Women's Leadership Summit 2008

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Speakers

The Summit features impressive female business leaders from the corporate sector, many of whom have direct P&L experience, have run major international business critical projects and are recognised as experts within their industry.

Koral Anderson MD & Global Co-Head of GS Asset Mgt Operations, GOLDMAN SACHS
	Koral has held management positions within GSAM Operations in London, Tokyo, and New York since joining Goldman Sachs in 1997. She returned to London in 2004 as head of GSAM Operations in Europe. In 2006, she assumed global responsibility for GSAM Operations and was named MD. Koral formerly worked as an accountant for engineering and construction companies. She is a fellow of UK Securities Institute and is a chartered management accountant. Koral has an MA in Accounts and Economics. She serves on the European Diversity Committee, the Operations People Development Committee and the Operations Risk Committee.

Magali Anderson General Manager for Continental Europe, SCHLUMBERGER
	Magali started with Schlumberger in 1989 as a Wireline engineer in Nigeria. In 1992 she left Schlumberger and worked for the next nine years for a downstream construction company building storage facilities, compression stations and pipelines, where she was successively Base Manager, Project Manager and Proposal Manager in Nigeria, France and Indonesia. In 2001, Magali rejoined Schlumberger working in Supply Chain and in Manufacturing before going back to the field as General Manager for Angola. Since 2007, Magali has been based in Romania with responsibility for Schlumberger’s operations in Continental Europe.

Katherine Bennett Director & General Manager (Medium Business), DELL
	Katherine drives sales through managing a team of customer sales experts. She is accountable for Dell’s marketing, product and services development for this sector. Formerly Katherine was Director for UK Solutions, responsible for driving growth of Dell’s Enterprise Solutions, Services and Software and Peripherals businesses, and delivering a range of Dell services to corporate customers. Katherine joined Dell in 2003 as General Manager of Global Segment in UK, responsible for delivering complex services and solutions to over 150 Global accounts. Formerly, Katherine was Global Account Director at HP (Compaq) and was at Merisel running the Sales and Services team.

Nick Black Editor, ARGUS MEDIA
	Nick is a senior editor at Argus Media, editing both the company’s highly respected emissions newsletter Argus Global Emissions, and the bi-monthly Argus LPG World. He has held various positions in the company in his 17 year tenure at Argus and has appeared numerous times on television and as a speaker at conferences.

Delia Bushell Director of Broadband & Telephony, BSKYB
	Delia is responsibile for meeting sales & profitability targets, defining future product strategy, and maximising operational and service performance. Delia has been with Sky for 8 years, including roles as Managing Director for Sky in Ireland, Commercial Director for Sky Networks, Head of Sky's Travel and Music Channels and Head of Business Development. Before joining Sky, she worked at Pearson plc in the Corporate Strategy team and was a strategy consultant at Arthur D Little. Delia has a BA in Modern History and an MPhil in International Relations from Oxford University.

Mandie Campbell Director of Leadership and Learning, HOME OFFICE
	Mandie is responsible for the development and implementation of Home Office Leadership and Skills Strategies, including talent management, senior recruitment and training interventions. From 2004 to 2006, Mandie was Director of Operations for UKvisas, responsible for administering the UK immigration control to over 2.5 million visa applicants worldwide. In May 2006 she lead the Home Office response to the Foreign National Prisoners crisis, putting structures in place to ensure consideration for deportation before completion of custodial sentences, thereby restoring public confidence. Mandie has over 20 years public sector experience in operational, policy and change management roles.

Suzette Davenport Assistant Chief Constable, WEST MIDLANDS POLICE
	Suzette served West Mercia Constabulary heading a traffic department and advising on performance management. As a chief inspector managing operations for Herefordshire, she dealt with animal rights’ issues. Suzette was divisional commander of North Worcester division overseeing the merging of two policing divisions. Suzette was acting Assistant Chief Constable on a Home Office project stream-lining national police associated organisations, then Assistant Chief Constable with Staffordshire Police responsible for Crime, Operations and Diversity. Suzette transferred to West Midlands Police in 2007, responsible for Intelligence and Neighbourhood Policing. Suzette has been VP of British Association for Women in Policing for 8 years.

Charmaine Eggberry Vice President & Managing Director (EMEA), RIM (BLACKBERRY)
	Charmaine has overall responsibility for RIM’s EMEA business, including its growth targets and all sales and marketing activities. This includes managing the company’s expansion into new markets and establishing strategic partnerships across the region. Charmaine is the driving force behind the BlackBerry Women & Technology Awards, an initiative that encourages and celebrates the success of women in the technology industry.

Leah Fry Senior Manager (Supply Chain, Management), NATIONAL GRID plc
	Leah has 20 years experience in the energy industry covering various commercial and managerial roles including defining the commercial arrangements between xoserve and the Gas Distribution Companies. She is responsible for National Grid’s £300m annual UK general procurement spend. Current key focus areas are global procurement opportunities, supplier diversity and National Grid’s climate change agenda.

