IR careers: Expanding your remit

When your CEO suggests you take on a project beyond your comfort zone, how you respond may determine your career path for the indefinite future. ‘I’ve found that some of the most successful IROs are those whose CEOs and CFOs have asked them to move out of IR into a totally unrelated area of the company – or to add unrelated responsibilities on to IR – and they jumped at the chance,’ says Smooch Repovich Reynolds, managing partner for the investor relations and communications practice at