REBA Wellbeing Congress 2023

Bruce Daisley

Best-selling author, host of leading business podcast Eat Sleep Work Repeat and influential workplace expert

Bruce Daisley is a best selling author and technology leader from the UK.  He has become regarded as one the most respected thought leaders on the subject of workplace culture and the future of work. His prior business career saw him spend 12 years running Twitter in Europe and previously YouTube in the UK. He left Twitter as its most senior leader outside of the US.

He's a disruptor who is driven to make work better and use evidence to find ways of improving workplace culture, and on this theme hosts is own podcast Eat Sleep Work Repeat. 

In 2022 his second book, Fortitude, became a smash top 5 bestseller in the Sunday Times charts. It follows the remarkable success of his debut title, The Joy of Work, which was a Sunday Times number one business bestseller in spring 2019. The Financial Times made it Book of the Month and it was shortlisted for CMI Management Book of the Year. His Audible Original, No Office Required was a top 10 audiobook on its release in January 2021.

He has been rated as the top leader in the UK tech sector by Campaign Magazine. In a prestigious survey of CEOs and MDs, in 2020 Bruce was again named the “Fantasy Hire” that most leaders would like to make – his fourth time of winning the accolade (other names placed included Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk and Martin Sorrell). He regularly ranks as the top-rated speaker at conferences in the US and the UK.

: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brucedaisley/

Davina McCall MBE

Television presenter

Davina is firmly established as one of the nation's most loved TV broadcasters, with hit series that include Long Lost Family, The Masked Singer, The Masked Dancer and the ground breaking documentaries Sex, Myths and the Menopause and Sex, Mind and the Menopause.

Davina has become a passionate advocate for raising awareness about the menopause and as well as fronting two critically acclaimed C4 documentaries and speaking at corporate events, she has also released her book Menopausing.

Davina has also built a successful fitness empire, encompassing no less than 15 fitness DVD releases with sales of over 1.4 million and an online site Own Your Goals Davina. 

In 2007 Davina was signed up by Garnier, where she remains one of their key brand ambassadors, and she is also an ambassador for retailer JDWilliams.

Debi O'Donovan

Co-founder & Director, REBA

Debi co-founded REBA in 2015 and is Director of REBA. Debi enjoys sharing insights, data and information about employee benefits and pay via articles, research, guides and videos. She believes it helps so many employees receive better reward packages than they would if REBA didn’t distribute this knowledge. REBA has a great community with a wide variety of people working in reward and benefits coming together through REBA events, both large and small.

Janet Cooper OBE

Experienced Reward Professional & Chair of three Remuneration Committees, Session moderator

Janet Cooper OBE is an experienced reward professional, chairing 3 Remuneration Committees,  she is a Non-Executive Director of Nurture Landscapes Group, Chair of ProShare.

Janet was one of the first women partners at global law firm Linklaters where she led the executive incentive and employee share plans team for over 20 years and has advised many global companies on their remuneration strategies. She is currently ranked in the legal directory Chambers as the top lawyer in the UK for Employee Share Plans and Executive Incentives.

Janet  has worked across both the private and public sector, recently completing a 9 year term on the RNLI Trustee Board where she was the first woman to be Chair and is Vice Chair of the University of Roehampton.

Caroline Adam

Head of Benefits & Wellbeing, PRIMARK

Helen Adams

Group Head of Reward & Policy, Barratt Developments plc

Christina Alliak

Head of Benefits, Recognition and Wellbeing, Celonis

Pippa Andrews

Director of Corporate Business

Gareth Ashley-Jones

Head of International Benefits, Wells Fargo

Jake Attfield

Head of Strategy, Fair4All Finance, Session moderator

Jake is the Head of Strategy at Fair4All Finance where he leads on new initiatives and research to improve the financial services system for people in vulnerable circumstances.  Jake joined Fair4All Finance in September 2021 from the Money & Pension Service (MaPS) where he led the development of the delivery plans of the UK Strategy for Financial Wellbeing with a specific focus on creating a Nation of Savers and the role employers and partnerships should have in improving the financial lives of people across the UK.  Prior to MaPS, Jake was HR Director at T-Systems in the UK where he developed a holistic wellbeing and inclusion programme, implemented a responsible investment strategy for the company pension scheme and worked with partners and industry bodies to improve pension and benefit provision.  Jake has a BA in History of Art & the History of Scientific Thought from Leeds University and holds a master’s degree in Sustainability Leadership from the University of Cambridge.

Saumya Barber

Head of Proposition Development, Unum

Saumya Barber joined Unum in 2013 and has worked in various roles across Unum’s Claims, Rehabilitation and Proposition teams. As Head of Proposition Development at Unum she is responsible for driving innovative, customer centric solutions with a key focus on health and wellbeing services that deliver impactful outcomes.

Prior to joining Unum Saumya has worked across many industries in Risk Consulting and Advisory positions at KPMG and Employer Mutual in Australia. She has experience in risk management, audit, workers compensation, illness/injury prevention, employee relations and wellbeing.

Saumya is originally from Sydney Australia and attended The University of Sydney where she completed Bachelors in Applied Science (Occupational Therapy) and has completed a Masters in Science (Work, Health and Safety).  

