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SHARING CAREER AND UNIVERSITY SUCCESS SEMINAR20th September 2013, 10am-3pm
SEMINAR FACILITATOR
Geoffrey WilliamsDiversity & Inclusion Specialist - Thomson Reuters
Geoffrey is the Diversity and Inclusion Specialist at
Thomson Reuters. This role is a globally focused with alocal focus on supporting the Thomson Reuters
business with their Diversity and Inclusion agenda.
He was with the IP & Science business of Thomson
Reuters for three and half years, most recently as a
Talent & Development Specialist. Geoffrey is also part
of the Business Consultation Forum, a peer-to-peer
elected volunteer action team responsible for driving charitable and community related
activities into the business. Prior to joining Thomson Reuters Geoffrey worked in the music
industry as an artist/events manager.
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10:05-10:10
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Ken Olisa OBE
Chair of the Powerlist
Foundation, Chairman of
Restoration Partners and
non-executive director of
Thomson Reuters.
A native of Nottingham, Ken'stechnology career commenced
in the 1970s at IBM having
won a scholarship while an
undergraduate at Cambridge.
At IBM he held various posts before joining Wang
Laboratories in 1981.
Following a period as Marketing Director for Europe, VP of
US Marketing and then of Worldwide Marketing based in
Boston, Ken was appointed Senior VP and General Manager
of Europe, Africa and the Middle East (EAME) located in
Brussels.
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He led the team which restored the EAME operation to
profitability, following which he launched an unsuccessful
MBO resulting in his departure in 1992!
Ken then founded Interregnum, the technology merchant
bank leading it through its early growth; its entry into, and
exit from, a joint venture with BDO Stoy Hayward; the AIM
IPO in 2000; and the tricky years that followed the collapse
of the dotcom boom.
At Interregnum, Ken worked at the forefront of the
entrepreneur/technology growth cycle that began in the mid
1990s. As well as serving on the boards of many of
Interregnum's investments and advisory clients, Ken notched
up some interesting firsts, including chairing the UK's firstpublicly listed Internet Service Provider (ISP), Voss Net, on
its admission to AIM and holding a similar position on the
Board of DMATEK, the first Israeli technology company to be
listed on the junior exchange. He was also a principal
advisor to, and Director of, uDate.com which became one of
the UK's few large scale dotcom successes when it was sold
to Barry Diller's USA Interactive in 2003. Ken retired from
Interregnum in 2006 and now runs Restoration Partners an
independent, boutique technology merchant bank.
Ken was the first British-born black man to serve on the
Board of a major UK public company (Reuters) and is
currently a Director of Thomson Reuters (where he is a
member of the Audit Committee). He is also currently Non-
executive Chairman of Outsourcery Plc who successfully
floated on AIM in May 2013. He was also a Director (and
Chair of the Remuneration Committee) of Canada's largest
independent software developer, Open Text Corporation.
More recently, he served as a Non Executive Director of
Eurasian Natural Resources Corporation (ENRC) from 2007.
He also serves on the Board of, or is an adviser to, several
privately held and innovative companies including the UK's
leading corporate governance advisor, Independent Audit.
A believer in the Victorian ethos that successful commerce is
the fuel of public service, Ken is a Freeman of the City of
London; Past Master of the Worshipful Company of
Information Technologists; a Director of the Thomson
Reuters Foundation; Chairman of Thames Reach (a charity
working to shelter and resettle the homeless in London);
founding Chairman of the Powerlist Foundation; a VicePresident of the British Computer Society and a past
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member of the Government's Women's Enterprise
Taskforce. He was also a Governor of the Peabody Trust for
a decade and a NED of the West Lambeth NHS Trust for
three and a half years. His experience of regulation issubstantial. He has been a regulatee of the FSA since 1993
and a start-up regulator twice; first as an inaugural Postal
Services Commissioner from 2001 to 2004 and more
recently as a Board member of IPSA, the body charged with
managing MPs' expenses, pay and pensions.
Ken's knowledge and experience of businesses from the
largest to the smallest, combined with his passion for, and
knowledge of, technology and his willingness to speak his
mind makes him much in demand as a public speaker and
he has been widely recognised. He is past winner of the
BVCA/Real Deals Private Equity Personality of the Year
Award and of the Sunday Times UK Not for Profit Non
Executive Director of the year. He appears in the UK's top 10
most influential black men in the Powerlist 2012 and was
recently named in Computer Weekly's UK Tech 50 list of
most influential people in UK IT and was the highest placed
financial adviser in the list.
In 2010 he was awarded an OBE for his services to the
homeless of London and he is an honorary Fellow of his oldcollege, Fitzwilliam, Cambridge. On a more personal level,
as a former IBM scholar at Cambridge, and reflecting a
lifelong passion for information technology and education,
Ken, and his wife Julia, donated money to build the new
Library and IT centre at Fitzwilliam College, now named the
Olisa Library.
