UK Watch MyProactive News Topics Insights Companies Trusts, ETFs, Funds BeProactive Events Research Sign in Journalists Proactive is produced by a team of talented journalists and broadcasters with experience from across the industry Ian Lyall Editor Ian is the editor and a director of Proactive. He oversees all editorial output and is also heavily involved with business development. He moved to Proactive from the Daily Mail, where he was City News Editor and Investment Editor... Peter Murray President, Proactive Canada Peter brings a strong business journalism background to Proactive, having co-managed Nikkei’s English financial news desk in Tokyo for several years. While in Japan he also ran his own consulting firm with major European investm... Jamie Ashcroft Equities Reporter After graduating with first class honours in economics from Lancaster University in 2006, Jamie spent a number of years as a private client equity dealer gaining front-line experience in the investment industry during the most fas... Jordan Brodie Farooqui Journalist Having graduated with a first class honours in Economics from Sussex University in 2021, Jordan is now a junior financial journalist. With a keen interest in financial markets, he brings a refreshing approach to finding unique inv... Uttara Choudhury Senior Financial Journalist Uttara is a senior financial journalist at Proactive. She has reported on global markets, trade and business for over twenty years from North America, Asia and Europe. She was previously senior contributor for Forbes India base... Ky Chow Broadcast Journalist Christine Corrado Broadcast Journalist Christine comes to Proactive with more than five years’ television reporting experience covering general news in the New York tri-state area and two years spent in the technology space, focusing on marketing for a global IT... Steve Darling Senior Broadcast Journalist Steve Darling is an award winning broadcaster who has spent the past 20 years as one of the most recognizable faces in British Columbia, reporting and anchoring at BCTV and Global Television. He spent 15 years as the co-host of th... Robin Davison Analyst Robin Davison has been a consultant specialising in business analysis and equity capital market strategies in biotech companies for the past five years. Prior to this was an investment analyst specialising in biotech for over 15 y... Ritika Dubey Journalist Ritika Dubey joined Proactive Investors as a financial journalist in October 2021. She has experience in covering mental health, drug policies, developments in psychedelics— legal, science, business, and justice— in Canad... Christopher Ecclestone Analyst Prior to founding Hallgarten & Company in 2003 he was the head of research at an economic thinktank in New Jersey which he had joined in 2001. Before moving to the U.S., he was the founder and head of research at the esteemed ... Nick Fletcher Journalist Nick Fletcher has been a business and financial journalist for more years than he cares to remember. He has worked for - among others - the Birmingham Post, the Daily and Sunday Express and latterly the Guardian, where ... Alastair Ford Senior Equities Reporter Alastair Ford worked for seven years as mining correspondent for the Investors Chronicle, the UK’s premier print-based investment magazine. During that time he covered some of the most interesting and spectacular deals of the mi... Tharun George, CFA Journalist Tharun is a Chartered Financial Analyst from the CFA Institute, U.S. A graduate from Loyola College, Chennai, he started his career in Goldman Sachs at their Bangalore office. Prior to his current role at Proactive, he worked as a... Patrick M. Graham Journalist Patrick jumped into journalism more than 25 years ago, spending the bulk of his career with the Associated Press, Dow Jones Newswires and the Wall Street Journal as a reporter, editor and manager. He helped launch and oversee WSJ.... Stephen Gunnion Senior Financial Journalist Stephen Gunnion is a financial journalist and news anchor, with more than 25 years' experience in television, radio and print media. He has anchored on a number of television channels, including South Africa's Business Day TV... Giles Gwinnett Equities Reporter Giles Gwinnett is a qualified journalist and has been a reporter for a number of regional newspapers and for a press agency. He was formerly a news analyst on the German team at Thomson Financial, now Thomson Reuters. He has a bac... Oliver Haill Journalist Oliver Haill has been writing about companies and markets for more than a decade and a half. In recent years he has been freelancing, with contracts at the Financial Times Group, ITV, Press Association, Reuters sports desk, Gracen... Angela Harmantas Senior Journalist Angela Harmantas is a senior financial journalist with Proactive. She has nearly ten years' experience covering the equity markets in North America, with a particular focus on junior resource stocks. Angela has reported from numer... John Harrington Senior Equities Reporter John has been covering financial markets since before the FTSE 100 existed, starting out on the Industries and Commodities team at Dun & Bradstreet, before moving on to Datastream, where he was head of the news team for severa... Julian Hofmann Analyst Julian Hofmann has written about pharma and biotech for the past 15 years and started his career as a German-speaking reporter with Scrip Pharmaceutical News reporting on the German pharma and nascent biotech sector in the early 2... Jon Hopkins UK/North America News Editor Jon has been reporting on stock markets for over twenty-five years for audio text companies (remember them?!), newswires, and websites. He helped set up MarketEye News for ICV/Topic in the 1990’s before moving on to become... Jonathan Jackson Senior Financial Journalist