Team

Founded Proactive in 2006 as a way to channel his own views on companies listed in London and Toronto. What started as a hobby quickly turned into a full time job as the website's readership exploded over the next six months. One2...

Craig co-founded Proactive. He is FCA regulated, an expert in financial media and advanced web design. Formerly a full-time trader, he has a passion for stock picking and a thorough understanding of the financial markets. As manag...

Ian is the editor and a director of Proactive. He oversees all editorial output and is also heavily involved with business development. He moved to Proactive from the Daily Mail, where he was City News Editor and Investment Editor...

Philip has more than 20 years' experience writing about companies, general finance and investing matters for a variety of publications. His career has involved spells at the Investors Chronicle, where he was small companies and...

Sam  has over 10 years of capital markets and asset management experience in both North America and the Pacific Rim, with primary focus on Resources and Oil & Gas sectors. He spent three years with Scotia Bank as an Inter...

Ruth has over ten years experience of working in the financial markets and has a strong interest in oil and gas stocks. Having coming from a National Charity managing large mass participation and high networth fundraisin...

John has over ten years’ experience in financial markets including four years internationally, with roles predominately focused as a Treasury Dealer and Treasury Manager, within both the corporate and banking sector. John has...

John has been covering financial markets since before the FTSE 100 existed, starting out on the Industries and Commodities team at Dun & Bradstreet, before moving on to Datastream, where he was head of the news team for sev...

Richard Cook is the Chief Operating Officer of Proactive. After serving in the British Army for thirteen years, Richard began his commercial career at Reuters initially running Lipper's European data operations before moving to th...

Brian Keane manages business development for Proactive in the USA. He has over a decade of investment banking experience specializing in originating, placing, and structuring financing for emerging growth companies in the US and C...

Peter brings a strong business journalism background to Proactive, having co-managed Nikkei’s English financial news desk in Tokyo for several years. While in Japan he also ran his own consulting firm with major European investm...

After graduating with first class honours in economics from Lancaster University in 2006, Jamie spent a number of years as a private client equity dealer gaining front-line experience in the investment industry during the most ...

Giles Gwinnett is a qualified journalist and has been a reporter for a number of regional newspapers and for a press agency. He was formerly a news analyst on the German team at Thomson Financial, now Thomson Reuters. He has a ...

Laura has over 20 years experience coordinating events in various industry sectors in both the UK and Europe. Following a career break to look after family, Laura jumped back into the work arena in 2015 and has...

Startup growth and organization leader with over a decade of experience growing companies. Brian most recently successfully launched an established tech startup mobile dining app in New York City which continues to grow. Brian co-...

Emma moved to Proactive from Minesite.com, where she was CEO. She brings with her experience in natural resources and finance, having previously been part of the Mining Corporate Finance team at Standard Bank and starting her...

Nicola joined Proactive in October 2011 as Financial Controller. Having worked previously at a firm of Chartered Accountants for 12 years, Nicola brings her knowledge and experience of finance, accounting and payroll. Nicola ...

Sarah was the voice of Bloomberg Business Breakfast and the face of Daybreak when it aired on The Money Channel, as well as being one of the first webcasters for Thomson Reuters. Other clients Sarah has worked with include Th...

Alastair Ford worked for seven years as mining correspondent for the Investors Chronicle, the UK’s premier print-based investment magazine. During that time he covered some of the most interesting and spectacular deals of the mi...

After graduating with a degree in Financial Mathematics and having a passion for journalism, Thomas went on to write for several city-based, investment-focussed online publications including T1ps.com and UK-Analyst.com. During ...

Andrew brings a wealth of experience to the Proactive team with over 10 years’ experience in television reporting and presenting with the likes of Thompson Reuters, Sky News and ITV.  Andrew holds a Bachelor of Science in M...

After obtaining a diploma for “Professional Broadcasting” in  2000, Stephen spent many years as a Director and Technical Operator specalising in LIVE, multi camera productions for TV, After a varied Career in the world of...

Jon has been reporting on stock markets  for over twenty-five years for audio text companies (remember them?!), newswires, and websites. He helped set up MarketEye News for ICV/Topic in the 1990’s before moving on to become...

Helaine is a technology specialist who originally worked in investment banking in Korea for JP Morgan and Citi, where she interacted with senior management from the largest companies operating in the sector, such as LG and Sams...

Edward has a Master’s degree in Mathematics from Oxford and has used his mathematical skills to excel as a support services analyst at HSBC and Societe Generale. During his time in investment banking, Ed covered numerous blue...

Eugene has enjoyed an extensive career in publishing. He previously had commercial responsibility for managing the money sections at The Times and Sunday Times. Whilst at News UK, he ran a team who rolled out the subscription m...

Rachel started off as a general news reporter 20 years ago before serving stints as the bureau chief for AFX News in Kuala Lumpur, Singapore and Hong Kong and finally as an editor in London.  She has also worked at APM Health...

Alison joined Proactive in 2013 and brings experience in web design and IT, with a current focus on events and assisting with business development.

Tharun is a Chartered Financial Analyst from the CFA Institute, U.S. A graduate from Loyola College, Chennai, he started his career in Goldman Sachs at their Bangalore office. Prior to his current role at Proactive, he worked as a...

