OSE Professional Networking profiles leaflet

OSE Professional Networking Event Wednesday 11th September 2024 Sway Bar, Holborn

Professional Networking Event Wednesday 11th September 2024 JAMIE MCEWEN - RECRUITMENT TILLY’S, 1996-2001 AND CURRENT PARENT MANAGING DIRECTOR - MANPOWER UK Jamie currently sits as part of the UK senior leadership team for Manpower and leads their Executive function called Integral. Manpower is one of the world's leading recruitment companies placing over 3.4million candidates a year globally and with revenue over $22billion.

In the UK Jamie's team placed over 10,000 permanent candidates and 35,000 temporary workers in 2023 across a variety of industries ranging from financial services to defence.

Jamie has over 20 years' experience working within the financial and professional services sector, as an Executive Headhunter and consultant to senior leaders including a period of time serving as Head of Talent for the Investment Bank and Asset Management arm of UBS. After leaving Teddies in 2001, Jamie undertook his undergraduate degree at Durham University. Alongside his professional career, Jamie is also a keen rower – he rowed for Teddies’ Princess Elizabeth Challenge Cup – winning crew in 1999 and represented Great Britain in the same year. More recently, Jamie reunited with the Teddies ‘99 crew for the anniversary row-past at Henley this year! Jamie is also a current parent at Teddies to his eldest daughter Saskia in Jubilee.

Professional Networking Event Wednesday 11th September 2024

PETE BROWN - MEDICINE

COWELL’S, 1996-2001 GP - BSc (Hons) MBBS MRCGP

Pete left Teddies in 2001 from where he went to Imperial College School of Medicine following a gap year. He qualified as a Doctor and completed his Junior Doctor training years in London. Pete has been a GP since 2015 and now works as a GP Partner in Wimbledon Village. Since 2001, Pete has also been the Club Doctor for the All England Lawn Tennis Club during the Wimbledon Tennis Championships, looking after the players and their teams. In addition to these clinical roles he is a Clinical Director for the Northwest Merton Primary Care Network and a Corporate Director sitting on the board of the local GP Federation, Merton Health.

Professional Networking Event Wednesday 11th September 2024

WILLIAM BUTLER-ADAMS, OBE CEng ENGINEERING

CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER, BROMPTON BICYCLE LTD

PARENT

William is CEO of Brompton Bicycle, creators of the iconic Brompton Folding Bike. He joined the company in 2002 as an engineer, becoming a Director just four years later and Managing Director in 2008. He was awarded an OBE in 2015. Before joining Brompton, William studied Engineering at Newcastle University and qualified as a Chartered Mechanical Engineer in 2001. Since then, he has worked for Nissan, ICI and DuPont. William also co-authored ‘The Brompton: Engineering for Change’, published in December 2022. The book follows the growth of Brompton from a small company to a business making over 90,000 bikes and turning over $130 million on an annual basis.

Professional Networking Event Wednesday 11th September 2024

BEN HAMPSHIRE - MUSIC & FILM

FOUNDER & EXEC PRODUCER - CARNAGE FILMS

PARENT

Ben started out at a Visual Effect Producer in London witnessing first hand the immense possibilities of the new digital creation age, and helping win projects from all over the world. He was hired by the Oscar Winning studio The Mill to turn around their new base in Los Angeles. He took the studio from a loss making team of 18 to over 250 and a turnover in excess of $45m, working with many of Hollywood’s top directors and producers. After seven years in LA he moved to London to found Carnage Films, a multi award winning Automotive Content Studio, quickly gathering the world’s biggest car brands as clients and producing some of the most effective and memorable work of the past decade . He is currently developing a TV show for Netflix, a documentary for Red Bull - and working on an AI powered content engine.

Professional Networking Event Wednesday 11th September 2024 JON HOLL-ALLEN - LAW

SING’S, 1979-1984 KC

Jon Holl-Allen KC is leading counsel at Serjeants’ Inn Chambers where he specialises in clinical negligence, professional discipline and police pensions. Most of his professional disciplinary work is in the healthcare field, representing doctors and dentists in hearings before regulatory tribunals. He remains in the same chambers in which he undertook his pupillage in 1990, and took silk in 2018. In silk a significant proportion of his clinical negligence practice relates to high value obstetric brain damage cases. His police pensions work takes him into the Administrative Court on applications for judicial review. He finds his practice to be a good mix of law, advocacy and medicine.

