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About Copia
We have worked with listed companies and asset managers since 2005, building clarity between businesses and their investors. Our team combines strategic communications expertise with the data infrastructure to make it work.
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Why we exist
Narrative, infrastructure, and data, connected across one relationship instead of three.
Copia was founded on a straightforward observation: listed companies and asset managers need partners who understand both narrative and infrastructure.
Not agencies that treat investor communications as a design brief, but firms embedded in the capital markets landscape who understand what analysts look for, what regulators require, and what investors expect.
Our Work
We started in 2005, but the need for what we do has never been more important.
The UK equity market has a third fewer listed companies than it did a decade ago, competition for investor attention is intensifying, and most IR teams are operating with just one or two people. Companies that remain listed need partners who can extend their capabilities, not add to their headcount.
Our PerspectivesWhat we do
We operate across five areas of capital markets communications forming an integrated lifecycle where narrative builds investor attention, attention supports capital formation, capital formation fuels growth, and growth reshapes the story.
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Why it matters now
The UK equity market is under structural pressure.
Since 2015, the number of companies listed in London has fallen by nearly a third, with over 150 departing the LSE since early 2024 alone. Domestic ownership of UK equities has declined from over half in the 1960s to barely one in ten today.
Accelerating the shift
Most investor relations teams run with just one or two people, and a third have no formal performance measures in place.
What is changing is how investors and analysts research companies: AI-driven tools are accelerating the shift, but adoption is held back by concerns over accuracy and hallucination.
Copia sits at the intersection of these pressures.
We combine the strategic and creative expertise of a specialist communications firm with the data infrastructure, through Ticker, to ensure that the information investors rely on is accurate, structured, and accessible to the systems that increasingly mediate how research is conducted.
Who we work with
Listed companies, asset managers, and capital markets organisations.
We build long-term relationships with the companies we work with. Most of our clients have been with us for years, not because of contracts, but because sustained partnerships are how you develop the institutional knowledge needed to communicate effectively through market cycles. When an IR team has one or two people carrying the full weight of investor engagement, continuity with external partners is not a luxury, it is what makes the model work.
The team
People who have done this before.
Sam Bell
CEO
Founded Copia in 2005. Two decades advising listed companies on narrative, infrastructure, and investor engagement.
Mark Chapman
Managing Director
Leads commercial strategy and client relationships across Copia’s capital markets portfolio.
Chris Willmott
Technical Director
Leads technical strategy across the portfolio, shaping how companies build and maintain their investor platforms.
Abbie Mcdonnell
Head of Production
Oversees delivery across all client projects, from investor platforms to capital markets events.
Matt Cahill
Head of Creative
Award-winning creative direction for listed companies and asset managers.
Donald Leggatt
Head of IR Media
Leads investor relations media strategy, connecting listed companies with the investors and journalists who matter.
Rohan Strydom
Lead Developer
Robert Najem
New Business Development
Mitch Jackson
Senior Frontend Developer
Cas Magee
Graphic Designer
Jayson Garcia
Developer
Blue Day
Accounts Manager
Alex Jojic
Project Manager
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Whether you are considering a new investor platform, preparing for a capital markets event, or looking to reframe how your company communicates with the market, we are happy to talk.