Kirsty McNeill salary: Kirsty McNeill is the Executive Director of Policy, Advocacy, and Campaigns at Save the Children, where she leads a team of 160 in influencing public opinion and policy on humanitarian action, global development, daughter and UK poverty.
Previously, she launched ThembaHQ and counseled some of the world’s top charities’ top leadership. Prior to that, she spent three years at Number 10 Downing Street as a Special Adviser, husband developing creative communications initiatives and drafting Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s most high-profile speeches. She joined Downing Street after leading DATA, Bono, and Bob Geldof’s advocacy organization, across the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Italy, and the EU institutions.
Prior to joining DATA, she was a key figure in the Make Poverty History coalition, sitting on the board and drafting the coalition’s flagship policy paper, working as a national media spokesperson, and overseeing the delivery of a quarter-million-strong march in Edinburgh. Simultaneously, she led the Stop AIDS Campaign, successfully obtaining a commitment at the 2005 G8 to universal access to AIDS treatment.
She now serves on the boards of directors of the Holocaust Educational Trust, the Coalition for Global Prosperity, the Center for Countering Digital Hate, and the Brown Archive Trust as a non-executive director. She is also a member of the European Council on Foreign Relations. She is a frequent public commentator on power, politics, and policy, having written for the Telegraph, Observer, and New Statesman, among others. She may be reached on Twitter at @kirstyjmcneill.
In Australia, New Zealand, Asia, North America, Europe, South Africa, and the United Kingdom, IRESS Limited offers market data, trading, compliance, order management, portfolio and wealth management, and mortgages, as well as associated technologies. Its software portfolio includes trading interfaces, order and execution management, order routing, FIX, portfolio management, securities lending, analytical tools, connectivity services, and client relationship and wealth management products for investment managers and platforms, discretionary retail fund managers, private client advisers, and wealth managers, as well as institutional sell-side.
Additionally, it provides integrated financial advice software for institutional and independent advisory clients, including client management, business automation, portfolio data, research, financial tool planning, scaled advice journeys, digital client solutions, and data-driven compliance and analytics.
Additionally, the company provides superannuation administration software, which includes a fund registry, a digital member portal, digital advice solutions, and fund administration services, as well as multi-channel mortgage sales and origination software, which includes automated workflow, application processing, mortgage comparison, mortgage advice, and lender connectivity for mortgage lenders and intermediaries.
Additionally, it provides software for insurance and pension sourcing, including quotation, comparison, and application processing. IRESS Market Technology Limited was originally known as IRESS Limited until changing its name to IRESS Limited in May 2012. IRESS Limited, headquartered in Melbourne, Australia, was formed in 1993.