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  • Portrait of Matthew Barwell

    Matthew Barwell

    Matthew Barwell is the Chief Marketing Officer of Britvic Soft Drinks Plc, a key member of the Executive Committee responsible for all aspects of Global Brand strategy and execution, Innovation as well as for Corporate Affairs and the company’s sustainability agenda. Matthew joined Britvic in 2013 from Diageo, the world’s leading premium drinks business, where […]

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  • Portrait of Judith Batchelar

    Judith Batchelar OBE

    Judith is a Biochemist, nutritionist, has an Honorary Doctorate in Agriculture from Harper Adams University, and is a Fellow of the Institute of Food Science and Technology (IFST), the Royal Society of Arts and Manufactures (RSA) and a liveryman at The Worshipful Company of Butchers. Judith started her career in pharmaceuticals and teaching before finding […]

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  • Portrait of Mark Barber MBE

    Mark Barber MBE

    Mark arguably does more than any other individual to demonstrate the value, reach and impact of commercial radio in the UK. In his role of Planning Director at the Radio Advertising Bureau, Mark is responsible for developing its award-winning research and content strategy. He is the architect of the RAB’s highly successful ‘radioGAUGE’, ‘Online Multiplier’, […]

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  • Sir Brendan Barber

    Sir Brendan Barber was appointed as the Chair of the Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service (Acas) commencing January 2014. He was the General Secretary of the TUC from 2003 to 2012 having first joined the TUC in 1975. He is a member of the Banking Standards Board, the Board of Transport for London and of […]

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  • Portrait of Sam Baker

    Sam Baker

    Born in Hampshire, Sam Baker studied politics at Birmingham University. Sam has edited some of the UK’s biggest magazines. After successfully re-launching teenage magazine Just Seventeen as J-17, she spent five years as editor of Company. She was also editor-in-chief of Cosmopolitan in the UK and spent five years as editor of Red, which she […]

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  • Portrait of Maria Balshaw

    Maria Balshaw

    Maria Balshaw is Director of Tate, a role she has held since June 2017. She has overall responsibility for Tate’s strategic direction and day to day operations. As Director, Maria is also the Accounting Officer appointed by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS). Previously, as Director of the Whitworth, University of Manchester […]

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  • Portrait of Assistant Chief Constable Rachel Bacon

    Rachel Bacon

    Rachel joined Northumbria Police in June 2017 as Assistant Chief Constable and is responsible for Citizens Focus which includes Custody, Criminal Justice and Safeguarding. Rachel was previously Head of Crime for Sussex Police and has specialised as a Detective during her career. Her portfolio included intelligence; organised crime; cyber and economic crime. Rachel is a […]

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  • Portrait of Tim Bailey

    Tim Bailey

    TIM BAILEY is an architect based in Newcastle upon Tyne. Graduating from Newcastle University in 1990 and qualifying in 1992 he has been involved with a diverse range of realised building projects with contract values between £30,000 and £25m. In November 2000 he founded his own practice, xsite architecture, that became a LLP in 2008. […]

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  • Portrait of Paul Bainsfair

    Paul Bainsfair

    Paul is an adman. If you want to know anything about advertising he’s your man. His 37 years of agency experience began at Saatchi & Saatchi where he started as an account executive and rose to being its CEO within ten years. After successfully steering the agency through the early 90s recession and with the […]

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  • Portrait of Phil Attfield

    Phil Attfield

    Phil Attfield is a Visual Effects (VFX) industry professional with more than 25 years experience in VFX as an artist, entrepreneur and educator. In 2000, Phil cofounded the VFX boutique Men-from-Mars, based at Ealing Studios. He was nominated for BAFTA and Emmy awards for work on the Hornblower TV mini-series between 2000 and 2002. In […]

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