Rob Brydon is an actor, writer and presenter. His television credits include GAVIN & STACEY (BBC), MY LADY JANE (Amazon), ROALD & BEATRIX: THE TAIL OF THE CURIOUS MOUSE (Sky), HUMAN REMAINS (BBC), MARION & GEOFF (BBC), THE BEST OF MEN (BBC), MCDONALD & DODDS (ITV), TRUST (BBC), THE BRINK (HBO) and OLIVER TWIST (BBC), HEROES AND VILLAINS: NAPOLEON (BBC), DIRECTORS COMMENTARY (ITV), MARPLE (ITV)
He’s the host of award-winning BBC show WOULD I LIE TO YOU? and stars in the multi award winning series THE TRIP, directed by Michael Winterbottom. Rob also hosts new BBC 1 series DESTINATION X and THE FLOOR on ITV1.
Rob recently presented a new BBC Documentary, ROB BRYDON’S HONKY TONK ROAD TRIP, where he travelled to the US to celebrate country music.
Rob has been touring the UK, Australia and New Zealand with his solo show, A NIGHT OF SONGS AND LAUGHTER. A festive version toured the UK in 2025. Theatre credits include THE PAINKILLER directed by Sean Foley and starring alongside Sir Kenneth Branagh, A CHORUS OF DISAPPROVAL directed by Sir Trevor Nunn and FUTURE CONDITIONAL directed by Matthew Warchus. and I AM STANDING UP. Film credits include BARBIE, SWIMMING WITH MEN, CINDERELLA, THE HUNTSMAN: WINTER’S WAR, DAYS OF THE BAGNOLD SUMMER, BLINDED BY THE LIGHT and HOLMES AND WATSON.
Rob’s animation credits include THE SCARECROW’S WEDDING, STICK MAN, ZOG, ZOG AND THE FLYING DOCTORS, EARLY MAN, ROOM ON THE BROOM, THE GRUFFALO, THE GRUFFALO’S CHILD, THE SNAIL AND THE WHALE, THE HIGHWAY RAT, STITCH HEAD, THE AMAZING MAURICE, TABBY MCTAT, TIDDLER, THE UNBEATABLES, THE SMEDS AND THE SMOOS, GREEN EGGS AND HAM, FAMOUS FRED, THE BASKERVILLES, BODY BEAUTIFUL and SUPER WORM.
Rob has published two books, KEITH BARRET, MAKING DIVORCE WORK and his autobiography SMALL MAN IN A BOOK. September 2026 will see the publication of his first children’s book THE CAT IN THE CUPBOARD.
Chris is the CEO and co-founder of Origin, the world’s first Global Benefits Intelligence platform. With a 25-year career at the intersection of technology and employee benefits, Chris is driven by a mission to transform the global benefits industry through the power of AI. Prior to Origin, Chris co-founded Thomsons Online Benefits (later known as Darwin), where they helped scale the business into a global leader in benefits technology, serving millions of employees across the world. At Origin, Chris is once again redefining what’s possible — this time with smarter, faster, AI-powered solutions that bring unprecedented clarity, control, and scalability to global benefits management.
If you work in employee benefits, chances are you’ve come across David in one form or another. David has built a solid reputation as someone who believes passionately in the value of a clear, well considered benefits strategy. After all, employee benefits without a purpose risks being just another drain on budgets and resources.
With over 20 years delivering employee consulting services, David’s list of achievements is considerable. He has helped a broad scale of organisations – from SMEs to large FTSE 100 companies – and worked across a wide range of employee benefit areas.
What does David enjoy most about his role? It’s in seeing the value generated for clients by an innovative, well thought through employee benefits strategy. One that really meets the specific needs of an employer, as well as the people who work there.
Ant leads on all aspects of employee benefits, pensions, and company car schemes for the Wolseley Group, across the UK and Ireland, having previously managed E.ON UK’s reward and benefits activity, including developing the E.ON Group’s first global employee benefits strategy.
Ant’s focus is on engaging Wolseley’s diverse workforce with their pensions and benefit offerings, and continuously improving employee experience and wellbeing, together with scheme delivery and cost-effectiveness. He regularly looks to implement new arrangements, to help meet colleagues’ diverse needs and keep the offering fresh.
Earlier in his career, Ant held several operational management roles at E.ON, Powergen and TXU (Eastern) Energy, and headed a number of significant organisational change programmes. He’s also a Chartered Accountant, with an initial grounding in internal and external audit.
