REBA looks ahead to 2027 with the appointment of its latest Advisory Board

Emma Govus

Global Reward and Wellbeing director, AVEVA

Global Reward and Wellbeing Director at AVEVA with over 20 years of experience in HR.

Emma leads global strategy across benefits, family policy, retirement and wellbeing in over 40 countries. Passionate about creating inclusive, impactful strategy and programmes that support employee health and engagement, which led to being a recipient of AVEVA’s Social Impact of the Year award and Personify Health’s Silver Client award in 2025. Outside of work, enjoys travelling and spending time with her children. 

Matthias Helmbold

VP global risk benefits, health and wellbeing, DHL Group

Matthias Helmbold joined DHL’s Insurance and Risk Management function in 2021. In his current role as VP Global Risk Benefits, Health & Wellbeing, Matthias oversees all employee benefit insurances across DHL’s 220 territories, as well as the Health & Wellbeing activities within the function’s Health Risk Engineering framework.

Matthias serves as Director on the boards of the Group’s captives, underwriting annual EB premiums of nearly €200m. Under Matthias’ lead DHL’s captive program won the 2025 AXCO Insurance Award as “Best Captive or ART Solution” and was recognized in 2023 with the “Captive Innovation Award” by Captive Review. Matthias was repeatedly voted into the list of Top20 Captive Owners. 

Rozina Joseph

Senior Director, Global Benefits, Comcast Corporation

Rozina Joseph is the senior director of global benefits at Comcast NBC Universal, leading benefits strategy across more than 30 countries spanning EMEA, APAC, and LATAM. She works in close partnership with global, regional, and local HR teams to deliver holistic health and wellbeing solutions tailored to diverse employee populations. 

With over 10 years of experience across multiple industries, Rozina has acted as a strategic partner in the design and delivery of total rewards programmes aligned to organisational culture and business priorities. Her areas of expertise include developing market‑leading health and wellness solutions, partnering with local insurance providers, and implementing cost‑effective benefits strategies. 

Rozina holds an MSc in Human Resource Management from the University of Strathclyde. 

LinkedIn:

https://linkedin.com/in/rozina-joseph-mcipd-14001b38/

Meera Mistry

Senior Director, Global Total Reward & Recognition, Convatec

Meera is Senior Director of Global Total Reward & Recognition at Convatec 

Meera is an expert in compensation & benefits strategy, driving employee engagement & retention through reward optimization

Reiko Kubota

Head of global benefits, Fidelity International

Reiko heads up Global Benefits in Fidelity International and for the past five years has focused on the creative use of benefits as an attractive engagement and communication tool through leveraging the technological capability. Reiko began her career in pensions and benefits management in the financial industry and over the 20 years, expanded her scope from the UK, where she is based, to EMEA, APAC and India, leading strategic direction with particular attention to global framework and local sensitivity. 

In the post pandemic world, where benefits professionals are having to work at pace to develop strategy to respond to environmental, economic and demographic changes in the workforce, Reiko believes that benefits opens up opportunities for the employers to make a statement about their cultural authenticity which will resonate with the emerging trend in employees having renewed priorities in life. 

Muntazir Hadadhi

Head of Pensions, First Bus

Muntazir (Monty) Hadadi is Head of Pensions at First Bus, one of the UK’s largest transport operators. He leads the organisation’s pension strategy with a strong focus on governance, value for money and member outcomes. He is also a DC scheme trustee.

Monty is passionate about improving financial wellbeing across the frontline workforce and is an active contributor to industry discussions on pension reform, EDI and the future of workplace saving. He brings a practical employer perspective to debates on adequacy, contribution design and delivering better retirement outcomes for members. 

Peter Frampton

Head of Performance and Reward, Freshfields

Peter Frampton is the head of performance and reward at Freshfields. 

Prior to his current role, he was head of talent, performance and reward, and global HRBPs at Teneo, based in London. Peter has spent over 20 years in banking in international roles across operations and human resources. He built his expertise in performance management and reward at Teneo where he launched 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 Vice Chair for Allergy UK and is a trustee at a fast-growing Multi-Academy Trust. 

LinkedIn:

https://linkedin.com/in/peteframpton/

Mirka Slater

International Retirement Manager, GE Aerospace

Hi, I’m Mirka. My career working with employee benefits spans across financial services, technology and, today, I oversee all the international retirement plans at GE Aerospace, a global manufacturer in commercial and defence aviation and space technology. In my role, I also support work across employee financial wellbeing, international governance, and benefits systems efficiencies.

Joanne Rees

Global Experience Owner - Performance and Reward, GSK

Jo is the Global Experience Owner for Reward at GSK, she is accountable for designing the global reward experience for all employees and partnering with the business, the CoE and the People Services organisation and HR Tech to deliver.

