REBA Wellbeing Congress 2024

Kimberley Wilson

Host of BBC Radio 4 podcast 'Made of Stronger Stuff' and author of 'Unprocessed: How the Food We Eat is Fuelling our Mental Health Crisis'

Kimberley Wilson is a Chartered Psychologist, with a master's degree in nutrition and the author of How to Build a Healthy Brain (2020) and Unprocessed: How the Food We Eat is Fuelling our Mental Health Crisis (2023). Kimberley's philosophy of Whole Body Mental Health is a comprehensive approach to mental health care; integrating evidence-based nutrition and lifestyle factors with psychological therapy with an emphasis on the brain and nutrition.

Kimberley has written for BBC Science Focus and Psychologies Magazine, hosted the podcast 'Made of Stronger Stuff' and the scientific segment of One Dish both on BBC Radio 4, appeared regularly on Lorraine ITV and been the featured mental health expert on several Channel 4 series and documentaries.

Claudia Winkleman

Television presenter, radio personality and journalist

BAFTA award-winning TV and radio host, Claudia Winkleman, is one of the best-known broadcasters in the UK.

Known for her signature fringe and engaging on-screen presence, Claudia has hosted some of the biggest shows on television. She has been the co-host of the iconic Strictly Come Dancing since 2012, is Radio 2’s Saturday morning host, and has presented celebrated shows such as One Question and The Piano on Channel 4 and BAFTA-award winning The Traitors for the BBC. In 2023, Claudia won her first ever BAFTA, taking home the ‘Entertainment Performance’ award for her work hosting The Traitors.

Claudia is a trustee of Comic Relief and has fronted live television shows for Red Nose Day, Let’s Dance for Comic Relief, Sport Relief, and the Comic Relief Danceathon.

In 2022, Claudia’s debut book Quite was published to critical acclaim, earning her status as a Sunday Times Bestseller. 

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.

Eugene Farrell

Mental Health Lead, AXA Health

Janet Cooper OBE

Chair of Remuneration Committee, Nurture Landscapes Group, 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.

John Heatley

Executive Director - Global and Strategic Accounts, Howden Employee Benefits & Wellbeing

Caroline Adam

Head of Benefits & Wellbeing, PRIMARK

Naomi Alexander

Head of Reward & Recognition, Utility Warehouse Limited

Christina Alliak

Head of Benefits and Recognition, Celonis

Jake Attfield

Head of Strategy, 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.

Stephen Barnett

Director Global Reward & HRIS, IFCO Systems

Iain Barton

Global Head of Reward & Performance

Andrew Bates

VP Global Benefits, EH&W, GSK

Natalie Bertelsen-Macey

Head of Pay and Reward, New Look Retailers Ltd

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

Andrew Bridges

Director, Total Compensation, CGI Inc

Camilla Brooke

Head of Corporate, SME & Intermediary Sales, Simplyhealth

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Holly Chance

Associate, Benefits+ team, PwC

Rashree Chhatrisha

Reward Director – pensions and benefits, SAGA Plc

Dana Citron

Director, Global Health & Wellbeing, DHL Group

Dana Citron is the Director of Global Health and Wellbeing at DHL Group. Through evaluating historical health risks and trends in a country and on a business unit basis, she works with the global, regional and local HR partners to offer tailored health and well-being guidance and solutions that specifically target primary cost and claim drivers. For the prior 12 years, Dana worked in the international insurer domain developing health products and promoting strategies that target and control healthcare costs while maximising employee health. This included working with local insurance affiliates to design and implement end to end market-leading health management and wellness solutions. Ms. Citron also worked with multinational clients, providing health analytics, thought leadership and support for the development of global health strategies.  Ms. Citron earned her BA in Psychology from Boston University and MPH (Masters of Public Health) from New York Medical College with a concentration in Global Health.

Jen Clarke

Head of Reward, Marshall Aerospace and Defence Group

Guy Clarkson

UK Digital Growth Leader, Mercer Marsh Benefits

Guy Clarkson is an accomplished Technology and Consulting Growth Leader with a versatile skill set and a proven ability to create value, engage clients, and drive business growth while upholding a steadfast commitment to Employee Engagement & Wellbeing. Guy’s approach is grounded in effective communication and establishing productive relationships with internal and external stakeholders. Guy is dedicated to pioneering innovations that enhance commercial performance through organisational design and process efficiency improvements. As the UK Digital Growth Leader at Mercer Marsh Benefits, Guy leads a dynamic team responsible for driving digital growth across the UK. Guy’s primary focus is on delivering a fully integrated Employee Benefits (EB) brokerage, consulting, and technology solutions to clients.

