Michael Kelly, Managing Director, Nova Capital

Michael is a founder and managing director of Nova and has extensive experience in the restructuring, turnaround and disposal of businesses. His earlier background in advertising and general management at Heron International plc was followed by thirteen years at Executive Interim Management (EIM), where he was senior partner and built the firm to become the global leader. Michael left EIM in 2001 and undertook the Interim Chief Executive role at PGA European Tour Courses which resulted in the successful disposal of the business to Murryhill.

Garry Adams, Regional President, Northern Europe, DBM

Garry joined DBM in April 2007 as Region President, Northern Europe. Prior to joining DBM, Garry had a distinguished career as a global leader and human capital consultant. He worked with Mercer for more than eleven years, most recently as a Worldwide Partner focusing on business development, human capital management, and executive remuneration consulting for large corporate clients in the Asia-Pacific region. He previously served as European Region Business Leader, managing Mercer’s global information services business for 30 countries in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. His career includes works with Knight-Ridder Financial as Human Resources Director for Asia and Global Compensation Director. Garry also worked as a Human Resources Consultant for Cullen Egan Dell prior to its acquisition by Mercer.

Garry earned both his masters degree in Industrial Relations and his bachelor’s degree in History from the University of Melbourne. He also holds a Graduate Diploma of Management Development from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University (RMIT). Garry maintains professional memberships in WorldAtWork, the Australian Human Resources Institute, and the Australian Institute of Company Directors.

Bob Mackenzie, CEO, Sea Containers

Bob Mackenzie joined Sea Containers in January 2006 to reorganise the company's debts. He sold off the major shipping assets and paid off over a billion pounds of debt. He surrendered the East Coast Mainline Rail franchise to the government and was asked to remain as executive chairman downsizing the workforce and overseeing the orderly transfer to the new franchisee.

Bob was previously an adviser to two private equity firms, Charterhouse and Texas Pacific. He has been Chairman of PHS both under public ownership and led its successful IPO. He has been CFO of two FTSE 100 companies and Chairman and CEO of National Car Parks and its subsidiary Green Flag. His early career was with BTR as an operational manager and Hanson where he was sent into acquired companies to instigate radical change and profit improvement. He qualified with KPMG as a Chartered Accountant.

 Chris Outram, Founder, OC&C Strategy Consultants

Tanith Dodge, HR Director, Marks & Spencer

Prior to this appointment Tanith Dodge worked for WH Smith plc since November 2003 as Group Human Resources Director reporting to the CEO Kate Swann and a member of the Group Management Team. This position was responsible for Human Resource strategy and policy throughout the group. She also had responsibility for Public Relations and Communications. In October 2006 the position of Director of Post Offices Operations was added to her responsibilities.

Prior to this she was Senior Vice President Human Resources for Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA), employed by InterContinental Hotels Group since May 2000. She was a key player in a major Global organisation transformation programme in 2002/2003.

Prior to joining InterContinental Hotels Group Tanith worked for Diageo plc where she held a number of HR management positions including the post of Human Resources Director Pillsbury Europe and Eurasia. In this role, she was responsible for leading major change and growth programmes across Europe and Eurasia.

Prior to this, she was International Human Resources Manager for Prudential Corporation plc working in Australia, Asia and Europe.

Tanith has also held managerial positions with Allied Domecq.

She has a BA (Hons) in Business Studies, sponsored by British Aerospace plc, a Post Graduate Diploma in Personnel Management and completed Stages 1 and 2 MA in Manpower Studies in 1986.

Mark Sandham, Global Head of HR Operations, Thomson Reuters

"Mark has over 20 years experience from across a number of business disciplines as well as within the HR function itself. He joined Reuters in 2001, initially as the UK HR Director and subsequently became HR Director for Europe, Middle East and Africa. In his current role as Global Head of HR Operations Mark has accountability for the delivery of HR support globally (over 16,000 staff, in 200 cities, in 99 countries) in 5 geographical regions reporting into him. He has substantial experience in developing HR strategy and execution thereof."

Zillah Bingley, Head of UK M&A, Mercer

Zillah is head of Mercer’s UK M&A consulting business based in London. Since joining Mercer in June 2007, Zillah has worked for a variety of clients doing deals and in the preparation phase pre-deal as well as postmerger. Most recently she has advised a large multi-national US headquartered IT company on an acquisition and subsequent divestitures across Europe, the post merger integration for a financial services group, the post signing integration planning for an Anglo-American merger in the chemicals sector and has run a series of M&A tailored workshops for clients, including the development of an M&A playbook.

Prior to joining Mercer Zillah, a UK qualified solicitor, was head of corporate business development at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer. In this role she was responsible for the overall business development and marketing activities of the global corporate practice group, the general industries sector group and key account management of Merrill Lynch.

