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Make Equity Work
London Summit

Equity is tough to get right. On October 9th 2025, we’ll again welcome the most innovative operators and equity experts in London for a summit on making equity work.

9 October, 2025
The RSA, London

Featured Speakers

Panel 1 - Navigating major transactions

Anna Voinitskaia
Head of Share Plans, Monzo

Anna Voinitskaia leads the Share Plans team at Monzo, where she oversees the design, governance, and operations of employee equity programs. Her recent projects include leading an employee secondary event to provide liquidity opportunities to employees.

With over 20 years of experience across fintech, investment banking, and professional services, Anna has held share plans roles at Deutsche Bank, Barclays and Ernst & Young. Her expertise spans deferred compensation, global tax and legal compliance, as well as remuneration regulatory compliance.

Anna is passionate about making equity meaningful for employees and scalable for companies. She brings a technical yet practical perspective on building equity programs that engage, reward, and retain talent in high-growth environments.

Martino Cadoni
Partner, MC4 Ventures, ex-Klarna

Martino Cadoni is a seasoned operator, strategic advisor, and non-executive director in Tech, Fintech, and Sports, with 15 years of experience in senior finance and M&A roles at global firms including GE, HSBC, and, most recently, Klarna.

At GE Capital, he was part of the sell-side M&A team that executed over $200B in exits. At Klarna, he served as Head of Strategic Finance and Investor Relations, where he led the company’s $800M+ fundraising round in 2022, spearheaded the first phase of IPO readiness, and most recently drove the $500M+ sale of Klarna Checkout, unlocking a $200M+ gain and paving the way for Klarna’s return to profitability in 2024.

Today, Martino is the Founder and Managing Partner of MC4 Ventures, a strategic advisory platform that supports high-growth companies and investors across Tech, Fintech, and Sports. He advises on scaling operations and preparing for transformative fundraising, M&A, and exit events.

Anna Humphrey
Partner, Goodwin

Anna Humphrey is a Partner in the Executive Compensation practice at Goodwin. She joined Goodwin in 2025.

Anna specialises in employee incentives and regularly advises clients particularly in the technology and life sciences sectors.

Anna advises on the full range of employee incentive matters, including structuring and implementing the equity incentive arrangements of private and public companies and multinational groups. She has extensive experience supporting venture-backed companies and their investors and regularly advises on strategic M&A transactions and IPO mandates.

Tom Giles
Deputy Head of Winterflood Corporate & Trustees Markets

Tom has been with Winterflood for over 3 years and is responsible for co-owning and driving the strategic development, direction, and growth of this newly formed, specialist business within Winterflood. Winterflood are one of the UK’s leading Market Makers and provide extensive services in Global Trade Execution, Custody and Platform Solutions.

Tom has over 20 years’ experience in the FS Industry with expertise in stockbroking and stock plans. Tom has previously worked at MM&K, Killik and Co, EQ and Link Group, with extensive experience in UK and overseas stock markets across technology, business development, commercials and client relationship.

Panel 2 - Rethinking plan design

Marc Perkins served as General Counsel at leading biotech Abcam between 2020 and 2024, taking the company from a London listing onto the Nasdaq in 2022.

Migle Martikoniene
Financial Operations Lead, Vinted

Migle is a leader in financial operations at Vinted, specializing in streamlining processes and enhancing efficiency in equity plan management. Leveraging her expertise in problem-solving, people management, and finance, she collaborates with service providers, tax, and legal consultants from numerous European jurisdictions to ensure compliance with tax requirements related to share options.

With a background in finance from the University of Aberdeen and extensive international experience, Migle approaches complex financial challenges with a strategic mindset. Her commitment to professionalism and collaboration fosters a culture of excellence within the Vinted team, ensuring consistent results even in high-pressure environments.

Migle excels in navigating task automations and thrives in diverse international financial landscapes, empowering the Vinted workforce to achieve their highest potential.

Marc Perkins served as General Counsel at leading biotech Abcam between 2020 and 2024, taking the company from a London listing onto the Nasdaq in 2022.