Liz Basten

Board Adviser and CMO, Wagestream

Liz has held c-suite and board advisory roles for over half her career, spanning almost three decades in marketing, consultancy and financial services. With vast experience of compiling c-suite and investor business cases, Liz has applied this knowledge in the financial wellbeing sector to encourage CEOs to provide inclusive financial wellbeing support for everyone, regardless of financial ‘status’.  Liz first spoke at REBA in 2018, as MD for MyEva, the first regulated digital financial adviser and returns to REBA as CMO of Wagestream, the financial wellbeing solution for millions of frontline workers, built around flexible pay. Liz has worked with HR leaders, charities and UK Government bodies to make financial resilience a key part of the ‘wellbeing business case’ for employers and to help them link the benefits of improved financial wellbeing to compelling commercial outcomes, including levelling up the ESG score for all companies - from SMEs to large international corporates. 

Karen Birss

Global Reward Director, ERM Group

Claire Blain

Director of Corporate Retention and Engagement, Vitality

Claire Blain, Director of Corporate Retention & Engagement, Vitality Health Claire is the Director of Corporate Retention & Engagement at Vitality Health and has had an extensive career in corporate health and wellbeing having been part of Vitality’s corporate sales team since the launch of PruHealth in 2004. Claire’s main aim is to work in partnership with corporate clients to help them influence and change employee behaviour resulting in improvements in the health, wellbeing and productivity of the workforce.

Harry Bliss

CEO & Co-Founder, Champion Health

Harry is an award-winning tech-entrepreneur in workplace wellbeing.

Having founded Champion Health at 23, he has taken it to over 120 countries, supporting more than 2 million lives within 6 years.

Since losing his friend and mentor to suicide months into Champion Health’s journey, Harry has been driven by a mission to prevent more tragedies like this, which has translated into life-changing work.

This work has seen him partner with the likes of NHS, Currys, Vodafone and E.ON to support and transform the lives of their people and has recently been a finalist for Forbes 30 under 30.

: https://www.linkedin.com/in/harry-bliss-44b479136/

Dani Brackpool

Senior Reward Manager - Benefits, Wickes

Since starting her HR career 27 years ago Dani has worked in a variety of roles including Training, Recruitment, Shared Services, Reward and Pensions before ending up specialising in Benefits & Wellbeing.

Currently Dani is the Senior Reward Manager - Benefits at Wickes. She has been both an Advisory Board member and Employee Wellbeing Awards judge for REBA.

As the previous Benefits Team Leader at Sainsbury’s Group, she was responsible for driving the benefits strategy across the Sainsbury’s brands including Argos, Habitat, Nectar, Tu and Sainsbury’s Bank.  She’s constantly looking for new and innovative ways to bring to life the company’s benefits offering, working closely with the Wellbeing Team to ensure clear communication and delivery under their wellbeing pillars.

As the former Benefits Manager for Virgin Atlantic and Virgin Holidays responsible for core and voluntary benefits, Dani successfully managed the launch and implementation of multiple new benefits and services such as digital GP, personalised financial education, ULEV car scheme and brand new flexible benefits platform, achieving the Workplace Wellbeing Charter and winning REBA’s Employee Wellbeing Award for Benefits Strategy 2018 as well as nominations for WSB and Employee Benefits awards.

Sarah Bradley

Head of Reward & HR Operations, Severn Trent

Jackie Buttery

Head of Benefits and Reward, Travers Smith

Jackie Buttery is the Head of Benefits and Reward at Travers Smith.

Dr Richard Caddis

Director of Health, Safety & Wellbeing & Chief Medical Officer, BT

Mike Catton

UK MD, Melios

Mike, managing director of Healios, parent company of Melios, has worked in healthcare for the past 20+ years, bringing innovative solutions to market across physical health, mental health and neurodiverse conditions. He is passionate about continuous improvement and transforming healthcare models, enabling access to high-quality care for people in need of support.

Sheila Champion-Smeeth

Total Rewards Leader - Europe, Middle East, Africa, Russia, Cisco

Sheila is responsible for developing a Global Wellbeing Strategy that drives a Conscious Culture of holistic wellbeing for leaders, teams and individuals at Cisco.  Sheila joined Cisco in 2000 and for the past 15 years has held various roles in People & Communities (formally known as HR).

During her time in People & Communities, she has been responsible for leading the EMEAR Total Rewards Team with oversight of compensation and benefit offerings across 65 EMEAR countries ensuring they are compliant, market relevant and aligned with the global reward philosophy and strategy that supports Cisco’s purpose to Power an Inclusive Future for All.  She also has led implementation of Total Rewards technology platforms and delivered on Mergers & Acquisitions.

Proud winner of Excellence in Wellbeing for the Great Place to Work survey as well as receiving the REBA Inaugural Wellbeing Award and the Employee Benefits award for Innovative Reward Technology, Sheila is passionate about embedding a holistic and inclusive wellbeing strategy.  Sheila has been the thought-leader in a unique collaboration opportunity with internationally renowned wellbeing expert, Jessie Pavelka, with the exciting #CiscoPavelka Wellbeing initiative helping employees and families embrace healthier lifestyles and equip them with tools to sustain this lifestyle at work and at home using Cisco’s amazing technology.

