Careers Archive

How long have you been in IR? I have run the IR team at Schneider Electric – my first IR role – since August 2016. What did you do before IR? I worked in multiple roles for large global companies – Huawei, Cisco and Nortel – in areas including international tax planning, transfer pricing, restructuring and M&A advisory. I started my career in consulting with Arthur Andersen.  What are your q...

The median pay for IR professionals around the world – both at the head of IR and IRO level – has remained unchanged since 2017, according to new research from IR Magazine. The IR Magazine Global IR Salary & Careers Report 2020, based on responses from more than 650 IR professionals, reveals median salaries for IR heads ranged between $150,000 and $199,000 and IROs earned between $75,000 and $99,000 in 2019. But the number of IR professionals...

NYSE-listed Campbell Soup has announced that Rebecca Gardy will join the company as vice president of investor relations.   The role officially begins on March 30 and Gardy will report to Campbell’s CFO Mick Beekhuizen, explains the company in a statement. She joins from GreenSky, a provider of technology to banks, where she worked as senior vice president of IR, public relations and corporate communications.  During her career, Gardy has held IR p...

Stryker, the US-based medical technology company, has announced that Preston Wells will become its new vice president of investor relations. He will report to CFO Glenn Boehnlein and the role officially starts on June 1. Wells joined Stryker in 2015, working first as a senior finance director and most recently as vice president of financial planning and analysis.  Prior to those roles, he served as CFO for Dialight, a UK-based company focused on the LED-ligh...