HR Directors Business Summit 2011
24th – 25th January 2011
ICC Birmingham, Broad Street
Advisory Board
The World Trade Group Human Resources Advisory Board is a group of recognised experts and practitioners from within the field of human resources.
The board meets a few times a year, either as a group or on a one-to-one basis to help drive the programmes to ensure it reflects the key industry concerns.
The board continually help review and mould our conference programmes, drawing upon their wealth of experience to advise on current industry developments and potential speakers, with many taking part in the event themselves.
Current Advisory Board Members Include:
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Tom Stewart
Leading Management Author & Thinker Former Editor and Managing Director of the Harvard Business Review Chief Marketing and Knowledge Officer, Booz and Company |
Stewart most recently served as editor and managing director of Harvard Business Review, and is a best-selling author, an authority on intellectual capital and knowledge management, and an influential thought leader on global management issues and ideas. During Stewart’s six years with Harvard Business Review, the magazine was a two-time finalist for general excellence in the National Magazine Awards, and received an “Eddie” in 2007 from Folio Magazine. Previously, Stewart served as the editorial director for Business 2.0 and as a member of Fortune’s Board of Editors. He is the author of two books, Intellectual Capital: The New Wealth of Organizations, and The Wealth of Knowledge: Intellectual Capital and the 21st Century Organization, published by Doubleday Business in 1998 and 2003, respectively. Thomas A. Stewart is currently the Chief Marketing and Knowledge Officer (CMKO) of the global management consulting firm Booz & Company. |
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Dave Ulrich Professor, University of Michigan Founder and Partner RBL Group |
Dave Ulrich is as a Professor of Business at the University of Michigan and a partner at the RBL Group, a consulting firm focused on helping organizations and leaders deliver value. He studies how organizations build capabilities of speed, learning, collaboration, accountability, talent, and leadership through leveraging human resources. He has helped generate award winning data bases that assess alignment between strategies, human resource practices and HR competencies. He has published over 100 articles and book chapters and 15 books. He edited Human Resource Management 1990-1999, served on editorial board of 4 Journals, on the Board of Directors for Herman Miller, and Board of Trustees at Southern Virginia University, and is a Fellow in the National Academy of Human Resources |
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Jennie Monon |
| Jennie is currently the Global Head of Talent Management for ING. Previous to this role, Jennie was the HR Director for the green field organisation of ING Direct in the UK, building this organisation from scratch to being number 5 in the FT’s Best Workplaces List of 2007. Jennie is a career veteran of Hewlett Packard holding senior Business Consulting roles before moving into Human Resources in the early 90s.Jennie has held positions in Compensation & Benefits; Learning & Development and Business Partnerships at country, European and Global Levels in both small software houses and major corporations. | |
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Deborah Borg Global HR Director Marketing and Sales |
Deborah began her career with General Motors Australia where she assumed a variety of roles over her 6 years. After generalist roles in the Engine Operations facility, she assumed the position of Organisational Effectiveness Consultant, charged with establishing General Motors University in the Pacific region, and setting up assessment and development centres for recruitment and hi potential development. Deborah joined Dow in 2000 as the HR Manager for Australia / New Zealand based in Altona, Melbourne. During her time in the Pacific, she led Compensation initiatives in the Pacific region and led a number of projects across Human Resources Development (HRD) and Workforce Planning. In 2003, Deborah relocated to Horgen, Switzerland to take on the role of HR Business Service Leader. In October 2006, she relocated to Midland, Michigan to assume the role of Workforce Planning Leader for North and Latin America, managing the recruiting activity for these two regions. Deborah was appointed to her most recent role of Global HR Director, Marketing and Sales in January 2008. |
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Gary Kildare Global Vice President HR IBM Global Services Europe, Asia-Pacific and the Americas |
| Gary was appointed to his first leadership role in 1989 as HR Leader for IBM’s Software Research and Development Laboratory in Winchester. His career then led him to IBM's Corporate Headquarters as Director of Compensation for the US, Latin America and Canada and then to the positions of Global Compensation Leader and Director of Global HR Strategy. Mr Kildare returned to Europe in October 2002 to the role of Vice President and Chief HR Officer for IBM Global Business Services for Europe. In May 2008 he was appointed as Global Vice President HR for Europe, Americas, Asia Pacific. Mr Kildare has a particular interest in major international business transformation, acquisitions, talent and change management and is passionate about securing competitive. |
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Nadine Jones HR Director Baugur Group UK |
