ProShare Awards

Submission deadline for entries: 16 July 2026, 5:00 PM (GMT)

The annual ProShare Awards are the most prestigious and highly sought-after accolades in the share plan industry, celebrating excellence across the sector. The categories below showcase outstanding plans, initiatives, strategies, individuals, and teams that have made a significant impact over the past 12-18 months.

ProShare Awards Ceremony 2026

📍 InterContinental, London Park Lane
📅 Thursday, 26 November 2026
🕒 6pm till late!

Awards Refresh - What's New for 2026

We’re delighted to share a range of exciting updates for the ProShare Awards 2026, including refreshed award categories, improvements to the submission process, and a series of upcoming webinars and roundtables to support our community throughout the year.

With the support of Janet Cooper, Chair of Judges, and a dedicated committee made up of past judges and key industry collaborators has been working to review, refine, and refresh the ProShare Awards. Their goal has been to ensure the categories, judging criteria, and submission process remain relevant, robust, and aligned with best practice across the share plans industry.

We encourage all organisations considering to review the updated categories and judging criteria

Submission deadline for entries: 16 July 2026, 5:00 PM (GMT)

Submit your ProShare Awards entry

ProShare Awards entry information and criteria

ProShare Awards 2026 – What’s Changing & How to Submit an Outstanding Entry

We hosted our webinar on The Awards Refresh – What’s new for 2026, featuring insights from Janet Cooper OBE, Chair of Judges.

Janet shared key updates for 2026 and what judges will be looking for in the year ahead.

Feedback from last years judges:

✨ Inspired by work being done in employee share ownership
✨ Some great submissions explaining succinctly what had been done and why
✨ Careful in selection of category, and explained why thy should win that category
✨ Many kept to 'rules' which was appreciated
✨ Great to see private companies entering categories open to all (not just private)
✨ Appreciate recognising external contributors as a partner in winning awards

NEW! Shortlisted Companies - Social Media Spotlight

New for 2026, shortlisted companies will be invited to create a short 30‑second video, which will be shared across ProShare’s social media channels. This offers an excellent opportunity to showcase your organisation, highlight your achievements, and gain wider visibility within the share plans community. Shortlisted companies will be announced early September!

Proshare Awards 2025 Winners Book

ProShare Awards 2025 - Photo gallery

Check out the highlights from an unforgettable Awards night!

Behind the awards : Hear from the Chair of Judges

Award Winners 2025

Congratulations to our 2025 winners

Best New Share Plan

Winner - Caledonia Investments

Commended – Pollen Street Group Limited

Best New Share Plan in a Private Company

Winner - Personio

Commended – Grant Thornton UK Advisory & Tax LLP

Best International Share Plan

Winner - Diageo PLC

Most Effective Communication of an Employee Share Plan: 501 - 5,000 employees

Winner - Crest Nicholson Holding plc

Most Effective Communication of an Employee Share Plan: 5,001 - 50,000 employees

Winner - Haleon

Commended – Rolls-Royce plc

Most Effective Communication of an Employee Share Plan: 50,000 + employees

Winner - Anglo American plc

Most Effective Communication of an Employee Share Plan in a Private Company

Winner - Vinted

Best Employee Share Plan Outcome Following a Major Corporate Change

Winner – Carlsberg Britvic

Commended – Anglo American plc

Best Commitment to Employee Share Ownership in a Private Company

Winner – Monzo

Commended – Stark

Best Financial Education Initiative for Employees

Winner – easyJet

Commended – Wise

Best Overall Performance in Fostering Employee Share Ownership 5,001 - 50,000 employees

Winner – JD Wetherspoon

Best Overall Performance in Fostering Employee Share Ownership 50,000 + employees

Winner – Barclays

Commended – Saudi Aramco

Most Effective Use of Technology

Winner – BT Group plc

Commended – Centrica plc

Team of the Year

Winner – Diageo PLC

Commended – Monzo

Rising Star Award

Winner - Bryony Wilson, Equiniti

Employee Share Plans Champion of the Year

Winner - Liz Pierson

Award for Services to Employee Share Ownership

Winner - Jay Foley

Awards 2025 Gallery

View photos from the 2025 awards

View photo gallery

2025 Sponsors

Thank you to our awards sponsors. If you'd like to sponsor this year's event, please email team@proshare.org

Awards dinner partner

J.P. Morgan Workplace Solutions

J.P. Morgan Workplace Solutions is a holistic tech and service-based offering, created to empower your team to navigate their workplace incentives with confidence. From equity compensation management to financial education, wealth building and beyond, our intuitive solutions are designed to help you attract and keep talented people who believe in your company as much as you believe in them. Your participants are provided with their own account, where they can view and transact their shares, in their own currency and language of choice. Our executive services offering provides elevated, individual support with its own dedicated team and professional advice on wealth and equity, with a platform which neatly integrates with your Human Resource Information System and tax systems. More than just your equity compensation partner, we bring your reward strategy to life. Contact us today to find out how we can help empower your workforce.

