HR Directors Business Summit 2009
21st-22nd January 2009
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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Jennie Monon |
| Jennie Monon is currently the Global Head of Talent Management for ING Group tasked with finding the employees in the company with the most potential and then developing them further to deliver the company’s required business capability. Previous to this role, Jennie was the HR Director of ING Direct in the UK and Hewlett Packard. | |
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Sally Jacobson |
| Sally Jacobson is currently Group Director, Human Resources at London & Quadrant Housing Trust. Sally oversees 1000 staff and is responsible for HR, training, facilities management, TUPE transfers and customer care. Under Sally’s management London & Quadrant have received the following prestigious awards, Investors in People, Charter Mark and Age Positive Champion. The group has been placed in the in the prestigious Sunday Times Top 100 Best Companies to Work for, for the last 4 years. Tower Homes, part of the L&Q Group was placed at No. 1 in the list in 2006, and won a special award for work life balance. We are also listed in the Financial Times 50 Best Workplaces in the UK 2006 and have appeared on the list for the last 3 years. Sally’s professional background began in the NHS starting as a student nurse in 1970 in Nottingham and progressing to Senior Nurse Manager at the Maudsley Hospital prior to joining London & Quadrant. | |
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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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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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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 for a number of businesses in the Basic Plastics & Chemicals, Performance Plastics & Chemicals (PP&C), and Hydrocarbons & Energy portfolios. 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. In her current role, Deborah is responsible for talent management and culture across the Marketing and Sales function. |
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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.
