David Christopherson
CEO, Black Sun
Following a career in the City David helped found Black Sun plc in 1992, taking over as CEO of the business in 2003. Early on in his career, David recognised that against a backdrop of changing legislation and increasing stakeholder demands for greater transparency, disclosure and accountability, corporate reporting was a powerful platform to help companies build greater trust and confidence with investors and other stakeholders.
Under his leadership, Black Sun has developed a unique research-driven, strategic-led communications proposition which helps companies to understand and develop best practice reporting and communications programs to better meet the needs of stakeholders across multiple channels. Over the last 12 years Black Sun has become one of the leading international corporate communications consultancies specializing in corporate reporting, working for blue chip clients from the UK, Russia, Europe, Singapore, the Middle East, China, Australia and South America.
As CEO, David’s principle concern is to ensure that Black Sun is able to meet both the current and future needs of its clients. To this end, Black Sun invests in an extensive research and events programme exploring best practice trends in reporting and communications, speaking at international events and collaborating with governments and industry bodies such as the FRC, IIRC, BIS and the IR Society, championing the views of preparers of reports.
Black Sun’s recent research includes pieces focusing on Reporting, ‘Realising the Benefits of Integrated Reporting’, ‘What Good Looks Like’ and ‘Complete 100: Reporting Trends in the FTSE 100’ and wider communications pieces such as ‘Communicating a consistent corporate story’. Black Sun also participates and speaks at UK and international conferences, most recently the Singapore CFO Symposium, the IIRC Conference in Madrid and the World Congress for Accounting Educators and Regulators in Florence.