David Collington

Partner, Head of Benefit Consulting, Barnett Waddingham

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.

: https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-collington-8b434

Dr Jeanette Cook

Principal Wellbeing and Strategic Consultant , Aon

Jeanette is Principal Wellbeing and Strategic Consultant at Aon with over 20 years’ experience in the pharmaceutical and research industries, working in and leading UK and international teams with major customers across the world. A medical professional with an extensive peer-reviewed publication portfolio and cross-sector expertise, she is adept at translating data-led insights into business-changing solutions for major organisations including FTSE 100 scale businesses. 

Jeanette is passionate about creating holistic wellbeing solutions, considering both individuals and workplaces to build innovative, evidence-based propositions. For example, recently she provided insightful data analysis resulting in a client revising their wellbeing strategy from addressing ‘perceived’ risks where interventions would have had negligible impact, to tackling authentic evidence-led risks with the opportunity to achieve significant business improvements. By connecting the dots between strategy development and tactical outputs, Jeanette ensures that clients are better informed, able to make better decisions and thus able to achieve better outcomes.

Matt Cullen

Head of Reward and HRIS, Gowling WLG

Scott Cullen

Partner, Reward Consulting, KPMG

: https://uk.linkedin.com/in/scott-cullen-b8513593

John Dean

Consulting Development Director, Healix Health

John has over 30 years’ experience in the sector leading independent intermediaries and award-winning healthcare trust consulting businesses. John is an expert in healthcare trusts and has worked with many of the largest UK employers helping them build bespoke corporate healthcare solutions. 

John is leading the Healix response for larger clients and is working with brokers and prospects to understand our proposition.

Niall Degan

Strategic Broking Lead, Aon

Niall has spent the last 20 years working within the Group Risk market, with an extensive background in account management and business development.

As a Strategic Broking Lead, he’s supported Aon clients in taking an innovative approach to benefit broking through early market engagement, use of data and insight, resulting in premium savings, bespoke propositions and access to additional wellbeing funding. In addition, Niall is regularly liaising with insurer stakeholders to develop bespoke solutions to best fit an organisation’s people strategy, objectives and challenges.​

Amanda Dini

Int'l Pensions and Benefits Specialist, Lockheed Martin Corporation

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.

Paul Duggan

Global Health and Wellbeing Lead (EMEA), Accenture

Melissa Emmanuel

Global Director of People Operations and Reward, Tom Ford International

Dr Elizabeth Feigin

Chartered Psychologist and expert in intergenerational working, Millennial and Generation Z culture

Dr Elizabeth is a London-based chartered psychologist, speaker, executive consultant and coach, with a specialist focus in the workplace on optimising millennial and gen Z performance and retention, neurodiversity and leadership. She has worked with a wide cross-section of society; from offenders in prison, to B2B companies and the C-suite that lead them. Applying universal psychological truths to the 2024 multi-generational economy, post-covid hybrid company culture and teams dispersed through digital channels, Elizabeth bridges the course from tensions to positive outcomes. 

Educated at Cambridge University (BA Joint-Hons, MPhil), she is also an Expert Educator and has a Doctorate in Psychology and Psychotherapy. Elizabeth works with at-risk adolescents, extensively with trauma, harmful behaviours and suicidal ideation. She has her own private practice as well as working in community organisations and is proud of the new Mental Health Education programme she is developing for community schools. Elizabeth runs interactive, well-informed, exciting and bespoke workshops for companies, to bridge gaps, engage your workforce, retain your talent and optimise your team’s potential.

Jean-Christophe Fonfreyde

Head of Reward, Ofcom (interim)

Emily Foy

Director of Operations, ApiaryLife

: https://www.linkedin.com/in/emily-foy-76318b27/

Peter Frampton

Global Head of Talent, Performance and Reward, Teneo

Charlie Frost

Head of Wellbeing and Benefits (Global), Schroders

Jo Gallacher

Content Director, REBA

Tom Gardner

Head of Group Benefits, Sky Group

Pamela Gellatly

Strategic Development Director, HCML

: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pamela-gellatly-a6427a

Susie Godfrey

Head of Performance & Reward EMEA, Norton Rose Fulbright

Susie has worked in reward in the legal sector for over 10 years, most recently joining Norton Rose Fulbright as their Head of Performance and Reward – EMEA. Susie has experience of managing employee benefits, pensions and all aspects of compensation in the UK and internationally.  

