Our senior people have backgrounds in stockbroking, fund management, accountancy, financial pr and journalism. Their judgement is founded on ability and experience - between them, they have more than 100 years experience in the financial sector.
City Insights is keen to recruit, retain and motivate talented people. Our team includes both individuals who have chosen investor relations as an initial career and others who have come to IR with experience in other disciplines like stockbroking – research and sales, fund management and corporate finance. We are always looking to grow the team and are happy to talk in confidence to experienced professionals who are thinking of moving or to less experienced people who are looking for a change of career. Interested candidates should contact Simon Hudson in the first instance.
With degrees from the LSE, the University of Leicester (both in Economics) and the City University Business School (MBA in Finance), Tony initially pursued an academic career, and is an author of an economics textbook. He subsequently worked in the City for fourteen years as an investment analyst, focused on the retail and consumer sectors, with Carr, Kitcat & Aitken, Sutherlands and Greig Middleton. Tony moved into investor relations in 1998. He is a Fellow of the Securities Institute and a member of the Investor Relations Society.
A graduate of Cambridge University, Susan began her career in lobbying and journalism before moving into investment banking. She spent 12 years with BZW in their London and Paris offices, dealing with large cap Continental European companies and five years with BNP Paribas in London, focusing on UK and European institutional equity sales. More recently she helped establish an independent research boutique, Drug Analyst, before moving to City Insights.
An economics graduate of the London School of Economics, Simon spent the first part of his career in investment markets, initially as an analyst and fund manager and then as an equity salesman with James Capel in London and Hong Kong. Simon returned to the UK and moved into financial PR, eventually co-founding the business that became Hudson Sandler. In 1998, he co-founded City Insights, an investor relations and research business. City Insights was acquired by Tavistock in 2003. He is a member of the Investor Relations Society.
Chris
is an Economics graduate from Simon Fraser University in Canada. He
spent the first part of his career with the Royal Bank of Canada in
the UK, Canada, Hong Kong and the USA in credit and risk analysis
and latterly corporate banking. Chris then moved into equity
capital markets, first as an analyst and then running research teams
for companies that included Greenwell Montagu Far East, Pierson
Securities Asia and Caspian Securities, based in Hong Kong and then
London, covering markets including SE Asia, India, Emerging Europe
and the FSU. He has been a specialist investor relations consultant
since 1999 and has advised a wide range of UK and international
companies, both independently and on behalf of two financial PR
firms. He is a member of the Investor Relations Society. 
Nick started his career in the PR and Communications Department at DEFRA before spending three years with Financial PR organisation, St Brides Media & Finance. He headed the Investor Relations Division, organising road shows for the company’s predominantly AIM listed client base chiefly in the mining and oil and gas sectors, including Ascent Resources, White Nile, Griffin Mining, CAMEC, African Platinum and Kalahari Minerals. A graduate of Oxford Brookes University with a degree in French, Nick joined the City Insights team in 2007.
A graduate of Imperial College, Axel spent four years at Arthur Andersen in tax and oil consultancy roles. He joined Robert Fleming (now part of JP Morgan) in 1993 where he worked in broking and corporate finance for five years. Axel subsequently moved in-house to British-Borneo Oil & Gas, where he had a business development and planning role, before joining the board of City Insights in 2000.