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.

Ravi Singh

Bluefin Consultancy

Founder And General Manager

Ravi Singh was the head of talent relations at The One, a retail company that has five years in a row won the top 10 Great Place to Work award, top employer for women and in 2013 top employer for Millennial. This year the One won the top 5 companies to work for in Asia. Ravi’s main focus in the company was Strategic Planning and Implementation of Business Plans from HR perspective, developing operational and Training structures and talent growth for the business. Other functions included, Policy writing, Payroll, Government Affairs, Talent Development, Creating Workplace initiatives and working closely with Operations in providing systems support. He is an expert in Change Management, Creator of Great Workplaces, Business Paradigms and Builder of Competitive Edge through the utilization of human capital to drive organizational performance at micro and macro levels.

Frode Hvaring

Newind

Managing Director

Frode is an international Leadership, Human Resources and Cultures advisor, who teaches Business Strategy, Global Leadership and International Human Resources in business schools.

He is the Managing Director at Newind, provides optimization of HR output, staff performance and corporate success across cultures and disciplines

Previously, Frode held COO and international Head of HR roles in companies such as Swiss employers’ association; Credit Suisse, Caterpillar and EBU-Eurovision. He leverages these experiences in Boards and Advisory Boards in Switzerland and Germany.

Frode has a Masters in Economics from Fribourg, Switzerland and post-grads from IMD, Lausanne and Thunderbird, Phoenix. His doctoral studies with GEM Grenoble/Sant’Anna di Pisa focus on Cultural Intelligence.
 

Kim Wylie

Builder.ai

VP People

Kim is the VP of People at Builder.ai (an approx. 1k global employees company, using AI to democratize access to software development. Awarded Top 3 Most Innovative Companies in AI, 2023 by Fast Company) She previously spent 12 years at Google and five years at Farfetch in a variety of leadership roles across Transformation, Change Management and People Teams. She is a Certified Clifton Strengths Coach, and Neuroleadership Institute 'Brain-Based' Coach, and practises a human-centred leadership style, informed by principles of Design Thinking, Positive Psychology, inclusion, wellbeing, and neuroscience.

Catalina Schveninger

DataCamp

Chief People Officer

Catalina Schveninger FCIPD, joined DataCamp from Futurelearn & Vodafone where she most recently held the Global Head of Learning and Capabilities role, being responsible for the reskilling/upskilling and learning culture strategy for the FTSE 20 company’s 100,000 employees across 25 countries.
Previously, Catalina was HR Director of T Mobile in The Netherlands. She began her international HR career in 2002 as a member of the Human Resources Leadership Program at GE and held different roles, including the HR Director of GE’s Security EMEA division.
A mother of 2, Catalina is a passionate advocate for the attraction and development of women in organizations and describes herself as a people and HR tech geek. Catalina holds a BA in Journalism and Communications from the University of Bucharest, a Diploma in Management from The Open University, and has lived and worked in six countries.

Gabriele Metz

Ericsson

Global Head of Leadership Transformation

Gabriele Metz joined Ericsson in 2013 to lead the Talent Management organization in the Middle East region. Prior to joining Ericsson, Gabriele spent 18 years at Motorola in various HR capacities. She brings the insight and experience of a variety of HR functions applied across several geographies including Europe, Middle East and Africa. Her passion for strengthening young diverse talent developed during her very first HR role and continues to this day. She is currently driving a program within Ericsson which is focused on empowering and coaching young female talent. She has received regional recognition specifically for her work in diversity and for creating a mentoring circle to address the development of female talent. Gabriele is a strong advocate of building a diverse workforce because the results of doing so can be directly linked to the bottom line results of a business.

Colin Graham

Facebook

Director International Compensation And Benefits

Colin Graham leads Facebook’s Life@ initiative for international locations as the Director of International Compensation; Benefits. Life@ is the company’s promise to take care of its people while they connect the world. Colin has been with Facebook since 2010 and has helped build and scale Facebook's people strategy internationally to support 10x headcount growth by designing the company’s compensation, benefits and perks across an ever expanding list of countries. Prior to Facebook, Colin held senior HR roles in Financial services, Software; FMCG organizations. A busy father of three young children Colin is also passionate about staying fit; healthy and is an Ironman triathlete.

Ivan Cubela

Adopto

VP of Growth