In her spare time, Sheila loves being with her family and friends.  Her passion and love of sport, particularly field hockey, is embedded into her everyday life where she takes care of herself and those around her to role model her work on wellbeing for all.

To hear more about Sheila’s passion around wellbeing, click here.

Stella Chaplin

Director, Pensions & Benefits, Total Reward UK & Europe, Atkins Global

Stella has 35 years’ experience in UK pensions and slightly shorter in benefits, employee wellbeing, payroll and share plans and is a Chartered Governance associate.  During her career she has worked for the BOC Group (now Linde), Centrica, DP World, TT electronics and now with SNC-Lavalin in a variety of pensions, benefits and project roles.  

As Chair of the UK&E Health and Wellbeing Committee at Atkins, the team have been delighted to see the recognition of various wellbeing initiatives that support the workforce. Stella is an active supporter in her spare time of Christians against Poverty and has a keen interest in financial wellbeing. 

Robin Clark

Medical Director, Bupa

Robin is Medical Director of Bupa Global and UK Insurance.

Robin qualified in 2004 from Imperial College and brings over 15 years of clinical and management experience from across the NHS and private sector. He started his career as a GP, gaining additional insight through a Clinical Director role at a US healthcare company and later as a Director of an NHS Locality Group.

After joining Bupa in 2015, Robin has gained broad experience across the business, shaping our strategy, service development and health insurance offerings to ensure our members continue to receive safe, highly regarded services and care.

Robin enjoys the great outdoors as a way of maintaining physical and mental wellbeing, taking the same advice he has given to countless patients, and has aspirations of one day getting around a marathon course.

Lee Cortez

Head of International Benefits, Block

Jack Cousins

Commercial Account Manager, Peppy

Chris Coyne

Head of Performance & Reward, AWE

Matt Cullen

Head of Reward and HRIS, Gowling WLG

Jamie Davidson

VP, Reward, Chart Industries

Jamie is now the VP, Reward at Chart Industries.

He used to be the Global Director of Reward and HR Policy at Howden. Howden is a global engineering business headquartered in the UK, and specialising in air and gas handling solutions. The business has over 6,500 employees across 35 countries.

Jamie has led reward functions in both publicly owned and private equity backed companies and a large part of his recent experience has been managing through significant periods of change and M&A activity. Jamie was previously Group Head of Reward at ASOS and prior to that the Global Head of Reward at Costa Coffee.

Jamie spent almost ten years in HR consultancy Hay Group, which became part of Korn Ferry. During his time in consultancy, he supported a number of large clients with reward work designed to promote fairness and equality, as well as supporting the delivery of the business strategy. 

Sally Dawson

Director, Total Rewards, EMEA, Expedia Group

Emma Douglas

Managing Director - Workplace, Aviva

Emma Douglas joined Aviva in 2021 as Managing Director of Workplace Savings business, with the accountability to deliver the best possible outcome for over 4 million customers/members and their £95bn of assets as they save for and access savings in later life. Emma is also the Chair of the Pensions & Lifetime Savings Association; having previously chaired the PLSA’s Policy Board since 2018. 

Before joining Aviva, Emma was Head of DC at Legal & General Investment Management, where she was primarily responsible for developing LGIM's DC business and Investment Strategy.  She joined LGIM in 2014 from Mercer where she held the position of Partner and Head of Mercer Workplace Savings. Previous roles in Emma’s career include the Head of DC Sales at BlackRock and Head of DC Pensions at Threadneedle Investments. 

All told, Emma has more than 20 years of experience in the investment management industry. She graduated from Trinity College, Oxford, and holds an MBA from Manchester Business School via a Women in Management Scholarship from the Guardian.

Sarah Draper

Head of People and Culture, Rider Levett Bucknall

Zoe Eccleston

Health & Wellbeing Consultant, The Wellbeing Business

Michelle Elsworth

Group Head of Reward, SIG plc

Melissa Emmanuel

Global Director of People Operations and Reward, Tom Ford International

Jessica Feeney

Member Services & Proposition Development Director, REBA

Rachel Fellowes

Chief Wellbeing Officer, Aon

Rachel recently joined Aon as Chief Wellbeing Officer, a new role that further advances Aon’s internal wellbeing strategy, as well as accelerating Aon’s client solutions around resilience and human sustainability.

Previously Rachel was founder of Yoke, a wellbeing consultancy that helped businesses create sustainable cultures in a data driven and strategic way. This includes through the Human Sustainability Index, an approach which AON has acquired.

Rachel also has a Masters in Wellbeing and a background in management consultancy.

Peter Frampton

Global Head of Talent, Performance and Reward, Teneo

Peter Frampton is the Head of Talent, Performance and Reward, and Global HRBPs with Teneo, based in London.

Prior to Teneo, Peter spent over 20 years in banking in international roles across Operations and Human Resources. For the last nine years, he has built his expertise in Performance Management and Reward, launching innovative and effective approaches to pay-for-performance at both the individual and business level. Central to this is using data to drive decision making, including insights derived from continuous employee listening and feedback.

Earlier in his career, Peter helped build a market-leading People Analytics function, which included the early adoption in HR of Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing capabilities.

