The reward and benefits business case for gender health support 2022

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.

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Dr Shaun Davis

Group Safety, Health and Wellbeing Director, Belron

One of a relatively small number of Chartered Directors, Shaun is a dynamic and solution-focussed compliance and sustainability executive with extensive experience across a broad portfolio and operating at a global level. Currently working within a FTSE100 listed business with experience in FTSE250 and private equity-backed businesses, Shaun’s expertise includes driving sustainable and ethical change within corporate health, safety, environment and sustainability, corporate security, and regulatory compliance. He has significantly improved performance, reducing incidents, exposure, and loss and has embedded compliance culture across the organisations he has worked in. Key skills include developing and implementing compliance strategy, risk management frameworks, multi-disciplinary management systems, and the organisational design to deliver these. Shaun is a dedicated and resourceful professional with a demonstrable record of sound performance and risk management including operational/business assurance and audit, internal and external stakeholder management, and leading high-performance teams. He is also a proficient strategist with a proven record of adding value to organisations and enhancing performance through personal vision, hard work, and proficient task management. Commercially astute, he has strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making ability, together with excellent communication ability and a wealth of regulatory and governance knowledge and skills. A published author, thought leader, and coach/mentor, Shaun enjoys supporting those new to the profession and those looking to develop further.

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Dr Yvonne Braun

Director of Policy, Long Term Savings and Protection, ABI

A member of the ABI’s Executive Team, Yvonne directs the ABI’s work on pensions, including ESG and sustainable investment, and protection insurance, and oversees the finance department and data analysis team. She leads the ABI’s diversity and inclusion programme, and the sector’s charitable £100m Covid-19 Support Fund.

Yvonne joined the ABI from the Financial Services Authority, where she worked in policy and public affairs. She previously was a capital markets lawyer at Goldman Sachs and the US law firm Cleary Gottlieb.

Yvonne is a member of the Government’s Industry Steering Group for the Pensions Dashboard Project, and the City of London Corporation’s Taskforce to improve socio-economic diversity at senior levels in financial and professional services. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and a former trustee of Asthma UK, a graduate of Cambridge University and holds a doctorate in international criminal law.

She can be found on Twitter at @YvonneBraun4.

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Jamie Davidson

Global Director of Reward & HR Policy, Howden Group

Jamie is 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. 

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Alison Kanabe

SVP, Head of Pensions & Benefits EMEA, Bank of America

Alison Kanabe is the SVP, Head of Pensions & Benefits EMEA at Bank Of America Merrill Lynch.

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Professor Dame Lesley Regan

first-ever appointed Women's Health Ambassador for England on women's health,

Professor Dame Lesley Regan is the Womens’ Health Ambassador for England. She is also a Professor of Obstetrics & Gynaecology at Imperial College London, Consultant at St Mary’s Hospital in London  Honorary Secretary of FIGO, and Chair of the Charity Wellbeing of Women.

She was the 30th President of Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG) (2016-2019). During her tenure as PRCOG she co-chaired the National Women’s Health Task Force with Jackie Doyle-Price MP (then Health Minister) and authored “Better for Women”, a hard hitting RCOG report which promotes a life-course approach to the delivery of women’s health services. 

Having graduated from the Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine, London in 1980, Professor Regan pursued her training at Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, where she first became enthused by clinical and laboratory research, completing her MD on miscarriage.  She went on to set up the world’s largest recurrent miscarriage clinic at St Mary’s Hospital in London.

In 2015 she received a Doctorate of Science from University College London for her contribution to women's health.  In 2020 she was awarded a DBE for her services to women’s health in the Queen’s New Year’s Honours List.

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