Join a Fund Manager, two Private Investors and a Director of three AIM-listed companies as they discuss market themes for 2024 and key lessons from 2023.
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Presenters' bios:
1. Lord Lee of Trafford – John Lee
Lord Lee is ShareSoc’s Patron and regarded as one of the UK’s leading private investors. John has written over 250 articles for FT Money and has given numerous lectures and interviews on his investment philosophy as a long-term value investor. In 2014 Pearsons published his well-received book “How to Make a Million – Slowly: my guiding principles from a lifetime of successful investing”. In 2019 Grosvenor House published his primer for teenagers and young investors “Yummy Yoghurt: A First Taste of Stock Market Investment”. John sits as a member of the House of Lords as Lord Lee of Trafford. He is currently doing a monthly podcast with The Investors Chronicle called “Lee and the IC”.
2. Andrew Brode
Andrew is a Non-executive Director and a major shareholder in RWS. He served as the Group’s Executive Chairman between 2003 – when he floated the business on AIM – and 2023, having led a buy-in of RWS in 1995. Andrew is also Chairman of AIM-listed Learning Technologies Group plc and GRC International plc.
He started his career as a chartered accountant, worked as an investment banker, and later became the Managing Director of Croner Publications, which was sold to Wolters Kluwer in 1977. He was subsequently appointed CEO of Wolters Kluwer (UK) plc. Andrew acquired Eclipse Publications through a management buy-in, which he sold to Reed Elsevier in 2000. He was also appointed as Non-executive Chairman of Axco Insurance Information Services by 3i prior to its sale to Wilmington plc in 2010. In June 2008 he negotiated the purchase of Epic Group plc, the UK market leader in e-learning from Huveaux plc. Epic listed on AIM in 2013 and changed its name to Learning Technologies Group plc, at which time Andrew was appointed as Non-executive Chairman. In 2012 he became the Non-executive Chairman and an investor in IT Governance Ltd (now GRC International plc after its flotation in March 2018), the leading provider of governance and risk management information in the cyber security space. In 2019 he was appointed as a Non-executive Director of Cera Care Ltd, a leading, tech-enabled…
