Patrick Hughes
Director, Nasdaq Advisory Services in London
Patrick has over 15 years of experience working with IR teams in various advisory capacities. Prior to joining Nasdaq, he held financial communication roles at Citigate Dewe Rogerson and at Burson-Marsteller.
Mike Keenan
IR Commercial Head, EMEA for Nasdaq Corporate Solutions
Mike has over 20 years of experience working with investor relations and corporate secretariat teams in various capacities. Prior to joining Nasdaq, he held roles at Thomson Reuters, Computershare and the ICSA.
Gunhild Grieve
Head of IR, RWE
Gunhild started her career in the European Natural Resources Corporate Finance team at Deutsche Bank in 2002. She originated and executed M&A, equity and debt capital market transactions in the utilities, oil & gas and mining sector. In 2008, Gunhild joined German utility RWE where she headed the London IR office, looking after the IR programme for the UK and US as well as taking care of the company’s shareholder register, targeting and investor perception studies. In the recent company restructuring, Gunhild was a key member of the project team preparing the IPO of RWE’s subsidiary innogy, being responsible for the equity story and offer structure. Since October 2016, she is Head of Investor Relations at RWE. She sits on the Supervisory Boards of RWE Generation and RWE Supply & Trading. Gunhild co-established EIFFEL, a company-led investor conference for utilities. She studied International Business Administration at Vienna University and holds a MScie in Business management from ESCP-EAP.
Laurie Havelock
Editor-at-large
Laurie Havelock is a freelance journalist, writer and podcaster who has been working on financial titles for more than 5 years, dabbling with commercial property finance, responsible investment and investor relations as his main areas of focus. Outside of that he also writes about music, with a predilection for independent and emerging artists, has worked on a number of comedy projects, including a podcast he makes with musical comedian Paddy Gervers called Podshambles, and hosts a weekly show on Shoreditch Radio. Laurie has been published in the Independent, the Guardian and Q Magazine.