Rebecca George OBE Partner (Corporate Finance), Government & Infrastructure Team, DELOITTE
	Rebecca is responsible for business development and relationship management with the Public Sector. She is based in Corporate Finance and works at the convergence of the private and public sectors. Prior to Deloitte, Rebecca spent 19 years at IBM in a variety of sales, business process reengineering and HR roles in the UK, America and Europe. Rebecca chaired the Women in IT Forum, Intellect Shared Services working group, and Skills Group for the Egan review of Sustainable Community skills, and is a Fellow of the British Computing Society.

Bryan Glick Editor, COMPUTING
	Computing is read by more than 100,000 IT decision-makers. Over the past two years, Bryan has led the development of Computing's multimedia strategy, updating the weekly newspaper and launching the new Computing.co.uk web site providing daily IT news, expert blogs, forums, web seminars, podcasts and the Computing TV online video channel, as well as overseeing Computing Business, the monthly magazine for IT leaders. Bryan regularly contributes to TV and radio broadcasters on technology issues and previously worked in the IT industry for over 10 years

Sandrine Harris Director, Transactions Advisory Services Team, ERNST & YOUNG
	Sandrine has 10 years Corporate Finance experience in the UK and Germany and specialises in transaction for Private Equity. She is responsible for several large US clients across Europe and is also Ernst & Young's Gender Equity champion for the Transaction Advisory Services team. Sandrine holds a MBA and a business degree from a French business school.

Jackie Henshaw Head of Risk Management & Trading, BG GROUP plc
	Jackie has over 20 years experience in the energy industry with BP, Eastern Electricity and BG Group. She has worked in a variety of commercial roles in the Upstream, LNG and Energy Trading sectors of the industry and joined BG as Strategy Manager of the Downstream business in 1997. Jackie led the development of UK gas trading activities, becoming General Manager responsible for selling BG’s North Sea gas production prior to her current role.

Jo Hind Industry Head (Financial Services), GOOGLE
	Specialising in the Financial Services Market, Jo provides both Clients and Agencies with support and advice regarding their online strategy and execution. Jo has over 20 years experience in Media and Advertising both offline and online. Prior to joining Google, Jo had spent 7 years at AOL in Business Development and e-commerce roles and worked previously worked in TV for Channel 4 and an Advertising Agency. Jo holds a degree in Business and Marketing.

Gavin Hinks Editor, ACCOUNTANCY AGE MAGAZINE
	Gavin has been editor of Accountancy Age since 2005 apart from a short spell on the City desk of the Independent on Sunday he has been at the Age as reporter, news editor and deputy editor since 1999. Prior to that he was in local newspapers. His main topics of interests are regulation, the ethics of taxation and diversity within the accountancy profession.

Alison Hodgson Director of Talent and Resourcing, ROYAL MAIL GROUP
	Alison started her career at M&S on the graduate management development programme then worked as an HR Manager for 5 years and achieved her CIPD qualification. Alison worked at SalamonSmithBarney as Assistant VP in Graduate and MBA Recruitment for Europe before working at WorldCom in International Resourcing for EMEA and Asia Pacific graduates as well as wider Resourcing responsibilities. After then working at Sodexho as HR Resourcing & Projects Director, Alison became Expedia's European HR & Resourcing Manager. Now with Royal Mail, Alison leads Talent and Resourcing.

Kate Isler Online Services Group Chief of Staff, MICROSOFT
	Kate was Director of Microsoft's Mid Market and Solution Partners for Central and Eastern Europe driving strategy across 28 countries, then joined Microsoft UK's Online Services Group (the largest Microsoft online business outside the US) in 2006 as Chief of Staff to focus on leading cross-divisional efforts, strategic account alignment, business planning and analysis, internal culture and communications. The UK market is one of the top online markets in the world, influencing key developments in Europe and US.

Laura King Global People Partner, CLIFFORD CHANCE
	Laura joined the London office of Clifford Chance in 1997, where she practised Capital Markets law, specialising in structured finance and securitisation transactional work. She has been a Partner at Clifford Chance since 2001 and in 2007 was appointed Global People Partner, taking responsibility for the firm's people strategy and global human resources functions.

Wendy Mars Systems Engineer Director (UK & Ireland), CISCO
	Wendy leads a team responsible for Cisco’s innovation and technical leadership, and actively works with Cisco business customers. Prior to Cisco, Wendy was Global CTO at ThruPoint since 1996. Wendy also worked for Morgan Stanley on major technology initiatives in Europe, US and Asia. Wendy holds a BEng(H) in Electronic Engineering form York University and an MSc in Operational Research from Lancaster University.

Alison Peden Partner, SAP UK & Ireland, ACCENTURE
	Alison is a Senior Executive with 20 years experience in Accenture working primarily in the Energy business. Alison currently leads the Growth Platform for SAP across UK and Ireland, has the lead the UK Energy Industry Group, and has spent 7 years working in Central and Eastern Europe. Alison has worked with global clients leading complex change programs and managing Executive stakeholders in Business Transformation, IT Strategy, Oustourcing and Global SAP delivery.

