Investor relations

But it's also good to talk to people who are not commentators, but are in the trenches.

And so today we have, as a returning guest, an old friend of mine, Sam Badri, who is head of investor relations at Cisco.

Sam, welcome back.

Thank you, Steve.

So for those who don't know you, other than the fact that you are head of investor relations at Cisco, just tell people a little bit about your background.

When did you join Cisco, and what were you before that?

Yes, and thank you for having me back again.

That's when I started bringing in companies like Oracle, Microsoft, and some others.

Hey everyone, welcome to the KE Report.

We have a company update featuring Oceana Gold, chatting with Brian Martin, Senior Vice President of Business Development and Investor Relations.

It's been a while since we last got an update from Oceana Gold, so we're going to focus on operations, also growth through exploration.

And capital management strategies with the company as the company is now right around a $9 billion market cap, really mid-tier gold miner with assets spread out in the United States, Philippines, and New Zealand.

All right, Brian.

Thank you very much for this update.

Again, Brian Martin, Senior Vice President of Business Development and Investor Relations.

over at Oceana Gold Company is traded on the TSX and on the NYSE under the symbol OGC.

Keppel and Singtel have emerged as the leading large-cap winners at this year's Singapore Corporate Awards, taking three awards each.

Keppel won joint gold for Best Managed Board and Best Risk Management, while Singtel took gold for Investor Relations and Best Annual Report.

Overall, 32 companies and six individuals were honoured for corporate governance and creating long-term shareholder value.

Keppel CEO Lo Chin-hua was named Best CEO in the Large Cap category.

Hello and welcome to Strategy, Story and Stakeholders, the podcast for senior leaders in communications, corporate affairs and investor relations.

I'm your host, Max Forsyth, managing director and founder of ComSearch and Selection, the specialist search and recruitment firm for the comms, corporate affairs and IR Industries.

Firstly, my apologies if my voice sounds a little bit funny in this intro.

Let's see.

So moving on, Traction, we had Antonio De Gea, the head of IR Investor Relations on our show, of course, a couple of weeks ago.

Anyway, we didn't know then that, and maybe he didn't know, that the CEO and the co-founder, advised the board that he intends to he's making a tender offer for up to up to i think is key in this point 100 of traction at a 13 peso 18 per share which is about a 20 premium to the 10.90 um that was the 60-day moving average um the shares as you would expect um popped at 15 to 80 percent and now Traction went on, I think, on Bloomberg and Linea and sort of said, well, we're not really planning to buy 100% and delist this.

It's just a way of acquiring shares.

I haven't been out of the industry for that long as a practitioner.

But we, as an investor, we knew the IRs of our significant companies.

Personally, there was a real relation there.

And if there was a challenge and a problem, we felt very, very comfortable going to that IR knowing A, you'd get a pretty strong response quickly, but also that would be the mechanism to escalate.

with the board.

It's interesting though, because I used to do a few of these things back in the day.

I was often invited to sit at tables and talk to IRs about, I guess, the investor view of IRs.

And I would always canvas my colleagues before going in because I would, for me, it was always, they're a great source of great relationship, source of insight, source of connection.

Uh, appreciate the opportunity to be here with, uh, David Grunfeld.

Looking forward to, uh, another conversation of elevating IR global perspective.

Uh, everyone gets an introduction.

Um, so, uh, for folks who are, uh, listening, Ian is the chief executive officer of the Australian Investor Relations Association.

I mean, I, I don't say that lightly, but I think, again, I, I emphasize if done well and properly, how important it can be to a company's valuation.

And, and, you know, by reducing the cost of...

If IR's done well, it can, can definitely reduce the cost of capital.

I, I don't think many boards and, uh, management teams have really, really appreciated that, you know, 10 years ago-