Corporate services provider Boardroom looks to modernise ‘old-fashioned’ industry

HUGO Walkinshaw, the newly appointed chief executive of corporate services provider Boardroom, has no doubt that its offerings – which include payroll, share registry and tax advisory services – are vital to companies.

But the industry is “old-fashioned, operational and historically labour-intensive”, he laments.

With the corporate world, investor demands and companies’ priorities all rapidly changing, one of Walkinshaw’s main goals when he took over the reins of Boardroom in March was to modernise and revamp the archaic practices.