Tim Goodchild

Director, Global Benefits & Mobility, Anaplan

Shamira Graham

Chief Commercial Officer & Principal CBT Therapist, Onebright

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

Toni Graves

Global Head of Reward, Benefits & Wellbeing, A&O Shearman

Matthew Gregson

Executive Director, Howden Employee Benefits & Wellbeing

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

Julie Hammerton

Managing Partner, Hymans Robertson Personal Wealth

Julie is the Managing Partner of our financial wellbeing and financial planning business, Hymans Robertson Personal Wealth (HRPW). She joined Hymans Robertson in 2014 and has over two decades of experience in financial services in roles spanning communications consultancy, marketing, innovation and proposition development. Before establishing HRPW she helped set up our firm’s Incubator.

Evan Harris

Co-Founder and CEO, Peppy

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

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.

David Harvey

Master Trust Leader, NatWest Cushon

David is Cushon’s Master Trust Lead and has worked in the DC pensions market for over 25 years. During that time, he has worked on both “sides of the fence” at Consultants and Insurers and has built up a really good understanding of what both companies and members look for and value when it comes to pension provision. 

Ryan Hopkins

Chief Impact Officer & best selling author, JAAQ

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

Joanne Horn

Benefits & Recognition Manager, Rolls-Royce-SMR

David House

Non-Executive Director (and former Deputy Group HRD and chairman of Centrica’s Healthcare Trust) , HCML

With over 30 years’ experience working in senior HR roles, David House has been instrumental in the development of health and wellbeing strategies across a number of FTSE100 companies including TUI Travel plc and InterContinental Hotels Group plc. In addition, he has served on the board for various health trusts as a director and chair. His most recent role was at Centrica where he spent 12 years with the group in senior positions including Deputy Group HR Director, NED and Chair of Spirit Energy’s Remuneration Committee and Chair of Centrica’s Healthcare Trust. At Centrica David led the development of an integrated sickness/absence management process, including a bespoke and tailored all-employee private health scheme via a trust structure, before moving into the role of Chief Operating Officer at British Gas. Now retired from Executive life David sits on the HCML Board as a Non-Executive Director and is Chair of HCML’s healthcare trust subsidiary.

: https://www.linkedin.com/in/housed1/

Cleo Howie FRSPH

Senior Manager, Health & Wellbeing, AWE

Cleo is a Corporate Health and Wellbeing Specialist, with over a decade of experience designing and implementing award-winning workplace strategies. Cleo leads a team at AWE, who are committed to delivering proactive health interventions, to a workforce with a critical mission: to support the defence and security of the UK.

Tamar Hughes

Director of Talent Development and Inclusion, Phoenix Group

Eric Humphrey

SVP Research & Development, Peppy

Eric Humphrey is SVP Research & Development at Peppy. Eric earned a PhD from NYU pioneering deep learning methods, and worked alongside many AI luminaries working at OpenAI, Meta, Google and beyond. Eric previously worked as a Research Scientist and, later, Machine Learning Engineering Manager at Spotify in NYC and Boston.  

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

Andreas Hunter

Head of Wellbeing, Gallagher

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

Selina Jones-May

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

Rozina Joseph

Senior Director, Global Benefits, Comcast

Tina Kennedy

Product Director - Healthplan, Simplyhealth

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Dominique Kent

Chief Executive Officer, Bluecrest Wellness

: www.linkedin.com/in/dominique-kent-2250675/

Nikki Kirbell

Health & Wellbeing Manager UK&I, Unilever

Sally Lawrence

VP Total Reward, Virgin

Ben Leigh

Senior Manager, Benefits+ team, PwC

Ben Leigh is the Senior Manager, Benefits+ team at PwC.

Stephanie Leung

Co-Founder and CEO, KareHero

: https://www.linkedin.com/in/steph2020/?originalSub

Aidan Lever

Research and Insight Director, REBA

Dawn Lewis

Content Editor, REBA

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.

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/

Jeanette Makings

Head of Workplace Financial Wellbeing, Close Brothers Asset Management

: www.linkedin.com/in/jeanettemakings/

Daniela Masters

Director Global Health & Wellness, Generali Employee Benefits

With 15 years of practical experience, Daniela has gained considerable knowledge about successful multinational corporate health & wellbeing strategies and programmes from multiple perspectives: employer, wellness / EAP provider, and private insurer.

