Anne Hurst
- Inclusion lead, PwC UK
Anne Hurst is the Inclusion Lead at professional services firm, PwC LLP. She leads on Inclusion and has extensive experience working across all aspects of diversity and inclusion both in the UK and USA. Her role is to support the business to create an inclusive culture where individual difference is recognised and flourishes as an essential foundation for business growth and success. Anne works with the Firm's leadership to drive behavioural change and to build the inclusive leadership capability of leaders enabling them to harness difference to create value for their clients and changing businesses. She has 30 years’ experience as a Human Resources leader in the banking and professional services sectors.
Tunmbi Idowu is a lawyer and international regulatory and compliance specialist. Tunmbi provides regulatory and compliance advice and guidance to governments, regulators, businesses and solution providers in different markets and jurisdictions. Tunmbi guides providers of payment and other infrastructure systems and regulators to understand and support the emergence of new and emerging innovations including digital assets and dynamic data systems.
Tunmbi has worked with leading providers of payments and infrastructure systems solutions in the EU, US, Asia, Africa and other parts of the world. He was the Global Head of Regulatory Affairs and Government Engagements for Ericsson Money Services in Sweden during which he provided support to private sector providers and government agencies within the digital payment sectors. He also spent the time to implement a compliance infrastructure in the company itself to suit its products and services and ensure fitness for purpose.
As the European Director for regulatory compliance at Western Union Tunmbi was actively involved in the implementation of European Directives and Regulations in particular the Payment Services Directive during which he spearheaded the authorisation and licensing for the company, including the creation of an EU compliant infrastructure within the company.
He was the head of regulatory affairs for Vigo in LATAM, a subsidiary of Western Union USA.
His time as Assistant Vice president for citigroup in the UK saw him support European Franchises to ensure standards.
Tunmbi is a Mentor for the University of Cambridge Judge Business School in the United Kingdom.
Tunmbi was also Senior Advisor for Africa to the Private Office of HH Sheikh Ahmed Bin Faisal Al Qassimi. Tunmbi is an author whose aim is to empower, motivate and focus the mind, aspirations and goals of his readers.
Prior to his present responsibilities he has worked and held key positions in a variety of international financial and payment services provider institutions.
As a lawyer who specialises in infrastructure, innovations, financial and payment policy and regulations, Tunmbi is committed to support the creation of fit for purpose legal and regulatory regimes that support the realisation of true digital environment and the goal of financial and social inclusion and business sustainability.
He is currently the CEO of Tono Digital and a director at Knit UK. His payments services company, Quadra Systems, is deployed to support social and financial inclusion in the emerging markets.
Scarlett Allen-Horton is a highly accomplished recruitment leader, Business Partner to Lord Sugar, BBC Apprentice Finalist, innovative entrepreneur and founder of the multi-award winning Harper Fox Partners. Scarlett is also a keynote speaker, business coach, RFC board advisor and voluntary ambassador for numerous charitable and purpose driven organisations.
With over a decade of experience in global executive search and leadership assessment analysis, Scarlett has a proven track record of success and expertise in various subjects, particularly within recruitment, STEM and equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI).
As a female founder, Scarlett has secured significant investment and scaled her fully retained search business from a zero starting point to a seven figure enterprise. Scarlett’s dedication to her work has earned her multiple client quality, EDI, top consultant, and leadership awards spanning the last decade.
Her impressive achievements and expertise has led to Scarlett being featured in prominent media outlets such as The Times, Business Leader, BBC News, The Independent, and Daily Mail.
Scarlett’s commitment to diversity and inclusion is demonstrated by her role as an EDI ambassador and advisor to the Recruitment Employment Confederation UK and numerous voluntary initiatives. In addition, she serves as a board committee advisor to the UK Black Business Show and is a judge for the REC Awards and Black Talent Awards.
Scarlett is a sought-after keynote speaker, having delivered inspiring speeches at various events such as Karen Brady’s Women in Tech Expo, Radio 5Live, EON Leadership Series, NatWest Rose Review, UK Construction Week and Local Councils to name a few. She is also a dedicated business coach with a focus on purpose, passion, and profit and has helped many aspiring entrepreneurs and business leaders achieve their goals.
Christina Schwabenland
- Director of the Research Centre on Leadership Innovation, University of Bedfordshire
Christina Schwabenland is the Director of the Research Centre on Leadership Innovation, University of Bedfordshire Business School. Prior to taking up an academic job she spent 14 years as the CEO of two voluntary organisations in London. She has written and researched on equality, diversity and inclusion and has published two monographs and articles in numerous academic journals. She is currently managing three grant funded projects exploring the uses of LEGO® Serious Play®
to address the challenges of embedding EDI in practice and in business school curriculum.
Amy Therrien
- Director, AWS Storage Services, Amazon
I am a Director of Amazon S3 at AWS, where I lead global teams of engineers and program managers to deliver open-source storage connectors, serverless data transformation, and massive scale storage and durability for S3, the most widely used cloud storage service in the world. With over 11 years of cloud experience and 9 years of S3 expertise, I am passionate about building innovative and efficient solutions that enable customers to store, access, and analyze their data at any scale.
In my current role, I have delivered multiple strategic initiatives that have improved the performance, reliability, and cost-effectiveness of S3, such as S3 Object Lambda, S3 Select, and S3 Event Notifications. I have also built the capacity model and algorithm for ordering storage capacity for S3 and automated it using machine learning. As a leader, I have hired, developed, and promoted diverse and talented engineering talent, mentored senior leaders across AWS, and led leadership training for European remote sites. My mission is to empower customers and teams to achieve their goals with S3 and AWS.
