Louise Beveridge
Business Communicator & NED

As SVP of Kering SA, Louise was the architect of the wholesale brand transformation which created the CAC40 global luxury group Kering (portfolio includes Gucci, Bottega Veneta, YSL, Alexander McQueen, Balenciaga, Stella McCartney, Christopher Kane..) Driving digital, brand & communication strategy in one of the highest profile roles within the global luxury sector she sat on the Executive Committee of a CAC40 company during five years of fundamental business transformation.

She previously spent 15 years in international financial services at executive committee level, directing digital, communication and CSR strategies within investment, private banking & real estate.

Elected Communications Personality of the Year by the profession in France in 2015, she chairs the Executive Master Communications & Digital Media at Science Po (Paris) teaching on purpose based strategies, shared value & new leadership/reputation models.

INSEAD certified, Louise sits on a range of arts, academic and start-up boards as well the board of INSEAD’s International Directors Network.

A self-confessed serial ‘activist’ on gender: she founded 2 women’s networks in the financial industry, created the program Women in Motion at Cannes building a platform for women film makers, & initiated the campaign ‘No More Clichés’ to mobilise the communication profession.

Born in South Africa, educated in the UK & France, Louise is based out of Paris working extensively across Europe.

Catherine Bradley
Business Communicator & NED

Catherine Bradley is a board member with the FICC Markets Standard Board, is Chairman of the Audit Committee with PSA Peugeot Citroen and is a NED for the FCA. Prior to her appointment she was Head of Equity Advisory Asia Pacific at Societe General since 2013.

Previously, Catherine worked at Credit Suisse from 2003-2012 where for the last four years she was Head of the Equity-Linked Solutions Group Asia Pacific and before that Head of Derivatives Coverage for UK Corporates and Government as well as European Financial Sponsors.  Prior to joining Credit Suisse, Catherine worked at Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein from 2000-2003 as Head of Block Monetisations and Convertible Teams.  Catherine also worked for BNP Paribas from 1994-2000 as Head of Strategic Equity Derivatives Europe, for UBS from 1991-1994 in French Investment Banking and at Merrill Lynch from 1981-1991 based in New York and London.

Martha Brass
Independent Board Director
Former CEO, International Operations, Endemol Shine Group

Martha Brass is a senior executive with 30 years of experience across commercial, operational and strategy roles in the media and consumer goods sectors and has recently made a change to focus on a portfolio career, spanning entertainment and sports.

Martha is the Non-Executive Chair of Antidote Productions, a specialist factual producer of smart, populist and distinctive programming.  Antidote was launched in 2015 and in June 2017 the company received investment from the Edge Creative Enterprise Fund.  In addition, Martha is the Senior Independent Director on the board of England Golf, the amateur governing body responsible for growing the game of golf in England.  She has also recently been appointed to the board of CountryLine, the new online fan club for country music, which launches in the UK this spring ahead of a global roll out later in 2018.

From 2009 to 2017 she held a number of senior roles at Endemol / Endemol Shine Group, including CEO International Operations, Interim CEO Shine France and Chief Operating Officer.  Prior to Endemol, Martha was Managing Director of Amaze TV (2008) and Executive Vice President, Television at 19 Entertainment (2004-2007).  From 1998 to 2003 while at FremantleMedia, Martha’s executive roles included Interim COO FM North America, COO FM Southern Europe, Commercial Director FM Production and Commercial and Finance Director FM International.

Martha has a Bachelor’s Degree from Cornell University and an MBA from INSEAD.  She also holds a Certificate in Company Direction with Distinction, Institute of Directors.

Theresa Froelich
NED, Starr Insurance (Europe) Ltd
NED, Managing Agency Partners Limited
Trustee, Little Sparta Trust

Theresa is currently non-Executive Director (and member of Audit, Remco and Reserving Committees) for Managing Agency Partners Limited, a Lloyd’s catastrophe underwriter and for Starr Insurance (Europe) Limited, the European subsidiary of CV Starr, where she also sits on Risk Committee and chairs Remco. She also is a trustee of Little Sparta, a Scottish arts trust, and on the iNED Committee of the Worshipful Company of Insurers.

Before going plural at the start of 2017, Theresa had been Interim Director of Performance at Lloyd’s of London. There she was responsible for all aspects of the business performance of that £34bn marketplace and the c. 90 businesses which made it up, including approving business plans, setting and initiating improvements in standards and identifying areas of development for the market. She also undertook a strategic review of all oversight functions of Lloyd’s to streamline these, improve market interaction and eliminate duplication. She had spent seven years at Lloyd’s, previously being responsible for monitoring the underwriting performance of the market and improving standards.