Peter is passionate about making a difference – helping people, businesses and charities to achieve their goals and full potential. He is currently the Chair of Allergy UK and is a trustee at a fast-growing Multi-Academy Trust.

Samantha Francis

EMEA and APAC benefits lead, Haleon

Sam Fromson

COO & Co-Founder, YuLife

Sam is co-founder and COO of Yulife, the life insurance company that inspires life. Sam is a qualified rabbi, father of four and former hedge fund equity analyst. Before beginning to build YuLife, Sam was an investor at a family office and subsequently built the business development and operations functions at Invoice Cycle, an UK SME lender. Sam holds a degree in Natural Science from the University of Cambridge, is an amateur triathlete, and occasionally runs HIIT sessions for the team in Regents Park.

Rich Graham

Business Development Manager, Vitality at Work

Matthew Gregson

Executive Director, Howden Employee Benefits

Today, Matthew oversees all aspects of Howden’s proposition for Corporate clients. He has over 20 years’ experience in employee benefits, including a large portion of his career helping shape the flexible benefits market in the UK. Matthew has personally helped many large and complex employers introduce transformational change to their pension and benefits programmes, working with providers and partners in industry to innovate and maximise the value they bring to clients.

Melanie Hall

Senior Manager Rewards & EMEA Comp Partner, Wiley

Melanie Hall is the Senior Manager Rewards & EMEA Comp Partner at Wiley. Prior to starting her HR career in L&D, covering both technical training and management development, Melanie got a diploma in photography and design after being asked by her mum, “Why don’t you study radiography? It’s still taking pictures.”

Melanie has specialised in reward at a senior level for many years covering both UK and international reward mainly in the private sector and predominantly retail. She currently leads all reward and global mobility activity across the UK, Republic of Ireland, France and Italy for Gap and has seen this role evolve in recent years to encompass being the custodian of well-being for its Europe market.

Her two rescue cats help maintain her personal sense of wellbeing (read: busy as their chef, door-person, housekeeper, nurse) and she’s embracing ‘the good life’, growing her own veg. She thrives on a fitness regime consisting of a daily morning and afternoon 30-40 minute workout on her cross-trainer, leaving her no excuses not to work out in bad weather.

Justin Harper

Head of Propositions, MetLife UK

Justin recently joined MetLife as Head of Propositions UK. He brings with him a wealth of experience across sales, industry relations, marketing and product development gathered over 35 years in financial services.

With a passion for protection and simplicity, Justin won multiple awards in previous roles at LV=, launching new contemporary protection products, services and campaigns. He continues to participate in industry groups and media activity to raise the profile and value of protection among advisers, employers and consumers.

Karen Hartmann

Vice President – Head of Compensation and Benefits EMEA, Moody's

Having started her career in Pensions consultancy, Karen has since gained extensive experience across the HR spectrum including Reward, Payroll, Shared Services, Recruitment and M&A. She joined Moody’s as Head of Compensation & Benefits, EMEA in 2021 from her previous Director, Total Rewards role at Mastercard and is a REBA Advisory Board member.

At Moody’s Karen is responsible for defining and delivering Total Rewards strategy for the EMEA region, ensuring alignment with the global Moody’s Total Rewards philosophy. In addition she is currently focused on a number of global projects including the roll-out of a new global gender-neutral parental leave and the implementation of a new global benefits platform.

Marc Hommel

Leadership and Transformation advisor, Session moderator

Marc Hommel is an adviser to employers and leaders on people strategies, leadership and transformation, and employee engagement.  Over his career of almost 40 years, he has worked with government, policymakers, regulators, employers and investors over a wide range of transformational, disruptive and ground-breaking challenges and opportunities.  As well as being a strategic management adviser, Marc has been CEO of a FTSE100 asset management and insurance subsidiary and has led numerous businesses and teams within professional services, financial services and technology.   

He has become passionate about helping employers better engage neuro-diversity in the workplace to improve outcomes for both their businesses and all the people who work in them.  He works closely with charities looking to improve the world-of-work for neuro-divergents, taking into account not only his experience as an adviser but also his challenges and experiences faced personally as a neuro-divergent, parent of neuro-divergent daughters and leader of teams with high proportion of neuro-divergent people.

Elle Hopkins

VP, Global Total Rewards, Medallia Inc.

Andreas Hunter

Head of Wellbeing, Gallagher

: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andreas-hunter-aa48755

Philip Hutchinson

Senior Manager Total Rewards, Deloitte LLP

Christine Jackson

Group Reward Director, Kantar

Lisa Jacques

Lead Cancer Nurse Specialist, Perci Health

Lisa Jaques is an experienced cancer nurse who has worked for more than two decades supporting people affected by cancer. Prior to joining Perci she was the Macmillan Lead Acute Oncology Clinical Nurse Specialist at Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust, where she built and led the service for 10 years.

As well as her extensive professional experience in cancer nursing, Lisa was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2018, giving her a unique insight into the cancer survivor experience. In a world where growing numbers of people are affected by cancer, Lisa is passionate about the need to talk about its impact, and sees improving communication and support around cancer in the workplace as vital for employers.

