REBA Future Forum 2023

Adam Price

CEO, Octopus MoneyCoach

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.

Helen Adams

Head of Reward & Policy, Barratt Developments plc

Andrew Bates

VP Benefits & Executive Compensation, GSK

Nic Becker

Western Europe Reward Director, Molson Coors Brewing Company

Nic Becker is the Western Europe Reward Director at Molson Coors Brewing Company.

Dr Kylie Bennett

Mental Health Programme Director & MD E- hub, Tictrac, a Dialogue company

Jonathan Best

Enterprise Product Lead , uFlexReward

Jonathan Best is Enterprise Sales Lead and Account Executive at uFlexReward. He is responsible for generating new accounts, managing the sales process, aligning uFlexReward market position and strategic partnerships, while matching client needs with uFlexReward products and services.

Jonathan has extensive experience in end-to-end HR Technology consulting and deployments; from software design, product ownership, enterprise sales and implementation through to project management and customer success, partnering across multiple verticals with some of the largest global organisations in the world. With specialism in total rewards consulting and technology, and HRIS sales and implementation.

Before uFlexReward, he was a management consultant at PwC focused on selling and deploying various HR Technology projects with focus on Workday HCM, Compensation and Benefits, from net-new implementations through to optimisation of products. Prior to that he was senior consultant at HR Consulting house Buck (previously a Xerox company) focused on delivering total rewards products and services, and developing new total rewards technology to take to the HR market. Earlier in Jonathan’s career, he held employee benefits management consulting roles at BDO and Mercer.

Keen studier of the HR Tech industry, history lover, politics, cricket, and people behaviour. In another life he would love to be a psychologist. When not working he is with his family of three toddler children, surviving and thriving with all that world entails.

Harry Bliss

Co-founder and CEO, Champion Health

Harry Bliss is the CEO and Co-founder of Champion Health. In 2018, he set out on a mission to make healthier easier, for everyone. Since then, he has worked towards making wellbeing inclusive, engaging and accessible.

Six months into Champion Health’s journey, Harry received a call. His friend and mentor had taken his own life, due to a short but acute bout of workplace stress.

Since then, Harry has been driven by a mission to prevent more tragedies like the one that touched him – and this drive has translated into life-changing work.

Harry’s authenticity and expertise have led to him becoming a recognisable name in the workplace health space. In 2021, Harry was named Young Leader award at the Northern Leadership Awards.

Jackie Buttery

Head of Benefits and Reward, Travers Smith

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

Julia Clement

Head of Reward, Skyscanner

Adrian Cooper

Business Development Director, HUB Financial Solutions

Suzanne Courtney

DEIB & Wellbeing Expert, Aon

Suzanne Courtney is an Associate Partner within Aon‘s Human Capital Solutions Team and is currently completing a Doctorate in Occupational Psychology. Her doctorate is focused on defining and enabling a sense of belonging in the workplace. She is highly skilled at consulting with senior stakeholders to identify and understand their business challenges and recommending innovative and market-leading strategic solutions that are aligned with their objectives. Suzanne has worked in Aon for 12 years with consulting and leadership roles in EMEA, UK, Australia, Singapore and Ireland.

Chris Davies

Group Head of Reward, Irwin Mitchell

Mike Davies

CEO & Managing Director, BI WORLDWIDE

Sarah Desai

Director of Reward, Sainsbury's

Sarah Draper

Head of People and Culture, Rider Levett Bucknall

Ross Elmsly

Head of Presales, Beqom

Ross Elmsly is the Head of Presales at beqom, where he works with global organizations across retail, technology, financial services, and other industries. He has more than eight years experience working with the reward and compensation requirements of large enterprises, from HR analytics to optimisation of reward programs and operations to personalisation of reward. Prior to beqom, Ross worked at SAP in Singapore and the UK. He holds a Masters of Commerce with First Class Honours from the University of Auckland.  

Roger Fairhead

Group Reward Director, Legal&General

Sarah Flanagan

Total Rewards Manager Northern Europe, Colgate-Palmolive Company

Bal Gill

Talent Director, Capgemini

Bal is currently leading the Talent Development agenda for North and Central Europe Capgemini. She is a transformational leader with an award-winning track record of achievement with Capgemini for over 17 years. Specialising in all aspects of inclusion, culture change, engagement and talent development. Bal is passionate about driving a truly diverse and inclusive culture at Capgemini, investing in the development of people and enabling them
to thrive in their careers. Ultimately, she just wants people to have the best possible employee experience at Capgemini.

