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.

Dan Flint is global HR director for international law firm Simmons & Simmons, which he joined in 2010 after working at Accenture in roles including global compensation and benefits director and UK&I...

Giles is executive director of people and governance for St Mungo’s and MD of Real People, an HR consultancy

Best joined Specsavers in 2008 as group HRD, responsible for all elements of people and organisation strategy and activity

Jill Shedden was appointed group director of HR at utility company Centrica in 2011 after the energy giant de-merged from British Gas.

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...

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...

Alison O’Connor joined Arriva in 2001 with responsibility for HR and now leads the corporate affairs function, which includes HR, group communications, health and safety and European public affairs...

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...

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.

Janet Hogben joined EDF Energy as chief people officer in 2012 following 13 years in the drinks sector.

Now group HRD of oil and gas company EnQuest, Graeme Cook has over 20 years’ experience in both finance and HR leadership roles, spending his early career mainly with oilfield services provider...