Graham James

Chief Revenue Officer, Sodexo Engage

Graham is a strategic leader whose skillset spans commercial planning, performance management, and culture change in both large and small organisations. He has spent the last 25 years learning how to get the best from employees – guiding multiple organisations in recognition, rewards, benefits, wellbeing, and digital transformation.

Outside of work, Graham supports charities in organisational leadership via Pilotlight – an award-winning social value programme – and has previously worked with the Samaritans to raise awareness about issues concerning men’s mental health.

Jackie Jankiewicz

Director of Reward & Policy, Greene King

Selina Jones-May

Senior Director – Global Benefits, Global Mobility & Wellness, Lumentum Operations LLC

Caroline Jordan

Regional Benefits Leader EMEA, Marsh McLennan

Arti Kashyap-Aynsley

Global Head of Wellbeing & Inclusion, Ocado Group

George Kingaby

EMEA Head of Pensions & Benefits, SMBC

Nikki Kirbell

Health & Wellbeing Manager UK&I, Unilever

Nikolaos Koutrakis

VP of Reward, Colt Technology Services

Nikolaos Koutrakis is the VP of Reward at Colt Technology Services Group Limited.

Sally Lawrence

VP Total Reward, Virgin

Aidan Lever

Research and Insight Director, REBA

Dawn Lewis

Content Editor, REBA

Jennifer Liston-Smith

Head of Thought Leadership, Bright Horizons Work + Family Solutions

As head of thought leadership, Jennifer is a pioneer of parent transition coaching and a leading influencer in the field. For over 20 years, Jennifer has been relentless in pursuit of innovation, identifying, defining and sharing best practice and ‘next practice’ for leading global employers in flexible working, family-friendly and wellbeing programmes, closing the gender pay gap and promoting gender-inclusive parenting. She is a sought-after speaker, writer, conference moderator and consultant on these topics and more. 

Jennifer set-up, and for a decade led, the Coaching & Consultancy side of what became Bright Horizons Work+Family Solutions advising employers in banking, professional services, STEM and wider sectors on programmes for working parents and carers and evaluating their impact and ROI, as well as developing coaches and coaching capability. 
She now focuses on identifying overarching trends through research and through advising employers and translating these insights into solutions and practical actions.  

Sarah Long

Head of New Business, WEALTH at work

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Katie Lynch

CEO and Founder, ApiaryLife

Katie is the Founder and CEO of ApiaryLife. ApiaryLife is reimagining work-life support by providing tech enabled, personalised, and expert led help to employees navigating major life events and transitions. Prior to launching Apiary, Katie practiced as a family lawyer in London at one of the United Kingdom's leading law firms where she witnessed first-hand the devastating impact life events have on working professionals and their ability to continue to perform at work. Katie is on a mission to revolutionise the support systems in place in our personal lives, so that we may continue to thrive in our professional ones as we navigate life and all of its changes and transitions. Katie graduated from Trinity College Dublin before completing her Diploma in Law in London. She lives in New York with her husband and two young children.

: https://www.linkedin.com/in/katie-lynch-23979b23/

Nick McClelland

Chief Growth Officer, Champion Health

Nick is one of the leading voices in the workplace health space with over 15 years’ experience in reward and benefits. Before joining Champion, Nick was Chief Growth Officer at Mercer UK, part of Marsh McLennan, one of the world’s largest brokers. Nick is passionate about employee wellbeing and the positive change technology can have in the workplace.

Sarah McDonough

Employee Experience Leader, UK & Ireland, WTW

With over 25 years experience in communications in both in-house and consulting roles,

Sarah has delivered significant transformation programmes on behalf of large indigenous and international businesses across multiple sectors. Sarah brings a deep level of understanding of needs of stakeholder groups through change and the most suitable communications interventions to deliver impact and success.​

Clients have included global leaders in Technology, Financial services, Media & Retail.​

Helen McGowan

Group Benefits Manager, Travis Perkins

Lucie McGrath

Head of Wellbeing and Client Strategy, WTW

Lucie has worked in the health and wellbeing industry for over 20 years, drawing on this experience to help organisations create bespoke solutions to meet the ever changing needs of their employees. Lucie is responsible for developing and executing WTW’s market leading health data insights and predictive health analytics reporting proposition. She likes to challenge traditional thinking about health and wellbeing benefit delivery and reviews health tech trends to understand what is ‘transformational’ rather than ‘trendy’ in the digital health and wellbeing marketplace.

Before joining WTW, Lucie was Head of Client Management for Cigna Healthcare in the UK and previously worked for a number of large employee benefits consulting firms. Lucie’s broad mix of consultancy and provider experience, across health benefits, wellbeing and occupational health services gives her a wealth of knowledge to draw from when supporting her clients, colleagues and business partners.

: https://www.linkedin.com/in/luciemcgrath/

Jill Mcveigh

Head of Reward & Compliance, Northumbrian Water

Hannah Meredith

Health and Wellbeing Partner, MVF

Hannah Meredith is an award winning Health, Mental Health & Wellbeing Lead with over ten years experience in the industry. With a background in facilitating wellness retreats, Hannah draws on her own lived experience of mental ill health to bring a unique perspective and passion to the whole spectrum of wellbeing.

