Case studies

Chartered Secretaries work in a number of different careers and across a variety of sectors including corporate, not-for-profit and charity.  Some work as company secretaries.  Others have roles such as chief executive, chairman, director of legal services or in-house counsel or they work in practice offering business and legal services to a range of clients.  

The specific responsibilities of a Chartered Secretary vary depending upon the level of the job role, the size of the organisation and the sector in which it operates. 

If you are considering qualifying as a Chartered Secretary, you will be opening up a wealth of career opportunities - across sectors, internationally, within organisations and in practice. With the opportunity to work overseas, becoming a Chartered Secretary is a passport to a challenging, versatile and well rewarded career.

To help give you an idea of what some of our Chartered Secretaries do we have compiled some case studies.  These give you a great insight into the roles these people do, how they got into the profession, what they love about it and there are some useful pieces of advice to people starting out on their career.

 

• Anthony Panayiotis Michael - director and company secretary,  a US Bank in Jersey

• Bernadette Barber - runs her own freelance company secretarial consultancy business, Chadwick Corporate Consulting Limited.

• Charles Brown - company secretary, Experian plc

• Craig Hunter - managing director, VERSEC Limited, an award winning company secretarial solutions provider. (Also Member of the board of British Swimming and the England Chef de Mission for the XIX Commonwealth Games, Delhi 2010)

• Derek Woodward - group company secretary, Thomas Cook Group plc.

• Mark Peters - head of secretariat, Balfour Beatty plc.

• Reeta Stokes, principal in her own Practice - Compsec Services

• Rob Bellhouse, company secretary, Lonmin Plc

• Sunil Kambli, founding partner, Premier Solicitors in Bedford (also head of the Private Client department as well as the Company & Commercial department. Also runs a Notary Public business).
• John B Woodhead - Chartered Secretary in Public Practice
• Graham Staples - Head of compliance and company secretary at Schroders plc

 

If you are a Chartered Secretary yourself and would like to provide a case study please email marketing@icsa.co.uk and ask for a case study template.