Our People

Charles Cryer - Chief Executive Officer

Email: chiefexecutive@capitaregistrars.com
Tel: +44 (0) 20 8639 2474

Charles joined Capita Registrars in 2002 as Finance Director. After three years in this role he moved to become Divisional Finance Director of Capita's Financial Services Division where he was responsible for all aspects of financial management and acquisitions within The Capita Group's largest profit centre. He was appointed Chief Executive of Capita Registrars in May 2007.

Previously he worked as a Corporate Financier for ING Financial Markets and as a Corporate Broker for Charterhouse Securities where he specialised in fund raising and M&A for small and mid-cap companies. In these roles he regularly worked with the share registration industry in managing IPOs, Rights Issues and Placings for his clients.

He qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 1997 with Coopers & Lybrand (now part of PricewaterhouseCoopers) where he worked in Corporate Recovery & Insolvency. Charles holds an honours degree in Geography from The University of Reading.

Graham Renn - Client Services Director

Email: grenn@capitaregistrars.com
Tel: +44 (0) 1484 600 942

As Client Services Director, Graham is responsible for client relations and overall business development for Capita Registrars.

Having spent 26 years with Lloyds Registrars, Graham joined Northern Registrars in January 2001. Following the acquisition of Northern Registrars by Capita in 2003, Graham was appointed Deputy Divisional Sales Director. During his time with Lloyds, Graham gained a comprehensive knowledge of all aspects of share registration holding a number of senior positions.

Justin Cooper, Managing Director, Regulated Business Services

Email: justin.cooper@capita.co.uk
Telephone: +44 (0) 20 8639 2280

Justin joined myshares, now part of The Capita Group in 2000, before moving to become Managing Director of Capita Share Plan Services. As Executive Director of Capita Registrars, Justin now looks after all the regulated business flows within Capita Registrars - including Share Plans, Share Dealing and Custody & Settlement. In addition, Capita Tracing Solutions and Capita Company Secretarial Services also report into Justin. He is an FSA Approved Person and a Director of Capita Registrars, Capita IRG Trustees Limited and various other associated Boards.

Justin has over 20 years experience in the share registration and share plan business environments. His career started at Lloyds TSB Registrars (now Equiniti), where he spent a total of ten years, before moving to ProShare, the UK organisation that promotes wider share ownership.

Michael Kempe - Operations Director

Email: mkempe@capitaregistrars.com
Tel: +44 (0) 20 8639 1234

Michael Kempe joined Capita Registrars as Deputy Operations Director in January 2007 after having spent 11 years with the Euroclear Group. Michael joined the Capita Registrars board in July 2007 and his current role of Operations Director incorporates responsibility for all industry issues as well as all operations relating to registration, corporate actions, investor relations and corporate reconciliations.

At Euroclear, Michael was responsible for creating a harmonised corporate actions platform for the Euroclear group. In addition to meeting this challenge in the Belgian, Dutch, French, Irish and UK markets, Michael was Chairman of the European Central Securities Depositories Association’s Working Group 5 and was also co-Chairman of the ISO 15022 Global Market Practices Group defining global market practice in relation to ISO 15022 and corporate actions.

Michael was previously head of Issuer and Investor Services at CRESTCo, the settlement system for UK and Irish securities, which became part of Euroclear in 2002. He was responsible for the development of CRESTCo products and services relating to corporate actions and custody, including dematerialised rights issues, takeover acceptances and electronic proxy voting.

Howard Montagu - Finance Director

Email: hmontagu@capitaregistrars.com
Tel: +44 (0) 20 8639 2412

Howard Montagu joined Capita Registrars in 2005 and was promoted to Finance Director in September 2006. Prior to that he held various senior financial positions with IKON Office Solutions Plc (Outsourcing and Document solutions), Williams Lea Ltd (Facilities Management) and American Express.

He qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 1995 with Coopers & Lybrand (now part of PwC) where he worked in Audit.

Pat O’Donoghue - Managing Director – Ireland

Email: podonoghue@capitacorporateregistrars.ie
Tel: +353 1 810 2429

Pat has 24 years experience in all aspects of Share Registration and Corporate Actions. Previously Pat worked in Bank of Ireland’s Registration and Securities Department in 1981, subsequently being appointed Service and Relationship Manager in 1998. He then moved to Computershare in 2000 as Senior Relationship Manager, and joined Capita in 2001. Pat is a graduate of Dublin City University and a member of the Institute of Bankers in Ireland. Pat and his team offer Share Registration, Corporate Action and Share Plan Services to Irish companies.

Anthony O’Keeffe – Chief Executive Officer - Jersey

Email: anthony.okeeffe@capita.je
Tel: +44 (0) 1534 632336

Anthony joined the Company in 1996 and was appointed Chief Executive of Capita Trust Company (Jersey) Limited in May 2002, previously having direct responsibility for the institutional custody function.

Anthony has a strong background in Compliance, Risk and Audit acquired through previous employment with Royal & Sun Alliance and subsequently Capita. As CEO, he has the overall responsibility for the day-to-day operations of Capita’s offshore businesses.