Jonathan is a senior journalist at Proactive. He is an experienced writer and editor who has worked in print and digital media for over 20 years, starting in sports journalism before moving into the business and finance sector ... Richard Jeans Analyst Richard has spent over 30 years in investment research and financial media. He worked at Edison Investment Research for twelve years, where he covered technology, specialising in software and services. Prior to Edison, he was with... Ephrem Joseph Journalist Ephrem joined Proactive in June 2021 as a journalist. He hails from academia, as a researcher in Information Technology, with a particular interest in Cyber Security. Prior to Proactive, he was a researcher at the U... Kurram Kahn Group Marketing Manager Kurram is Group Marketing Manager of Proactive. He oversees all marketing output and is strongly involved in business development and strategy. Kurram began his commercial career within the financial services industry, primarily F... Ryan Long Analyst Ryan is the MD of Mining and Metals Research Corporation. He has over 10 years’ experience in the mining and finance industries. Trained as a geologist, he has worked on exploration, development and production projects with c... Sarah Lowther Events Host / Broadcast Journalist Sarah was the voice of Bloomberg Business Breakfast and the face of Daybreak when it aired on The Money Channel, as well as being one of the first webcasters for Thomson Reuters. Other clients Sarah has worked with include The Eu... Sean Mason Senior Journalist Sean has been covering North American equity markets for more than 20 years, editing and writing for publications such as Investors Digest of Canada and Stockhouse.com. He is a graduate of the University of Toronto and has success... Rachel Middleton Journalist Rachel started off as a general news reporter 20 years ago before serving stints as the bureau chief for AFX News in Kuala Lumpur, Singapore and Hong Kong and finally as an editor in London. She has also worked at APM Health... John Miller News Editor John Miller has been a journalist for 38 years and before starting with Proactive in late 2017, had spent 10 years as editor of The ASIA Miner magazine and online news service. After starting as a cadet journalist at the C... Susanna Nelson Journalist Susanna is a journalist and editor with nearly two decades of experience writing about a broad range of topics including infrastructure, health, building and construction, economics and the arts. She has a natural curiosity, which... Elisha Newell Journalist Elisha recently stepped into the world of financial news, developing a particular interest in Fintech minnows and commodities as she covered the ASX’s movers and shakers. She cut her teeth as a markets reporter and sub-editor... Zac Phillips Analyst Zac has in excess of 25 years’ experience in oil and gas and finance, working for companies such as BP, Chevron, Merrill Lynch and ING Barings, where he undertook finance or finance related roles. Given his Chemical Engineering ... Katie Pilbeam Presenter Katie has a wealth of international broadcasting experience as a presenter, journalist and business analyst. She has covered global breaking news and hosted from major financial events, including the World Econom... John Savin PhD MBA Analyst John has a scientific research background as a biochemist then moved into international marketing of high-end scientific equipment. He developed the European market for DNA forensics before working as a consultant to evaluate mark... Andrew Scott Presenter Andrew brings a wealth of experience to the Proactive team with over 15 years’ experience in television reporting and presenting with the likes of Thomson Reuters, Sky News and ITV. Andrew holds a Bachelor of Science ... Phoebe Shields Journalist Phoebe graduated from Wollongong University with a double Bachelor of Journalism and International Studies. She spent a semester studying in Japan on student exchange where her passion for international relations and cross-cultura... Jai Singh Journalist Having graduated with a Masters in Sports Journalism, Jai's area of interest and focus is financial journalism and investment. Ed Stacey Analyst Edward has a Master’s degree in Mathematics from Oxford and has used his mathematical skills to excel as a support services analyst at HSBC and Societe Generale. During his time in investment banking, Ed covered numerous blue ch... Philip Whiterow News Editor Philip has more than 20 years' experience writing about companies, general finance and investing matters for a variety of publications. His career has involved spells at the Investors Chronicle, where he was small companies and co... Georgia Williams Journalist Georgia is a financial journalist with expertise covering the North American resource sector. Versed in the mining space, she has spent several years covering precious metals, energy and minor metals. A graduate from the Uni... Polly Middlehurst Broadcast Journalist Noel Ong Contributor Noel Ong is a geologist with over 30 years of experience in the resource industry. He has extensive mineral exploration and project management experience in the gold, lithium, iron ore (hematite and magnetite), tantalum and t... Simon Popple Contributor After completing his MBA at Birmingham University in 1993, Simon joined the corporate finance team at Singer & Friedlander working on small and mid-cap mergers and acquisitions. In 1997, he joined the senior banker team at ABN... Eithne Treanor OPEC Reporter Proactive Proactive leads the world in up-to-the-minute, multi-media news provision, events organisation, investor relations management and investor research About Meet the team Contact T&C Work for us Advertising Follow us on: © Proactive 2021. 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