Madeleine Cordes

Senior Manager, TMF Group

Madeleine is Senior Manager with TMF Group’s UK company secretarial business and has been a company secretary for over 25 years both in industry and in professional practice, including three years working offshore. She was company secretary of a FTSE250 retailer for eight years and has assisted many listed FSTE and AIM clients with their governance and company secretarial practices before and after their flotations.  Madeleine has served on various committees of the Quoted Companies Alliance which supports smaller FTSE and AIM companies and arranged joint technical and networking events on new developments including the Bribery Act. She has recently acted as Interim Secretary for a FTSE 100 company through a hostile takeover bid. Madeleine regularly carries out corporate governance effectiveness assessments and Company Secretariat reviews and delivers face to face training for directors as well as developing an online programme.  She is joint author of Shackleton’s Law of Meetings, delivers training courses for MBL, a regular speaker at conferences and is also a mentor for the Association of Women Chartered Secretaries.