The Euro IRP Executive Board is the legal authority for Euro IRP, and decides on the strategic and operational priorities, reviews progress and activities, and exercises full financial and administrative oversight for the Association.
Currently, composed of senior executives within Euro IRP member firms, the Executive Board meets monthly and monitors and interacts with the various working groups it has established to focus on especial industry issues, such as regulation interaction and new membership initiatives. Executive Board members are appointed based on election by member firms at the Euro IRP Annual General Meeting.
Julia Ashworth
Julia is the Chief Operating Officer and Finance Director for Arete Research, joining the firm in 2011. Prior to this role, Julia spent fifteen years at Rothschild Investment Bank, latterly as global finance director and UK COO for the corporate finance business. Prior to this Julia was a financial advisory banker at Rothschild with a focus on financial services companies. Julia has a mathematics degree from Southampton University and qualified as an ACA at PwC.
Pierre-Yves Gauthier
Pierre-Yves is Co-Founder and CEO of AlphaValue, an independent research provider of pan-European equity research based in Paris. Prior to co-founding AlphaValue in 2007, Pierre-Yves has a career in equity research which spans nearly 30 years, including roles in the Research Division of Oddo Securities as Head of Strategy and in the Research Division of Crédit Lyonnais as Head of European Equity Research.
Luigi Lazzini
Luigi is the founder and CEO of Kepler Cheuvreux's independent research division. He has over 25 years of experience in the financial services industry, with a focus on equity research and corporate finance.
Tony Willis
Tony is co-founder of Willis Welby LLP, an independent research provider focused on finding investment ideas in global equities. Prior to co-founding Willis Welby LLP in 2009, Tony started his career in finance in 1982 as a sell-side analyst and worked for a number of firms before joining BZW in the mid-1990s where he subsequently became Head of pan-European research. Following the completion of CSFB's takeover of BZW Tony joined Lazard Asset Management. Tony graduated with a BA Hons from Oxford University in Philosophy, Politics and Economics.
Peter Holmes
Peter's most recent role included as Chief Operating Officer for Absolute Strategy Research, the #1 ranked Independent Research macro-strategy and advisory provider firm (Extel). Peter has a career spanning more than 40 years working first in Libya as a Geophysicist before beginning his career in Financial Services where his roles included Program Director for HSBC's Investment Bank's UK 'Ring Fencing' remediation work, COO for HSBC's Global Research division and CTO for UBS's Global Equity Advisory Group. After completing a joint honours degree in Environmental Science and Computer Science at UEA.