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Topic: Sciences, engineering & technology

  • Portrait of Ella d'Amato

    Ella d’Amato

    Ella grew up in Weymouth with six siblings. Sheer numbers meant Ella left school at 15 to work, and never looked back. She’s worked in several different sectors, from retail, to hospitality, to law, to chiropractics. By 23, she’d found a job in marketing and quickly progressed up the ranks at Omnicom in London. She […]

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  • Portrait of Professor Stuart Croft

    Professor Stuart Croft

    Stuart became the Vice-Chancellor and President of the University of Warwick in February 2016, moving from his previous role as the University’s Provost and prior to this as the Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Research (Arts and Social Sciences). Stuart has been part of Warwick’s community since 2007, when he joined the Politics and International Studies department as […]

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  • Portrait of Stuart Cresswell

    Stuart Cresswell

    Group Aftersales Director for Trust Ford overseeing over 40 Dealerships Service & Parts businesses employing over 400 Technicians and 100 Apprentices. I am an Apprentice trained Technician, I have developed my career through Apprentice, Technician, Workshop Controller, Assistant Manager, Manager then Regional Aftersales Manager and Now Aftersales Director. I have a wealth of knowledge in […]

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  • Keith Craig

    Keith was born in Scotland and graduated from Oxford University. He served with the British Army before working as a war correspondent in Africa with The Times. He then joined the Swire Group as a commercial manager in Hong Kong and Manila. In the early 1990s he served with the UK’s Foreign & Commonwealth Office […]

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  • Portrait of Professor Brian Cox

    Professor Brian Cox

    At the same time as playing keyboard with D’Ream, Brian obtained a first class degree and a PhD. He is now Professor of Particle Physics at Manchester University and one of the leaders on the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN in Geneva. Not content with that, he has also become a […]

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  • Portrait of Dame Diane Coyle CBE

    Dame Diane Coyle CBE

    Diane is an economist specialising in digital markets and measurement. She is the author of many books, the latest being ‘GDP: A Brief but Affectionate History’ and ‘Markets, State and People’. She is a member of the Natural Capital Committee and was previously a member of the Competition Commission and vice chair of the BBC […]

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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 Paula Cooper

    Paula Cooper

    Paula Cooper works for Toyota (GB) plc and has over 25 years’ experience in the automotive business. Paula has a BA (Hons) degree in Modern Languages and Politics and a post graduate Diploma in Management. She is currently working towards iLM Level 5 in Coaching Her career commenced with a car rental company, recruited as […]

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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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