Ed Gillespie

Futurist and co-host of Futurenauts podcast,

Ed Gillespie is a writer, communications specialist, serial entrepreneur and futurist. He is the author of ‘Only Planet – a flight-free adventure around the world’ a book about his circumnavigation of the globe without getting on a plane, which the Independent said “Allow[s] the world’s flaws and beauty to seep into your soul”. Ed’s core talent is to take the complex, interconnected, interdependent nature of the many challenges the world faces, from climate change to disruptive innovation, and make common sense of them for non-specialist audiences.

Currently Ed’s focus is using his twenty five years of experience to help organisations rapidly understand the post-pandemic world. This will involve ‘unlearning’ the mistakes of the past, asking the right (often awkward!) questions, and moving beyond the discomfort of today into being the better, more resilient, responsible and sustainable businesses and organisations of tomorrow.

Ed co-presents two leading podcasts, 'The Great Humbling' with Dougald Hine, and 'Jon Richardson and the Futurenauts – Book of Revelations’ with comedian Jon Richardson and fellow reluctant futurist Mark Stevenson.

Ed was the co-founder of Futerra, a change agency that specialises in business transformation and creative communications and campaigns. For almost two decades Futerra has become internationally renowned for its influential and award-winning work on some of the biggest corporate sustainability initiatives. Ed was the 'father' of the business, cooking regularly for his colleagues, curating annual company away-days for the global team and holding the 'soul' of the company. Ed left the business in early 2019 to pursue other opportunities in public speaking, responsible leadership and purpose-led disruptive start-up businesses, having become frustrated with the sometimes constraining cage of consultancy.

Professionally Ed is known for his own unique brand of authentic ‘insultancy’ – being strategically and playfully cheeky to clients, with judicious wit and wisdom to inspire them to greater heights and aspirations. He is highly adaptable, constructively challenging and pushes audience assumptions of business as usual, opening minds then mapping possible practical solutions and opportunities.

Ed is a lead facilitator with the Forward Institute where we works on responsible leadership with 40 of the UK’s biggest institutions, a Director of Greenpeace UK, a Trustee of Ecolibrium and Chief Futurist at the Global Destination Sustainability Movement.

Ed is actively involved in a number of pioneering ethical businesses as a Director or Investor, from Demand Logic – a ‘fitbit’ for buildings, to Loco2.com a pan European rail-ticket agency that makes it as easy to book a trans-continental train as a plane (now rebranded as Rail Europe after being sold to SNCF in 2017). Others include Common Objective (ethical fashion), Urgentem (carbon transition catalysts),  Bennaman (alternative fuels), Panda Packaging (bamboo based products), Piclo (new electricity networks), Bennamann (methane biofuels), Small Robot Company (agricultural technology), Raw Bottles (metal water bottles) and Breakroom (job comparison service for frontline workers).

Aside from contributing regularly to a range of media from the BBC to the Guardian, the Ecologist to Conde Nast Traveller, Ed is a sought after speaker, event host, lively compere and trusted Chairperson, renowned for his entertaining presentations laced with thoughtful insights, trends and humour. Since 2001, he has presented all over the world, giving dozens of talks a year from Hong Kong to Bratislava, Korea to Auckland. And he’s been heard by every kind of audience, from the UN and national governments, to multi-national corporations and global associations. He’s even dabbled with stand-up comedy to enhance his presentational and engagement skills.

His recent clients include The World Bank, KPMG, MACE & CityWire and speaking engagements include giving the inaugural ‘Bonn Speech’ on Global Transformation for the German Government, a keynote on ‘Fixing the Future’ in Barcelona, ‘Climate of Disruption’ on climate change and disruptive innovation for Schroders in Belgium, and an interview with a leading Spanish newspaper for this film.  

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Alison Hanlan

Director, Reward, Brambles

Karen Hartmann

Head of Compensation & Benefits, EMEA, Moody's

Rebekah Haymes

Head of Digital Solutions and Delivery - Health & Benefits Europe , Willis Towers Watson

Rebekah is a Senior Director at WTW having joined the company 12 years ago. Rebekah has over 30 years’ experience more latterly working in consulting, management or leadership roles across a number of EBC’s and Professional Services firms. She has helped employers design and deliver successful benefit programmes incorporating the full spectrum of employee benefits, including the provision of technology solutions.