Theresa had developed expertise in the reinsurance sector after ten years as Managing Director at Swiss Reinsurance Company in Zurich, where was responsible for managing a numbe of worldwide teams. Having started there in private equity, she had also taken other senior responsibilities including managing the structured reinsurance business of the Group and reporting to the CEO and leading a major global change initiative.

Fiona Hathorn
MD, Women on boards

Fiona Hathorn is the Managing Director of Women on Boards UK and is a Trustee of the medical research charity Fight for Sight.

Formerly Fiona was a director of Old Mutual Asset Management and Hill Samuel Asset Management, running the Global Equities and Emerging Markets Desks respectively.

Women on Boards UK is an action-oriented social enterprise supporting women leverage their professional skills and experience into non-executive director and other board-level roles.  The network does many things including sourcing vacancies but what makes the group unique, and so successful, is the one-on-one support that is given to subscriber members to ensure they have top quality NED CV’s and interview support.

WOB has enabled over 1000 women to get onto boards across the UK since they launched in 2012. In 2016 Fiona was invited to be one of the judges for The Sunday Times/Peel Hunt NED Awards which takes places at Claridges every year.

Simone Hessel
VP Digital Transformation (D, A, CH) and VP Marketing Europe, GE Digital 

Simone has held several leadership roles during her career with Fiat Group, Saint Gobain and GE.

Over the years she has transitioned from the Graduate Development Program of the Fiat Group to International Marketing role within Saint Gobain. She then joined GE as a member of the Experienced Commercial Leadership Program (ECLP), during which she solved critical challenges in sales, marketing and strategy for GE and its businesses.

She sets the overall Go-To-Market strategy and leads all GE Digital Marketing activities in Europe across all GE business units. She supports customers across various industries in defining their own Digital Industrial Transformation as well as she brings Digital Transformation into the Marketing organization for business growth.

Simone was born and raised in Germany.  She attended the University of Karlsruhe and graduated in Industrial Engineering and Management.

Simone enjoys high intensity interval training (HIIT, Crossfit) which goes along with her interest in nutrition and mindfulness.

Lucy Kellaway is the co-founder of Now Teach which she set up in 2016 with Katie Waldegrave. See http://nowteach.org.uk/.  Since September 2017, Lucy has been a trainee maths teacher, part of the first cohort of Now Teach trainees. She previously spent 30 years as a journalist on the Financial Times, and nearly 10 as a non-executive director of Admiral insurance. Prior to this, after graduating from Oxford with a degree in PPE, she worked for JP Morgan.

Lucy’s thought pieces for the press:

Lucy Kellaway: why we went back to school

‘The most difficult thing is the total loss of control’: Meet the Now Teach career switchers

What it is like to quit your job and start teaching at 58

Could do better: my first half term as a maths teacher

Fiona Knight is a member of the firm’s global Leadership and Succession practice, and is based in London.  She provides advisory services relating to executive assessment, senior leadership development, and succession planning that help clients to identify best-in-class talent, make robust decisions and prepare for the future.

Before joining Russell Reynolds Associates, Fiona spent eight years in the organizational psychology field, working both in-house and as an independent consultant.  She designed and led on tailored selection, assessment, leadership development, and diversity and inclusion initiatives, enabling businesses to assess and develop talent, address complex challenges and increase engagement.  Prior to this, she spent three years with a global recruitment firm, managing the quality and productivity of staff working across a broad portfolio of clients that included many of the UK’s leading employers.

Fiona holds an MSc in Organizational Psychology from Birkbeck, University of London.  She is an experienced psychometric practitioner accredited by the British Psychological Society, a member of the Association of Business Psychologists, and a member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development.

Fiona also holds a BA in English Literature from the University of Warwick, and an MA in Shakespeare from the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama in London.

As KPMG’s Head of Oil & Gas EMEA and ASPAC, and the UK Head of Oil & Gas, Anthony is responsible for co-ordinating the delivery of all our Oil & Gas services. Drawing on over 20 years of M&A experience in the energy sector, with extensive upstream and downstream experience, Anthony leads the delivery of M&A services for a number of major Oil & Gas companies and a number of NOCs. He has authored many major thought leadership publications, often focusing on NOCs and the challenges they face. Anthony is regularly called upon for speaking engagements and chairing sector debates. Between 1997 and 2000 Anthony was seconded to KPMG’s Hong Kong practice and worked on a number of transactions across Asia.

Patrick Macdonald has gained extensive international experience and expertise during his 30 years in business. His early career included the Royal Corps of Naval Constructors, Unilever, The Boston Consulting Group and General Electric. Patrick has held roles as CEO and Chairman in various companies including CEO of John Menzies plc, a quoted, family-backed logistics company where he doubled profitability; CEO then Chairman of Reconomy; a fast-growing waste recycling and construction services business backed by private equity; CEO of wind development company Dalestone Energy; and Chairman and interim CEO of energy consultants Inenco.