Professional Networking Event Wednesday 11th September 2024

PETER HIGGINS - RETAIL / ENTREPENEUR

SERIAL ENTREPENEUR - DIRECTOR CHARLES TYRWHITT SHIRTS

PARENT

Peter helped found Charles Tyrwhitt Shirts in 1990. Charles Tyrwhitt is the number one provider of Jermyn Street quality shirts worldwide. The brand is a multi-channel retailer and has significant market share in the UK, USA and Germany. It has recently expanded further into Europe. Turnover has now surpassed £350MM and CT is highly profitable…for now! In 2023 Peter became Chair of Renais, the upmarket Gin brand, founded by Alex and Emma Watson. Renais recently raised investment from Venture Capital firms with a valuation of £25MM to assist with its aggressive growth strategy. Having read Classics at Jesus College, Cambridge, Peter began his career as an Assistant Master at Harrow School where he taught Latin, Greek and Ancient History. He has played rugby for Cambridge University and Wasps RFC. Peter is also a Director of Mary’s Meals, a charity providing life-changing meals to some of the world’s poorest children every day they attend school. MM feeds more than 2.5 million children every day throughout Africa and other nations, where poverty exists.

Professional Networking Event Wednesday 11th September 2024

CHRIS MACDONALD - MARKETING, PR & MEDIA

COWELL’S, 1980-1985 GLOBAL CEO OF MCCANN

Chris has been in the advertising industry for over 30 years and has just returned from the US where he spent the past 10 years in senior roles at McCann, part of the Interpublic Group of Companies. His last role was as the Global CEO of McCann, one of the biggest advertising networks in the world with 10,000+ people working out of more than 100 offices. Chris has worked with some of the biggest advertisers in the world, from Mastercard to Coca Cola and has built award winning teams in the UK and the US. He was the Chair of the Advertising Education Foundation in NYC for 4 years, an organization that focused on helping diverse talent join the marketing and advertising industry.

Professional Networking Event Wednesday 11th September 2024

LAURA MATTHEWS - TECHNOLOGY

CORFE, 2008-2013 GLOBAL MARKETING DIRECTOR - UiPATH

Laura Matthews has spent 10+ years working in global marketing and sales leadership roles in technology organisations including UiPath, Google Cloud and BT. She regularly contributes to industry thought leadership as a guest speaker, as well as judging industry awards. She is passionate about embedding inclusive marketing and sustainability best practices into marketing. At UiPath (a software automation company) she is the co-lead of the Women in Automation People Unity Council. She sits on the board of Tech London Advocates Women in Tech Group, which supports women in the technology space in London. Outside of work she is learning more about entrepreneurialism and advises start ups and SMEs on their marketing strategies.

Professional Networking Event Wednesday 11th September 2024

IAIN MAXWELL - PROPERTY

CORFE, 1989-1994 DIRECTOR AT SAVILLS

Iain joined Savills from Reading University as a

graduate in September 1997. He is a director specialising in commercial lease consultancy covering rent reviews, lease renewals and lease re-gears. He sits on the Board of the Savills' Graduate Management Team and oversees the Savills' graduates’ recruitment and training programme approaching their APC.

