Claire Thomas, senior vice president, HR, GlaxoSmithKline

Claire is Senior Vice President HR for GSK and a member of the Corporate Executive Team.

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Mike Westcott, global HR director, National Grid

Mike Wescott joined National Grid in January 2007 as group HR director. He is responsible for setting and delivering the global HR agenda in line with the commercial strategy of the group.

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Dean Royles, director of human resources, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

Dean Royles has been a leading figure in HR within the NHS for nearly two decades. Chief executive of NHS Employers since December 2010, Royles joined Leeds Teaching Hospitals mid-2014. The NHS trust...

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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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Helen Giles, executive director of people and governance, St Mungo’s Broadway

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

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Pauline Best, global people and organisation director, Specsavers Optical Group

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

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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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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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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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Will Serle, HR group director, Amec Foster Wheeler

Will Serle was appointed as Amec Foster Wheeler’s group HRD in 2011, having previously been the consultancy’s HR operations director since 2009. He is also responsible for sustainability at the...

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Eugenio Pirri, chief people & culture officer, Dorchester Collection

As the chief people & culture officer for the London-based Dorchester Collection, Pirri and his team are responsible for all aspects of HR, L&D, employee and guest engagement, innovation, corporate...

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Andy Doyle, chief HR officer, WorldPay

Andy is commercially-focused, having spent his career in a variety of HR and general management roles

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