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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Siobhan Forey, chief operating officer, HR and operations, Arcadia Group

Siobhan Forey is chief operating officer – HR & operations at the Arcadia Group, which owns nine of the UK’s best known fashion brands, with an annual turnover of over £3 billion and operating in over...

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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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Dan Flint, global HR director, Simmons & Simmons

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...

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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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Jill Shedden, group HR director, Centrica

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

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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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Alison O’Connor, HR director, Arriva

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...

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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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