Sophie Medlin
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I am a lecturer in Nutrition and Dietetics at King’s College London and I also run a business giving private clients access to some of the UK’s best dietitians in our central London clinic. I worked for many years in the NHS before moving to a career in lecturing and research and private practice. My clinical work focuses on the treatment of medical conditions like irritable bowel syndrome, polycystic ovarian syndrome and helping with weight management problems. My research focus is on the nutritional consequences of gastrointestinal surgery. I work with companies and individuals to improve health and wellness in the work place which is something I am passionate about improving at a strategic level. I am an advocate for evidence based nutrition and am regularly in the national and international media offering scientific credibility nutritional information.
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I am a keen boxer and I train three times per week with my club.
Simon Masters
Sarah Cowen
Rob Atkinson
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As head of Productivity and Technical support, I am responsible for leading a $5billion productivity improvement strategy for the group and partnering with our Product Groups to reduce material risk. Also in this role, I am accountable for providing global mining, processing, asset management and infrastructure technical support along with the development of global automation and innovation strategies for Rio Tinto.
During my near 25 year career with Rio Tinto, I have held various senior roles including Chief Operating Officer – Copper and Chief Executive - Energy Resources of Australia and several senior operational leadership roles across Iron Ore, Energy and Aluminium.
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When I’m not working, you’ll find me spending time with my family, walking the dog, running or playing golf.
Penny James
Penny James is currently Vice President Operations, Innovative Medicines and Early Development (IMED) AZ and has more than 20 years' experience working in Pharmaceutical and Chemical industries. In her current role she leads a function of 180 people delivering: Project and Portfolio management for the IMED drug project pipeline, Facility Management of four global R&D locations and multiple cross IMED strategic initiatives.
Penny has worked closely with both manufacturing and R&D teams at all organisation levels during her career to drive process efficiency and effectiveness and enable them to achieve their goals. She has led Lean Sigma programmes at Eastman Chemical company - working at sites and with management teams all over Europe and the US. Penny has delivered more than $30M in cost savings over her career through a variety of change projects - including organizational transformation from internal to global external CRO resourcing models. Penny also spent 10 years working as an industrial statistician - consulting in manufacturing and product development - and is a Chartered Statistician, Lean Sigma Master Black Belt and holds an MSc in Medical Statistics.
Nadia Hutchinson
Liz Johnson
Jane Leadbetter
Dr Hamid Mughal
Hamid is an internationally acclaimed Manufacturing Leader with over 32 years of experience in the Automotive and Aerospace Sectors. During this period he has held senior positions in a number of disciplines including, Product Engineering, Operations Management, Manufacturing Engineering & Technology, Supply Chain Management and Product Development of large scale programmes.
Fran Millar
Fran Millar holds a dual role as both Director of Business Operations
and Head of Winning Behaviours at Team Sky. Returning to head up
all the team’s “off bike” functions in 2015, her responsibilities include
overseeing the team’s marketing and communications strategy,
stakeholder management, and all the commercial and legal aspects
that come with running the world’s number one cycling team.