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Topic: Art, media & communications

  • Portrait of Kate Buckley

    Kate Buckley

    Kate Buckley daughter of the Bafta winning casting director Mary Selway, started out as one of the first female Maitre d’hotels at London’s famous Le Caprice restaurant and then went on to become Senior Maitre d’hotel at theatreland’s J.Sheekey restaurant. In 2000 she joined the leading UK agency for representing Actors, Writers and Directors – […]

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  • Portrait of Steve Brookman

    Steve Brookman

    Steve is very successful Senior Executive with a track record of building and leading major technology businesses around the World. He was born in Sri Lanka to parents who were in the RAF, and moved to the UK before the family took advantage of the ā€˜Ā£10 Pom schemeā€™ and immigrated to Australia. After returning to […]

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  • Portrait of Sally Britton

    Sally Britton

    Sally is a partner in the firm’s Intellectual Property department and head of the Brands group. She advises on brand protection strategies including clearance, monitoring and enforcement as well as trade mark and design filing. She acts for brands at all stages, from creation through to international expansion, both in preparation for investment and following […]

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  • Portrait of Danny Brooke-Taylor

    Danny Brooke-Taylor

    Danny has been lucky enough to be Creative Director at some great agencies, including TBWA and Mother. Heā€™s bagged lots of awards at British Arrows, Cannes, The One Show, Creative Circle and D&AD. His Hovis commercial ā€œGo on ladā€ was voted ā€œAd of the Decadeā€ by ITV viewers in 2010. He co-founded Lucky Generals in […]

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  • Rod Bristow

    Rod Bristow is President, UK & Core Markets for Pearson. Core Markets include those 100+ countries with, in general, developed economies and education systems. In 2010, Rod became President for Pearson UK and was appointed to lead all other Core Markets for Pearson in January 2014. Rod has worked in education, publishing and assessment for […]

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  • Portrait of Georgina Brittain

    Georgina Brittain

    My name is Georgina and I am a senior fund manager at JP Morgan Asset Management. I focus on long term investment in mid and small sized UK companies, and have been investing in the UK stock market for over 20 years. I am extremely keen on extolling the benefits of a career in fund […]

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  • Portrait of Matt Brittin

    Matt Brittin

    Matt looks after Google in Europe, making sure products like search, maps and YouTube work for people and businesses. He’s been at Google for over 7 years, before which he worked in newspapers, technology, property, consulting and retail. He’s also into sitting down sports, a rower, sailor and cyclist who competed in the Oxford and […]

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  • Dame Nicola Brewer

    Before joining UCL in May 2014, Nicola was a senior diplomat at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. She was British High Commissioner to South Africa, Lesotho and Swaziland from May 2009 to September 2013. As Vice-Provost (International), Nicola is responsible for UCLā€™s Global Engagement Strategy: Londonā€™s Global University working with partners to achieve fair solutions […]

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  • Derek Brewer

    Derek Brewer, 54, was the fifteenth Chief Executive & Secretary of MCC. He assumed the role in May 2012 after seven years at the helm of Nottinghamshire CCC. Brewer graduated from Aston University with a degree in Business Studies in 1981. He had a 24-year career in banking, and was a Regional Director of Corporate […]

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  • Portrait of Lord Melvyn Bragg

    Lord Melvyn Bragg

    Melvyn Bragg was born in Wigton, Cumbria, and educated there and at Wadham College, Oxford. His broadcasting career began at the BBC in 1961 and soon afterwards he published his first novel. He worked on the arts programme Monitor with Huw Wheldon in the mid-1960s; during this time he began writing novels, set mostly in […]

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