At WTW Rebekah leads the UK flexible benefits business and leads on digital benefits strategy for the Health & Benefits business in Europe; working with colleagues and clients to ensure benefits engagement and enrolment is optimised to achieve people and corporate objectives.

Rebekah is an Associate of the Chartered Insurance Institute having completed an Advanced Diploma in Insurance.

Jane Humberstone

Director, Global Reward & Mobility, Jaguar Land Rover

Dr Anne-Marie Imafidon MBE

Top 10 BAME leader in Tech and host of Women Tech Charge podcast ,

Lisa Kirkwood-Jones

Sales & Marketing Director, BI WORLDWIDE

Rachael Kneen

Reward Director UKI, Experian

Nikolaos Koutrakis

VP of Reward, Colt Technology

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

Olivia Krusel

Director Strategy and Innovation, Tictrac, a Dialogue company

Max Landry

Co-CEO, Peppy

Max Landry is Co-Founder and Co-CEO of digital health platform, Peppy.

Max has spent his career launching and building businesses. Before launching Peppy in 2018, he co-founded and served as Chief Executive of The Conversation. Prior to that he co-founded and served as Managing Director of Paperstone, one of the first online suppliers of office products.

Max is driven by his ambition to make personalised, expert-led health support available to everyone, regardless of job role or salary. Beyond work, he loves cooking, boxing and spending time with his young family.

Sarah Lister

Group Head of Leadership Reward, Nando's Group

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.  

Christopher Little

Global Head of Total Reward, Reckitt

Sarah Long

Head of New Business, WEALTH at work

Sarah joined WEALTH at work in 2021 and heads up the new business team.  Sarah has extensive experience in both broad based and executive compensation plans on an international level and has over 20 years’ experience in the equity plans/employee benefits market.  She is passionate about all aspects of wellbeing in the workplace and in particular financial wellbeing to help improve people’s lives.  A keen runner having participated in many marathons and is proud to have raised over £28,000 for breast cancer charities.  In her spare time Sarah is also a Rugbytots coach.

Stacey Lowman

Head of Employee Wellbeing, Claro

Stacey has 14 years of experience in the investment industry, working for global corporates, fintechs and startups. She has completed various financial qualifications. Stacey became self-employed in 2018, setting up her own Financial Coaching business, with a focus on financial wellbeing and green money. She is also an Advisory Board Member for Money Movers, a national project to empower women to use their personal finances to tackle the climate crisis. Stacey works with individual coaching clients, as well as designing and delivering finance-related workshops and content for teams. Stacey was also a Career Coach and the Learning Designer for Escape The City, supporting people transitioning into purpose-driven work, and is training in Counselling and Psychotherapy. Stacey joined Claro as their first Financial Coach in January 2021.

Lorna MacMillan

Global Head of Benefits, Maersk

Lorna has spent many years in the rewards industry, initially specialising in pensions management before expanding into a broader benefits and compensation portfolio. Working in both COEs and business partnering, she’s led rewards in every region except Asia Pacific, with blue chips such as NCR, Motorola, National Australia Bank and Hewlett Packard. Having joined Maersk in Dubai in January 2015 to lead West Central Asia, Lorna moved to their Headquarters in Copenhagen and was appointed Global Head of Benefits in April 2017, adding rewards leadership for the Americas in April 2019 – a challenging but fulfilling combination!

In the remaining precious leisure time, Lorna enjoys running, yoga and keeping active, cooking and baking, traveling (or dreaming about it…), spending time with family and friends and following Greenock Morton Football Club.

Sarah McDonough

Employee Experience Leader, UK & Ireland, Willis Towers Watson

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.​

Jill Mcveigh

Head of Reward, Scottish Power

Liz Naulls

Head of Workforce Wellbeing, Lime

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Danielle Netanel

Head of Reward, Santander

Tereza Odunoye

Head of International Benefits, Nuveen

Lucy Otter

Global Reward Director, AstraZeneca

Lucy Otter is the Global Reward Director at AstraZeneca.

Ketan Patel

Head of APAC and EMEA Benefits, Haleon

Ketan Patel is the Head of APAC and EMEA Benefits at Haleon.

