Anthony Fitzsimmons
Anthony read engineering at Cambridge, then became a solicitor specialising in international liability and insurance law.
He spent decades in a firm specialised in handling international disasters. He refined strategies to manage the legal fallout from crises whilst minimising reputational damage to clients. He advised major brands in the wake of severe adverse events.
Following his retirement from the law, Anthony founded Reputability, of which he is Chairman. Anthony is a co-author of ‘Roads to Ruin’, the seminal Cass Business School report for Airmic and, with the late Derek Atkins, of "Rethinking Reputational Risk: How to Manage the Risks that can Ruin Your Business, Your Reputation and You" Anthony is an regular speaker and participant in seminars in the field.
Jane Howard
After graduating in economics from the LSE, Jane joined a team, which sold into Saatchi and Saatchi. She went on to head the Leedex PR Group, joining the board of its parent company, Birkdale plc.
One of only a few Chartered Communicators, Jane has 30 years’ international and award-winning experience. Republic, the corporate communications business she founded was sold to Engine, the UK’s leading independent marketing services consultancy.
Jane is a partner at Reputability, a fellow of the Chartered Institute for Public Relations, a founding Fellow of the Public Relations Consultancies Association, a trustee of Fair Trials International and a Quantum NED.
John Tyce
After leaving Manchester University where he was a Research Fellow in Monetary Economics, John trained as an equity analyst at Philips and Drew, which later became UBS.
He has dedicated most of his working life as an investment analyst covering banks and financial companies. He was a partner at Laing and Cruickshank and was appointed as Head of European Research at Nomura, before moving on to Société Générale as senior bank analyst in London.
Today John is a partner at Reputability and Chairman of Blue Planet European Trust – a quoted Scottish Investment trust.
Peter Ayton
A Professor of Psychology at City University, Peter’s research centres on the psychological theories of judgement and discusses how people make decisions and judgements. His published books include ‘Subjective Probability’ and ‘Judgemental Forecasting’.
A member of the European Association for Decision Making, Peter has been a visiting Professor at the Anderson School of Business UCLA, Princeton and Carnegie-Mellon universities in the USA, as well as the Max Planck Institute in Berlin.
John Hurrell
John Hurrell has gained immense experience over nearly 40 years spent in the risk and insurance sector.John joined our team after 9 years as Chief Executive of Airmic, the renowned London-based association for everyone who has a responsibility for risk management and insurance in their organisation. Before that he spent nearly 30 years at Marsh and McLennan group companies, most recently as CEO of Marsh Risk Consulting for the UK and Europe.
At Airmic he commissioned several pieces of ground-breaking research, including ‘Roads to Ruin’ and ‘Roads to Resilience’ and is a regular speaker on risk governance.
John is a Fellow of the Chartered Insurance Institute and a Chartered Insurer.
Vanessa Sharp
Vanessa started her professional life as a solicitor in a city firm specialising in handling multinational commercial and insurance issues.
She joined KPMG LLP as an in house lawyer and became General Counsel, a role she performed for 17 years. She advised on a wide range of legal, risk and reputational management issues, and as board secretary advised on, and managed board structures across UK and Europe.
She is now a Non Executive Director at ICE Futures Europe Limited, Companies House and Newable and is a member of the Audit and Risk Committees of each as well as being chair, or a member, of other board committees. She is also a charity trustee and a Council member and Chair of the Finance and Resources Committee at Goldsmiths College, University of London. In all of these positions she plays a role in governance and risk issues and board effectiveness.
Rethinking Reputational Risk
Rethinking Reputational Risk
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Reputability makes submission to the Parliamentary Commission on Banking Standards20. 11. 2012
Reputability has made a submission to the Parliamentary Commission on Banking Standards.
The submission made four points.Read more...- ‘Roads to Ruin’ reveals how a series of previously unrecognised, potentially devastating, behavioural and organisational risks, including board risks, lie at the root of many, perhaps most, crises. Such crises regularly destroy reputations and shareholder value.
- These risks are not captured by classical risk analysis let alone risk management. Most emanate from top echelons. Unmanaged they remain unnecessarily dangerous.
- These risks are recognised by important regulators, thinkers and some leaders.
- Reputability considers that it would be beneficial if the three yearly Board Performance Evaluation cycle currently required by the Financial Reporting Council were to be strengthened by using, every third year, a Board Risk Evaluation to evaluate board performance from a risk perspective.
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Anthony Fitzsimmons gives key presentation to Good Governance Forum annual conference28. 03. 2012
Anthony Fitzsimmons delivered a presentation ''Roads to Ruin': Lessons for boards' to the Good Governance Forum annual conference. The presentation explained the implications of 'Roads to Ruin', the Cass Business School report for Airmic.
'Roads to Ruin' was researched and written by a team at the Cass Business School. The team consisted of Professor Derek Atkins, Anthony Fitzsimmons, Professor Chris Parsons and Professor Alan Punter.Read more...
Professor Derek Atkins and Anthony Fitzsimmons are partners in Reputability LLP.
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Anthony Fitzsimmons contributes thinkpiece to the latest 'Good Governance Forum' guide14. 03. 2012
Anthony Fitzsimmons contributed a thinkpiece, 'Good conversations need good information', to the Tomorrow's Company Good Governance Forum 'Guide to improving the quality of boardroom conversations'.
The thinkpiece can be found at page 9 of the Guide.Read more...
Anthony Fitzsimmons will be delivering a presentation to the associated Tomorrows Company 'Good Governance Forum' conference explaining the implications of 'Roads to Ruin', the Cass Business School report for Airmic.
'Roads to Ruin' was researched and written by a team at the Cass Business School. The team consisted of Professor Derek Atkins, Anthony Fitzsimmons, Professor Chris Parsons and Professor Alan Punter.
Professor Derek Atkins and Anthony Fitzsimmons are partners in Reputability LLP.