Practitioners

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,...

Helene Speight, interim HR director, Millbrook

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

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

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

Gawarecka-Green is responsible for the human resources function

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

Paul Raby, group HR director, Balfour Beatty

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

Mark Grimley, group director for people and corporate services, government of Jersey

Grimley took up post as the chief people officer for the government of Jersey in June 2019, heading up the largest employer on the Channel Island

Sally Hopper, assistant director of HR, Hertfordshire County Council

Hopper has oversight for the people strategy for the council and associated traded companies

Annette Andrews, chief people officer, Lloyd's of London

?Annette Andrews joined Lloyd’s in January 2015 as HR director

Rosemary McGinness, chief people officer, The Weir Group

Rosemary McGinness is a commercially-focussed HR leader who has worked across several sectors including hospitality, business process outsourcing, consumer goods and manufacturing

Jo Davis, group HR director, Mitie

?Mitie is the UK’s leading facilities management business, employing 52,500 people in the UK and Ireland

Shokat Lal, assistant chief executive, Rotherham Council

Shokat Lal is responsible for the council’s people and governance function and part of the strategic leadership team that took Rotherham Council out of intervention and on a rapid journey of...