The report rating panel
After having passed the scanning and scoring phase performed by e.com report watchers the reports -at least some of them- were submitted to an independent rating panel. The members for the Annual Report on Annual Reports 2010 were:
Rob Berick
For the past twenty years, Rob has provided counsel and strategy on a wide range of investor
relations and corporate governance issues to the senior leadership teams of publicly traded,
global companies of all market-cap sizes. A former corporate investor relations officer,
Rob currently serves as a senior managing director of Dix & Eaton, where he oversees
the firm's investor relations practice. During his career, he has played a pivotal role in the
conceptualization and execution of award-winning annual reports. Rob is a regular author on
emerging capital markets and investor relations trends, and frequently serves as a panelist for
various industry organizations, including the U.S. National Investor Relations Institute.
E-mail: rberick@dix-eaton.com
Vero Escarmelle
A marketing and communications manager at RICS Europe (the European organization of
UK-based Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors), Vero previously worked in marcom
positions at Research International (a WPP company), for a U.S. company and at The
Enterprise Group (where she was involved in marketing and communication activities in
Southeast Asian markets). Vero was the co-founder and marketing manager of the reporting
unit at The Enterprise Group (1992) and set up the Annual Report on Annual Reports
(1996), both later spun off into e.com (1999), for which she reviewed hundreds of annuals.
In that context she spent five years on the annual report coordination (of communication,
design and content areas) for insurance and banking institutions. She has stayed a
consultant and panel member to the ReportWatch team ever since.
E-mail: vero.e@reportwatch.net
Kaevan Gazdar
Kaevan Gazdar is responsible for corporate reporting at HypoVereinsbank, one of
Germany's largest banks, now part of the Italian-based Unicredit Group. The bank was
awarded many times in German report rating competitions. Kaevan is co-author of the
annual report book "Geschäftsbericht ohne Fehl und Tadel" and also published books
on corporate citizenship and corporate communication (including "Unternehmerische
Wohltaten: Last oder Lust?"). He is a member of the jury of the Good Company ranking, the
author of "Reporting Nonfinancials", and has held seminars and talks at various venues,
including FT Knowledge, MCE and Ethical Corporation.
E-mail: kaevan.gazdar@unicreditgroup.de
Wesley Gee
Wesley Gee has worked within the management and sustainability consulting for more
than ten years. Currently, Wesley is on the management team of Stantec's Strategic
Sustainability Services practice area. He is a recognized expert in corporate strategic
planning, performance measurement, governance, reporting and communication, stakeholder
engagement, community investment, and integrated water management. As a former Senior
Corporate Social Responsibility Advisor at Canadian Business for Social Responsibility
(CBSR), he has advised leading companies on their sustainability reporting, including Canada
Post, Hydro-Quebec, RONA, Scotiabank, TD Bank, De Beers and Wal-Mart. He has also
worked at executive and operational levels to improve their identification of key business risks
and opportunities, and approaches toward leadership in sustainability.
E-mail: wesley_gee@yahoo.com
Mike Guillaume
Mike is the co-founder and manager of e.com-ReportWatch, a European-rooted, U.S.-
headquartered and London-based firm that specializes in report assessment and
benchmarking. Recognized as a leading international expert on reporting, he has reviewed
thousands of reports, consulted for hundred-plus international report and IR teams, and is the
editor of the Annual Report on Annual Reports that he co-created in 1996. Prior to that, as a
co-founder and then executive director of The Enterprise Group, his track record has included
an extensive entrepreneurial and international management consulting experience in Europe,
North America and Southeast Asia. An economist and financial analysis and communication
specialist, Mike has contributed to various publications, articles and seminars, and has written
a book about "The Seven Deadly Sins of Capitalism. And Some Ways to Reinvent Free
Markets for Welfare".
E-mail: mike.g@reportwatch.net
Jakob Ivarsson
Jakob Ivarsson is a highly respected communication consultant with a rich experience
acquired through the production of several annual reports for some of the largest Swedish
companies. He contributes with strategy, structure and contents in order to clarify the
company's message and the report as a vehicle towards stakeholders. Jakob runs the
Stakeholder Communication company from Gothenburg. Prior to his present occupation he
held a position as senior advisor and partner at Solberg, one of Sweden's leading corporate
communication consultancies on financial reporting. He is also a deputy board member of the
Swedish IR Association.
E-mail: jakob.ivarsson@stakeholder.se
Reg Pauffley
Reg Pauffley is acknowledged as one of the most widely experienced figures in global
corporate communications. His offering is simple: original, pragmatic and creative solutions
based on many years of experience at the forefront of the industry. Reg's credentials stem
largely from his experience as the founder of what is now Further Creative, a major UK
corporate design consultancy. Under Reg's direction (1984 to 2001), Pauffley became a
reference in both corporate brand development and global reporting and communications.
Clients included BP, Nokia, GSK, Aegon, Ahold, Credit Suisse, BT, Novartis, Marks &
Spencer and many other FT European top 300 companies. After having been in charge of
business development at Merchant and having acted as chairman's at Likemind, Reg has
set up Creative Consortia, which gathers small best-in-class firms covering all corporate
communication needs.
E-mail: reg.p@creativeconsortia.com
Pravin Ujjain
Pravin K Ujjain has been consulting on investor and marketing communications for over
fifteen years. An avid annual report enthusiast, he studies over 150 global annuals every
year. 'AR Insight' - his annual report consultancy firm helps a few select companies improve
their annual report and provides investor relations assistance to more than one hundred
Indian companies. Besides investor communication, Pravin's company also offers marketing
and marketing communication consulting to a host of global and Indian brands through a
dedicated brand consultancy arm named 'Bootstrap'.
E-mail: pravin@arinsight.com