This role is a combination of her career roles in Reward Leadership and also Change and Transformation consulting and is an exciting place to be as we embrace digital opportunities in experience and HR Tech. 

Doreen Bos

Senior manager benefits, recognition & wellbeing, EPDM, The Kraft Heinz Company  

Doreen is Senior Benefits Manager for Europe at Kraft Heinz, where she has spent over six years in regional roles spanning multiple European markets and is now responsible for the European Pacific developed markets.

With experience across Talent Acquisition, Diversity, Inclusion, and Benefits, she designs benefit strategies that help attract and retain talent while meeting the needs of a diverse workforce. Her focus is on ensuring benefits support employees and their families—especially in health and wellbeing—so people can thrive across life stages, boosting engagement, happiness, and long-term attraction. 

Bijal Shah

UK Benefits Director, Mars

Bijal is the UK Benefits Director at Mars, shaping strategy and governance across complex pension, healthcare and wellbeing arrangements for over 10,000 associates, alongside leading on key global benefits initiatives.

A qualified Actuary (FIA) with nearly three decades of corporate and consulting leadership, including 17 years at Aon, Bijal is renowned for inspiring consistently high-performing, deeply engaged teams. She combines analytical rigour with a passion for leveraging modern digital technology to deliver intuitive, accessible benefits experiences. On the REBA Advisory Board, Bijal looks forward to collaborating with fellow members to champion progressive, human-centred reward strategies that drive measurable employee wellbeing and lasting organizational value. 

Natalie Bertelsen-Macey

Head of Reward, McCarthy Stone

Natalie Bertelsen-Macey is an experienced Reward professional with a background in tax, currently working as Head of Reward at McCarthy & Stone. She is passionate about creating fair, competitive, and people-focused reward strategies that support business performance and employee wellbeing.

Natalie enjoys working with leaders to develop inclusive, engaging workplaces where employees feel supported, valued, recognised, and motivated to perform at their best. 

Fabio Mazetti

Global senior benefits manager, Philip Morris International

Fabio Mazetti is a Senior HR professional with over 20 years of experience. He excels in various HR subsystems, including staffing, compensation, benefits, organizational changes, business partnering, data analysis, business intelligence, analytics, and reporting. Fabio has led projects across the Americas Region and globally, working with multicultural teams. 

Fluent in English, Spanish, and Portuguese, Fabio holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology and certifications in Business Administration, coaching, and health & wellbeing programs. His diverse skill set bridges the gap between technology and HR, driving continuous improvement and innovation. 

LinkedIn:

https://linkedin.com/in/fabio-mazetti-73934a/

Mo Harhara

Head of pensions, Skanska

Mo is the Head of Pensions and Trustee Director at Skanska with responsibility for the executive oversight and strategic leadership of UK and Irish pension funds.

He was previously the Head of Pensions at Evelyn Partners and Head of Pensions at Mott MacDonald, where he was responsible for pension strategy and overall management of the pension schemes including governance matters in the UK and Ireland. Prior to this, he has held pension and employee benefits consultancy roles at WTW and PwC, advising companies ranging from SMEs to FTSE100s, helping them with their strategic plans and leading various projects in areas such as DB liability and risk management, auto-enrolment, and pension scheme and benefit design.

Tim Goodchild

Director, International Benefits, Take-Two Interactive 

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.

Ant Donaldson

Reward Manager, Wolseley UK Group

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.

He is also an experienced DB and DC pension trustee, and has led projects to transition Wolseley’s DC pension plan to a large master trust, to introduce a DB pensions increase exchange at E.ON, and to implement auto-enrolment for E.ON’s DC scheme, with delegated opt-out management (an industry first).

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.

He’s also actively involved in integrating acquisitions into Wolseley’s pension, benefits, and company car arrangements, with the number of new businesses hitting double figures in the past two or three years.

Ant was extremely proud to be named Employee Benefits Professional of the Year back in 2015, and led his team to the Employee Benefits Team of the Year and Grand Prix, amongst other awards.

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.

Lisa Whelpdale

Group Reward Director, Wood

Lisa Whelpdale is Group Reward Director at Wood, with responsibility for reward and global mobility across 35,000 employees in more than 60 countries. She has over 30 years' experience in reward and has held senior leadership roles with Wood, Freshfields, Currys, Imperial Brands, Shell and PwC. Her experience spans executive remuneration, incentives, benefits, pensions, wellbeing and global mobility.

A longstanding supporter of REBA, Lisa has contributed to roundtables, member events, webinars and thought leadership content, and is passionate about helping organisations develop reward strategies that balance commercial outcomes with employee wellbeing and engagement.