Heike Avramovic has been working as HR professional and leader in Siemens for over 15 years. Her roles include Compensation & Benefits, HR Business Partnering as well as team and project management. In her current role she is leading the Reward & Policy function for Siemens UK and Ireland. Furthermore, she is a member of the Siemens UK & Ireland HR leadership team as well as of the Siemens Global C&B leadership team.

Since 2010, Jon has been Head of HR – Frontier Agriculture Ltd (a joint venture between Cargill and Associated British Foods). Over the last several years, Jon and his team have worked closely with the leadership team at Frontier Agriculture Ltd to implement the business/HR strategy.

Jon’s main expertise/experience is HR related, specifically talent management, employee engagement, change management, employee reward and industrial relations. However, during his career Jon has also worked in a number of non HR roles, including operations, customer service, sales and marketing.

Jon’s key achievements in the last 6 months is to help Frontier Agriculture Ltd achieve 14th place in the UK Best Workplaces Programme (Large category) 2016 and 21st place in the European Best Workplaces Programme (Large category) 2016.

Neal is a currently a Director in the Global Total Rewards team at McDonald’s, where he has worked for over 35 years having started on the shop floor as a crewmember.

He previously led the UK Reward team for sixteen years, driving improvement and innovation in the benefits offered to employees. Several initiatives were recognised with external awards, including the Employee Benefits Awards Grand Prix for alignment of reward strategy to business strategy in 2012.

Neal is a Chartered Fellow of the CIPD and was honoured to be voted the Employee Benefits Awards Professional of the Year in 2014.

Following 13 years at the John Lewis Partnership, working through the various disciplines of HR (including employee benefits management), Adam joined the Magic Circle law firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer in 2008 to implement and manage their flexible benefits scheme. In 2011, Adam moved in to the financial services sector, firstly working for J.P. Morgan as their employee benefits and wellness manager (EMEA) and then in 2015 joining Standard Chartered Bank as an International benefits manager. Adam took up the role of employee benefits manager (UK & ROI) at Bank of America Merrill Lynch in early 2018 and has focussed on creating a more technology focussed and cohesive benefits communication strategy whilst also developing the bank’s eldercare offering. To date, Adam has won Best Benefits Communication Strategy for a large employer (2015), Best Benefits to Support Working Carers (2018), and was highly commended for Best Benefits Strategy (2015) at the Employee Benefits Awards. Adam is a regular speaker for various benefits companies and publications and has also been a columnist for Employee Benefits Magazine.

Liz has worked for leading international and SME professional service firms in accountancy, law and investment banking for more than 25 years, both as a finance professional and HR professional and for the last 10 years as HR Director and a board member.

Liz has a personal and professional interest in developing employer policies to improve the gender balance around caring roles and responsibilities and the positive impact change in this area will have on the careers and home lives for all.

With 30 years of reward experience behind him Jim is currently Head of Benefits at RBS. He’s re defined and rejuvenated the banks flagship UK & ROI benefits programme, RBSelect . Passionate about the power of well timed and personalised communications, Jim has lead the benefits team to deliver significant growth in colleague engagement with the programme. More recently he’s lead the development of the bank’s financial wellbeing programme. Jim’s views and opinions are regularly sought out by providers and advisers alike

Chris is currently Head of Performance & Reward at AWE plc, a large defence contractor. He has worked in a range of sectors including Recruitment, IT, Property and Education, following his early career as a commissioned officer in the Royal Navy.

His work covers all areas of performance and incentives, compensation, benefits and recognition. Chris has delivered many innovative reward projects in different cultures and is a strong believer in the Reward function playing a lead role in successful organisational change.

Sarah has been working with the partners to deliver on the business and people strategy, whilst supporting the organisation day to day. Sarah started her career at Thomson Reuters before transferring to the professional services sector, where she worked for two law firms, including Mayer Brown. Sarah is a fellow of the CIPD. Sarah has recently won industry recognition with the Estates Gazette – Employer of the Year award 2018.

o Fairweather is Head of Reward and Wellbeing at OVO Energy. Joining OVO in 2016, Jo leads on all areas of its reward and wellbeing strategy. OVO’s people proposition is built around ensuring that work at OVO isn’t just ‘work’ - that people feel proud and happy to work there, and building an impressive and engaging total reward offering has all been central to that.

Prior to joining OVO, Jo has over 15 years experience across a variety of senior people management roles, initially starting her career at Marks & Spencer as a HR business partner and then in people policy, before specialising in reward.

Debbie has worked within HR for over 20 years and spent the last 9 years specialising in Employee Benefits and Reward, has previously won an EB award for a SAYE scheme and been shortlisted for several others including for the Benefits Professional of the Year award. Debbie is curently working for Carlsberg UK where she has been brewing up probably the best benefits and wellbeing package in the world…!

