Keynote Speaker Biographies
Jane-Emma Peerless is the Director of People and Chief Commercial Officer at Caxton. Jane-Emma worked at both the Financial Times and Financial News before joining Caxton in 2008.
As People Director, Jane-Emma has spent the last 15 years formulating Caxton’s culture and people policies. Prior to that, she ran the Global Sales Division of the newspaper ‘Financial News’ and was Advertisement Director of ‘FT Business’. She brings this vast expertise and experience to Caxton, where she oversees the HR function and Corporate business – leading the latter’s development of payment products and services.
As Director of People, Jane-Emma has been a key player in developing Caxton’s culture and people policies for 15 years. Her varied passions and talents for employee well-being, performance management and professional development has allowed the business to thrive in rapidly changing circumstances, including maintaining strong business performance both in the 2008 financial crisis and the recent pandemic. In her years at Caxton she has curated a flexible culture which puts people first, allows for a strong work-life balance and ultimately helps the business and its people to work towards a common goal. The values led culture she has created promotes agility, transparency, collaboration and high performance.
A graduate of St Andrews University Jane-Emma’s commercial experience at a senior level has enabled her to span successfully across all areas of HR. She is passionate about financial well-being and education and writes regularly on issues which seek a collaboration between HR and finance teams for the benefit of employees. Jane-Emma sits on the Caxton Board, is a recent Chairman of Membership of the Hurlingham Club and is a Trustee of adult literacy charity, Read Easy.
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