Hannah was appointed as the first Health, Mental Health & Wellbeing Lead in 2017 for global tech marketing company -MVF.  As the sole creator of multi award winning Health, Mental Health & Wellbeing strategy - ‘Be Well’; Hannah has been responsible for designing, leading and delivering the strategy globally.

Hannah’s ‘Be Well’ strategy features an array of benefits, policies and activities which help to  support the mental, physical, social and financial wellbeing of all of MVF’s employees with a big focus on where inclusion & wellbeing meet such as neurodiversity; menopause support; fertility support and the health and wellbeing of working parents.

Her strategy design has led MVF to be positioned well above the curve in terms of Health, Mental Health & Wellbeing and contributed to MVF being a trusted employer of choice.

Sarah Minter

Compensation Director, Mitie

Paige Murphy

Senior Manager, Client Solutions, Headspace Health

: https://www.linkedin.com/in/paige-morris-n%C3%A9e-

Gethin Nadin BSc MBPsS RSPH RSA

Multi-Award-Winning Psychologist, two-times bestselling HR Author and Chief Innovation Officer, Benifex and Zellis

Gethin is an award-winning psychologist, bestselling HR author, and one of the world’s most influential HR thinkers. Gethin was awarded seven trophies in 2024 for his work in influencing the global HR industry, most recently awarded two prestigious Stevie’s awards in New York for HR Thought Leader of the Year and HR Professional of the Year. He was also awarded PwC’s ‘Outstanding Contribution to the Industry’ at the 2024 The Rewards in London. Gethin is also a Fellow at the historic King’s College London, King’s Business School - a business school in the top 1% globally.

: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gethinnadin/

Priya Narwani

Benefits, Mobility and HR Operations Lead EMEA, Bain Capital

Aishah Newing

Reward BP and Global Benefits and Recognition Lead, BSI Group

Andrew Nicholson

Senior Manager, Consumer and Small Business EMEA, McAfee

Oluyomi Okunowo

VP Global Reward & HRIS, Wella Company

Oluyomi is currently VP Global Reward & HRIS at Wella Company, with responsibility for Total Reward (Compensation, Benefits and Mobility), HRIS, Payroll and HR Data Management across all Wella businesses in more than 30 countries. Prior to his current role he was VP, Global Compensation at COTY. 

Oluyomi has over a decade of experience leading Compensation and Benefits programs across multiple industries and geographies, including the Pharma industry with AstraZeneca as Regional Reward Lead responsible for Russia, Eurasia, Middle East and Africa (including Turkey) and in Banking as Compensation and Benefits Head for Citibank Africa. He has a keen interest in leveraging the link between Performance and Reward to drive business outcomes and is currently keen to see the evolution of Reward Management as Talent and Workforce Management evolve in the Digital age, more importantly in the post COVID world.  
 

Catherine Palmer

Pensions and Benefits Director, Rothschild & Co

Manesh Patel

Senior EMEA Financial Wellbeing Program Manager, Adobe

Tim Perkins

Co-Founder & CEO, nudge Global

With over 18 years’ experience in HR and reward, Tim has been at the forefront of innovation in the industry. Prior to nudge, Tim was part of the team at Thomsons Online Benefits (now Darwin), the global benefits platform that brought employee benefits online. In his time at Thomsons, Time worked with HR and reward leaders from the world’s leading companies to share marketing-leading employee benefit strategies.

In the space of just three months in 2012, the UK saw not one, but two once-in-a-generation legislative changes hit the world of personal finance. The first Auto enrolment changed the pay and savings of over 10m people, and the second removed access to financial advice for 20m at exactly the same time they most needed it. Tim, alongside nudge co-founder Jeremy Beament, recognizes that people have an unprecedented level of responsibility for their money, but are lacking confidence and knowledge.

People are crying out of help and that’s where the idea of nudge was born – a market-leading, global financial wellbeing platform filling the void in financial education. nudge has grown rapidly, supporting almost half a million people to improve their financial wellbeing and create brighter financial futures for themselves and those they love.

Tim Perkins | LinkedIn

Dr Mridula Pore

Co-Founder, Peppy

Mridula is Co-founder of Peppy (www.peppy.health). She is passionate about making healthcare more affordable and accessible. Despite spending her career in healthcare, Mridula is an engineer by training, studying first at Cambridge, before spending several years at MIT on a PhD/ MBA programme. She was previously an engagement manager at McKinsey and a business unit head at Sandoz (a Novartis company) where she delighted in disturbing the established markets of originator pharma companies. She lives in West London with her husband and two young children

Luke Prankard

Global Leader Total Wellbeing, Head of Alliances EMEA, TELUS Health

TELUS Health is a global healthcare leader serving people in more than 160 countries. We deliver digital innovation and clinical services to improve total physical, mental, and financial health and wellness. We help employers better support the health and wellbeing of their workforce. We partner with insurers to optimise the benefits experience. We connect healthcare professionals, and people to the care they need when they need it.

Luke is responsible for some of the largest partners who embed the TELUS Health (Formerly LifeWorks) proposition into the value proposition for their customers and policyholders both in the UK and across EMEA. Luke likes to share with the market TELUS Health thought leadership, research, and insights on how to achieve employee well-being. He has a passion for bringing the “S” in ESG to life for organisations and evidencing how improving and measuring the wellbeing of organisations, leads to great business results and value to investors.