Debbie previously spent 8 years with Home Retail Group and has a long background within the retail sector gaining a great understanding of the challenges of engaging with a diverse work force spread over 1000s of locations.

A specialist in service design and delivery, project management and employee change and communications. Has worked for Mundipharma International Ltd in Cambridge since 2004 moving from IT to Reward & Wellbeing role in 2011. Delivered key projects such as Pensions Auto-Enrolment, closure of the final salary pension scheme to future accrual, an award-winning Flexible Benefits scheme, financial education programme and a pan-European Workday implementation.

Tom is the Group Benefits Manager for BNP Paribas. Having joined the investment bank in 2009 he is now responsible for a team of three managing the group’s award winning benefits offering across twelve separate businesses, comprising 9,000 staff in the UK. He also has responsibility for mental health & wellbeing and received both the inaugural REBA Employee Wellbeing Vanguard award and Employee Benefits Professional of the Year award in 2018.

His professional career has focused on Reward roles since graduating Oxford University in 2005 and prior to joining BNP Paribas Tom worked across a range of sectors including as Compensation & Benefits Manager for Bureau Veritas and in a consultant role at CMS Cameron McKenna.

Ian is the Reward Manager at the University of Lincoln overseeing all aspects of reward including payroll, pensions, employee benefits and executive remuneration. Having started his career in finance before moving specifically in to pay and benefits Ian has a background in both the public and private sector having previously worked for Moy Park, Mars, Prudential and Lincolnshire County Council. A firm believer and champion in the importance of pay and benefits as a driver for change and in supporting organisational agendas Ian has previously overseen teams that have been acknowledged for their achievements at sector awards for pay and benefits.

Broad experience in Reward, operating at both strategic and operational levels. Proven ability to manage teams, strong leadership and HR Business Partnering skills across Global multinational and UK businesses in complex and matrixed environments, covering private and public sectors, including FMCG, sales, retail, financial, food and health care. Skills include working in a truly global environment as Director Global Sales Compensation covering top markets across APAC, LATAM, EMEA and North America, an experienced European Compensation and Benefits Director, with the ability to collaborate with and influence Executive Management, building strong senior business partner relationships, deal with employee relations including Employment Law and Trade Union negotiation, motivation of others, leadership and mentoring. Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to influence and negotiate at senior levels. Organised and effective in project management and planning. Now in a Group Reward Directors position across a Global organisation responsible for Total reward in 40 markets, including executive Compensation and Remco Experience.

Su has over 25 years experience working in HR and has been responsible for achieving a number of national awards for Imperial College in the area of diversity and inclusion. These include: the Universities HR Award for Culture Change in May 2018, Best for All Stages of Fatherhood Award- Working Families in July 2017, Top 30 Employers Award- Working Families in November 2016. She is currently driving a pioneering training programme which creates a “Speak Out” culture through empowering individuals to become “Active Bystanders”. Following the #Me Too campaign this programme has now become global.

Louise’s team is responsible for all of Tesco’s benefits, reward and pension communications. She joined the company in 2001 and started her career in PR and later as internal communications manager. Since then she has had different communication and project roles including leading Tesco’s colleague benefits team. She has considerable experience in pensions and benefits, with a particular focus on communication strategy, creation and implementation. She was awarded ‘Best Pensions Communications’ at the Employee Benefits Awards in 2018.

Over 10 years Reward and Employee Benefits experience working as part of a wider Benefits team at Avsion Young, responsible for the design and development of the reward strategy, ensuring that policy and practice is aligned to the business strategy. Particular focus on managing and co-ordinating the delivery of employee benefits, including the Flexible Benefit Scheme.

Sallys remit covers Compensation and Benefits, Payroll, Pensions and HR Systems. Sally enjoys launching new Employee Benefits specifically supporting Employee Wellbeing, an area of significant focus with Anglian Water. She has worked in conjunction with multiple suppliers to launch completely new offerings as a pilot to test success for the Supplier and Employees of Anglian Water. Sally is mum to 2 teenagers who keep her busy outside of work.

Laura is an experienced reward and benefits professional. She is passionate about transforming the reward schemes at Baker McKenzie with a particular focus on remuneration packages, benefit schemes and employee wellbeing. The uptake and engagement in benefits has significantly increased following innovative promotions and targeted communications to showcase the wide range of benefits available. Laura is wholeheartedly committed to delivering a diverse and progressive range of services with the focus of providing a comprehensive range that supports employees' wellbeing in their busy professional lives and additionally supports and advances the firm's strategy.

Tina joined the Gamesys board as Director of People in 2014. Prior to this she was the Director of Diversity and Inclusion for Vodafone Group. During her career at Vodafone she headed up the Global sales team for Europe for six years and prior to that worked on the development of new media and content services, developing leading propositions on content rating and access controls, to help create a more appropriate mobile internet environment for younger users. Prior to joining Vodafone, Tina was CRM Director of Avis Europe.