IAG has established a new IR team headed by Andrew Barker, the former Easyjet IRO. Barker and his team start work following the listing of IAG on the stock markets of Madrid and London this week. The new team features staff members from the IR teams of both BA and Iberia, but does not include George Stinnes, BA’s long-serving head of IR, or his counterpart at Iberia, Elena Baillo. A spokesperson for BA says Stinnes’ new role will be announced shortly.
Barker is a former transport analyst at UBS who joined easyJet as head of IR in 2005. A year later he was promoted to the position of director of planning, strategy and government affairs. Prior to his analyst career, Barker read Oriental studies at the University of Oxford. He is fluent in Japanese. Barker’s team includes two IR managers, Sarah Billington and Irene de José Zalve, who join from BA and Iberia, respectively. The fourth and final member of the team is senior manager of IR Anne Hurn.