Esop Sofa: Hot Topics – newspad Review
Webinar
Webinar Recording
Background: In this webinar, YBS Share Plans’ Darren Smith and guests Amanda Flint of Mercer, William Franklin of Pett Franklin and Peter Smith also of YBS Share Plans, will discuss in depth, articles of interest featured in recent editions of “It’s Our Business”, newspad of the Esop Centre.
Speaker: Darren Smith, Corporate Relationship Manager, YBS Share Plans, has worked in the Share Plans industry for over 20 years. In this time he has worked on all the operational teams including management, relationship management and most recently business development. He is a regular industry host and speaker on topics including share plans and financial wellbeing, bringing a fun and engaging style to events.
Panellist: Amanda Flint, Corporate Reward & Executive Compensation Lead, Mercer, has over twenty five years’ experience in advising organisations on executive compensation. She has a wide-ranging knowledge of the tax, legal, regulatory and accounting issues relating to reward and uses this knowledge to give pragmatic, commercial advice.
She works with Remuneration Committees of UK and international companies advising on all types of executive remuneration, including the design and implementation of incentive plans. She also works with a variety of financial services institutions and private equity/investment funds, and has extensive experience in transactions including mergers, acquisitions and IPOs.
Amanda has an MA in Law from Cambridge University. She originally qualified as a solicitor. She joined Mercer after spending 15 years as a Reward partner in KPMG and Tier A accounting firms.
Panellist: William Franklin, Partner, Pett Franklin, is an experienced share schemes practitioner and a Chartered Accountant who is widely recognised as a leading adviser on the valuation, accounting and financial aspects of all forms of remuneration, incentive and employee share schemes.
He is a member of the HMRC Employment-Related Securities & Valuations sub-group, a Board Member for the Lexis PSL Share Incentives Consulting Editorial Board and he contributes to Tolley’s Guidance on Employment Taxes and to PLC. William has been appointed as Chairman of the Worked Examples Group, a group of experts who work with HMRC to publish examples of share valuations over a wide range of employee share ownership and employee ownership arrangements. He is also an Honorary Research Fellow for the Esop Centre and a regular speaker at conferences on share schemes and employee ownership. He has a wide background in tax advice and is a member of the Chartered Institute of Taxation.
Panellist: Peter Smith, Future Planning Manager, YBS Share Plans, is an employee share plans expert with 15 years’ experience, particularly in global discretionary share plans for FTSE100 and FTSE250 companies. He is a passionate advocate of the opportunities for employers in enabling financial wellbeing for their employees and has played a key role in shaping and delivering innovations in this space such as direct from salary workplace savings. His role includes: Leading research into future share plans requirements; staying abreast of industry and HMRC developments informing future investment requirements and system developments; future-proofing share plans technological capability; and forecasting, monitoring and evaluating commercial performance.
Speaker(s):
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Darren Smith
Corporate Relationship Manager
YBS Share Plans
Chairman:
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Professor Michael Mainelli
Executive Chairman
Z/Yen Group Limited
