Anne Morrison

Pearson College London’s Governing Body (former BAFTA chair, former BBC Academy Director)

Chair

Anne Morrison is Chair of Pearson College London’s Governing Body and is a senior media executive, coach and keynote speaker. She is Creative Director of Factual Programmes at Nevision, a London-based independent production company, where she has recently executive produced several feature documentaries, including The Missing Children for ITV’s Exposure strand. 
She was Chair of BAFTA from 2014 to 2016, the second woman to hold the position in the organisation’s history. She is a member of the Communication and Engagement Committee for the British Academy and of the Annual Review Panel for BBC-branded magazines at BBC Studios. Previously she was a Governor of the University of the Arts London, Chair of Creative Skillset’s TV Committee, a Trustee of the Charleston Trust and a board member of Women in Film and TV.
She is a frequent speaker internationally on issues such as diversity, employability, and creativity and has her own coaching practice. Throughout her career, she has been committed to the development of new talent. Until 2014 she was Director of the BBC Academy, the BBC’s centre for training, which she launched in 2009.
In her television career, having worked as a producer/director, she held senior management positions for 20 years at the BBC, and was responsible for hundreds of hours of factual television including many award-winning programmes.
Anne was educated in Belfast and Churchill College, Cambridge.

Jermaine Daw

Wella Company

Vice President & Chief People Officer EMEA

Jermaine Daw is a business-centric People Executive with experience working across various industries, including Healthcare, Media, Sports, Entertainment and FMCG.Currently serving as the Vice President & Chief People Officer - EMEA for the Wella Company, Jermaine is responsible for all aspects of the People strategy and delivery for the multi-billion-dollar EMEA division of Wella.
 
With a strong track-record of delivering transformational change across complex, global organizations, Jermaine is a trusted advisor to senior leaders on issues ranging from talent management to organizational design and optimization.  He is passionate about developing high-performing, diverse teams that can drive sustained business growth and achieving strategic objectives.
 
Before joining Wella, Jermaine held senior HR positions at several leading organizations, including the National Basketball Association (NBA), HBO, and Luxottica Group. Jermaine holds a bachelor’s degree in Economics and a master’s degree in Human Resources Management, both from Stony Brook University. Jermaine has demonstrated a deep commitment to early-career development and DE&I throughout his career. He is a sought-after speaker and thought leader and is regularly invited to share his insights at industry conferences and events.  He has served as a Mentor for the TEAK Fellowship, a program that helps talented students from low-income families achieve their potential.  Jermaine was named as a 40 Under 40 2017 honouree by The Network Journal, a leading U.S. publication, for his professional and mentoring contributions.

Sean Penistone

with BT, GSK and Xerox

Former Director Leadership, Learning & Talent

Sean is a strategic and innovative Talent, L&D, and OD specialist with a 25-year record of success in the complex, matrix, international settings. He focusses on transforming business capability through pragmatic Talent and Capability strategies and approaches. He is experienced in many industries, such as Life Sciences, Professional Services, Retail Banking, Technology and Telecoms having held senior HR roles in the likes of Glaxo SmithKline, Astellas Pharma, Xerox, and HBOS.

In his previous roles Sean was the director for leadership, learning, and talent at British Telecom BT. Before BT, he was leading GSK’s Talent and Capability work in the area of Digital Transformation and is introducing new approaches, practices and procedures to ensure that GSK has the skills to thrive in the digital world. 

Oana Iordachescu

WAYFAIR

Head of Tech TA EU

Oana Iordachescu  is a Senior Talent Acquisition Leader with over 10 years experience Talent Acquisition, Diversity & Inclusion and Talent Management. She has built her portfolio partnering with leaders across companies such as Booking.com (Amsterdam), Criteo (Paris)  and currently Wayfair (Berlin) with the explicit goal to build and nurture inclusive workforces. 
She has developed programs and processes that aim at creating access to equal opportunity and advocates for diversity and inclusion policies as a business and societal benefit. 
Her mission is to show that changing the ratio is not the problem, changing the ratio is the solution.

Thomas Davies

Temporall

Founder & CEO

In his 10 years at Google, Thomas led the UK&I Cloud business as Country Manager, then became Director of
Northern, Eastern & Central Europe, before leading the Global Partnerships team.
During this time Thomas was intrigued by the culture of the organisation and began to investigate and
subsequently define what high-performance culture really meant, and how to measure it. He has a passion for
helping organisations use technology to drive cultural change and develop a sustainable strategy for future
success.
Having founded Temporall, Thomas now helps organisations develop culture as a strategic lever for
transformation. Positioning culture as a strategy leads to an increase in performance and supports successful
digital transformation.
He took his own enterprise cloud product from concept to go-live in 12 months and united a world-class team to
create a digital native organisation that is continually transforming - successfully. Thomas is an expert in the
business use of machine learning, digital technologies, leadership and the complexities of operating in multiple
markets in times of unprecedented change.
Thomas and the Temporall team are now supporting progressive business leaders in understanding how to
capture quantitative, qualitative and ‘network activity’ signals from employees that positively impact the bottom
line. He strongly believes that every organisation is unique and has the power to choose their own destiny. He
has a humanistic approach to life and work.
Thomas is a highly regarded keynote speaker and has had articles published on FastCo and Medium and he
featured in the Financial Times series “Meet the Career Changers”. He is an accredited executive coach and
has sat on the Technology Advisory Board for one of the UK’s leading banks. Thomas is on the Advisory of the
Association of Corporate Treasurers (ACT), and a Board member at TCES Group.

Alex Graves

Facebook

EMEA Learning & Development Partner

Alex has been with Facebook for over 7 years, starting off in the California HQ office near her home town but has spent the last 6+ years in the Dublin, Ireland office. She’s focused on design and delivery of training and onboarding programs with Operations, Recruiting, and most recently was the program owner of Facebook’s New Hire Orientation program, as part of the Learning & Development org where she welcomed Facebookers working across EMEA’s dozens of offices to the Dublin, Ireland HQ. Alex is now focusing on team development in her L&D Partner role but remains passionate and involved with onboarding and orientation at the company.

Florine van der Ven

ING Tech NL

Global Senior HR Business Partner

With Masters in Civil and Corporate Law, and experience in Talent Acquisition, Performance Management, Brand Activation, Agile Way of Working, Florine changed after working in Italy for a few months and the role of a Global Transformation & Change Consultant at ING, to the role of Global HR Business Partner Tech. ING has recently embarked on a massive transformation journey becoming an IT company with a banking license, IT and analytics being at the core of this change. Florine supports more specifically the Tech Infra business, which especially in these times play a crucial role for the bank. Aim is to have a better client and customer experience.