Professional Networking Event Wednesday 11th September 2024

MICHAEL MCGHEE - FINANCE

FOUNDING PARTNER & DEPUTY CHAIRMAN OF GLOBAL INFRASTRUCTURE PARTNERS

TILLY’S, 1969-1974

Michael McGhee is GIP’s Deputy Chairman and a Founding Partner, having joined the firm at its inception in 2006. Michael leads GIP’s transport sector industry investment teams including airports, ports and freight Investment Banking Division and Head of Global Transportation and Logistics at Credit Suisse from 1998 to 2006. He was previously Managing Director and Head of Transportation at BZW from 1990 to 1998. He holds a B.A. in Government and Economics from the University of Manchester. rail. He is based in London. Prior to GIP, Michael was a Managing Director in the

Professional Networking Event Wednesday 11th September 2024

MIRANDA HOLT - MEDIA

PARENT BBC Producer and Programme Editor

Miranda has worked for the BBC for over 20 years as a producer and programme editor. Working on News Programmes including Today, World at One, PM on Radio 4, Newsnight and more recently live political programmes including Politics Live and Election Debate and Results programmes. Miranda now works on the 5050 Equality Project which aims to promote diversity in media both in the Workforce and Content.

Professional Networking Event Wednesday 11th September 2024

ANDREW JORDAN - FASHION

Apsley, 2002-2007 CREATIVE DIRECTOR, JAM INDUSTRIES

Andrew is the Creative Director at Jam Industries, a lifestyle clothing brand launched in 2013, a “family run brand designed to bridge the gaps between city and coastal style”. Andrew studied Geography at the University of Leeds after leaving School, graduating in 2013, and now leads the design team at Jam Industries, which he co-founded alongside brother Mark and Mum, Lynne. Over the last 10 years, Jam has expanded from it’s first store in Salcombe to 9 stores across the south of the UK and London.

Professional Networking Event Wednesday 11th September 2024

RICHARD PARKER - PHARMACEUTICALS SENIOR DIRECTOR, CLINICAL OPERATIONS HEAD, UK & IRELAND, GSK

FIELD HOUSE, 1990-1995

An experienced clinical development leader with more than twenty years’ international pharmaceutical industry experience gained through leading and line managing teams in both vaccines and pharma, within global and local environments. Following degrees in biology and computational biology, significant experience gained in multiple aspects of conducing pre-registration human clinical trials in large and small companies. The work involves diverse collaboration with regulators, ethics committees, patient organisations, healthcare providers (e.g. NHS), governments, industry bodies, finance & legal teams, amongst others.

Welcome to our inaugural OSE Professional Networking Event. This is an opportunity to meet and connect with OSE from a range of industries. There are no formal speeches, apart from a welcome by Jamie McEwen who will talk briefly about latest recruitment trends. On these pages we have listed our Industry Experts from some of the main sectors, however we are fortunate to have many interesting OSE here, so chat to as many OSE as you can – you never know where conversations may lead!

WELCOME Jamie McEwen (Tilly’s, 2001 and Current Parent) – Recruitment Managing Director at Manpower

ENTREPENEUR AND RETAIL Peter Higgins (Parent)

MARKETING, PR & MEDIA Chris Macdonald (Cowell’s, 1985) Global CEO of McCann

Serial Entrepreneur - Director of Charles Tyrwhitt Shirts, former Chair of ME&EM and Cath Kidston. Currently Chair of Renais (Gin) and Director of Mary's Meals (charity) ENGINEERING William Butler-Adams OBE CEng (Parent) Chief Executive Officer, Brompton Bicycle Ltd

MEDIA, CREATIVE AND ENTERTAINMENT Ben Hampshire (Parent) Founder & Exec Producer Carnage Films Miranda Moody (Parent) BBC Producer and Programme editor, currently working on the 5050 Equality Project PHARMACEUTICALS Richard Parker (Field House, 1995) Senior Director, UK Clinical Operations Head GMASE at GSK

FASHION AND ENTREPENEUR Andrew Jordan (Apsley, 2007) Creative Director of Jam Industries

FINANCE Michael McGhee (Tilly’s, 1974) Founding Partner & Deputy Chairman of Global Infrastructure Partners

PROPERTY Iain Maxwell (Corfe, 1994) Director at Savill’s

HEALTH AND MEDICINE Pete Brown (Cowell’s, 2001) GP - BSc (Hons) MBBS MRCGP

TECHNOLOGY Laura Matthews (Corfe, 2013) Global Marketing Director, UiPath. On the board of Tech London Advocates Women in Tech Group

LAW Jon Holl-Allen (Sing’s, 1984) KC

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