Kerin Williams
Director
Matt Clapson
Admin support, design
Our colleagues
Associates
A Company Secretary with over thirty years’ experience. Kerin has worked in-house in senior positions within company secretarial departments for a number of FTSE 100 / 250 companies in property, chemicals, banking and printing. More recently Kerin was Managing Director of Prism Cosec, a Company Secretarial professional services organisation. During 12 years at Prism Kerin set up their AIM company offering and was responsible for staff training and development in this area. Clients included FTSE 350 and AIM companies in a number of sectors including mining, telecoms, fashion, insurance, property and financial services. Specific tasks included full management of the Board process, projection management for Annual Reports, post IPO policy implementation, share scheme management and implementation, AGM projection management, writing annual report compliance reports, joint venture management and board meeting attendance. Trakehner Cosec was set up in 2020 and Kerin is currently named company secretary to several main market and AIM companies. For each of these companies she is responsible for the delivery of the full company secretarial remit. Responsibilities cover the full Board and Board Committee process, including agenda setting, meeting attendance and minuting, guidance to the chairs on timetabling and drafting papers, annual report and AGM project management, governance policies (for example Bribery, Gifts and Hospitality, Share Dealing, Modern Slavery, Conflicts of Interest), staff and director training, Market Abuse Regulations process management and share option scheme management.
Matt is an experienced marketing professional who took a career break to raise his family. Matt retrained in the governance arena and provides administrative support to all Trakehner Cosec clients. Matt is responsible for collecting and collating board papers, statutory register updates, routine filings at Companies House and data protection renewals. He is also responsible for Companies House and shareholder correspondence, creating Powerpoint presentations, drafting Board papers, agendas and Secretary’s Reports, Board timetables and diary management as well as proofreading, invoicing and accounting and other administrative and office management duties.
We work with an alliance of independent corporate governance and company secretarial practitioners all specialising in sharing governance knowledge and providing premium governance solutions. All have worked at senior levels providing corporate governance best practice services to listed and private companies. Our colleagues provide mutual support and attendance at any Board meetings that Kerin cannot be present at due to unforeseen circumstances such as illness. CVs of our associates can be provided.