A lot of newly appointed CFOs have to learn IR as part of the appointment for the first time. It’s one of the areas I didn’t have to master
Andrew Griffith, Sky’s CFO of seven years, explains how IR played a vital role on his way to the top finance job
Is there such a thing as an investor relations gene? That’s what one may wonder upon learning that Andrew Griffith, CFO and former IRO of British media giant Sky, is the brother of Chris Griffith, Tesco’s head of IR. ‘Please don’t make too much of it!’ jokes our interviewee, who is the elder sibling.
A chartered accountant, Griffith joined Sky in 1999 from investment bank Rothschild, where he had been working in M&A for the media sector. He was recruited for the
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Candice de Monts-Petit
Candice de Monts-Petit joined IR Magazine as a senior editor in 2012. Prior to this, she worked in investor relations, first as an IRO for oil and gas firms in Paris and Moscow and subsequently as an IR consultant in London. She graduated in business...
