Investor Engagement

Kirsten joined the Computershare business in 2007 as an Account Manager at Georgeson in London. After relocating to the Netherlands, she led Georgeson’s Benelux team on numerous transactions, activist situations, and shareholder meetings for companies such as ASM International, ING Group, Philips, and Shell. She has had key involvement in a number of high-profile M&A transactions. In 2009, Kirsten took on the role of Managing Director Netherlands at Computershare, extending the local footprint and participating in various shareholder meetings, employee share plan roll-outs, and class action litigations. After her tenure in growing the Benelux business, Kirsten assumed responsibility for Computershare Shareholder Meetings globally within the company and was appointed the Head of Continental Europe, covering seven country organizations in 2022. Since the beginning of 2025, Kirsten has been leading the new Investor Engagement business in Computershare Issuer Services, integrating Georgeson with the recently acquired companies CMi2i and ingage.

Aaron is CEO of Investor Engagement at Computershare North America, where his teams deliver strategic intelligence, software and corporate advisory to directors and executives at listed companies, including many of Computershare's 2,500+ US issuer clients. He brings 20 years of global experience across capital markets, investor relations, technology and corporate governance, and P&L ownership of businesses with hundreds of employees across four continents.

Aaron previously served as Managing Director, Investor Relations and Head of ESG at JPMorgan Chase, a trusted advisor to its C-Suite and Board, with award winning recognition from both investors and companies (Institutional Investor 2022-2024; IR Awards 2024-2025). Earlier, he led global research and corporate advisory at Glass Lewis, including the M&A and activism practice, engaging Boards and C-Suites at ~2,000 companies. 

A global executive and board director, Aaron has deep commercial range across people, product, sales, marketing, corporate development, finance, strategy and tech. His practitioner expertise spans investor relations, governance, communications, equity research, stewardship, sustainability, shareholder engagement, corporate advisory, M&A, contests and activism. He also has 15 years in software and startups as a fintech CEO and angel investor in 100+ companies.

Cas has more than 25 years’ experience in international investor relations and shareholder identification and has been with Georgeson since 1998. As responsible for Georgeson’s Global activism and M&A practice, he has been involved in the highest profile M&A and activist situations.

Cas has a longstanding knowledge of Global proxy voting mechanics and key governance matters affecting issuers and shareholders globally. Having worked for several activists and against many more he has in-depth experience in how activists run their campaigns and the different stakeholders they look to influence in sensitive activist campaigns.

Prior to joining Georgeson he had five years’ experience in international investor relations and shareholder identification. While honing his skills in the US, Cas has been in the UK since 2002.