Against the backdrop of International Women's Day on 8 March and as part of our Women in Wealth initiative, our latest Mishcon Academy Digital Sessions podcast "Empowering Equity: Female owners and donors" celebrates the successes of increasing the numbers of women in ownership positions, explores the on-going barriers to female capital wealth creation in business, and highlights the propensity of women to nevertheless be benevolent to wider society with pay-it-forward financial support.
Host Liz Hunter and guests Andra Ilie and Gabbi Stopp share statistical insights and developing trends both in the UK and globally regarding approaches to family business ownership and leadership, through a gender lens. They also examine the diversity representation when it comes to participation in employee share plans operated by UK employers, share ideas on what more could be done to improve this, and then delve into the impact that female donors are making in the world of philanthropy and charitable giving.
Host and chair: Liz Hunter – Partner, Mishcon de Reya LLP
Liz advises on equity incentives and venture capital tax reliefs. Advising private entrepreneurial businesses, family and employee-owned companies and listed multi-nationals, Liz also enjoys working with purpose-led founders and organisations in relation to crafting capital wealth creation and business ownership succession approaches, throughout the hire to retire lifecycle, that are supportive of purposeful (including philanthropic) aims.
Guest: Andra Ilie – Senior Adviser Family Office, Governance & Philanthropy, HSBC Private Banking EMEA
Andra advises on matters of Family Office, Governance and Philanthropy at HSBC Private Banking, working closely with international families, family businesses and individuals across EMEA. Andra has experience of working in two of the Big Four, as well as a single family office and an international luxury hospitality chain. Both a STEP Associate and ACA qualified, Andra has been listed in in Spear's Wealth Managers Index as one of the Top 10 Family Office Service advisers for four years in a row and has achieved the STEP Advanced Certificate in Family Business Advising and STEP Worldwide Certificate for the highest scoring paper.
Guest: Gabbi Stopp - CEO of ShareGift
Gabbi Stopp is currently Chief Executive of the share donation charity and grantmaking foundation, ShareGift. In April she joins the Global Equity Organization as their Executive Director.
She is passionate about the power and purpose of share ownership, and enjoys working with issuers, shareholders, philanthropists and charities. Prior to her role at ShareGift Gabbi ran ProShare for five years, and also enjoyed a lengthy career in executive and global employee share ownership both in-house at a number of FTSE100-listed plan issuers and at two service providers.
A chartered Company Secretary and lifelong learner, Gabbi is currently studying for a Masters in Philanthropy, Grantmaking & Social Investment. A glutton for punishment, Gabbi is training for her third marathon, in New York this November.