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Jabbar Sardar, HR director, television, BBC

As HR director for television at the BBC, Jabbar Sardar oversees all HR activity in both studios and commissioning.

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Althea Loderick, strategic director of resources, Brent Council

Althea Loderick is the strategic director for resources in Brent Council, where she has strategic oversight of finance and procurement; property and FM; HR & OD; IT; legal services; customer services...

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Tanith Dodge, HR director, Marks & Spencer

Tanith Dodge joined Marks & Spencer as director of HR in 2008. She is a member of the M&S management committee, leading HR for its 78,000 employees across the UK and 42 territories internationally.

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Neil Foulger, managing director, HR, Liberty Global Group

Neil Foulger was the HR lead in the acquisition of Virgin Media by Liberty Global in 2013. Denver-based Liberty Global is now the largest international cable company with operations in 14 countries...

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Derrick Crowley, group HR director, News UK

Derrick Crowley is the group HR director for News UK, the publisher of The Times, The Sunday Times and The Sun. During his career with the company he has led many of the projects designed to reshape...

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Shokat Lal, assistant chief executive, Rotherham Council

Shokat Lal is responsible for the council’s people function and part of the Strategic Leadership Team that is working on Rotherham council’s improvement journey working towards coming out of...

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Celia Baxter, director of group HR, Brunzl

Celia Baxter is responsible for all HR and corporate responsibility activity across distribution and outsourcing group Bunzl, which has 13,000 staff across 28 countries.

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Ben Bengougam, senior vice president HR, EMEA, Hilton

Bengougam is responsible for leading HR across EMEA, which includes more than 48,000 employees in 58 countries

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Matt Stripe, global head of HR, Nestlé Waters

Matt Stripe started his career in manufacturing in the defence industry, designing manufacturing facilities for missile systems. During time at BAE Systems he spent two years working with Wayne...

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Jennifer Duvalier, executive vice president, people, ARM

Jennifer Duvalier joined ARM as executive vice president of people in September 2013 and in 2014 was appointed non-executive director at Guardian Media Group. That same year she was voted one of the...

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Sue Yell, HR director, Warburtons

Sue Yell is a UK HR leader with over 25 years’ experience. She currently operates as HR director for Warburtons where she is responsible for the development and delivery of the people management...

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Rosemary McGinness, Group HR director, William Grant & Sons

Rosemary McGinness joined William Grant & Sons as group HR director in 2005. The company employs 1,800 people globally and is the owner of iconic brands such as Glenfiddich, the Balvenie and...

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