Louise Smalley, group HR director, Whitbread

Louise Smalley was appointed to the main board of Whitbread in 2012, making the hospitality business one of the most diverse in the FTSE 100 in terms of the number of female board members

Helene Speight, interim HR director, Millbrook

?Helene Speight is interim HR director for Millbrook, a leader in automotive testing, design and engineering

Robin Wilkinson, chief of corporate services, Metropolitan Police Service

?Robin Wilkinson is the chief of corporate services in the Metropolitan Police Service, a role in which he has board-level oversight of HR, finance, commercial, property, transformation, strategy,...

Matt Elliott, chief people officer, Bank of Ireland

?Matt Elliott joined the Bank of Ireland in early 2019 as a member of the executive team delivering a strategic plan to transform the business

Paul Raby, group HR director, Balfour Beatty

Raby has been group HRD for Balfour Beatty, an international infrastructure group, since 2005

Baljinder Kang, executive director of people services, Midland Heart

Kang has more than 25 years of operational and strategic HR experience across sectors including private, public, voluntary and not-for-profit

Beata Gawarecka-Green, head of human resources, Triton Partners

Gawarecka-Green is responsible for the human resources function

Pam Parkes, director of organisational development and people, Essex County Council

Parkes joined Essex County Council in 2016 and is responsible for a 140-strong HR team and a workforce of 6,700

People

Alastair Gill, head of people, Giffgaff

Gill is currently the people partner for the multi-award-winning telco giffgaff, where the past five years he has led on all things internal culture, engagement, and people experience

Kessar Kalim, director of HR, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

?Kessar Kalim is the director of HR at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, a globally-renowned public research university reputable for its research, postgraduate studies and...

Tania Garrett, senior director employee experience EMEA, Adobe

Garrett joined the EMEA employee experience team at Adobe in May 2016

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Matthew Taylor, chief executive, RSA

Matthew Taylor has been chief executive of the The Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA) since November 2006