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The Speakers
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Alison
Cole
After
graduating from York University with a degree in
Politics, Alison gained a Masters in Politics from
Warwick University. She joined the CEGB's Parliamentary
and Government Liaison Unit as part of the graduate
placement programme and subsequently held a number
of senior positions in the Government and Parliamentary
Relations field. She was a key member of the privatisation
team, after which Alison took up a role as Government
and Regulatory Affairs Manager. Prior to her appointment
as Director of Corporate Communications for RWE
npower Alison also held the post of Head of Government
Relations and Parliamentary Affairs. Alison is married
with two daughters and a son.
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Professor Sir Andrew
Likierman
Andrew is Professor of Management
Practice at the London Business School (LBS), non-executive
Director of the Bank of England, Barclays Bank plc
and the Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust. His previous
posts at LBS have included Deputy Principal and
Professor of Accounting and Financial Control. He
is currently researching, lecturing and consulting
on how organisations can improve their choice and
use of performance measures.
Andrew previously
worked in both public and private sectors. In the
private sector he ran a textile plant in Germany
and was Managing Director of the overseas division
of Qualitex Ltd. He also started and then sold his
own business selling business books. He has been
non-executive Chairman of the Economists’ Bookshops
Group and of the market research firm MORI Ltd.
In the public
sector he was a member of the Cabinet Office Central
Policy Review Staff (the "Think Tank") and recently
completed a 10-year period as one of the Managing
Directors of the UK Treasury. In his professional
capacity, Andrew is a past president of the Chartered
Institute of Management Accountants and has been
a member of a number of official inquiries, including
the “Cadbury Committee” on corporate governance.
His is currently on the Committee producing a code
of governance for the United Nations. He has written
3 books and over 150 articles.
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Charles
Handy
Charles describes himself nowadays as a social philosopher. He has moved through careers as an oil executive, a Business School Professor and BBC broadcasting and is widely acknowledged as a world leader in management thinking. His prolific authorship includes books which are standard works on bookshelves worldwide, most recently The New Philanthropists, The Elephant and the Flea, The Hungry Spirit and The Empty Raincoat. His concern for society and individuals as the world faces the changes that technology, demography and economics bring, has been awarded with a dozen doctorates, numerous prizes, and a CBE.
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Claire Dobie
Clare Dobie is a director of Braxted Marketing Measures, a consultancy which works with City firms to measure and improve their marketing and client service. She is also a non-executive director of Southend University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. She is on the board of City Women's Network, a voluntary organisation for senior professional and business women.
Until 2005, Clare worked in the asset management industry. She was Group Head of Marketing at GAM and before that she was Head of of Clients at Barclays Global Investors. Until 1993, she was a financial journalist, working at the BBC, Investors Chronicle, The Times and The Independent, where she became City Editor.
She read Politics, Philosophy and Economics at Oxford University and has a Diplome de Langue et Civilisation Francais from the Sorbonne.
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Eric Peacock
Eric's early career was with
a Scottish manufacturing and trading company, operating
in both manufacturing and distribution in all Continents.
He has run subsidiary businesses and lived in Australia,
New Zealand, South Africa, Belgium, Holland, France,
Italy, Canada and Ireland.
Eric worked
as a Director of Missenden Abbey Management Centre
and was involved in the training and development
of FCO Commercial Staff worldwide. He has worked
with the Export Training Unit, the successful locally
engaged programme in Beijing in 1996. His last buy-in
involved Babygro, and as Chairman and Chief Executive
he took the company on to a full UK Stock Exchange
listing with growth from £2 - £21 million and 100
to 1200 people in five years.
Eric is a
visiting lecturer in both Small Business & Enterprise
and International Development at Buckinghamshire
College. He also teaches on the Distance Learning
MSC International Business programme, and has been
responsible for core module development in international
marketing, corporate strategy and HRM.
He is currently
Executive Director of Business Link Hertfordshire.