Sebastian is the Co-Founder and CEO of Ben, a London-based SaaS startup building an intelligent employee benefits platform. With over 15 years of experience as a tech entrepreneur and investor, he co-founded Ben after leading Secret Escapes' UK market following their acquisition of JustBook, a company he founded.
Tim Goodchild FCIPD is Director, International Benefits at Take-Two Interactive and a recognised leader in global employee benefits, wellbeing, and reward strategy. With almost 20 years' experience across technology, media, and gaming organisations, he specialises in designing scalable global programmes that improve employee experience, strengthen retention, and help employees better understand the value of their total rewards. His current interests include reward technology, financial wellbeing, AI in HR and the future of personalised employee benefits.
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.
David Kirk leads Aon’s UK health strategic sales function and is the global growth, marketing and communications functional leader for Aon’s total reward business. With 13 years’ experience across EMEA and North America scaling go-to-market Saas businesses, David’s in-depth knowledge and technology expertise helps advise businesses and founders on where to focus for maximum impact.
At Aon, David helps organisations enhance growth and efficiency, through their evolving workforce landscape, through the health of their people leveraging data and technology. As a result of David's passion for improving employee health to enable better business outcomes, he has also invested in several early-stage technology businesses.
Iain Laws is CEO, Health & Benefits, for Everywhen, specialising in helping mid market organisations simplify and optimise employee benefits across multiple countries. Everywhen work closely with employers to reduce complexity, control cost and build practical global benefits frameworks that balance global consistency with local relevance. With a strong focus on pragmatic implementation, Iain is passionate about turning global benefits strategy into measurable, sustainable outcomes through clear governance, realistic minimum standards and scalable approaches that deliver value visibly and quickly.
A Certified Principal Business Psychologist, Jennifer has been an influencer in the field of employer best practice for over 20 years, with particular focus on working families, wellbeing, gender inclusion and evidence-based approaches. She is a leadership coach, coaching supervisor and sought-after speaker, writer, conference moderator and consultant.
Jennifer was a pioneer of parent transition coaching in the early 2000s, and as a Director of My Family Care, then Head of Thought Leadership with Bright Horizons, as well as through her own consultancy People in Progress , she has worked for over 20 years with the US and UK’s largest banks and financial institutions, supporting their talent strategies through financial crisis, pandemic, return to office and more. Jennifer is known for translating trends, public policy and research insights into solutions and practical actions.
Clare Moncrieff is a seasoned professional with over 20 years of experience in HR and Professional Services. In her current role at Workhuman, Clare works closely with customers and prospects to help them understand the true power of recognition, to drive people and business success.
Prior to joining Workhuman, Clare was a Senior Director at TalentNeuron, a leader in labour market intelligence. She helped to launch their consulting practice and provided client advice. Before that, she was VP, People Director at Nokia and VP, Executive Advisor at Gartner. Clare began her HR career in earnest at Nortel, in Canada, where she worked in M,A+D, Exec Comp, and HRBP roles, before joining CEB (now Gartner) in the UK.
Clare holds a honsBA in Psychology from York University in Toronto, and an MSc in Human Resources from the LSE in London. She lives in London and enjoys hiking.
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.
With over 43 years’ in business and over 8yrs in Reward leadership, Tony has a wealth of experience working in a broad range of sectors and functions. This enables him to bring a unique perspective to his reward role. As a business disrupter and innovator, he has driven change in the businesses he has worked for or with. He has worked for some of the most innovative businesses in the UK and been at forefront of some of the most significant changes in the market.
Driving global transformations in companies including ECB (Cricket board) Marshall Aerospace & Defence Group, Carnival plc, Dentsu Group, Cambridge Press & Assessment and Aristocrat, Tony has developed a deep understanding how compensation and benefits impact the big picture and has developed reward strategies for future success. He brings a commercial mindset to drive innovation and transformation, delivering impactful results.
Emily Trant leads Stream's core mission to tackle financial exclusion and build an inclusive app that improves the financial wellbeing of all workers. Her role brings together stakeholders across policy, the public sector, and financial services, from running co-creation sessions with customers to leading an Impact Advisory Board. She also directs the company's program of academic research in collaboration with leading think tanks and global universities. Before Stream, Emily co-founded Touco Lab, a social impact venture that built financial services products for people with cognitive impairments using open banking technology. Emily holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics from The University of British Columbia. Emily is also host of the Invisible Worker podcast.