Sarah Ratcliffe Joint Managing Director (Upstream) , JONES LANG LASALLE
	Sarah has spent the last 10 years advising the real estate sector on sustainability issues as a Director of the consultancy Upstream. Following the company’s acquisition by Jones Lang La Salle in November last year, Sarah is now a National Director within the firm and leading the integration of Jones Lang LaSalle's sustainability service offer to property investors and major urban regeneration firms. Sarah has contributed to many sustainability issues steering groups including the London Olympic Games Environment Commission and The One Million Sustainable Homes Task Force.

Melanie Richards Partner, Corporate Finance, KPMG
	Melanie joined KPMG’s Corporate Finance business in 2000 to establish the firm’s Debt Advisory team which in just the last 2 years has advised on financings totalling more than €75 billion. She has over 25 years banking experience including 15 years at NatWest and 3 years at Hambros’ Fixed Income Group and has extensive experience of bank lending, debt restructuring and capital markets’ instruments. Melanie advises a range of listed and private companies on substantial fund raisings and restructurings. Melanie has also served on the firm’s Client Service Board and is currently a member of the firm’s Diversity Leadership Group.

Shiona Rolfe Head of Goods Distribution, ROYAL MAIL
	Shiona is a chartered marketer with more than 15 years managerial experience. After a short sabbatical to complete an MBA, she returned to Royal Mail to lead its goods distribution portfolio and most recently has led on the development of Royal Mail's commercial strategy for the home delivery market. Shiona's role impacts on virtually every aspect of the organisation; it is commercially challenging with high degrees of accountability. Shiona has worked in a number of different disciplines and was involved with the strategic review of Royal Mail's organisational structure. Before moving into Marketing, Shiona has held a range of sales and customer facing leadership roles.

Corrie Shanahan Chief, Communications & Media, IFC, WORLD BANK GROUP
	Based in Washington, Corrie manages IFC's external relations and public affairs activities. She leads a global network of communications professionals providing strategic messaging, media relations, marketing collateral, internal communications, crisis communications and stakeholder support. She leads the IFC Women's Network, a professional network for senior female staff. Corrie was previously the chief spokesperson for the United Nations Population Fund in New York, and formerly managed Delta Air Lines' international corporate communications from London. Corrie was a journalist with NBC News and Reuters in Eastern Europe and the Middle East.

Chris Sistrunk Asset Integrity Programme Manager (E&P Technology), SHELL
	Chris is responsible for leading a worldwide programme to improve the maintenance and operating practices of Shell’s EP assets. This work is critical to Shell’s efforts to deliver advances in safety and operating performance. In previous roles, Christina has held both line and staff positions in Operations, Health, Safety and Environment, Skill Pool Management, and Engineering.

Nina Skorupska Director of Technology Services, RWE NPOWER
	Nina has over 20 years experience in the energy sector covering research to power asset management. Nina is responsible for delivering proven value-added strategic, operational and R&D services to address the technical, commercial and environmental issues. Nina is a member of DBERR's Advisory Committee for Carbon Abatement Technologies' and a Non-Executive Board Member of the 'Energy and Utility Skills Council'.

Glenda Stone Chief Executive Officer, AURORA
	Glenda founded and leads Aurora that provides recruitment advertising to large private and public sector organisations through wheretowork. Aurora also delivers a 30,000 member businesswomen's network. Glenda founded the 'Where Women Want To Work TOP 50' and co-chairs the ‘Women's Enterprise Task Force’ established by the UK Prime Minister. Glenda first commenced her career as a teacher in the Australian outback before embarking on a government career in Queensland Education Department, the Cabinet Office, then HM Treasury. Glenda has won many business awards and is regularly cited in the media regarding her views on women's work-related issues.

Sarah Sullivan Sales Director, Mass Channel, CANON (Consumer Imaging)
	The channel is responsible for all product sales from input solutions such as digital cameras, camcorders and output solutions such as inkjet and laser printers, into well known household names. Sarah joined Canon in 1994 working for Business Solutions (Office Photocopiers) and progressed through a variety of Administration Management roles, transferring to Consumer Imaging in 2002. The Mass Sales Channel was formed in 2006 with Sarah as Sales Director. In 2002 Sarah passed her Diploma in Management Studies through Henley Management College.

Rachel Weikel Director, Capital Markets Group, PRICEWATERHOUSECOOPERS
	Rachel leads the EMEA Financial Instruments Team within the Capital Markets Group of PwC. Rachel has eleven years of experience working with large multinational clients based in Europe and the US, both corporates and financial institutions. Rachel's roles within PwC have focused on leading teams advising on SEC transactions and large scale IFRS & US GAAP conversions, as well as a specialism in technical topics such as financial instruments and hedging solutions, and their impact on the financial results and the wider business.