Daniela’s education and career has taken her from Germany to Indonesia, Australia and then to the UK, where she currently resides. For the past 5 years she has enjoyed actively working on global Health & Wellness Programmes with clients, intermediaries and Network Partners of the Generali Employee Benefits Network (GEB).

A data-driven approach stands at the centre of her work, and she has shared her experience as a subject matter expert speaker at numerous international industry events.

Daniela strongly believes that organisations share responsibility for employee physical and mental wellbeing. Corporations can have a positive impact to both individual and collective health by offering data-driven, carefully selected and appropriately engineered workplace health and wellbeing initiatives.

Daniela’s motto: “Healthy and safe companies are growing companies”

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

Adrian Matthews

Head of Employee Benefits, UK & Europe, MetLife

Adrian joined MetLife in May 2011 as Chief Finance Officer for the UK, he was appointed Employee Benefits Director for the UK in June 2017, and from January 2023 expanded his role to cover an additional 10 European markets.

Adrian is responsible for driving substantial growth in the Employee Benefits line of the business. As well as his expanded European role, he is a member of the UK Executive Committee. In his prior role as Chief Finance Officer, he oversaw the financial management and performance of the business, where he drove efficiency and effectiveness throughout.

The UK EB business is now the largest Group Life business in EMEA insuring over 1.6 million customers and delivering revenues in excess of $250m.  This has seen MetLife’s market share grow to over 10% in the UK, with plans to develop further in this key market.

Prior to MetLife, Adrian spent 7 years in financial services outsourcing with Unisys and Capita where he held the position of Finance Director for the south region for their Life & Pensions division and was responsible for multi-site and multi-account commercial contracts.

Adrian is an Associate Member of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants.

: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adrian-matthews-672792

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

Elliot Miller

VP of Product, Peppy

Elliott Miller is the VP of Product at Peppy, where he has led the product innovation across Peppy's app and Peppy 2. In addition to these two stints heading the product function, Elliott led the company's U.S. expansion from New York. Elliott has worked in healthcare for the past 7 years, beginning his career in engineering and consultancy.

: https://www.linkedin.com/in/elliott-miller-9b27894

Amanda Moore

Head of Reward, OVO

Katharine Moxham

Spokesperson, Group Risk Development (GRiD), Session moderator

Gethin Nadin

Psychologist, Author, and Chief Innovation Officer, Benefex Ltd

Gethin is an award-winning psychologist who has been helping some of the world’s largest brands to improve their employee experiences for more than two decades. In 2023 he was named as the world’s most influential HR thinker. Gethin has been named as one of the world’s top Global Employee Experience Influencers for four years running, number two HR Personality of the Year 2023 and winner of UK Mental Health Campaigner of the Year 2023.

Gethin is also founder and Chair of the Workplace Wellbeing Action Group, Ex-Chair of Wellbeing at the UK Government-backed Engage for Success, a Wellbeing Advisor to Investors In People, a Fellow at the RSA, and a member of the All-Party Parliamentary Committee on the Future of Employability, frequently meeting with and presenting to members of the UK Parliament. Gethin is also the author of two bestselling wellbeing books.

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

Deirdre O'Neill

CCO and Co-Founder, Hertility

Deirdre O'Neill is the Chief Commercial & Legal Officer and Co-Founder of Hertility. She is a dual-qualified lawyer in England and Ireland and has worked in corporate law for a number of years. She has a masters in Medical Law from King’s College London. Hertility is a women’s health company built by women, for women. We’re working with the world’s most forward-thinking companies to proactively support employees across every life stage from menstruation through menopause. The workplace wasn’t designed with everyone in mind, we’re here to change that. We empower employers to attract, support and retain a diverse, thriving and innovative workforce with expert-led education, comprehensive health screening and policy review. Hertility is setting a new standard of care and support in the workplace for women and families alike by empowering organisations to become accredited as Reproductively Responsible™ employers.

Oluyomi Okunowo

VP Global Reward & HRIS, Wella Company

Sarah Oxford

Head of Compensation & Benefits, UK & I, GXO Logistics

Hannah Pearsall

Head Of Wellbeing, Hays

Tim Perkins

Co-Founder & CEO, nudge

With over 20 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 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.

