Topic: Economy & Business
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26 February, 2020Andrew Wallace
Andrew is one of Leathwaite’s founding partners and in 2023 was appointed Chair. He leads the Board and oversees the strategy and direction of the firm, assesses progress against its global ambition and supports the managing partners in ensuring Leathwaite achieves its goals. He leads on culture, ESG and purpose ensuring the firm is fully focused […]
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Heather Walker
Heather Walker has spent her career working for artistic and cultural organisations in a range of roles across operations, programming, business planning and change management, delivering complex projects and constantly driving business improvement. She is currently the Director of Operations at the Royal Opera House responsible a range of functions including technical, production, visitor experience, […]
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Richard Walker OBE
Born in Chester in 1980, Richard graduated in geography from Durham University and then qualified as a chartered surveyor. He developed his own property businesses in Poland and the UK before joining Iceland, the company founded by his father Malcolm, in 2012. Richard spent his first year with the business as a full-time shelf-stacker and […]
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Julie Waddell
Successful Ex-Founder of a high growth FMCG (fast moving consumer goods) brand. Now a High Growth Innovation Consultant, Strategist, Virgin Startup Mentor, Broadcaster, Speaker and EIS Investor. After a corporate career at British Airways and as a BBC Broadcaster and Journalist along with several roles in University Marketing and Corporate Relations, Julie Founded Moorish Ltd, […]
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Gavin Wade
Gavin Wade is an artist-curator and founder of Eastside Projects, an artist-run multiverse in Birmingham, and is also Senior Research Fellow at Birmingham City University. After living and working in London from 1991-2004 Gavin returned to his home town Birmingham with his family in 2004. He proposed a new artist-run space as public gallery and […]
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Robert Wainwright
Family business background and dyslexic, after taking himself back to college to gain a business degree Rob spent most of his career working for European companies as CEO/MD of their UK&I subsidiaries, and included overseas sourcing and travel (Europe, USA, Far East). Keen on outdoor activities Rob has climbed in the Himalayas (Ama Dablam) and […]
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Marc Vlessing
Marc is co-founder and CEO of Pocket, London’s only specialist developer that concentrates solely on affordable housing for the squeezed middle. Pocket builds award winning affordable housing in London which requires no grant, remains affordable by being income targeted and sells its homes outright to people on low to moderate incomes – see: www.pocketliving.com. With […]
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Johannes von Stumm
1959 born in Munich, 1980 – 83 Law and Politics at University Munich !984 – 89 Studies sculpture at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste, München, Diploma 1995 Move to England 1997 Member of the Royal British Society of Sculptors 2003 Founding member of Sculpture Network (Europe) 2004 Fellow of the Royal British Society of Sculptors […]
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Adam Vile
Adam Vile is the CTO of VAKT, a super-startup building and bringing to a platform, underpinned by blockchain, that will reshape commodities trading. He is a technologist and business leader with over 20 years experience in financial services technology, 10 of which in consulting. Adam started his career as a maths teacher, and then university […]
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Edward Vince
Ed Vince is a London-based Creative Director currently leading the International Team at Airbnb, where he oversees all of the advertising outside of the US. Ed spent five years in California working for both Apple and Facebook before returning to the UK. Prior to this he led his own design studio, working on publishing projects […]