John Miller has been a journalist for 38 years and before starting with Proactive in late 2017, had spent 10 years as editor of The ASIA Miner magazine and online news service. After starting as a cadet journalist at the C...

Christine comes to Proactive with more than five years’ television reporting experience covering general news in the New York tri-state area and two years spent in the technology space, focusing on marketing for a global IT...

With over 25 years of extensive experience in the City, latterly advising clients wishing to join the junior markets, Simon is an FCA-approved commercial chartered accountant with a background in engineering and natural resources....

Calum graduated from the London School of Economics with an LLB (Hons) degree in Law in 2015. After brief stints in corporate insurance brokerage in Hong Kong and as a financial consultant associate in London, he joined a video ga...

Uttara is a senior financial journalist at Proactive. She has reported on global markets, trade and business for over twenty years from North America, Asia and Europe. She was previously senior contributor for Forbes India base...

Nectarios Leonidas was born in Rhodes, Greece and studied at the University of Connecticut. He has been working in film and video for the last 15 years in documentaries to promos for a variety of clients ranging from broadcast ...

Steve Darling is an award winning broadcaster who has spent the past 20 years as one of the most recognizable faces in British Columbia, reporting and anchoring at BCTV and Global Television. He spent 15 years as the co-host of...

Full member of AAT and with over 13 years of experience in Finance, Klara joined Proactive Investors in 2018. Klara has worked in different businesses / companies and has experience in most of the accounting functions using a...

Chet has a wealth of experience within the financial markets.  He previously worked as an Equity Dealer in London, advising private clients on their small/mid cap shares portfolio, including, new issues, private placements, p...

Based out of Perth, Western Australia, Luke brings to Proactive a strong knowledge of the resources sector specifically, battery minerals, precious metals and the associated stocks at junior and mid-tier level with a history ...

Anaïs spent the majority of her career in the entertainment production and financial media industry, where she has gained an extensive international experience in client management. Utilising these skills, she is now the lynch...

Kurram is Group Marketing Manager of Proactive. He oversees all marketing output and is strongly involved in business development and strategy. Kurram began his commercial career within the financial services industry, primarily F...

Paulo is Corporate Assistant & Social Media Executive in Proactive UK. Graduating with a BA in Geography, he holds an interest around the mechanics of business, politics and the world itself. He brings with him a diverse ...

Greg joins Proactive bringing a diverse background of technical expertise.  He previously held the role of Technical Director for one of Canada’s largest news networks, Technical Director for Freeman Audio Visual, and ...

As the Communications Manager for Proactive Canada, Giorgia offers the team a versatile set of office management skills and proven service management experience. With strong planning and problem solving skills, she's one who ...

Prior to founding Hallgarten & Company in 2003 he was the head of research at an economic thinktank in New Jersey which he had joined in 2001. Before moving to the U.S., he was the founder and head of research at the esteem...

John is a Business Development Director in the New York office.  He has extensive knowledge of the capital markets, having spent 20 years as an institutional equity/HY salesman.  He began his career in equities at Mer...

Jessica graduated from Curtin University of Technology in 2014 with a double major degree in Journalism and PR. Her first journalism job was at the Kalgoorlie Miner, WA's only regional daily newspaper, where she wrote and later...

Andrew covers daily market movers, newsworthy cannabis stocks and other small-cap briefs. He previously worked as a fact-checker for both PolitiFact and Guideposts, covered higher education for the Columbia Missourian and inter...

Angela Harmantas is a senior financial journalist with Proactive. She has nearly ten years' experience covering the equity markets in North America, with a particular focus on junior resource stocks. Angela has reported from numer...

Oliver Haill has been writing about companies and markets for more than a decade and a half. In recent years he has been freelancing, with contracts at the Financial Times Group, ITV, Press Association, Reuters sports desk, Gracen...

Emma has over 15 years’ experience as an equity analyst mainly across the biotech, pharma and med tech sectors, including more than 10 years as an analyst at Edison Group where she covered a range of pan-European mid-cap stocks....

Patrick jumped into journalism more than 25 years ago, spending the bulk of his career with the Associated Press, Dow Jones Newswires and the Wall Street Journal as a reporter, editor and manager. He helped launch and oversee W...

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Zac has in excess of 25 years’ experience in oil and gas and finance, working for companies such as BP, Chevron, Merrill Lynch and ING Barings, where he undertook finance or finance related roles. Given his Chemical Engineering ...

Giulia joined Proactive as a junior journalist in 2019. Originally from Italy, she moved to the UK in 2013 to study at the Robert Gordon University where she graduated with a BA(Hons) degree in Journalism. Over the years she has r...

Ryan is the MD of Mining and Metals Research Corporation. He has over 10 years’ experience in the mining and finance industries. Trained as a geologist, he has worked on exploration, development and production projects with c...

Emma is a journalist with experience across a range of sectors. Prior to Proactive, she was a resources writer for the Australian Mining Review and Australian Energy Review and was instrumental in building the publication’s d...

Will has over 20 years’ experience within financial services having worked as a telephone dealer and as part of the sales teams within several Asset Management companies. He then moved to roles selling solutions to Asset Manager...

Richard has spent over 30 years in investment research and financial media. He worked at Edison Investment Research for twelve years, where he covered technology, specialising in software and services. Prior to Edison, he was with...