Simon Pettitt

Senior Manager Pensions & Benefits, Carnival UK

Sarah Rees

Head of Marketing, Peppy

: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarah-rees-02087a19/

Alex Reynolds

Enterprise Sales Executive, Workhuman

Valentina Rocchi

Senior International Benefits Director , WTW

: https://www.linkedin.com/in/valentina-rocchi-0a3a4

Lewis Rooke

Pay & Perks Manager, Gymshark

Jake Sanders

Global Health and Wellbeing Manager, Diageo

: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jake-ap-sanders/

Andrea Shipman

VP Benefits EMEA Health and Wellbeing Lead, Bank of America Merrill Lynch

Lynette Silva Heelan

EMEA Consulting Practice Lead, 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.

Jamie Skelding

Head of Reward and Benefits, Ocado Logistics

Steven Thomson

Director of Partnerships, EMEA, TELUS Health

Dr Martin Thornton

Chief Medical Officer, Bluecrest Wellness

: www.linkedin.com/in/martin-thornton/

Ashleigh Tonks

Employee Wellbeing Manager, AXA UK

Emily Trant

Chief Impact Officer, Wagestream

Emily is Chief Impact Officer at Wagestream where she leads on the scale-up’s work to tackle financial exclusion and build a more inclusive app that improves workers’ financial wellbeing. The role brings together stakeholders across policy, public sector and the financial services sector - from running co-creation sessions with customers, through to leading an Impact Advisory Board. She also runs the company's programme of academic research in collaboration with leading think tanks and global universities. Before joining Wagestream, Emily co-founded a social impact fintech, Touco Lab, which built financial services products for people with cognitive impairments using open banking technology. Touco was awarded grant funding from the Nationwide Open Banking for Good programme, and was accepted onto the Techstars accelerator programme. Emily is also host of the Invisible Worker podcast.

: https://www.linkedin.com/in/emily-trant/?originalS

Paul Tremelling

VP, UK Pension and Benefits, Goldman Sachs

Dr Katie Tryon

Director of Health Strategy, Vitality

: https://www.linkedin.com/in/katherine-tryon-41a362

Liz Walker

Chief Operating Officer, Unum UK

As Chief Operating Officer (COO), Liz is responsible for our service operations for brokers and customers.

She drives the strategic development of our broker servicing, claims and rehabilitation propositions to deliver the highest levels of service excellence to every customer. Liz considers ensuring her team feels valued, respected and equipped to deliver excellent customer service vital to her role.

Liz has been with Unum for 25 years, moving from the US Sales Organisation team to the UK in 2012. Before becoming COO, she ran the Key Accounts Sales Team and was the UK HR Director.

: https://www.linkedin.com/in/liz-walker-6a506661/

Dan Waller

Global Head of Reward, LRQA

Dan Waller is the Global Head of Reward at LRQA.

Kiera Wallis

Head of Clinical Operations, Healix

Keira Wallis is Head of Clinical Operations at Healix. She is an experienced healthcare professional, qualifying as a registered nurse in 2007 and achieving a distinction in a PGDip in Cancer and Clinical Oncology from Queen Mary University in 2018. Since becoming a part of the Healix family in 2013, she has found purpose in navigating the complexities of clinical services, fulfilling her commitment to patient well-being and her genuine passion for innovation in the healthcare space.

: https://www.linkedin.com/company/healix-hx-global/

Steve Watson

Director of Policy & Research, NatWest Cushon

Steve Watson, Director of Policy & Research Steve is NatWest 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.

Lisa Whelpdale

President of Total Rewards, Wood

Jenni Wilson

Expert health insurance and healthcare industry consultant, Session moderator

Jen is an experienced Commercial Director with extensive sales and marketing, P&L management and organisational change experience in the Healthcare and Health Insurance sectors. Her 30 year corporate career spans Director roles at Bupa, AXA Health, Nuffield Health and Simplyhealth.

As Group Sales Director for Simplyhealth, Jen championed the organisation’s purpose of making healthcare easy to access for as many people as possible by growing Simplyhealth and Denplan’s 2.5m customer base across both corporate and consumer markets. 

Prior to this, Jen was Commercial Director for Nuffield Health's Hospitals division. She led the commercial development of all 3 key hospitals payors: PMI, NHS and Self Pay (Consumer paid) driving multi million pound revenues into Nuffield’s hospitals, physiotherapy and mental wellbeing services.

Before that she worked for both AXA Health and Bupa, where she led UK wide teams to develop and grow private medical insurance business and a range of health and wellbeing solutions.

Jen recently founded All About Clarity and now works freelance as a Board Adviser, Business Mentor and Executive Coach. Jen is also a keen Healthcare Industry Commentator and Influencer.

Professor Gordon Wishart

Founder, Chief Medical Officer & CEO, Check4Cancer

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