Anne Guimard
Founder and President of FINEO Investor Relations Advisors & The School of Investor Relations

Anne is an internationally respected expert in shareholder engagement and Investor Relations, a trusted advisor to Boards and leadership teams and a successful, result-driven entrepreneur.

A PhD in Finance and a Certified Financial Analyst, she started her professional career at Daiwa Securities in 1986 where she created the French equity research and sales desk, before moving on to the firm’s investment banking division. In 1990, she joined world leading glass manufacturer Saint-Gobain where she managed the Group’s 10 different European listings and a global shareholder base that included 500,000 retail investors. She was nominated for best European Investor Relations Officer by Investor Relations Magazine.

Five years later, she was promoted to the Financial controlling department, where she was in charge of overseeing the Group’s M&A for the Glass container division and for the Asia-Pacific region. In 1998, telecom equipment manufacturer Alcatel hired her to run its Investor Relations department, monitoring 12 cross-border listings that included the New-York Stock Exchange and the Tokyo Stock Exchange. She received an award for most improved Investor Relations.

In 1998, she founded FINEO Investor Relations Advisors. The firm advises corporations globally on Investor Relations issues such as Initial Public Offerings, Mergers & Acquisitions, rights issues, bond offerings, cross-border listings, shareholder base diversification, cost of capital optimization and capital market positioning. An innovator at heart, Anne has developed FINEO’s proprietary online and offline training courses, under the umbrella of its “School of Investor Relations”. To this day, FINEO is the only Investor Relations firm in the world to offer such comprehensive, highly customizable programs. More than 1,500 companies in nearly 70 countries have been advised and/or trained over the past 20 years.

From 2012 to 2016, Anne served on the Board of the National Investor Relations Institute (NIRI), the world’s largest organization for Investor Relations professionals. She is also a member of CLIFF (France), IRS (United Kingdom), Investor Relations Society of South Africa.

Anne is also Senior Advisor to BCW

An “IR Legend” according to Investor Relations Magazine, Anne is the author of several books, of which the acclaimed “Investor Relations” manual (Palgrave).