Business Link Hertfordshire is the only Business
Link in the Eastern Region to have exceeded its
chargeable service targets through its relationship
with OTS services.
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Haoming Huang
Haoming Huang became a senior engineer in 1994. Huang received his
Master of Public Policy & Management from Carnegie Mellon University, USA in
1995. He is also an adjunct professor of NGO Research Center, Tsinghua University
and adjunct professor of the school of public policy and management, Beijing
University of Aeronautics & Astronautics.
His other associate positions are as follows;
member of the board of directors of Asian NGO Coalition for Agrarian Reform and
Rural Development (ANGOC); member of the board of directors of China Foundation
for Poverty Alleviation; member of the board of directors of China Association of
International Trade; member of Western Returned Scholars Association; executive
member of Council of China Reform Forum and member of the China National
Committee for Pacific Economic Cooperation, Human Resources Development
Sub-Committee.
He has publications including Strategy planning for Non-profit
organization (2003), Cooperation and communication between Chinese and Foreign
NGOs (2001), practice and management for international NGOs cooperation (2000).
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James Blackburn
James Blackburn is Head of Equities at Execution, a London-based equity brokerage. He is also the Chairman of the Execution Charitable Trust, which, since 2002, has supported over 20 charities working with deprived communities around the UK. James graduated with a BA in Business Studies and joined Shearson Lehman in 1986. Following brief stints at NatWest and Salomon Brothers, James joined Merrill Lynch as a pan-European equities trader in 1991. Two years later, he moved to Merrill Lynch in New York to run the UK ADR trading department. In 1998, James returned to Merrill in London where, as Managing Director, he was responsible for sales trading pan-European equities to the US customer base. James joined Execution in September 2001.
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Jennifer
Chambers
Jennifer Chambers is a partner in the Private Client department of Allen & Overy LLP and heads Allen & Overy's Charity and Not for Profit group. She advises on a wide range of issues affecting charities, not for profit bodies and donors to such organisations. She has extensive experience of the creation of charities, tax effective giving, constitutional matters, joint ventures and co-operation between charities and corporate partners and sponsorship issues. Her practice also includes advising high net worth individuals on philanthropy, tax planning and trusts. She is a member of the Charity Law Association, the European Association for Planned Giving and the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners.
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Jenny Harrow
Jenny Harrow is Professor
of Voluntary Sector Management, Cass Business
School, City University. She is a member of the
School’s Centre for Charity Effectiveness, where
she leads the Centre’s research effort and its
Centre for Corporate Governance Research. She
is also Director of the Doctoral Programme for
the Management Faculty of the School. Her doctorate,
from the London School of Economics, examined
the development of the English University Settlements
. She is a trustee of a long-established South
London settlement and a disability grant-making
trust. Jenny has extensive academic and practitioner
experience in the voluntary and community sector,
with research interests including voluntary sector
management decisionmaking, charity regulation,
government-voluntary sector relations and curriculum
development in nonprofit education. A long standing
member of the US –based Association for Researchers
in Nonprofit and Voluntary Action, she is secretary
of ARNOVA’s newest Special Interest Group, ‘Pracademics’.
Her most recent practice -based research, June
2006, has been for the British Association of
Settlements and Social Action Settlements, on
its ‘Sharing Without Merging’ (SWiM’) methodology
for community organisations.
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John Jeffcock
John was brought up in the UK and spent his informative years being educated by Benedictine monks. Prior to joining the world of business John had a distinguished career in the army. He served with the Coldstream Guards throughout Europe and the Middle East, was decorated for distinguished service in the Gulf War and concluded his service as a UN Operations Officer managing the Northern Cordon around Sarajevo, Bosnia Herzegovina.
After completing an MBA, he worked as a consultant for a couple of years before founding Winmark in 1996 as a research company. Winmark continues to do research and has expanded rapidly into a management network business. Winmark represents world class best practice in this area and now manages a portfolio of home grown and acquired networks, in such diverse fields as CEOs, Tax Directors, General Counsel, Marketing Directors and Chairs of Pension Trustees.