A keen skier and a bad golfer, Ken is also the Chairman of
the BBA, a company currently fundraising "to do to British
Basketball what Packer did to cricket"
Ken married Julia in 1976 and they have two adult
daughters; Elinor and Auriol.
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10:10-10:40
Speaker 1 followed by Q & A
Courtney MentoreIB Commercial Manager,EMEA, Thomson Reuters
Courtney is the EMEA
Business Manager for the
Banking & Research division
at Thomson Reuters where
he is responsible for
negotiating and structuring
some of the largest and most
complex commercial deals
with global investment banks.
Prior to this Courtney was the Head of the Strategic
Accounts Business Support group, where he managed the
legal and commercial framework across all strategic
customers globally for the Financial & Risk business.
Before joining Thomson Reuters in 2006 he held various
commercial and financial management positions at
multinational companies such as Shell, BP and EMC.
After studying Business & Finance at college he went on to
specialise in Credit and Risk management early in his
career; he then supplemented this with a professional
qualification in credit management. Thereafter he completed
a law degree at University College London and then went
onto law school to complete his legal training, with a
particular focus on mergers & acquisitions and capital
markets.
In 2009 Courtney co-launched the Business in Africa Series
that brought together the financial community, investors and
prominent African entrepreneurs to focus on growth and
investment opportunities in Africa. The series also
addressed misconceptions projected in the mainstreammedia that influenced investment decisions.
In 2012 Courtney joined the fundraising committee for the
Huntley Heritage Archives (a charity that preserves and
showcases black cultural art), which is based at the London
Metropolitan Archives and works in partnership with the
Victoria & Albert museum on joint initiatives and events.
Courtney actively mentors young people from all
backgrounds, helping them to build valuable life skills and
momentum in their chosen career. He is an avid Moto GPand Formula one fan and he is looking forward to his first
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sitting as a Magistrate in 2014.
10:45-11:15
Speaker 2 followed by Q & A
Edwin Broni-
Mensah
Edwin is the
founder and The
Water Guy of
GiveMeTap. In
2009, while Edwin
was completing his
PhD in
Mathematics, he experienced the difficulties in accessing
water when away from home and discovered the financial
and environment impacts that drinking plastic bottled watercaused. After investigating further, he was surprised that,
though the UK has the highest quality drinking water, over
13 billion plastic bottles were being consumed (and
discarded) yearly, whereas across the world 1 billion people
globally lacked access to clean drinking water. This
compelled Edwin to envision a better way to help people in
the UK reduce their waste and eliminate the social
awkwardness in asking for tap water, while simultaneously
providing the gift of clean water to those without through the
funding of water projects.
Edwin is passionate about inspiring young people to make a
difference by encouraging them to understand how small
changes have huge societal impacts.
As of November 2011, GiveMeTap has provided over 3,000
people with easier access to drinking water through giving
partners in the UK and Africa. Through GiveMeTap, Edwin is
on a mission to make clean water easily accessible to every
human in the world in the most sustainable way possible.
GiveMeTap is a social enterprise committed to making clean
drinking water easily accessible to every human in the world
by creating a network of cafes and shops where people can
take their GiveMeTap Bottle to get free tap water refills and
simultaneously providing the gift of clean water to those
without through the funding of water projects. We are
passionate about helping organisations and individuals
reduce their waste, save money, while crucially helping to
raise awareness of the terrible water crisis. For every
GiveMeTap bottle sold, GiveMeTap commits 70% of profits
to fund sustainable water, sanitation and irrigation projects in
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Africa.
11:20-11:50
Speaker 3 followed by Q & A
Jasmine Ennis,
Volunteer OperationsAdministrator
Powerlist Foundation
Jasmine is a recent 1st
class graduate from
Brunel University with
Business and
management (marketing).
She was part of many
societies, some of whichincluded; entrepreneur, Afro-Caribbean (ACS) and Christian
Society.
She has always been involved in communal projects in and
around her local area. She helps support the elderly in her
local community each month, and volunteers each year at a
summer programme in South London acting as a young
voice to inspire and encourage young people from her
personal experiences.
Her interpersonal skills and academic foundationencouraged her to undertake various roles abroad. She
visited; India, USA and China to take part in insight
programmes and manage a project. The international
experiences gave her insight into the corporate world as well
as prepared her for her final year at university.
Jasmine is preparing for the start of new ventures in her life.
She has much passion for positively impacting the lives of
others and uses her creative mind and leadership skills to
support this.