Burcin Ressamoglu

CEO, Sodexo Engage

A Turkish citizen, born in Vienna, Burcin Ressamoglu is an experienced Executive Leader with a passion for gender equality and support of Women leadership in organisations.   

Burcin started her career in marketing with STFA Ogden Services, moving to Siemens, and then joining Philips Electronics for 14 years where she undertook several senior management positions across various countries of Europe and in China . 

In 2012, Burcin took the CEO role in Sodexo Benefits and Rewards Turkey and in 2018 moved into the CEO role of Sodexo Benefits and Rewards UK. In both roles, Burcin has fostered and led highly engaged teams to deliver new operating models, new product portfolios and digital transformation, all resulting in sustainable profitable growth for Sodexo Benefits and Rewards. 

Burcin is an ambitious leader with strong values and a passion for gender equality. Part of the Sodexo Women Advisory Board Sotogether since 2017, Burcin sponsors inclusion and gender balance initiatives in the company while partnering with local NGO’S to progress in women’s representation. In addition, Burcin continues to mentor many young professional women across the world. 

Giles Rhodes

Reward Leader - Europe, Equifax

Spencer Roach

Reward Director EMEA & APAC, GoDaddy

Spencer is Currently Director of Compensation & Benefits For EMEA & APAC regions at GoDaddy, the worlds largest services platform with 20 million+ entrepreneurs around the world. Spencers responsibilities at GoDaddy include all aspects of Rewards for employees in 20 countries. During his 25 year career Spencer has worked in consultancy and many international reward roles at well known organisations in the tech sector including Gartner & Cisco. 

Having joined GoDaddy in the summer of 21, Spencer has never physically met any or his team, colleagues or customers so is interested in how organisations will adapt to “the new normal”. More importantly he is passionate about how these cultural and organisational shifts will translate into future reward and wellbeing strategies.

Nikki Roche

Senior Benefits Consultant, EMEA, Amazon

Nicola has worked in the field of HR for more than 20 years since graduating university. Initially working in generalist HR roles, she chose to specialise in Compensation and Benefits 15 years ago and most recently has focussed solely on Benefits in the Global Benefits Team at Siemens, and now in the EMEA Benefits Team at Amazon. In her personal time, Nicola is a passionate campaigner for neurodiversity, and was able to combine both her personal passion and career choice in 2018 to launch and lead the UK Neurodiversity Network at Siemens.

Wendy Rose

Director, Dialogue (formerly Tictrac)

Meet Wendy, a seasoned professional with over 20 years of experience in the field of employee benefits, wellbeing, and mental health. As a leading voice in the workplace health space, Wendy brings a wealth of knowledge and expertise to the table.

Before joining Dialogue Wendy served as the Head of New Business and Strategic Relationships at Bupa, one of the UK's top healthcare companies. During her time there, Wendy played a pivotal role in spearheading the launch of Covid-19 support services for workplaces. She also worked tirelessly to develop innovative solutions to assist HR teams in navigating the challenges presented by the rise of hybrid working.

Prior to her tenure at Bupa, Wendy co-founded an occupational health and employee wellbeing business. Her entrepreneurial spirit and dedication led to the successful sale of the company to BHSF, another wellbeing business, in 2016.

Wendy’s extensive experience has solidified her passion for employee wellbeing, as she has witnessed first hand the profound commercial impact that utilizing the right solutions in the right way can have.

With her deep understanding of employee benefits, wellbeing, and mental health, Wendy loves her work supporting all sorts of organizations to create a supportive and thriving workplace environment.

Samantha Sergent

Director, International Benefits, Microsoft

Samantha Sergent is the Director of International Benefits at Microsoft, where she plays a pivotal role in shaping benefit programs & experience for employees and their families in over one hundred countries.

With a 13-year tenure at Microsoft, Samantha has traversed a multifaceted career path, spanning a diverse set of roles in both HR Shared Services and Total Rewards. Her career has been characterized by a commitment to transformation and operational excellence. Samantha's passion for innovation and her focus on driving efficiency have consistently propelled her to new heights within the organization.

Samantha’s career took a turn six years ago when she shifted her focus to employee benefits. Since that pivotal move, every day has been a new challenge, an opportunity for fresh insights, and an adventure that spans across regions, countries, and markets.

In 2020, Samantha embarked on another exciting chapter in her life when she relocated to the UK, a bold decision made during the tumultuous year. Together with her husband and their two children, Samantha continues to embrace change, learning, and growth.

Samantha is a believer in the power of networking and knowledge-sharing within the professional community. She is grateful for the continued learning and engagement that organizations like REBA provide to benefit professionals. Today, she eagerly anticipates the opportunity to connect with fellow professionals, share her insights, and learn from the diverse perspectives that make this community so vibrant and dynamic.

