David Craddock is an independent consultant specialising in employee share ownership and reward management. He is a recognised authority, in the UK and worldwide, on employee share ownership and is the author of The Tolley’s Guide to Employee Share Schemes, The ICSA Employee Share Schemes Handbook, and the employee benefit scheme and tax sections in The Croner Reward A to Z Essentials of Pay and Benefits, as well as The ESOP Institute Course Study Notes for The Certificate in Employee Share Ownership Studies. Since establishing David Craddock Consultancy Services in 1997, David has developed a varied clientele ranging from major public limited companies with international considerations to smaller private companies where the requirements are for Enterprise Management Incentives, tax-unapproved share scheme arrangements and market-making employee share trust structures. David has successfully established employee share schemes and employee benefit arrangements across Continental Europe, the Americas, the Far East, the Middle East, Australasia and Africa as well as in the U.K. and Ireland and to date has travelled into over 30 countries to personally facilitate their introduction including the launch communication to employees. He enhances his service to clients through a long experience in share reconstructions and share valuation.