Our Team
As a valued client of CORPGRO, you will receive dedicated personal attention from one of our senior advisor. Our team will collaborates closely with you to effectively address your needs and challenges, ensuring efficient and cost-effective solutions.
What sets us apart from the competition is our ability to tackle complex problems practically, even in real-world scenarios. With extensive experience both in the UK and internationally, we offer fresh insights in areas such as reward strategies, executive compensation, incentives, performance management, organisational design, and strategic workforce planning.
Damian Carnell
Founder Director
Damian is a Chartered Accountant and has 35 years’ experience of delivering professional executive compensation advice.
Damian’s clients’ profiles embrace many sectors, including financial services, banking, asset management, broking, private equity and insurance.
His advice context is also extensive ranging from many UK listed company Remco appointments, sub-co Remco advice such as European subsidiaries of global banking institutions, international financial services firms, special situations such as IPO, M&A, JVs, CVUs and venture startups.
His experience includes pay policy, pay benchmarking, short- and long-term incentive design, benefits, share ownership guidelines, NED fees, institutional investor views on pay governance, regulatory compliance and broad-based share plans.
He was special advisor to the IASB on IFRS2, Share Based Payment and sits on the ESOP Centre Steering Committee. In 2024 he presented to the European Conference Board on executive compensation, and MENSA International at Cambridge University on UNSDG 10 - Reducing Inequality.
Damian holds a degree in Commerce from Birmingham University and an MBA from Cass business school.