| Baugur Group is an international investment company focussing on investments within the fields of retail, financial investments and media in Iceland, the UK, and Scandinavia. Companies related to Baugur Group employ some 75,000 people worldwide in over 4,300 stores with a total turnover of £9.8 billion. Among Baugur's principal Retail investments are the supermarket chain Iceland, the toy retailer Hamleys, Woodward Foodservice, the jewellery chain Goldsmiths, fashion chains MK One and Jane Norman, the health products chain Julian Graves, fashion company Mosaic Fashions and renowned UK department store chain, House of Fraser. Nadine is responsible for Strategic and operational HR across the Baugur Group in the UK, Iceland and Denmark; Working as part of the 'new deal' team on acquisition and supporting business across the investment portfolio as required. | |
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Cheryl Lee |
| Cheryl Lee was appointed to her HR director role at age 28, one of the youngest ever NHS Board appointments. She has worked in the public and private sectors and her current role at Medway NHS Foundation Trust she has taken a commercial approach to HR practice, focussing on developing Medway people to deliver better outcomes and experience for patients. Her ambition is to transform the NHS through evidence based and patient focused HR practice. | |
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Jason Spiller Editor theHRDirector |
Jason has a publishing career spanning 25 years. He has been editor, managing editor and publisher of more than thirty titles in the news trade sector, incorporating subjects such as lifestyle, films, music, football, computing, internet and video gaming. Prior to entering the B2B market, he was Managing Director of holiday property publisher, Stilwell’s, and successfully managed the migration from published product to web based operation and oversaw the acquisition of the business to US giant corporation, Cendant. Jason now brings his wealth of experience of publishing and senior management to his editorship of the theHRDIRECTOR and fronts both the publishing and live events, including roundtables and conferences. |
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Lynne Weedall
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| Lynne Weedall is a highly experienced HR Director with experience gained in FTSE 100 companies. Key expertise in organisation design, strategic change management and employee engagement. Lynne has worked for a number of Retailers including Waitrose, Tesco & Petsmart before moving to the leisure sector in 1999 working for David Lloyd leisure and then as Group Organisation Development Director for Whitbread plc. Lynne then moved to the private sector, becoming HR & OD Director for BUPA Hospitals in May 2006. In October 2007 Lynne returned to the world of Retail as UK Retail & Distribution Director at Carphone Warehouse and was recently promoted to Group HR Director reporting in to the Best Buy Europe CEO and responsible for all aspects of HR and Internal Communications for Carphone Warehouse, The Phone House (European division) and Best Buy Europe. | |
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Richard Summerfield Global Head of Learning & Development Ogier |
| Richard is responsible for the strategy & delivery of all Training & Development activity across Ogier's 9 global locations having recently joined Ogier in August 2008. Previously Richard was HR Director at Standard Bank Offshore delivering the HR strategy and running the HR operations of a multi-jurisdictional private banking business of circa 500 employees. He joined Standard Bank in 2007, after 4 years as an HR Consultant with Zurich and was previously at Barclays (London) for seven years in both HR specialist and generalist roles, after leaving Durham University in 1996 (Biology & Psychology). | |
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Simon Haben Head of Leadership Development Royal Mail Group UK |
| Simon is Head of Leadership Development for Royal Mail Group. His diverse career has spanned a variety of roles including Director of Operations, Organisational Development, Consultancy and change management. His career started in Local Government and the public sector where he led large scale organisational change programmes and was responsible for creating policy. A change of direction followed with the transition to consultancy, working across a variety of industries delivering strategic projects to businesses operating in highly competitive markets. In 2004, Simon joined Post Office Ltd where he was Head of Organisational Development until he took up his current post in 2006. | |
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Saagarika Rai Chief People Officer Reliance BIG Entertainment |
| Saagarika Rai, Chief People Officer of Reliance BIG Entertainment Private Limited. She has previously worked for Jet Airways, RPG and Bharti Airtel in a career spanning over 20 years of practice as a HR professional. Innovative and result oriented, she now aims to leverage her strength and learning to lead and transform the organisation to an ‘Employer of Choice’ through utilising the business partner model. She has envisioned and implemented numerous innovative approaches in selection, development, compensation, performance management, communication and process management. Her core strength is to bring real impact on organisation results by bringing together the best talent practices needed to attract, engage, build, leverage and retain top talent. She aims to foster a high performance culture by developing leadership capabilities, providing learning opportunities and delivering best in class practices. | |
Application for membership
We are currently seeking new members to join our advisory board. If you would like more information or would like to help drive the conference programme by becoming an Advisory Board member, please contact:
Stephen Pobjoy,
Producer, World Trade Group,
T: +44 (0) 20 7202 7649
Please note acceptance onto the advisory board is not automatic and each enquiry will be judged on its own merit. The Advisory Board reserves the right to reject applications based on incomplete or unverifiable information.
