We want you to get your money’s worth.

Investing your team’s time and money in thoughtful reward strategies should be an easy choice because the payoff can be meaningful and lasting. We’re here to make sure it is.

We’ve seen how thoughtfully crafted and communicated equity schemes and rewards packages can attract, retain and transform employees connection to the company and their work - increasing productivity and fostering trust in leadership. After working with high-growth companies and coming from startups ourselves, we’ve also seen how often teams struggle to balance fast hiring, retention goals, and fiscal responsibility when it comes to rewards.

That’s why we launched EquityPeople: to make ownership and reward strategies simple, accessible, and truly effective for every startup team.

Spela Prijon

Since obtaining a Masters degree in Pharmacy, Spela has “put her degree to work” by working with startups. She founded her own startup, went through an accelerator and has joined and scaled 4 other software and hardware companies.

Prior to EquityPeople she was at a London-based people consultancy, where she created a program that allowed companies to scale equity plans efficiently. Our consultancy is built on the experience she acquired by working with equity plans for 100s of startups from seed to IPO stage, in jurisdictions all over the world.

Spela Prijon

Tamas Varkonyi

Tamas came to equity consulting after working in academia and people advisory. He holds a Social Psychology degree from the University of Cambridge and has years of experience consulting companies of all sizes.

Whilst working at PwC and a specialised London-based people consultancy he helped companies scale and operationalise their People function. Tamas has implemented Levelling and Progression frameworks, Total compensation strategies, and Equity schemes in high growth scaleups worldwide.

Tamas Varkonyi

Ann-Sophie Manzeschke

Ann-So brought strong analytical skills from her Bachelor’s and Master’s in Psychology into her career. She began as an HR generalist before finding her home in the rewards field. Since 2021, she has played an integral role in shaping Personio’s reward strategy across multiple jurisdictions.

With Personio Ann-So experienced most of the questions and challenges a total rewards expert can face. From rapid growth to adapting strategies during periods of consolidation, balancing the impact on how much to pay to whom across every pillar of compensation.

Ann-Sophie Manzeschke

Mar Chennubotla Mitjavila

Mar brings over a decade of startup expertise, from seed to IPO, through her stints at Tetuan Valley (Madrid) and UnternehmerTUM (Munich). With a background in Work and Organizational Psychology, she delivers human-centered equity solutions based on the experience she gained advising hundreds of global companies on creating robust equity frameworks that drive growth as the Head of CX at Ledgy.

Her extensive experience has equipped her with a unique understanding of not just how to set up but also roll-out well-thought out robust compensation and equity plans for high-growth companies world-wide.