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Helen Pitcher, Chairman
Helen is Chairman of IDDAS. Her career spans 30 years in both the business world and the consulting sector. At the age of 27 she was appointed the... read more
David Stewart, Director
David's banking career encompassed senior roles in domestic and international merchant and commercial banks. In 1991 he became Managing Director at Hill Samuel... read more


Jonathan Cohen, Director
Jonathan built a successful first career in investment banking, becoming Chief Executive of County NatWest and subsequently Vice Chairman of Charterhouse... read more
Bernard Buckley, Director
Bernard Buckley is a Board level Executive Coach and Consultant with over thirty years experience gained in a wide range of industry sectors, including telecoms, Financial Services... read more


Lord Freeman
Chairman of Thales plc and Chairman of Cambridge University Technology Transfer Office. Lord Freeman is a former Partner and Managing Director of Lehman... read more
Hilary Sears
Hilary has extensive experience in Executive Search, having been a Director/Partner/Vice President in Carré Orban, Korn Ferry and A T Kearney Executive Search... read more


Elizabeth Filkin
Formerly Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards, Elizabeth is Chair of The Association of Television on Demand, Chair of the Advertising Advisory Committee, Deputy... read more
Ffion Hague
Ffion graduated from Jesus College, Oxford University with a BA in English Literature and the University of Wales with an MPhil in Welsh Literature. She then spent six years in the... read more


John Salmon
John was a Partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers for 29 years. As well as his responsibilities to clients in many industries, he initiated and led for 11 years PwC’s services... read more
Stewart Davies
Stewart Davies was until 2004 the Chief Executive Officer for BT Exact - BT’s research, technology and IT operations business. Stewart joined BT as an apprentice in 1968... read more


Mary Allen
After an early career as an actress, Mary took on a variety of non-executive, trustee and advisory roles in the not-for-profit arts sector, before becoming Director of... read more
Sir Nicholas Montagu
Nick was a career civil servant for thirty years. He held senior posts in a number of Departments: setting up executive agencies in Social Security, overseeing rail privatisation in Transport...
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Sue Cox
Sue's career in HR culminated in the role of Group Personnel Director of Schroders, where she remained for 13 years until 2002. In pursuit of a long held ambition, she then managed... read more
Daniel Hodson
Daniel's early career spanned both marketing and financial roles. He became Deputy CEO of Nationwide Building Society in 1989 and in 1993 was appointed CEO of LIFFE plc... read more


Annie Harding
Lady Harding is a non-executive director and chairs the Audit Committee of private bank, Brown Shipley. Previously Annie was Director, London First Global Network, engaging the... read more
Ian Bell
From 1996 until 2002, Ian was Head of the Senior Directors Unit, (SDU) the board level career counselling service, which he co-founded and where he pioneered the development of services... read more


David Potter
David's early City career encompassed roles as a Managing Director at White Weld which became CSFB, founding head of Samuel Montagu's Capital Markets Division and... read more
Martin Smith
Martin has a 25 year career history in investment banking. After a period with McKinsey, Martin was Head of Corporate Finance for Citibank in Europe, and subsequently Chairman of... read more


Ian Parsons
Ian has over 30 years experience in senior roles in retailing, specialist distribution and healthcare. He has been Managing Director of a number of retail and distribution businesses... read more
Harry Richardson
Harry’s 21 years with Electronic Data Systems culminated in his role as Head of the UK Financial Services sector, where he led the structuring and implementation of some of Europe’s largest... read more


Laurel Herman
Laurel is a specialist advisor and mentor to IDDAS. As a successful entrepreneur, author and Managing Director of Positive Presence (‘intelligent image consultancy for intelligent people’)... read more
Claire Coldwell
Claire is an experienced HR professional, with over ten years' experience in blue-chip companies. Following an earlier career in retail management, Claire retains a pragmatic approach, enabling her to... read more


Tony Goddard
Tony has over twenty-five years experience as a senior HR professional. Prior to establishing his own business. He was Director of HR at Mitchells & Butlers, a FTSE listed Company that... read more
Clare Hollingsworth
Clare is widely experienced at Board level, having been a Chief Executive of customer centric organisations for nearly twenty years. As a recent IDDAS Mentor, Clare provides access to significant... read more


Mike Smith
Mike Smith is current Chairman of the Tote and has held a number of senior management posts in the hospitality and betting industry over the last twenty years... read more
Professor Chris Bones
Chris Bones was appointed Dean of Henley Business School at the University of Reading on 1 August 2008, having joined Henley as CEO in 2004. Chris was previously Group Organisation... read more


Gordon MacDonald
Gordon’s thirty year career spans both Operational Management and Human Resources in the Retail and FMCG sectors at Executive PLC Board level. He has worked for a range of ‘Blue Chip’... read more
Claire Ighodaro CBE
Claire Ighodaro is a Board member / Non-executive Director of Lloyd’s of London, the Lending Standards Board and the British Council and a Council Member of the Open University and the... read more


Tony Graham
Tony Graham is a Board Level Executive Mentor and Coach with over thirty year’s experience primarily in the fmcg and in-house service sectors including IT. His career has mainly been in... read more
John Berry
John is the former Managing Director (Retail) and Transformation Director at the retail bank Abbey National. During his extensive career in the bank his roles included Sales Director, Marketing Director, Operations... read more
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