Panel Chair: Jill King has over 25 years HR experience gained at Unilever, Tesco, KPMG, Lovells and Linklaters where she is currently HR Director.
Panel Director: Michael Ellenhorn leads Fox Rodney Search, Ltd.’s European practice, assisting US law firms grow their presence in Europe. He is a US attorney and UK solicitor, who specialized in labour and employment issues for US Fortune 500 companies. Michael is also the former Chairman of British American Business' Transatlantic Business Development Forum.
Tim Cole, Freshfields
Jeff Marlow is Director of HR and Training at Stephenson Harwood; prior to joining SH he was Director of HR and Training at Fox Williams. He is a Fellow of the CIPD.
Jill Pett is HR Partner for Davis Langdon LLP, an international firm of cost and project managers in the construction sector. Prior to this she was HR Director at Mayer Brown Rowe & Maw LLP.
Martin Pexton is Managing Director of LMS Capital plc, an investment company quoted on AIM, which is active in venture, development capital and buyouts. LMS Capital was spun out of London Merchant Securities plc, a FTSE 250 company where Martin was a main board director from 2002 to 2007. From 1990 to 2002 he was the director responsible for human resources at Allen & Overy, prior to which he worked for Deloitte, Haskins & Sells (now PricewaterhouseCoopers) and in the insurance and nuclear industries. Martin is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development and has an MBA from the London Business School.
Genevieve Tennant is Director of HR at Allen & Overy. She has gained more than 20 years' HR experience in a variety of roles across a breadth of professional service firms - including Ernst & Young, Schroders and Arthur D. Little - and has also run her own consultancy business. Since joining Allen & Overy in 2003, Genevieve has handled a range of HR assignments, with particular focus on performance management, career progression and diversity. Since being promoted to HR Director in 2005, she has led the HR team and delivered on a number of key initiatives, and has generally worked to raise the importance of the HR/people agenda within the partnership.
Nick van Dorp , Chartered FCIPD, is Group Human Resources Director for Cyril Sweett, the international construction and property consultancy. Previously he spent 19 years as Partner and European Head of HR for Crushman & Wakefield
Kay Willis is the Director of HR for Lovells; prior to joining Lovells she was the HR Director for Andersen's Assurance business in the UK. She has almost 20 years experience in HR in professional services. She is a Fellow of the CIPD and is in the final stages of completing an executive MBA.
After 25 years in investment banking, Keith Wood sought a rest from the relentless unforgiving pace of the City. Keith joined SJ Berwin in 1990 and as a non-lawyer chief executive he has adopted guerrilla style tactics to inveigle himself into a tightly-knit tribe of first class lawyers.