Fleur Benns
Partner, Wilson Sonsini

Fleur Benns is a partner in Wilson Sonsini’s London office and part of the firm’s employee benefits and compensation practice. With over 20 years of experience, she specialises in employee incentives, particularly in the tech and life sciences sectors, advising on cross-border transactions, acquisitions, and investments in the UK.

Before joining Wilson Sonsini, Fleur held senior roles at firms including Pinsent Masons, Baker McKenzie, and Bird & Bird. She is a frequent speaker on share plans, with a focus on VC-backed companies and UK/US cross-border issues.

Marc Perkins served as General Counsel at leading biotech Abcam between 2020 and 2024, taking the company from a London listing onto the Nasdaq in 2022.

Sonia Gilbert
Partner, Clifford Chance

Sonia is head of the Incentives and Remuneration group at Clifford Chance.  She has over 20 years of experience advising companies on remuneration, incentive arrangements and employment tax. She has particular expertise in remuneration regulation and corporate governance, designing and implementing incentive plans for global companies, as well as advising on alternative remuneration structures, including employee trusts.

Marc Perkins served as General Counsel at leading biotech Abcam between 2020 and 2024, taking the company from a London listing onto the Nasdaq in 2022.

Tamas Varkonyi
Co-Founder of EquityPeople

Tamas is a co-founder of EquityPeople a total rewards consultancy with a deep history in equity programme design, benchmarking and communication. He came to the world of total rewards after working in academia, people advisory and Ledgy. EquityPeople's client roster includes companies and investors like Vinted, Personio, Sequoia, Balderton, General Catalyst, Granola and many more.

Panel 3 - The future of equity

Marc Perkins served as General Counsel at leading biotech Abcam between 2020 and 2024, taking the company from a London listing onto the Nasdaq in 2022.

Isaiah Baril-Dore
Talent/Reward, Index Ventures

Isaiah advises and supports Index portfolio companies on talent management. He works closely with leadership teams to define and establish their compensation approach and broader talent strategies.

An experienced talent and rewards leader, Isaiah has held key roles at scaling organizations across the US and Europe, most recently at Checkout.com and WeWork. At Checkout.com, he helped to develop a high-performance focussed culture by building out the company’s global compensation strategy, ESOP, diversity and inclusion initiatives, people analytics and global mobility programs. At WeWork, he hired the first rewards team while scaling the business from 2,500 to 15,000 employees, before managing complex equity challenges through restructuring and a SPAC transaction.

Isaiah believes in the power of compensation to drive results and works with founders on harnessing this to aid company growth.

Marc Perkins served as General Counsel at leading biotech Abcam between 2020 and 2024, taking the company from a London listing onto the Nasdaq in 2022.

Julie Shepherd
Share Plan Director,
The Sage Group

Julie has worked in the share plans industry for 20 years in both provider and issuer roles.  Having worked previously for the Abbey National building society,  and then Computershare as an Account Manager responsible for both existing client relationships and business development opportunities.

Julie moved to her first issuer role as an  interim in the share plan team at Kingfisher in 2014.  In 2016, she joined The Sage Group plc, where she is now Director – Share Plans, responsible for the management of all the company’s equity plans including a  Global Employee Share plan in 17 countries supported by a team of two share plan specialists.

Julie was appointed  as a GEO Fellow in December 2019, is a regular speaker at conferences and chapter events and  is the current Vice Chair of the Proshare Global Focus Group.

Marc Perkins served as General Counsel at leading biotech Abcam between 2020 and 2024, taking the company from a London listing onto the Nasdaq in 2022.

Hannah Needle
Legal Director, Tapestry

Hannah is a Legal Director and Board member at Tapestry Compliance, a UK law firm specialising in global equity incentives. She advises on the design, implementation, and compliance of executive and employee share plans, with expertise in tax-qualified schemes, employee trusts, and corporate transactions. A Fellow and Board Member of the Global Equity Organization (GEO), Hannah also holds leadership roles on several UK industry committees, including the Share Plan Lawyers’ Governance Committee.

Marc Perkins served as General Counsel at leading biotech Abcam between 2020 and 2024, taking the company from a London listing onto the Nasdaq in 2022.