Whilst CEO of Winmark, he founded the Inst itute of e-Business and led a management-buy-in to The IMPACT Programme, which he turned around and sold. He also completed an MA in Poetic Practice and has some published works.
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John Studzinski
John Studzinski is one of
the most creative and entrepreneurial philanthropists
to be found in the City today. John, a star investment
banker, has found the time and resources to support
the causes he believes in. He set up the Genesis
Foundation in 1996 to support young artists, playwrights
and musicians. He is also Chairman of Business
Action on Homelessness, a unique organisation
that changes businesses' perception of homelessness
and helps homeless people back into employment.
John was appointed as a
Trustee of the Tate Gallery in 1998; he serves
as a Life Trustee of the Sir John Soane's Museum
and is a Trustee of Human Rights Watch of New
York. In 2000 he received the Prince of Wales
Ambassador's Award in recognition of his support
for the homeless, and a year later, Pope John
Paul II made him a Knight of the Order of St Gregory.
John was born and raised in the USA and came to
the UK in the early '80s.
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John Williams
John Williams is a Charity Commissioner, a charity trustee and an independent consultant specialising in corporate marketing and reputation.
John is a co-founder and former Chairman of the public relations and marketing consultancy Fishburn Hedges, having started his career in consumer advertising with J. Walter Thompson. A t Fishburn Hedges, John developed a particular interest in corporate social responsibility and also built a practice serving the not-for-profit sector. He worked for five years with Shell on their global stakeholder engagement programme, and he led the external team that helped transform The Spastics Society into Scope.
John has also been a volunteer for some years. He is currently Chairman of the governance and leadership think tank, Tomorrow's Company, a board member of Business in the Community and was, until recently, deputy Chair of ChildLine, where he played a central role in steering the merger with the NSPCC.
In January 2005, John was appointed to the Charity Commission, as one of the five non-executive Commissioners responsible for the regulation of 190,000 charities in England and Wales.
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Mark Evans
Mark Evans is Head of Family Business and Philanthropy at Coutts & Co.
In this role, Mark is involved in advising family business owners and philanthropists on a range of issues from managing business succession to creating effective giving strategies. He also runs the Coutts Prize for Family Business and Coutts Family Business and Philanthropy Forums.
Mark sits on the Advisory Council of the Institute for Family Business (UK) and is a member of Pilotlight, working to help small, innovative charities grow and fulfil their potential. He is on the Advisory Round Table for New Philanthropy Capital and has been invited to join the Board of the Family Firm Institute (FFI).
Prior to joining Coutts & Co., Mark was a vice president of JPMorgan and a senior private banker to clients in the United Kingdom. He began his career at Citigroup based in London and Geneva.
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Mark Pullen
Mark has worked in the consumer goods industry for over 30 years. He is a qualified accountant with a business degree, and has worked for Unilever, Guinness and for the last 10 years -until its takeover- he was Group Finance Director of Geest PLC. Whilst his primary area of responsibility has been finance he has broad business and geographic experience which he is using as he builds a ‘plural’ portfolio in which Pilotlight forms an interesting and enjoyable part.
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Matthew Bowcock
Matthew Bowcock is a serial entrepreneur who has been involved in founding technology and biotechnology companies in Australia, the US and the UK. He continues to be a non-executive director of early stage companies but is increasingly involved in philanthropy. He runs the Hazelhurst Trust, a family charitable foundation, which has recently set up a fund within the Surrey Community Foundation, because he has found that giving is most effective and fun when it is local. Matthew is also a Board member of the Community Foundation Network, the national body that co-ordinates activities of Community Foundations thoughout the UK.
