ProShare Awards

ProShare Awards 2025 - Open for Submission!

The annual ProShare Awards are the most prestigious and highly sought-after accolades in the share plan industry, celebrating excellence across the sector. The following categories below showcase outstanding plans, initiatives, strategies, individuals, and teams that have made a significant impact over the past 12-18 months.

Entry deadline is 5 September 2025

✨ Best New Share Plan

✨ Best New Share Plan in a Private Company

✨ Best International Share Plan

✨ Most Effective Communication of an Employee Share Plan*

✨ Most Effective Communication of an Employee Share Plan In a Private Company

✨ Best Employee Share Plan Outcome Following a Major Corporate Change

✨ Best Commitment to Employee Share Ownership in a Private Company

✨ Best Overall Performance in Fostering Employee Share Ownership*

✨ Most Effective Use of Technology

✨ Best Financial Education Initiative for Employees

✨ Team of the Year

✨ One to Watch – The Rising Star Award

*Four awards based on company size, as follows: Up to 500 employees; 501 – 5,000 employees; 5,001 – 50,000 employees; 50,000+ employees.

Let us shine the spotlight on your organisation! We welcome award submissions from everyone – members and non-members alike, share plan issuers, share plan administrators and providers, and any of the advisers and organisations who have worked with share plans over the previous year. Further information can be found here – including the all-important awards criteria - and if you need any further information, please get in touch – team@proshare.org

As anyone who has attended previous ceremonies will be able to testify, the annual ProShare Awards dinner is the employee share plan sector's most spectacular night of the year! This year we will be celebrating the cream of the share plan world at the swish and stylish InterContinental on London’s Park Lane on Wednesday 26th November 2025.

Submit your nomination here

Buy your tickets here!

How to enter:

Download the awards criteria
Upload your submission directly here!
Make sure your submission is submitted by Friday 5^th September
Please note that there will be no extension to the deadline this year!
Do get in touch if you have any comments or questions.

We wish you the very best of luck!

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The ProShare Annual Awards Dinner is a sell-out event every year, celebrating the crème de la crème of the share plans industry.

Join us as we celebrate the industry and outstanding teams and individuals in share plans. Tickets and tables are available to now! As anyone who has attended previous ceremonies will be able to testify, the annual ProShare Awards dinner is the employee share plan sector's most spectacular night of the year!

Date: Wednesday 26th November 2025
Venue: Intercontinental Park Lane, London, W1J 7QY
Time: From 6pm - late

2025 Sponsors

Thank you to our awards sponsors. If you'd like to sponsor this year's event, please email team@proshare.org

Awards dinner partner

J.P. Morgan Workplace Solutions

J.P. Morgan Workplace Solutions is a holistic tech and service-based offering, created to empower your team to navigate their workplace incentives with confidence. From equity compensation management to financial education, wealth building and beyond, our intuitive solutions are designed to help you attract and keep talented people who believe in your company as much as you believe in them. Your participants are provided with their own account, where they can view and transact their shares, in their own currency and language of choice. Our executive services offering provides elevated, individual support with its own dedicated team and professional advice on wealth and equity, with a platform which neatly integrates with your Human Resource Information System and tax systems. More than just your equity compensation partner, we bring your reward strategy to life. Contact us today to find out how we can help empower your workforce.

Prize draw sponsor

Equiniti

Equiniti are the UK's leading provider of share registration and associated investor schemes. With over 5,000 employees across 26 locations worldwide, we’ve been delivering innovative solutions to clients for over 70 years. Our expertise spans across multiple areas, including share registration, pensions, investment services, and employee benefits. Through our employee share plan services, we've helped hundreds of businesses to design, launch and administer their share plans, providing specialist solutions powered by technology we've developed. Our operational expertise supports the ‘employee to shareholder’ journey, putting employees at the heart every step of the way. To find more, get in touch!

