Management team
Meet our Management team
Comprising talented and highly-experienced experts from across the financial services sector, The Share Centre’s Management team is dedicated to fulfilling our customers’ investment needs and delivering outstanding service.
Our commitment to customer service includes investing in new services and technologies to facilitate greater customer interaction, and a proactive approach to resolving any issues which may arise at the earliest opportunity.
Gavin Oldham, Chief Executive
Gavin's responsibilities include all aspects of control and oversight, including the Group's strategy for growth. Founder of The Share Centre, having previously established Barclayshare (now Barclays Stockbrokers) for Barclays Bank, Gavin plays an active role in business affairs and is a regular contributor to radio and TV.
An elected member of the General Synod and a Church Commissioner, he also serves on the Church of England’s Ethical Investment Advisory Group, is a trustee of Personal Finance Education Group (pfeg) and the founder of The Share Foundation.
Richard Stone, Finance Director
Richard, a qualified chartered accountant, joined The Share Centre in April 2006, from his previous role as a director of Huntswood – an outsourcing business serving the financial services sector. Prior to this he was group financial controller at ECsoft (now CIBER Inc).
His earlier investment experience as an equity research analyst with the US investment bank Robertson Stephens included involvement in a number of initial public offerings across Europe, and enables him to contribute to the further development of Share plc's profile in addition to managing the financial and administrative affairs of the Group.
Iain Wallace, Compliance and Legal Services Director
Iain brings his experience as a private client stockbroker and latterly a regulator with the Securities and Futures Authority and the Financial Services Authority, to bear directly on maintaining a strong compliance culture that delivers clear, fair and effective services for our customers.
He maintains oversight of the Sharemark and Sharefunds services for corporate clients, as well as The Share Centre's advice service and HR functions. During 2007, Iain completed a Masters Degree in Financial Services Law (LLM) with distinction.
Guy Knight, Sales and Marketing Director
Guy brings extensive practical experience across the insurance, investment banking, stockbroking and retail banking sectors. He has held a variety of marketing, general management and board positions at companies including Hiscox Insurance, Deutsche Bank, Charles Scwab, Credit Agricole, The Mortgage Corporation and Nationwide Building Society.
He is responsible for PR, marketing communications, brand management, product and pricing strategy, and corporate sales.
Jeremy Helliwell, Operations Director
Jeremy previously worked in a variety of project and systems-based roles at Barclays and was part of the core team which created Barclayshare (now Barclays Stockbrokers).
Responsible for the day-to-day operations of the business including the front office activities of Customer Services and Dealing, as well as the firm's IT systems and infrastructure, Jeremy maintains significant involvement in delivering quality services to our customers.
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