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Nigel
Harris
Nigel Harris was appointed Chief Executive at New Philanthropy Capital in September 2004. During his four and a half years at NPC, Nigel has developed NPC's advisory work with both funders and charities, and helped to build NPC's unique research capability. Prior to joining NPC in April 2002, Nigel was a consultant to Tearfund, an international relief and development fund. Previously, he worked as an investment banker at Schroders for 12 years, where he was a senior director managing the bank's foreign exchange and interest rate trading teams.
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Nigel
Morris
Nigel co-founded Capital One
Financial Services in 1994 and served as President
and Chief Operating Officer and Vice Chairman until
his retirement in 2004. Nigel has presented keynote
addresses at international forums hosted by The
Financial Times, BusinessWeek, and The American
Banker. His success at Capital One has also earned
him invitations to speak at some of the world’s
most prestigious gatherings of key business leaders,
including the Transatlantic Summit on Corporate
Citizenship in London and the World Economic Forum
in Davos, Switzerland. Some of Nigel’s awards include
“Entrepreneur of the Year” by London Business School;
“Most Influential Personalities in Financial Services”
and “Future Banker of the Year” by Future Banker;
and one of "20 Who Made it Happen" by CIO Magazine.
Nigel is on the board of New Philanthropy Capital,
a charity that advises donors on how to make the
greatest impact with their donations, as well as
a trustee of The Economist Group, Quanta Capital
Holdings and the London Business School. Nigel received
a Masters of Science from the London
Business School.
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Paul
Palmer
Professor Paul Palmer has
extensive knowledge of charity financial, management
and Governance issues. He is a member of the Charity
Commission SORP committee and research advisor to
the Charity Commission, an independent consultant
on Charities to UBS Wealth Management, and an independent
expert on charity dispute issues for courts and
arbitration. Professor Palmer has made Television
and radio appearances on charity issues and work
as a writer on 'practitioner' how to do books on
charity finance and websites
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Peter Cardy
Peter Cardy has worked in the
voluntary sector for over thirty years, starting
in adult education. Following periods as chief executive
at the Motor Neurone Disease Association and the
MS Society which was never out of the news while
he was there, he moved to Macmillan Cancer Support
in 2001. Macmillan is a pioneering organisation,
one of the ten largest charities in the UK, which
develops new and better ways of caring for people
affected by cancer from the time of diagnosis to
the end of life.
He
is Chairman of the Brain and Spine Foundation and
on the National Cancer Research Institute Board
for which he chairs the Lung Cancer Group. Peter
is a prolific speaker and writer, including a weekly
column for the leading voluntary sector trade journal,
and sails offshore whenever he can.
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Sir Richard Butler
Richard Butler spent 20 years based in New York, Europe and the Middle East building the international businesses for two leading US investment banks. His travels provided a vital learning experience on the imbalances between the developed and developing countries. He and his wife Diana, a former nursery school principal, have spent the last 20 years helping to provide ongoing education to deprived but gifted children from remote areas in Africa and Asia through PestalozziWorld.
In 1985 he became Chairman of the Council of the Pestalozzi Children's Village Trust in the UK and is now President. Under the banner of PestalozziWorld he established the Pestalozzi Overseas Children's Trust in 1995, the Pestalozzi US Children's Charity Inc in 1997, the Pestalozzi Zambia Children's Trust in 2001 and the Pestalozzi Children's Village Society, Asia in 2003. He served as a Governor and later Chairman of Summer Fields School in Oxford and is Founder member and Chairman of the Jack and Jill Foundation, a children's charity in Ireland.
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Ruth Seymour
After graduating from Leicester University with a degree in Geography, Ruth spent some time working in property investment before deciding that thinking about food and drink was more inspiring and moving to the global market research company TNS. Over the next 8 years Ruth held a number of different positions, latterly Business Group Director in the consumer panel division. Ruth worked with a number of global businesses, including Unilever and Nestle, as a research consultant and consumer behaviour specialist. With a long standing interest in the voluntary sector, Ruth joined Pilotlight at the beginning of 2006. She is also a fully qualified massage therapist!
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