Entertainment sponsor

AAG

Whether we’re helping you and your family get where you want to in life, or educating your employees through one of our financial wellbeing programmes, our complete focus is always on you and your needs. All of us at AAG are energised by making a profound difference to your or your employees’ lives, wealth and wellbeing. We bring decades of specialist financial experience to our work with you, along with a readiness to share our knowledge, and a deep commitment to exceptional service.

Prize draw sponsor

Equiniti

Equiniti are the UK's leading provider of share registration and associated investor schemes. With over 5,000 employees across 26 locations worldwide, we’ve been delivering innovative solutions to clients for over 70 years. Our expertise spans across multiple areas, including share registration, pensions, investment services, and employee benefits. Through our employee share plan services, we've helped hundreds of businesses to design, launch and administer their share plans, providing specialist solutions powered by technology we've developed. Our operational expertise supports the ‘employee to shareholder’ journey, putting employees at the heart every step of the way. To find more, get in touch!

Photo booth Sponsor

VG

VG is a leading provider of employee incentives, administration and fiduciary services based in Jersey. We enact complex, bespoke and regular employee incentive solutions to meet the needs of businesses of all sizes, from evolving private or private equity portfolio companies to multi-national organisations. We support share warehousing, share option plans, deferred remuneration schemes and management incentive plans, whether through an employee benefit trust or corporate nominee arrangement, or both. As an agile organisation, we can tailor our fees and work with a range of legal advisors and brokers for the benefit of clients.

ProShare Awards 2025 Judges

Independent Director, Cabinet Office

Janet Cooper OBE

Janet is an experienced Chair, non-executive director and trustee. Janet is a Non-Executive Director of Nurture Landscapes Group an Independent Director at the Cabinet Office, Chairs two remuneration committees and Chairs a group of 150 Remuneration Committee Chairs. Until recently Janet was Acting Chair of RNLI (Lifeboats). Janet has over 30 years’ experience of advising on global executive and employee share plans, with Chambers Legal Directory ranking Janet as the top lawyer in this area. Janet developed and led the employee incentives team at Linklaters, where she was a partner for over 20 years, and then co-founded specialist law firm, Tapestry, which she left at the end of 2020. Janet was involved in founding ProShare 30 years ago and now Chairs ProShare’s Advisory Panel. Janet also co-founded the Global Equity Organisation in 1999 and was appointed Co-founder and Vice Chair Emeritus.

Former Group Company Secretary, Kingfisher plc

Chloe Barry FCG

Chloe will step down as Group Company Secretary of Kingfisher plc in November 2025. Chloe joined Kingfisher – owner of B&Q and Screwfix among other DIY brands – in January 2019 and was appointed Group Company Secretary in December 2021. Chloe started her company secretarial career at PWC in both London and Jersey and has since held a number of company secretarial roles at leading FTSE 100 companies, including BG Group, Centrica, Intercontinental Hotels Group and Electrocomponents. Most recently, Chloe was Group Company Secretary of Sophos Group plc a FTSE 250 company specialising in security software and hardware. Chloe is a Fellow of the Corporate Governance Institute and is a member of the Institute’s Accreditation Panel for Board Performance Reviewers.

Board Member, CGIUKI

Silvana Glibota-Vigo FCG

Silvana joined the Board of The Chartered Governance Institute UK & Ireland (CGIUKI) in August 2023, having been a co-opted member since March 2022. She joined Keller Group as Group Head of Secretariat in October 2020. She has been working in corporate governance since 2004 and for UK premium listed companies, including FirstGroup, British Land, International Distributions Services (formerly Royal Mail) and Prudential, since 2006. Silvana is a member of the CGI’s Global Policy & Advocacy Committee Thought Leadership Committee, a member of the Governance Officer Apprenticeship Trailblazer Group, and a practitioner member of the European Corporate Governance Institute.

Chief Reward Officer, Unilever

Carl Saunders

In April 2025 Carl joined Unilever as Chief Reward Officer. In that role he shapes and leads Unilever’s reward agenda in over 100 markets all around the world. Carl has over 20 years’ experience in the FMCG industry and over the last decade he has also led the reward agenda for The Coca-Cola Company, based in Atlanta, USA as well as at Coca-Cola European Partners, based out of Brussels, Belgium. The teams that Carl has led have a common connection: they have all demonstrated a strong commitment to employee share ownership, implemented scaled international employee share ownership programs, and many have been past ProShare winners!