Patrick holds a first class honours degree in Engineering Science from Oxford University and gained an MBA with Distinction at INSEAD in France in 1992. He is a Chartered Engineer, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and a Companion of the Chartered Management Institute. He is also a Sainsbury Management Fellow.

Patrick is a Trustee of the Woodland Trust and a member of the Scottish Advisory Committee of the Duke of Edinburgh’s Award (DofE). He enjoys a number of pastimes, often with his wife and three children, ranging from watersports through hillwalking to ‘extreme’ gardening – his description of horticulture in Edinburgh!

Julianne is the Co-founder and Managing Director of Women Returners. Since 2014, Julianne has worked together with forward-thinking organisations to pioneer the development of returnships and the returner programme market in the UK.

She is a Chartered Psychologist with a first career as a senior manager in marketing and strategy for Diageo and a strategy consultant with LEK Consulting, working in the UK, France and Australia. She has an MBA from INSEAD, where she was awarded the Henry Ford II prize for first in year, and an MSc in Organisational Psychology.

Julianne retrained as a Business Psychologist after a four year parental career break with her two children. She has been supporting women returners since 2008, initially through her coaching psychology practice. She is a frequent event speaker and media commentator on returnships and returning to work issues, and also acts as an advocate for returners and returner programmes in Government forums.

Tulsi Naidu is Chief Executive Officer for Zurich in the UK. Tulsi has over 20 years’ leadership experience, a track record of driving results in a complex business and regulatory environment, and delivering large-scale business transformation. Tulsi is a member of the FCA Practitioner Panel, the ABI Board, the CBI President’s Council and the Advisory Council of CityUK.

Before joining Zurich, Tulsi held a number of executive roles at Prudential UK and Europe. As Executive Director with commercial leadership for Prudential’s UK and Europe business, she was responsible for strategy, public affairs, the UK retail and wholesale lines and Prudential’s Ireland and Poland businesses. She was previously Chief Operating Officer for Prudential’s UK business and also held a number of general management roles driving strategic, transformational change. Earlier in her career she has worked at CSFB, ICICI and Arthur Andersen.

Tulsi has a Bachelor’s degree in Mathematics, Economics and Statistics graduating with high honours and a Post Graduate Degree in Management from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad. She is a winner of the awards for Alumni Achievement conferred by the Institute.

Tulsi volunteers with and is a Trustee of Pilotlight.

Tanuja Randery
Operational Partner, Apax Partners

Before joining Apax, Tanuja Randery was CEO, UK & Ireland for Schneider Electric, the global energy management and automation firm responsible for a €1bn business across Technology, Buildings, Power and Industry. She is also a Non-Executive Director on the Board of Proximus Group, the Belgium Telecommunications and Services company.

Prior to Schneider, she spent 10+ years in Telecommunications and Managed Services at Colt Technology Services, a leading pan-European telecoms provider, and most recently at BT Global Services, a €7.0bn business, as President of Strategy & Transformation. While at Colt, Tanuja led Strategy & Transformation, Global Accounts and UK & Ireland, and was also Managing Director of the Benelux business during 2006-2008. Prior to joining Colt, Tanuja led the Strategy function at EMC Corporation in Massachusetts, USA and was instrumental in a number of key software acquisitions. Tanuja started her career at McKinsey, the global strategy consulting firm where she spent 7 years specializing in technology and telecoms growth and sales strategy serving leading global companies.

Jay Scanlan serves as the Head of Global Growth Ecosystems. Based in London, Jay is leading efforts to help the company further build a new age Partnership and Alliances function, establish multiple advisory boards, and help strengthen Genpact’s position as a leading digital enterprise of the future.

Jay was most recently a Partner at McKinsey & Company where he worked for 17 years. He co-founded and co-led McKinsey’s global Digital Strategy and Organization Service Line.  He moved to the UK in 2002 when he joined their Operations Practice. He re-joined their London Office in 2007 and then focused his attention on clients in the high-tech, media and telecoms space across five continents – as well as leading McKinsey’s relationship with several large European private equity players.

Beyond digital transformation, Jay spent his time driving growth strategy, due diligence, post-merger integration, and sales effectiveness efforts. He also has expertise in economic productivity, skills, and capability development.

Jay attended academic institutions including Davidson College, Johns’ Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), and the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College for degrees in political science, economics and business management.

Derek Smith
MD and Global Head of Sourcing and Strategy, UBS

Derek Smith is a qualified accountant and has worked for UBS for 25 years in various positions in London, Zurich, Hyderabad and Krakow.