Tim Perkins

Co-founder, nudge

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 advise for 20m at exactly the same time they most needed it. Tim, alongside nudge co-founder Jeremy Beaument, 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.  

Rahim Rajan

Global Head of Reward, Kantar

Dr Marc Robin

Medical Director, Tictrac, a Dialogue company

Jonathan Roomer

Co-Founder, YuLife

Jonathan is co-founder of YuLife. Jonathan started his career as an entrepreneur and after many “almost successes” and one successful venture he decided that being an entrepreneur wasn’t exciting enough. So, he completed an MBA, became an Actuary and eventually decided to head back to the entrepreneurial world. Prior to YuLife Jonathan led the early-stage segment of KPMG’s Tech Growth team. He consulted over 200 startups on getting from Seed to Series A and beyond. Jonathan is a Fellow of the Instituted and Faculty of Actuaries and a guest lecturer at Imperial College Business School.

Samantha Sergent

Director, International Benefits, Microsoft

Samantha Sergent leads International Benefits at Microsoft. Overseeing a nuanced and vast supplier, country, and administrative ecosystem her and her team are looking to establish scale and deliver benefits in a way that are meaning during the moments that matter the most.  Samantha brings over a decade of experience in HR Operations leading large changes within Shared Services and Total Rewards tools, systems, processes, and policies.

Yasemin Sezgin

VP Total Rewards, Pixel United

Isha Smith

Director Compensation & Total Reward, SoundCloud

Isha Smith is the Director Compensation & Total Reward at SoundCloud.

Tanya Swinyard

Head of Reward, Veolia

Steve Watson

Head of Proposition, Cushon

Steve is Cushon’s Director of Policy & Research. He has spent over 30 years of his career advising organisations on all aspects of pensions and workplace savings both in the UK and internationally. 

A strategic leader and practitioner with over 25 years employee benefits experience gained in the UK and internationally. As a Flexible Benefits and DC Pensions specialist, he has successfully transitioned a transactional sales proposition to an embedded value model which became market leading.

Kate Whelan

Global Reward Director, dentsu International

Phil Williams

Head of Employee Programmes, BI WORLDWIDE

With more than 25 years’ experience in the engagement industry and a co-founder of one of the first specialist agencies in the field of digital engagement programmes, Phil brings a passionate and experienced perspective to all the global businesses he works with. 

As Head of Employee Programmes at BI WORLDWIDE, he leads the design and delivery of global employee engagement programmes emanating from the EMEA region. In the last few years, he has overseen the implementation of several global programmes, reaching half a million employees in over 100 countries for some of the world’s biggest companies across sectors including Banking, Pharmaceutical, Technology and Professional Services. 

Justine Woolf

Director of Consulting, Innecto Reward Consulting (part of the Personal Group family)

Justine is Innecto's consultancy lead, heading up our client-facing services in her role as Director of Consulting.

She has a strong reputation for delivering commercially focused reward and recognition programmes for clients that improve employee motivation and engagement, and positively impact the bottom line.

Since joining Innecto in 2007, Justine has successfully managed and implemented challenging reward agendas for numerous clients including Hearst, Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma, UKTV, Center Parcs, the Church of England, UK Athletics, ITV and Penguin Random House. Her natural skill at building and developing strong client relationships is evidenced by the number of clients who return to work with Justine and Innecto.

In 2021 Reward Strategy recognised Justine as one of The Reward 300, an index of the industry’s most important influencers and decision-makers. This recognition is testament to her 25+ years' experience in pay and reward, both as a consultant and in reward management roles.

Justine has a great depth of experience in helping not-for profit and public sector legacy organisations achieve a more market and performance led approach to their reward. She has worked with organisations such as AQA, the Crown Estate, Publica Group, the BMA & BMJ, Alzheimer's Society, and DKMS.

Justine draws on her more than 20 years' experience in pay and reward, both as a consultant and in reward management roles with London Underground, GlaxoSmithKline, Woolworths, and the Post Office. Her depth of expertise covers all aspect of reward, but she has a particular passion for helping clients align their reward strategy with their business objectives.

Justine has a first class degree in Psychology and is a Chartered Fellow of the CIPD. She joined the Board of Crohn's and Colitis UK in 2016 as Trustee. As a recognised thought leader and commentator on reward, she is frequently asked for her opinion and comment by the media, including appearances on BBC Radio 4 and BBC Radio 5 Live, sharing her thoughts on MPs' pay.