Anne Guimard, PhD President, FINEO Investor Relations Advisors Anne Guimard, PhD, is the President of FINEO Investor Relations Advisors, a global Investor Relations advisory and training consultancy, offering companies the independent, high value-added advice they need to effectively compete for capital. The firm has advised or trained more than 1,450 companies in nearly 70 countries. Anne started her career as a financial analyst in equity research and Mergers & Acquisitions at leading investments banks, before developing the IR practice in Europe as Chief Investor Relations Officer at multi-listed groups. According to IR Magazine: «Until Guimard writes another edition, Investor relations: principles and international best practices of financial communications, is as likely to be as close to the last word in IR as a book gets ». Anne served on the Board of Directors of NIRI between 2011 and 2016. She is also a member of the Investor Relations Society (UK), the French Securities Analysts Association, the Investor Relations Society of South Africa.