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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
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... read more
Lord Freeman
Director of Thales S.A., Director of Chemring Group PLC and Chairman of the UK Advisory Board of PricewaterhouseCoopers. Lord Freeman is a former... 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
Previous roles include Commissioner at the Audit Commission, The Adjudicator, Inland Revenue and Customs and Excise, non-executive director of Logica plc and Britannia... read more


Ffion Hague
Ffion Hague spent six years in the Civil Service Fast Stream and began conducting board appraisals when working on evaluating the performance of NDPBs and Next Step... 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... read more


David Stewart
David Stewart was a co-founder of IDDAS. His career encompassed senior roles in investment and commercial banking including being a Managing Director at Hill... 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 Executive... 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 was a non-executive director and previously chaired the Audit Committee of private bank, Brown Shipley. Previously Annie was Director, London First Global Network... 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... read more


Ian Parsons
Ian has over 35 years experience in senior roles in retailing, specialist distribution, logistics and healthcare. He has been Managing Director of a number of retail, healthcare... 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


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... 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... read more


Clare Hollingsworth
Clare is widely experienced at Board level, having been a Chief Executive of customer centric organisations for nearly twenty years, and more recently having... read more
Mike Smith
Mike Smith was until recently Chairman of the Tote. He has held a number of senior management posts in the leisure and betting industries over the last twenty... 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... 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... 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, a Council Member of the Open... 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... 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... read more
Andrew Garner
Following Andrew’s earlier corporate career with, Mars, Unilever-Brooke Bond, and Gallaher, he was approached to join Boyden World Corporation, one of the... read more


Colin Peters
Colin has over 30 years experience in the Human Resources field, especially in a global manufacturing market with extensive knowledge of Employee Engagement and... read more
Steve Melcher
Steve has spent over thirty years as a senior executive in the financial services industry in both banking and insurance, the last ten years of which as Chairman and CEO... read more


Neela Bettridge
Neela is a skilled practitioner and expert in the field of Business Social Responsibility and Sustainability. As an IDDAS Mentor Neela is able to bring an experienced and informed... read more
Julie Chakraverty
Julie Chakraverty is a Non-Executive Director of Aberdeen Asset Management PLC and Spirit Pubs Company PLC. Formerly she was a Non-Executive Director of Paternoster... read more


David Williams
David has wide business experience both as CEO & as a Non Executive Director/Chairman. After a successful corporate career spanning 28 years in blue chip public companies... read more
Jean Gomm
Jean Gomm has a broad and international senior executive background in strategy, organisational change, HR and general management... read more
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