Journalists

Ian is the editor and a director of Proactive. He oversees all editorial output and is also heavily involved with business development. He moved to Proactive from the Daily Mail, where he was City News Editor and Investment Editor...

Philip has more than 20 years' experience writing about companies, general finance and investing matters for a variety of publications. His career has involved spells at the Investors Chronicle, where he was small companies and...

John has been covering financial markets since before the FTSE 100 existed, starting out on the Industries and Commodities team at Dun & Bradstreet, before moving on to Datastream, where he was head of the news team for sev...

After graduating with first class honours in economics from Lancaster University in 2006, Jamie spent a number of years as a private client equity dealer gaining front-line experience in the investment industry during the most ...

Giles Gwinnett is a qualified journalist and has been a reporter for a number of regional newspapers and for a press agency. He was formerly a news analyst on the German team at Thomson Financial, now Thomson Reuters. He has a ...

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Sarah was the voice of Bloomberg Business Breakfast and the face of Daybreak when it aired on The Money Channel, as well as being one of the first webcasters for Thomson Reuters. Other clients Sarah has worked with include Th...

Alastair Ford worked for seven years as mining correspondent for the Investors Chronicle, the UK’s premier print-based investment magazine. During that time he covered some of the most interesting and spectacular deals of the mi...

Andrew brings a wealth of experience to the Proactive team with over 10 years’ experience in television reporting and presenting with the likes of Thompson Reuters, Sky News and ITV.  Andrew holds a Bachelor of Science i...

Jon has been reporting on stock markets  for over twenty-five years for audio text companies (remember them?!), newswires, and websites. He helped set up MarketEye News for ICV/Topic in the 1990’s before moving on to become...

Helaine is a technology specialist who originally worked in investment banking in Korea for JP Morgan and Citi, where she interacted with senior management from the largest companies operating in the sector, such as LG and Sams...

Edward has a Master’s degree in Mathematics from Oxford and has used his mathematical skills to excel as a support services analyst at HSBC and Societe Generale. During his time in investment banking, Ed covered numerous blue...

Rachel started off as a general news reporter 20 years ago before serving stints as the bureau chief for AFX News in Kuala Lumpur, Singapore and Hong Kong and finally as an editor in London.  She has also worked at APM Health...

Tharun is a Chartered Financial Analyst from the CFA Institute, U.S. A graduate from Loyola College, Chennai, he started his career in Goldman Sachs at their Bangalore office. Prior to his current role at Proactive, he worked as a...

John Miller has been a journalist for 38 years and before starting with Proactive in late 2017, had spent 10 years as editor of The ASIA Miner magazine and online news service. After starting as a cadet journalist at the C...

Christine comes to Proactive with more than five years’ television reporting experience covering general news in the New York tri-state area and two years spent in the technology space, focusing on marketing for a global IT...

Calum graduated from the London School of Economics with an LLB (Hons) degree in Law in 2015. After brief stints in corporate insurance brokerage in Hong Kong and as a financial consultant associate in London, he joined a video ga...

Uttara is a senior financial journalist at Proactive. She has reported on global markets, trade and business for over twenty years from North America, Asia and Europe. She was previously senior contributor for Forbes India base...

Katie is a senior reporter at Proactive. She is an award-winning journalist for outlets including the Ottawa Citizen, the CBC, NPR, The Toronto Star and the Institute for War and Peace Reporting. Katie has reported from countries ...

Steve Darling is an award winning broadcaster who has spent the past 20 years as one of the most recognizable faces in British Columbia, reporting and anchoring at BCTV and Global Television. He spent 15 years as the co-host of...

Berkay completed a Master of International Relations at the University of Melbourne in 2015 before working in a number of research and communication roles. Prior to joining Proactive in 2018, Berkay worked as a researcher and...

Amanda is a senior reporter with more than 20 years' experience as a writer and editor. She has previously been a staff writer for The West Australian and a journalist for The Sunday Times, the Kalgoorlie Miner, Australia’s M...

Barney is an independent equity research analyst with nearly 22 years’ experience. His primary focus is the oil and gas sector where he has particular expertise in the junior E&P sector in addition to experience of renewa...

Prior to founding Hallgarten & Company in 2003 he was the head of research at an economic thinktank in New Jersey which he had joined in 2001. Before moving to the U.S., he was the founder and head of research at the esteem...

Jessica graduated from Curtin University of Technology in 2014 with a double major degree in Journalism and PR. Her first journalism job was at the Kalgoorlie Miner, WA's only regional daily newspaper, where she wrote and later...

Andrew covers daily market movers, newsworthy cannabis stocks and other small-cap briefs. He previously worked as a fact-checker for both PolitiFact and Guideposts, covered higher education for the Columbia Missourian and inter...

Noel Ong is a geologist with over 21 years of experience in the resource industry. He has extensive mineral exploration and project management experience in the gold, lithium, iron ore (hematite and magnetite), tantalum and the...

Angela Harmantas is a senior financial journalist with Proactive. She has nearly ten years' experience covering the equity markets in North America, with a particular focus on junior resource stocks. Angela has reported from numer...

Karen is an experienced presenter and producer, who has worked with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Sky and Network Ten.

Oliver Haill has been writing about companies and markets for more than a decade and a half. In recent years he has been freelancing, with contracts at the Financial Times Group, ITV, Press Association, Reuters sports desk, Gracen...

Emma has over 15 years’ experience as an equity analyst mainly across the biotech, pharma and med tech sectors, including more than 10 years as an analyst at Edison Group where she covered a range of pan-European mid-cap stocks....

Patrick jumped into journalism more than 25 years ago, spending the bulk of his career with the Associated Press, Dow Jones Newswires and the Wall Street Journal as a reporter, editor and manager. He helped launch and oversee W...

Rachael has worked as a Broadcast Journalist across the UK, New Zealand and the US as well as in Australia and has interviewed numerous CEOs and global game-changers. She has a Degree in Journalism, a Diploma in Stock Market and ...

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After completing his MBA at Birmingham University in 1993, Simon joined the corporate finance team at Singer & Friedlander working on small and mid-cap mergers and acquisitions. In 1997, he joined the senior banker team at ABN...

Giulia joined Proactive as a junior journalist in 2019. Originally from Italy, she moved to the UK in 2013 to study at the Robert Gordon University where she graduated with a BA(Hons) degree in Journalism. Over the years she has r...

Madeleine Taylor joined Proactive in September 2019 after completing her masters in journalism at City University, where she chose to specialise in finance, and data journalism. Prior to this, she graduated with an undergraduate d...