Peter Ahern
Public Markets Lead at Ledgy

Peter joined Ledgy at the beginning of 2024 as Public Markets Lead. Prior to this, Peter worked at Morgan Stanley, Global Shares and Computershare across a variety of roles including Client Service, Implementation and Business Development. Peter has also been on the GEO UK Chapter team for a number of years.

Edge 2025 hosts

Marc Perkins served as General Counsel at leading biotech Abcam between 2020 and 2024, taking the company from a London listing onto the Nasdaq in 2022.

Yoko Spirig is co-founder and CEO of Ledgy.com, the fastest and easiest way for international teams to manage equity. From employee participation plans to investor relations and cap table management, Ledgy automates everything equity-related and makes ownership transparent for employees. Prior to Ledgy, Yoko’s background was in physics, conducting research at institutions such as ETH Zürich, CERN, the University of Oxford and led Switzerland’s first hyperloop team, swissloop.ch

Marc Perkins served as General Counsel at leading biotech Abcam between 2020 and 2024, taking the company from a London listing onto the Nasdaq in 2022.

Armon Bättig is Co-Founder and co-CEO at Ledgy. He drives go-to-market and growth, helping companies like On Running, DeepL, and Too Good To Go unlock the power of equity as a strategic lever. With a background spanning from the kitchen to business Analytics at Procter&Gamble, Armon brings creativity and commercial focus to building Ledgy into the category leader for equity management in Europe and beyond.

Marc Perkins served as General Counsel at leading biotech Abcam between 2020 and 2024, taking the company from a London listing onto the Nasdaq in 2022.

Gabbi Stopp
Industry Relations & Strategic Partnerships Lead for Ledgy

Gabbi is a passionate and persuasive advocate for the power and purpose of equity compensation and is committed to fostering expanded equity ownership globally. Her 25+ year professional background spans corporate issuers, service providers, charities, not-for-profit membership organisations in the UK and US, and latterly tech startups/scaleups.

Strategic, empathetic, development-led leadership is her hallmark.

A Fellow of the Global Equity Organization and the Chartered Governance Institute, and a lifelong learner, Gabbi is currently studying in her spare time for a Masters in Philanthropy, Grantmaking & Social Investment at Bayes Business School in London.

November 9th, 2023
Agenda

12:15

Arrival: Lunch and networking

12:45

Start: Welcome by Ledgy

12:50

Opening keynote

13:20

Panel 1: Navigating major transactions - from IPOs to secondaries & beyond

A deep dive into the evolving landscape of equity transactions, including M&A, IPOs, secondaries, privatisation, and PISCES, and what they mean for relevant stakeholders.

14:10

Panel 2: Rethinking plan design - From “equity for all” to “performance-based” and executive incentive schemes

As plan equity design faces new questions around performance, fairness, retention and engagement, this panel will unpack common pitfalls, practical trade-offs and how progressive teams are balancing “equity for all” ambitions with performance-linked outcomes and the shift from MIPs to broad-based plans - especially in today’s fast-evolving economic and hiring landscape.

15:00

Break

15:30

Ledgy product updates

16:05

Panel 3: The future of equity - trends shaping global share plans

From global expansion and US market entry, this session explores the biggest shifts in global share plan design and how companies are adapting to an evolving landscape (from ‘VUCA’ to ‘BANI’.../geopol realignment, tariff impacts/trade war). Employing ‘both/and’ rather than ‘either/or’ thinking in adapting share plans to uncertainty.

16:55

Ledgy closing remarks

17:00-18:30

Evening reception

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Edge 2025

On October 9th 2025, Ledgy will again bring together founders, operators, investors and advisors from Europe’s most innovative companies. Join us to for an insightful afternoon and learn how companies can make equity work, whether a private scaleup or publicly listed entity.

Our speaker lineup includes leaders and equity experts from Klarna, Goodwin, Clifford Chance and Index Ventures.

Edge is a free event designed for senior staff at Europe’s most ambitious companies – especially executives working in People / HR, Reward, Finance and Legal functions. Don’t miss out!

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Equity is tough to get right. Join us as we bring together the most innovative thinkers and operators, to make equity work.