee.
Kevin Lim
With nearly 30 years of experience in UK share plans, Kevin Lim began his career at EY after qualifying as a solicitor. Over the course of his career, he worked at an offshore trustee company (RBC) and has spent the past 15 years across several tech platforms and administrators, including Solium/Shareworks, Investec (focusing on its VU Live share plan platform), Optio Incentives, and most recently, Vestd.
Gabbi Hatton-Stopp
Gabbi Hatton-Stopp is Head of Industry Relations at Ledgy. With 20+ years' equity industry experience from roles at service providers, charities, nonprofits, and startups across the UK, US and EU, she is a passionate advocate for the purposeful use of equity and expanding employee equity ownership worldwide.
Arran Simpson
Arran Simpson is a Partner in the Deloitte reward team based in the North of the UK and has over 20 years’ experience of advising on reward related matters, with a particular focus on advising companies and management teams on share plan design and implementation. Arran works with a range of publicly listed companies, privately owned and private equity backed businesses and advises on all aspects of share plans from design and implementation, through tax, accounting and legal issues, to operational issues and maturity.
Arran’s clients include a range of financial services, Fintech and high growth technology companies.
Arran has a degree in HR and Business Administration from Keele University and is a Chartered Tax Adviser.
Cathy Wears
Cathy Wears is Of Counsel and Innovation & Partnership Lead in the CMS Employee Incentives team. She has 20 years’ experience advising businesses from founder-led start-ups and growth companies through to global multinationals on UK and international employee share plans and equity incentives. Cathy has also helped develop technology-enabled global equity solutions, including ShareReporter, and is a regular speaker at industry events.
Paul Arens, MSc, FGE
Paul Arens is Partner and Co-Founder of Compass Strategic Advisors, helping companies grow, expand internationally, build strategic partnerships and pursue mergers and acquisitions. His leadership experience spans financial services, equity compensation, private markets and technology across Europe and North America. A Fellow of Global Equity and GEO Star Award recipient, Paul is also an angel investor, startup mentor and international speaker.
Carine Schneider, FGE
Carine Schneider is the founding partner of Compass Strategic Advisors and a leader in private markets and global compensation. Her previous roles include President of Nasdaq Private Market, CEO of Certent and founder and CEO of Global Shares. A Fellow of Global Equity, she founded the Global Equity Organization and serves as Chair Emeritus. Carine is also an author, board director and international speaker.
Noah Schneider
Noah Schneider is Client Relationship Director at Compass Strategic Advisors, with over six years of experience in client relations, business operations and strategic project management. His background includes roles at Morgan Stanley and The Cube. He focuses on building trusted relationships, connecting people and helping complex projects run smoothly. Noah holds a bachelor’s degree in communication from Western Washington University and enjoys photography, animals and emerging technology.
Amy Brimble
Amy is the Creative Director at Stitch, Deloitte’s employee communication team. She sets the creative vision behind every Stitch campaign, combining deep industry experience with a drive for innovation to create distinctive, purposeful communications.
Working closely with clients, Amy gets to the heart of each brief, uncovering the insights that inspire bold ideas. She leads her creative team in translating those ideas into inventive campaigns that meet clients’ objectives and deliver stand-out results. She combines clear creative direction with fresh thinking, to deliver distinctive campaigns that connect with employees.
Jane Darlington
Jane leads Stitch, Deloitte’s employee communication team, bringing 25 years’ experience in developing and delivering award-winning employee communications for global organisations across a wide range of industries. She is passionate about helping organisations connect with their people, turning complex challenges into clear, engaging and meaningful stories that inspire understanding and action.
Her expertise spans employee reward and recognition, equity compensation and benefits, culture, behavioural change and business transformation. Whatever the challenge, Jane takes an employee-centred approach, putting people at the heart of every communication to create experiences that resonate and drive meaningful change.