Before her business development role, she practised as a corporate finance lawyer with substantial M&A experience, particularly in a variety of large cross border and domestic transactions. These included the IPOs and re-domiciles of Xstrata and Vedanta, the IPO of Burberry Group, the merger of Heath Group with Lambert Fenchurch plc and the aborted float of the merged entity, the disposal by Bass plc of its brewing business to Interbrew, as well as a variety of other acquisitions, disposals, joint ventures and securities transactions.

Zillah has a BSc (Hons) in biology from the University of Southampton. She studied law at the College of Law, Guildford, and was admitted as a solicitor of the Supreme Court of England and Wales in 1995.

Charles Bellringer, Director, Alix Partners

Charles is well known in the insurance sector as a Chief Financial Officer who creates significant value developing and leading business focused finance decisions. He is also adept at Stakeholder Management, having built good relationships with the FSA and HM Treasury. Charles has considerable experience of changing the culture in insurance companies by providing energetic leadership, and coaching, and where necessary recruiting highly talented people.

His previous experience includes the position of Chief Finance and Investment Officer for Equitable Life. He managed a restructuring scheme and successfully reversed the threat of insolvency. Previously he was also Chief Finance and Administration Officer for an Apax Partners underperforming investment in IT recruitment. He refinanced the group and recruited exceptionally high calibre finance and IT teams, which transformed performance and resulted in the successful sale of the company. Charles has also held the positions of Interim Chief Executive of a financial services division of a professional services firm, and Finance and IT Director of GE Capital Insurance. In this role he recruited high calibre business analysts and a treasury team.

Karen Parsons, Director, DBM Financial Services

Karen is the Director of the DBM Financial Services Practice in the UK, working closely with DBM's specialist Financial Services team in the global markets of NY, Frankfurt, HK and Tokyo. Based in our London City office, she has considerable experience in working with a range of financial services organisations on a national and international basis, including Investment Banking, Retail Banking, Insurance and einsurance. Her role includes working in partnership with our customers to optimise business outcomes through a strategic approach to talent management, incorporating interventions such as redeployment, utplacement, change leadership and the retention of key talent.

Her previous experience includes working as a consultant, trainer and project manager in a number of change initiatives, as well as generalist HR management in a number of blue chip organisations, and the public sector.

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Amanda Murray, HR Business Partner, UK Claims, Finance and Underwriting for Zurich.

Gary Kildare, Vice President, Global HR Operations IBM Global Services, Europe, Asia-Pacific and the Americas

Gary Kildare was previously Vice President of HR Global Business Services for IBM Europe across more than 50 countries. Gary has over 20 years of experience in leading and managing people. He is particularly passionate about driving improvements in organisational culture and employee commitment, major international business transformation, acquisitions, talent and change management and securing competitive business advantage through people.

Gary was appointed to his first leadership role in 1989 as HR Leader for IBM’s Software Research and Development Laboratory in Winchester. Since then he has held senior management positions across multiple HR disciplines including Talent management, Compensation, Acquisitions, Outsourcing and HR Strategy.

Gary’s recent achievements have included responsibility for implementing a new HR Model across Europe, transforming HR into a globally integrated service function, and setting up a community of HR practitioners across Europe. He is an internationalist having worked at country, geography and global level as well as living in many countries across the globe. He is a member of the Global IBM HR Strategy Board and a champion for Diversity and Inclusion.

Kevin Carlton, Senior Director, EIM

A senior director in the London Office, Kevin joined EIM in 2000, bringing with him a broad business background, including private equity investment and portfolio management with Investcorp (the international alternative asset manager), and senior financial and general management experience, mainly in the financial and travel sectors with American Express.

He is a Chartered Accountant, having started his career with Arthur Andersen & Co, and has a MA Degree in Modern Languages from Cambridge University.
As well as his London office role, Kevin leads the firm’s global private equity practice.

Andy Hill, Head of Talent Management, Vodafone

Andy graduated form the University of Hull in Geography in 1992 and has worked in Human Resources, specialising in Resourcing since 1993.

He has held a variety of positions since that time both within Consulting and "in -house" specialising in Resourcing, Resource Management and Organisation Change.

Andy has extensive International experience working throughout the USA , Asia and mainland Europe whilst employed by Computer Horizons Corporation, Satyam Computer services and Bookham Technology, where he was Director of Resourcing.

In 2002 Andy joined the Caudwell Group and was a key player in the Integration of Caudwell companies, Corporate 4U and Singlepoint into Vodafone UK in 2003/4. Since August 2004 he has been employed by Vodafone in his current role.