Lynette Silva Heelan

International Consulting Practice Leader, Workhuman

Lynette Silva Heelan is the EMEA consulting practice leader for Workhuman, partnering with clients to create more human workplaces by helping millions of employees feel noticed, valued and appreciated. She is happiest at work when connecting with others through the simple act of gratitude, celebrating people for what they do and who they are. In addition to being a seasoned strategist, Lynette is also an experienced human resources, recognition, and performance researcher and analyst. She draws on industry trends and data-backed best practices, in combination with her deep client experience, to help customers consider the many aspects of what it means to make work more human, validate their human applications strategy, and achieve early program success. Lynette has been with Workhuman for more than 15 years where she has led teams and projects from both the US and Irish headquarters. She holds a B.S. and M.S. from Boston University.

Eleanor Smith

Head of Reward, Savills

Isha Smith

Global Head of Total Rewards, SoundCloud

Josephina Smith

Reward Director, British Airways

Carly Stanley

People Director, JCDecaux

Sarah Steel

Head of Financial Wellbeing, Better With Money

Sarah is the Head of Financial Wellbeing for Better with Money, part of the Cushon Group. She is an experienced financial professional and Fellow of the Pension Management Institute. Sarah has been helping people to understand financial products and be confident about their finances for over 25 years. Having previously worked for many years as a benefit consultant, she understands the value of good quality education when helping people make informed decisions about their financial future. She is a regular contributor to the RadioPlus Health and Wellbeing Show and is also featured in trade press for her knowledge and views on financial wellbeing. Her mission is to help people to manage their money effectively to reduce money stress.

Stacey Sutton

Executive Director EMEA Benefits, Morgan Stanley

Stacey manages the employee health and benefits programme for Morgan Stanley in EMEA, as well as overseeing the health and wellbeing strategy.  In this role, Stacey led the creation of an EMEA Mental Health Advisory Board, consisting of senior leaders across key business units who sponsor programmes and initiatives to raise awareness of mental health and challenge the associated stigma.  Previously Stacey led a variety of projects to foster positive employee engagement and experience. 

Stacey is passionate about leading a preventative health and wellbeing strategy and is committed to fostering a positive culture and opening up the dialogue on mental health in the workplace.  Morgan Stanley is focussed on taking a holistic and inclusive approach which acknowledges the intrinsic links between social, financial, physical and emotional wellbeing.

Stacey is also extremely interested in workplace environments to support a culture of positive health and wellbeing and she has led on projects to develop employee facilities such as onsite health centres and mindfulness and meditation space.

Prior to joining Morgan Stanley a decade ago, Stacey began her HR career in 2001 at Sainsbury’s Supermarkets Ltd, gaining experience in a wide range of areas including HR Business Partnering, Learning and Development and Reward. 

Stacey is a member of the Business in the Community Wellbeing Leadership Team.

Stacey is married and a mum to two young children, she enjoys family time, as well as exercise and meditation.

Dr Chris Tomkins

Head of Wellbeing, AXA Health

Chris leads AXA Health’s Wellbeing services, he’s passionate about engaging workforces in their health and driving healthy behaviour change through innovative workplace solutions.

He’s been in health and wellbeing for over 20 years, starting with a PhD in molecular biology, equipping him with a strong appreciation of the diverse range of risks created by modern lifestyles.

AXA Health’s wellbeing portfolio include ground breaking propositions comprising smart digital technology and physiologist expertise. Chris’s aim is to help employees achieve better health outcomes and employers to improve the energy and productivity of their organisations.

Paul Tremelling

VP, UK Pension and Benefits, Goldman Sachs

Paul has 30 years’ experience in UK pensions, previously working at Mercer and Buck as an actuary giving advice to trustees and clients.  More recently, he has moved in-house as Visa Europe’s pensions manager looking after the company’s pension schemes in the UK and across mainland Europe.

His role has developed over time to include wider financial wellbeing strategy and initiatives, and he drives the analysis of employee data for better decision making on the benefits offered to Visa employees.

Andrew Walker

New Business Development Director, Personal Group

Andrew has spent the bulk of his career in professional consulting businesses across Reward, HR and Employment Law where he has specialised in creating executable strategies and projects designed to deliver value across recruitment, retention, motivation, performance and productivity.

Prior to joining Personal Group, Andrew worked for global information and compliance services provider Wolters Kluwer where he ran the successful Croner Reward business unit. Andrew’s career has also included Consulting and Commercial Director for the Reward Group, a long-time leader in the specialist field of pay and benefits information and consulting.

Over the years Andrew written about many aspects of Reward in the trade and national press and has spoken at events across the UK and internationally.

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Sam Watson

Reward Director, William Hill

Lisa Whelpdale

President of Total Rewards, Wood

An experienced reward professional, Lisa’s 30 year career has spanned the full spectrum of reward in both a consulting and in-house capacity in major multinational organisations. Operating at Director level, Lisa has successfully led teams in developing innovative performance and reward strategies that directly underpin the delivery of people and business strategies.

Most recently, Lisa was Group Reward Director at Currys where she had responsibility for overseeing all aspects of employee rewards, pensions, benefits and wellbeing for UK&I. Lisa held a similar role at Imperial Brands where she joined from PwC where she was a Director in PwC’s HR consulting practice. Lisa has also held senior leadership roles at Shell where she had various global roles in reward and global mobility and more broadly in divestment and acquisition transitions.

Lisa lives in Bath and likes nothing more than taking out her three golden retrievers and golden doodle for long walks in the countryside.