Manchester Directors Dinner

Free

Join us for an exclusive dinner in Manchester with Gervais Williams, President of the QCA and veteran small-cap investor; Kate O’Neill, Director of Stakeholder Engagement & Corporate Affairs at the Financial Reporting Council; and Charlie Crawshay, Deputy Director General of the Takeover Panel. Take advantage of a unique opportunity to hear directly from leading experts and gain insights into the latest investor and regulator perspectives on market reforms, the government’s growth agenda, and the economic outlook. Following on, company directors will have the opportunity for Q&A. 

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Event Details

Date: 11 March, 2025

Start time: 18:00 GMT

End time: 21:00 GMT

Venue: Manchester

Directions: Details provided upon booking

Phone: +44 (0)20 7600 3745

Email: mail@theqca.com

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Gervais Williams, Premier Miton Group 

Merryn is an award winning commentator on economics, financial markets and personal finance as well as a popular speaker and Gervais Williams was a previous Chairman of the Quoted Companies Alliance and took on the honorary, non-board position of QCA President in October 2023. Gervais manages a number of funds that aggregate to over £1bn. He is also Senior Executive Director at Miton Group plc. Gervais’s fund management career extends over 30 years including 17 years at Gartmore. In 2011, he joined Miton Group plc where he has set up a number of new funds with Martin Turner, that in aggregate now exceed £1.5bn. He sits on a number of industry bodies including the board of The Investment Association, and is an advisor the AIM Advisory Council and the government’s Patient Capital Review.

Gervais is the author of a number of books on the changing economic outlook going forward, and a regular industry commentator on the Radio 4 Today program. His first book ‘Slow Finance’ was published in the autumn of 2011, with his second book ‘The Future is Small’ in November 2014, and his third book ‘The Retreat of Globalisation’ in December 2016.

Kate joined the FRC as the Director of Stakeholder Engagement and Corporate Affairs in May 2020. Previously she was the Head of Corporate Development at Jupiter Asset Management where she was responsible for corporate strategy, investor relations and communications. Kate was the Managing Director of Investor Relations at Lloyds Banking Group during the financial crisis before becoming a Partner at Brunswick and then at Maitland advising global clients on capital markets and communications issues.

After qualifying as a lawyer, Kate spent most of her career in the financial services sector in the UK, Europe and Australasia in senior leadership roles in distribution and alternative assets at AMP Asset Management, Henderson Global Investors and RBS Asset Management.

Charlie Crawshay, Deputy General, The takeover Panel

Charlie Crawshay joined the Takeover Panel as a permanent Secretary in April 2001 having previously been on secondment for two years from 1998 to 2000. In April 2009, he was appointed as a Deputy Director General. He previously worked as a solicitor for Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and Travers Smith.

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