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13:10-13:40
Speaker 4 followed by Q & A
Sandie OkoroGeneral Counsel - Baring AssetManagement Limited
Sandie is General Counsel atBaring Asset ManagementLimited a global assetmanagement company which ispart of the MassMutual FinancialGroup. She manages a team oflawyers that are based in London,Boston and Hong Kong, and sheis responsible for themanagement of Barings legal risk
across the globe. Prior to joining Barings in May 2007,
Sandie was Head of Legal for Corporate Services atSchroders and managed the Schroders Legal Panel. In herspare time, Sandie is Chair of the CLO (Chief Legal Officers)Programme, a Director of International Lawyers for Africaand a trustee of LawWorks. For four years up until 2006,Sandie was a non-executive director of Family Mosaic, aLondon based housing association and for 5 years she wasa Foundation Governor at La Retraite Girls School. Shewas one ofThe Lawyermagazines Hot 100 lawyers in 2005.In 2009 she was a shortlisted nominee for In-house Lawyerof the Year at The LawyerAwards and 2010 she was forshortlisted nominee for Lawyer of the Year at the Legal
BusinessAwards. Sandie mentors young aspiring lawyersby providing bespoke one-off one-to-one mentoring. She isan Ambassador for the Law Societys Diversity AccessScheme. Sandie is a Trustee of the Powerlist Foundationand was listed in the Powerlist Magazine as one of Britainsmost influential black people. Sandie was recentlynominated for the Law Society Gazette's Legal Personality ofthe Year Award 2013.
13:45-14:15
Speaker 5 followed by Q & A
Selvin Brown MBE
Deputy Director Communications at Department for
Work and Pensions
Selvin Brown joined the Civil Service in 1990. He has held a
number posts in his 12 years at the Cabinet office and 10
years at Department for Communities and Local
Government: Private Secretary to David Willetts (in the last
Conservative Government); Parliamentary Clerk Cabinet
Office/Office of the Deputy Prime Minister; Secretary of the
Cabinet Office Briefing Rooms (COBR); Head of Social
Housing (England and Wales); Head of UK Race Strategy;
and Head of Delivery Assurance and Risk, DCLG. Selvinwas appointed to the newly created post of Director,
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Disability, Social Justice and Overarching Stakeholder
Engagement at the Department for Work and Pensions in
June 2012. He is currently on short-term loan to the Cabinet
Office where he is leading the programme to create the newGovernment Communication Service.
He was named Civil Servant of the Year 2009, and made a
Member of the Order of the British Empire (for public and
voluntary service) in the Queen's Birthday honours 2009. He
holds Hons degrees in Applied Social Policy, and
Government and Politics; and a Master Research Degree in
Public Policy. He is a member of the Chartered Institute for
Public Relations and a member of the Chartered of
Marketing.
14:20-14:50
Speaker 6 followed by Q & A
Vernon FranoisImage Consultant - HairStylist Designer
***HOT OFF THE PRESS****
Vernon's headband invention
recently qualified him to be
officially registered as an
inventor with the Patent Office.
Vernon is one of the most
sought-after hair stylists and
image consultants in the UK, and has been namedamong
the Top 20 Influentual Black People Under 40 of 2013. His
hair styling work can be seen on high-profile clients such
as Emeli Sand, Eve, Jessie J, VV Brown, Estelle, Victoria
Silvestedt,Keyshia Cole, Jamelia, Matthew
Horne and James Corden,Dame Kelly Holmes, Beverly
Knight, Miquita Oliver, Javine, Mr H. (of Mr Hudson and the
Library), Jaye Jacobs, Jade Ewen,Melanie Fiona, Gabriella
Cilmi, Escala, Nisha Nayar, Speech Debelle, Naomie
Harris and Ruth Wilson.
Vernon won his first award Black Beauty Newcomer of the
Year aged 17 years, followed by two more by the age of 19.
He has worked as a freelance hairdresser in Paris, New
York, LA, Oslo, Amsterdam and Prague, and was theassistant to world renowned, award-winning
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hairdresser Desmond Murray for 3 years. Vernon now has
over 12 years of Salon experience.
Vernon also works as an Image Consultant and a Hair Stylist
on TV shows like Britain's Next Top Model (Sky
Living), National Television Awards 2012 (ITV), Steps
Reunion (Living TV) and shows on BBC3. Vernon was a
judge for the L'Oreal Colour Trophy 2012, and has
undertaken a variety of stage work, from education shows to
fashion shows. Vernon's Media involvement also expands to
being a long-standing committee member for a media
members group.
In spite of being in demand, Vernon still has a loyal group of
private clients whose hair he tends to in a prestigious salon
in Mayfair, and his work can be seen in Vogue, Marie
Claire, GQ, Glamour,Cosmopolitan, So'Chic!, iD, InStyle,
and ES magazine.
With his great success, Vernon has been able to branch out
into more wide ranging projects, particularly in the art and
media industries. He is also looking at some projects in the
world of design, where he will take his radical and innovative
approach and sense of style to an exciting new business
idea.
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