How to approach your first 100 days in a new IR role

When Pamela Keck, vice president of investor relations and corporate communications at German biotech Medigene, took up her role on February 1 this year, there was plenty to do. Her position had been unfilled for a number of months and executives were eager for her to hit the ground running. ‘There was no honeymoon period,’ she jokes to IR Magazine.

Thankfully, it wasn’t the first time Keck had arrived in a new IR role – far from it, in fact. Over the last 15 years, she has set up or taken over IR departments at several listed companies, both in . . .

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