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Award Winners 2024

Congratulations to our 2024 winners

Best New Share Plan

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Beazley

Best New Share Plan in a Private Company

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Gearset

Best International Share Plan

Winner:

Kerry Group plc

Most Effective Communication of an Employee Share Plan: 501 - 5,000 employees

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JTC PLC

Most Effective Communication of an Employee Share Plan: 5,001 - 50,000 employees

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Kier Group Plc

Most Effective Communication of an Employee Share Plan: 50,000 + employees

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Lloyds Banking Group

Most Effective Communication of an Employee Share Plan in a Private Company

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Pennylane

Best Employee Share Plan Outcome Following a Major Corporate Change

Joint Winners:

Hotel Chocolat

InstaDeep

Best Commitment to Employee Share Ownership in a Private Company

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Everoze

Best Financial Education Initiative for Employees

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Entain

Best Overall Performance in Fostering Employee Share Ownership 501 - 5,000 employees

Joint Winners:

Bakkafrost

JTC PLC

Best Overall Performance in Fostering Employee Share Ownership 5,001 - 50,000 employees

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Experian plc

Highly commended:

Jet2 plc

Best Overall Performance in Fostering Employee Share Ownership 50,000 + employees

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Lloyds Banking Group

Most Effective Use of Technology

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AstraZeneca

Team of the Year

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Wise

Rising Star Award

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Jake Dear, MUFG Corporate Markets

Employee Share Plans Champion of the Year

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Jennifer Rudman

Award for Services to Employee Share Ownership

Winner:

Jean Piercey

Judges

Independent Director, Cabinet Office

Janet Cooper OBE

Janet is an experienced Chair, non-executive director and trustee. Janet is a Non-Executive Director of Nurture Landscapes Group an Independent Director at the Cabinet Office, Chairs two remuneration committees and Chairs a group of 150 Remuneration Committee Chairs. Until recently Janet was Acting Chair of RNLI (Lifeboats). Janet has over 30 years’ experience of advising on global executive and employee share plans, with Chambers Legal Directory ranking Janet as the top lawyer in this area. Janet developed and led the employee incentives team at Linklaters, where she was a partner for over 20 years, and then co-founded specialist law firm, Tapestry, which she left at the end of 2020. Janet was involved in founding ProShare 30 years ago and now Chairs ProShare’s Advisory Panel. Janet also co-founded the Global Equity Organisation in 1999 and was appointed Co-founder and Vice Chair Emeritus.

Non-Executive Director, Scottish Widows, Aon UK Limited and H.M. Land Registry

Kirstine Cooper CBE

Kirstine is a seasoned executive with a successful career, spanning over 30 years in the Insurance/Financial Services sector. Latterly, Group General Counsel and Company Secretary, Head of the Office of the Chairman and an Executive Committee member of Aviva plc. Throughout her career at Aviva, she held various roles including Interim Chief People Officer, and has managed regulatory affairs, public policy, sustainability and group investigations. She has worked closely with Government departments including BEIS, DCMS and HM Treasury to drive legislative change. She is currently a Non-Executive Director of Scottish Widows Group and Aon UK Limited and is the Senior Independent Director of HM Land Registry.

Board Member, CGIUKI

Silvana Glibota-Vigo FCG

Silvana joined the Board of The Chartered Governance Institute UK & Ireland in August 2023, having been a co-opted member since March 2022. She joined Keller Group as Group Head of Secretariat in October 2020. She has been working in corporate governance since 2004 and for UK premium listed companies, including FirstGroup, British Land, International Distributions Services (formerly Royal Mail) and Prudential, since 2006. Silvana is a member of the Institute’s Thought Leadership Committee, a member of the Governance Officer Apprenticeship Trailblazer Group, a practitioner member of the European Corporate Governance Institute and a member of the Association of Corporate Secretaries of Latin America.

Independent Reward Consultant and Advisor

Richard Hortop

Richard has over 30 years' of experience in senior reward leadership roles with multinational organisations including Comcast, Sky, Serco, Capital One and Hewlett Packard and has been a previous ProShare Award winner with the plans at Sky/Comcast. He currently advises organisations on all aspects of reward strategy and design through his independent consultancy, and provides business coaching support to charity leaders through the Pilotlight 360 programme. In his spare time, among other things, Richard is an active member of Misbourne River Action group, which aims to monitor and influence the water quality and environmental management of the Misbourne, one of our rarest chalk streams, which flows through the Chilterns.

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The Winners 2023

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ProShare Awards 2025 - Open for Submission!

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We wish you the very best of luck!

The ProShare Annual Awards Dinner is a sell-out event every year, celebrating the crème de la crème of the share plans industry.

2025 Sponsors

J.P. Morgan Workplace Solutions

Equiniti

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2024 Winners Book

Judges

Janet Cooper OBE

Kirstine Cooper CBE

Silvana Glibota-Vigo FCG

Richard Hortop

2023 Highlights

The Winners 2023

Awards 2023