Archives: Speakers

Elizabeth is the global strategic marketing manager for the food and beverage packaging markets that H.B. Fuller serves. With a passion and focus on sustainable solutions and extensive knowledge of the packaging industry and B2B marketing experience, Elizabeth acts as a connection between market and technology, customers and research and development.

Stuart Coleman is passionate about the opportunities for people to use technology, data and machines to learn new skills and shape a better future. He has diverse entrepreneurial and executive leadership experience in venture-backed, publicly listed and mission-led high growth technology, training and consulting organisations. He raised venture funding as well as built several businesses from cashflow. He has been founding Commercial Director at the Open Data Institute in 2012 and is delighted to have returned to support the leadership and team amidst an exciting new phase of growth in 2020.

Mira Doig, Ph.D., Technical Director at ABS Laboratories, Ltd.
Mira has over 30 years of experience performing regulated bioanalysis of drugs, metabolites, and biomarkers using GC-MS & LC-MS/MS, and has supported multiple drug development programs from discovery to MAA/NDA submission. In 1997 she established ABS Laboratories as a GLP/GCP accredited bioanalytical contract research organization, which was acquired by ACM Global Labs in 2018. Today, she continues to oversee ACM’s bioanalysis laboratory services and maintains technical and operational excellence.

I am a Chartered Accountant currently living in the West Midlands, United Kingdom.

I trained with a regional firm, Rabjohns (now part of Bishop Fleming), before joining Ernst & Young and KPMG, leaving them to build an outsourcing company.

My interests range from technology to sports having played football regularly and then running half marathons. I am also interested in entrepreneurship.

My passion is to allow accounting professionals to deliver more for their clients. We embrace technology and this helps us drive value to accounting firms around the globe.

Dr Stephanie Wray is a founder of Nature Positive (the brainchild of a small group of academics and consultants who recognised that engaging business in the fight against the loss of biodiversity was (i) the key to making a difference at scale (ii) an unfulfilled market opportunity that has been on the ‘too difficult’ pile for years and (iii) just the sort of  thorny intellectual problem they loved to get their teeth into.)  She is also a Director of RSK Wilding and RSK Biocensus.  Previously she was Global Head of Environment for Hyder Consulting (now Arcadis) and has held a range of non-executive, interim management and strategy consulting roles advising businesses on their environmental impacts.

Steph is a Chartered Ecologist, a Fellow and past President of the Chartered Institute of Ecology and Environmental Management and in 2011 she was awarded the Mammal Society medal for her work on mitigating development impacts on mammals.  She has worked in biodiversity consultancy for at least  twenty five years (at least she’s not admitting to more) and she will never bring you a problem without a solution, usually a fiendish one that you will kick yourself for not thinking of first.

As an Associate Façade Engineer in Buro Happold’s Berlin office, Anke is working on large-scale international projects as well as local multidisciplinary projects in Germany. Having graduated with a degree (Dipl. Ing.) in Civil Engineering from the University of Science in Karlsruhe and a Master in Façade Engineering from Bath University, Anke has over 20+ years of experience in the construction industry. Having worked in a Main Contractor role in London, she gained experience in all RIBA stages to deliver high-profile commercial and residential projects as well as sport stadiums such as the Emirates and the London Olympic stadium. Furthermore, she has extensive experience as a Project Manager in Germany, delivering top tier residential and commercial buildings.

Anke’s primary interest is it to engineer and design high quality building ‘skins’ that are efficient, buildable and sustainable in the long-term. She succeeds in this by applying an integrated engineering approach to building design, addressing the complex demands, for example reducing energy consumption and the carbon footprint of construction material, of the built environment.

Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales.

Over 25 years of experience in the accountancy profession, including the last five years leading a new firm of ICAEW Chartered Accountants and the prior ten years as a Director in PwC’s Accounting Advisory group specialising in asset finance and leasing, structured products, complex IFRS advisory and leading their IFRS 16 accounting services.

Chris has a wide range of experience of delivering assurance and complex advisory services to the retail sector, lessees and lessors, asset finance businesses, global investment banks and technical accounting support and multi GAAP conversions.

He has also led IFRS 16 implementation engagements to FTSE100 retailers, hospitality groups and global house-hold names.

In addition to his time within the accountancy profession, he has valuable experience outside having worked for two years at the IFC, World Bank Group in Washington DC USA where he provided IFRS accounting and structuring support to investment officers and structuring teams on IFRS and US GAAP and a further year as Head of Financial Reporting Controls and Risks for a life insurance company negotiating refinancing with bankers.