Anne-Marie Clarke Industry Director, Registration Services Introduction and what your role is at EQ
My current role is Industry Director for the EQ UK Registration Services business. The focus is on working with industry, government and regulators to help shape policy decisions and regulations, and with my internal colleagues to consider the impact of changes and what we need to do to deliver them. I do this with the support of our many internal experts – so I see my role as being the conduit between the external stakeholder environment, including government, regulators and the registration industry, back into EQ and to our clients, and vice versa. Understanding the implications and involving the right people at the right time is key to delivering the optimum outcomes.
What office are you located at?
I work between Worthing, London and home, and each have their advantages: Worthing, to connect and work with the many knowledgeable and talented people who work to support our UK clients; London, to feel the buzz of the city and meet with people from other areas of EQ and my external industry connections; and home, for when concentration on reading long, or complex, documents is a necessity!
What’s happened in your career up to this point?
It’s been a long time since I started my career, and it has been a varied path which has led to incredible opportunities. I started with a grounding in accounting, focussed on supporting decision making within multinational FMCG companies. A career switch into company secretarial and corporate governance, enabled me to support Board level decision makers within a business. This insight into how companies were run, led to my next decision to set up my corporate governance consultancy business. This enabled me to support different companies, in different sectors, with different requirements, and meet and work with a variety of people. I learnt the power of sharing best practice and making incremental improvements, always bearing in mind what would work best. Moving to EQ in 2020, as Director – Head of Corporate Governance in the EQ Advisory business, built on my passion for the benefits of corporate governance, and advising a wide variety of listed companies. It also brought me into the world of M&A and shareholder activism – not something that happens often in a company secretary’s career! I continued with my desire to make a difference, which led me to my current role.
What do you like about EQ?
The people, and the opportunity to make a difference and support the digitisation of our industry.
What's your biggest EQ achievement?
I think developing new skills to support our marketing team in promoting our expertise, whether that be writing articles, delivering events, or representing EQ. My biggest personal achievement? Hosting a fireside chat at the EQ conference with an AI expert – a subject that was well outside of my comfort zone at the time! My biggest achievement for EQ – I think that’s for others to decide!
What are you looking forward to in the future at EQ?
Being part of the new global organisation announced in January 2026 and supporting issuers and shareholders through the digitisation of the UK shareholding framework. I’m currently leading the EQ communications workstream on digitisation and looking forward to working with my colleagues to deliver this through the lifecycle of the digitisation programme.
Do you have a fun fact to share?
I play saxophone in a local Brighton saxophone group and have been found at various local landmarks over the years playing some familiar tunes! A highlight was playing ABBA next to the Brighton Dome on the anniversary of them winning the Eurovision Song Contest!
A big thank you to Anne-Marie for sharing her thoughts with us.