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  • Portrait of Mike Coupe

    Mike Coupe

    Mike was appointed CEO of Sainsbury’s on 9th July 2014. Before that he was Group Commercial Director, with responsibility for Trading, Marketing, IT and Online. He became an Executive Director in August 2007 after joining the Sainsbury’s Operating Board in October 2004. He joined Sainsbury’s from Big Food Group plc where he was a Board […]

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  • Portrait of Pavita Cooper

    Pavita Cooper

    Pavita is recognised as a leading talent and diversity expert. She has over 25 years’ senior executive experience in multi-sector global businesses including Shell, Barclays and Lloyds Banking Group. She is a regular speaker on women in business, increasing representation of ethnic minority leaders and the acceleration of diverse talent to the C-Suite and Boardroom. […]

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  • Allan E Cook CBE DSc

    Allan Cook was a non-Executive Director and Chairman of WS Atkins from September 2009 until 3rd July 2017 when Atkins was acquired by SNC-Lavalin. He was Chairman of Helios Towers plc until March 2018. He is a chartered engineer with more than 40 years’ international experience in the automotive, aerospace and defence industries. He was […]

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  • Andy Cooke

    I joined Merseyside Police in 1985 having obtained an Honours Degree in Politics from Nottingham University and have served as a Detective at every rank. I spent four years in Lancashire Constabulary as Assistant Chief Constable, returning to Merseyside in 2012. In July 2016, I was appointed Chief Constable of Merseyside Police. In 2017 I […]

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  • Portrait of Zaki Cooper

    Zaki Cooper

    Zaki Cooper is a communications professional, with over 15 years’ experience working in media and government relations, and external communications. He worked in the Buckingham Palace press office from 2009 to 2012 on the Diamond Jubilee. Previously he has worked for Lord Jonathan Sacks, the Chief Rabbi, and in the corporate sector for T-Mobile, Tesco […]

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  • Noreen Connolly

    Noreen has over 20 years’ experience in the advertising industry and is responsible for the smooth day-to-day running of all client-facing operational areas. Starting agency-side at Grey and DMB&B in the TV departments, before making the transition to the supplier side. Noreen was responsible for setting up operations at the digital-delivery company IMD before she […]

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  • Portrait of Vanessa Clifford

    Vanessa Clifford

    Vanessa was the Chief Executive of Newsworks, the marketing body for the UK’s national news brands in all their forms, working with advertisers and agencies to help them harness the influence and context of the national press to deliver effective campaigns in a multi-platform world She has worked in the media and marketing industry for […]

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  • Erika Clegg

    Erika is co-founder of award-winning creative communications business, Spring, the Agency for Change. Spring works with change-makers in organisations including EDF Energy, Anglian Water, London & Partners, British Psychological Society, Moroccan National Tourism Office, West Midlands Combined Authority, Paradigm Academies Trust and NHS. Spring is lead by a clear Ethos that Erika drives into the […]

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  • Portrait of Professor Ian Christie

    Professor Ian Christie

    I am a film and media historian, interested in communicating about aspects of these that people – especially young people – may not know about. I’ve specialised in reviving interest in ‘forgotten’ figures like Michael Powell and, currently, Robert Paul – the original creator of our film industry in the 1890s. I’ve also written and […]

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  • Portrait of Doctor Prathiba Chitsabesan

    Dr Prathiba Chitsabesan

    Dr Prathiba Chitsabesan is the Associate National Clinical Director for Children and Young People’s Mental Health for NHS England Prathiba is a Consultant in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry working in a large mental health and community trust (Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust). Lead consultant since 2005, she became Clinical Director in 2015 and continues to […]

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