Derek was the CFO and Business Manager for UBS’ Private Equity business for 8 years. He joined Group Offshoring in 2005 and was first based in India for a year, where he was part of a team setting up the UBS India Service Centre in Hyderabad. In 2007 he moved to Krakow in Poland took on the role of CEO of the UBS Poland Service Centre. In 2010 he was appointed the Head of the Offshore Service Centres, including Poland and India and consisting of over 500 employees and contractors. From 2011 Derek was based in Zurich and worked on the Too Big To Fail program developing the Global Recovery Plan for UBS, and on project Accelerate, a major repositioning of UBS’ investment bank. In 2013 he returned to offshoring and outsourcing, responsible for a global change program covering external suppliers and internal service centers. Derek is now Global Head of Outsourcing, Nearshoring and Offshoring Enablement and Governance for UBS.

He is a founder and board member of ABSL, the Poland offshoring & outsourcing Association, the founder of the Women’s Business Network in Krakow and co-head of Diversity and Inclusion for the UBS COO area, which covers 40,000 people and a member of the UBS Global Diversity and Inclusion Council

Derek was born in the United Kingdom and has both British and Swiss nationality, and is currently based in Zurich, Switzerland. His interests are tennis, travel, cooking and his daughters.

Reshma Sohoni
Partner, Seedcamp
Senior Advisor, Anthemis Group SA

Reshma has always combined technology and business, from university to today. Getting degrees in both Engineering and Business (UPenn M&T) meant that from an early age she was cultivating a path that would always bring business and technology together.

Early on in her career during the height of the dot com boom, Reshma worked in M&A and venture capital across B2B Software and Internet services businesses in the US and India. She had a small helping hand in building MakeMyTrip (NASDAQ) in its formative days.

Following on from this, Reshma went to INSEAD and earned her MBA, fell in love with Europe and stayed on to work in Commercial and Marketing Strategy at Vodafone.

Starting Seedcamp in 2007 was a once in a lifetime opportunity and one that she jumped into with a strong desire to help the European founder realize global success. Reshma brings a good mix of tech, business, commercial drive, marketing and that American chutzpah to our incredible team.

Caroline Turner
Senior Consultant, Sapphire Partners

Caroline has been a Senior Consultant at Sapphire Partners’ Executive Search firm since early 2015, leading a range of assignments across sectors. Prior to joining Sapphire, Caroline worked as a Senior Consultant at Brook Graham Diversity Consultants (now part of Pinsent Masons), helping UK-based global companies devise and roll out their talent strategies.

She was also a lead researcher and co-author of a series of Reports on Women on Boards and the FTSE adoption of the Corporate Governance Code, at Cranfield School of Management’s International Centre for Women Leaders; and led the MSc in Global Management and inter-cultural competence at the University of Buckingham.

Prior to returning to the UK in 2012, Caroline ran her own business for 20 years, leading a team of 50 in the delivery of leadership training and coaching to executives in large public and private sector companies, based in SE Europe, and winning contracts from the European Commission to design and deliver innovative, transnational projects for new business starters, across 15 Countries.

She holds a BSc in Anthropology from UCL, an MSc in Economics & Marketing and recently completed doctoral research on Talent Management at Cranfield School of Management. Caroline was a non-executive director on the Board of the Council of Chambers of Commerce in Europe (2014-2017). She speaks fluent Greek and French.

Sarah Wilson
Head of Senior Leadership Development, McKinsey & Company

Sarah studied Engineering at Cambridge, gaining a PhD in Navigation Systems and a Diploma in Design, Manufacture, and Management.  She joined the automotive industry, and held leadership roles in manufacturing, programme management, and strategy in the UK, US and Japan, before she joined McKinsey & Company.  Here, she helps clients design and implement major change programmes to transform operations effectiveness, productivity, and cost.  She aligns technical solutions with the culture and leadership required to accelerate and sustain improvements – while making work more purposeful and rewarding.  She has worked in FMCG, basic materials, transport & logistics, oil & gas, healthcare, telecom, and private equity.  She is currently leading work to optimise McKinsey’s internal Senior Leadership development and appointment strategy and systems.

Sarah also works as and a coach, speaker, and faculty member in leadership-development.  She is one of the design and delivery team for McKinsey’s Remarkable Women Programme in the UK, and for the Women Up initiative in Sweden, initiated by Hillary Clinton’s International Council on Women’s Business Leadership (ICWBL).

McKinsey’s latest study of diversity in the workplace, Delivering through diversity https://www.mckinsey.com/business-functions/organization/our-insights/delivering-through-diversity, reaffirms the global relevance of the link between diversity—defined as a greater proportion of women and a more mixed ethnic and cultural composition in the leadership of large companies—and company financial outperformance.

Caroline Turner
Senior Consultant, Sapphire Partners