Andy Griffiths
Executive Director
Andy has over 25 years of international investment experience as a top rated investment professional at Capital Group and M&G. Throughout his career Andy has been responsible for financial sector investments and has consistently been ranked among the leading equity investors in Europe. Andy was also an Operating Partner with Corsair Capital until the end of 2017.
Andy is a former Fulbright Commissioner, sits on the UnLtd Ventures Advisory Board and is a trustee of MoE.
Fiona Ellard
COO
Fiona has over 30 years of investment and corporate governance experience. Fiona joined the Forum in September 2017 from BlackRock where she was COO of the BlackRock Investment Institute, Deputy Chair of the Americas Investment Stewardship Committee and previously had senior product strategist roles in the EM and UK Equity teams. Fiona began her career at UBS Asset Management where she was a UK equity portfolio manager.
Fiona is a fellow of the Chartered Securities Institute.
Victoria Sant
Managing Director
Victoria initially joined the Investor Forum on secondment from the Wellcome Trust, where she managed the external equity manager portfolio for ten years.
Victoria is a member of the investment committee of the National Trust, and a Non-Executive Director of the Henderson Smaller Companies Investment Trust. She is also an advisory board member at Ownership Capital B.V and Chair of the Investment Committee at the Global Crop Diversity Trust. Previously, she was an investment consultant at LCP.
Habib Annous
Senior Adviser
Habib has over 30 years of experience in the investment management industry. He retired from Capital Group in July 2020.
He is a Non-Executive Director of Hammerson PLC.
Tim Shanagher
Senior Adviser
Tim has over 30 years of investment experience, advising and trading for international corporate clients and institutional investors. Working in Equity Research and Distribution at W.I. Carr, he was subsequently a director and board member of Schroder Securities and was instrumental in the sale of their Japanese business to Credit Suisse. Most recently he was head of research for Credit Suisse in Japan and co-head of APAC distribution in Europe.
Tim Is Strategic Adviser to Hyde Park Partners and is an investment research consultant at Quaero Capital LLP.
Susan Sternglass Noble
Senior Adviser
Susan has extensive investment experience having held senior roles at Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, CQS and AXA Framlington. She has been a Specialist Adviser to the Treasury Select Committee of the House of Commons and a Commissioner on the Dormant Assets Commission.
Susan is currently a Non-Executive Director of Unity Trust Bank and Asia Dragon Trust and is a Trustee of Link Age Southwark.
Guy Walker
Senior Adviser
Guy has over 25 years investment and corporate finance experience. He was a UK & European equities portfolio manager at UBS and prior to that was Global Head of ESG Investment at Schroders.
Guy is a qualified pension trustee director and was board director on Schroders pension fund.
Laura Devonshire
Finance & Operations Assistant
Laura joined the Forum in 2019 . Laura has 17 years experience in Business Operations roles with Microsoft UK Ltd and EY UK LLP.
Laura’s experience includes business systems implementation, process management, resourcing deployment, management information and training.
Vy Nguyen
Stewardship Analyst
After interning at the UNHCR London, Vy joined the Forum in Jan 2021, driven by a combined interest in sustainability and the investment management industry. As a Stewardship Analyst, she assists Senior Advisers in collective engagements and researches for ESG projects.
Maido Richards
Communications & Executive Assistant
Maido joined the Forum in 2016 after 11 years at the Investment Association where she held a number of different roles; and had most recently responsibility for all activities supporting annual membership for over 200 member accounts.
