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Designing your Corporate Responsibility strategy for the new Companies Act
Speaker Profiles
 Rt Hon Stephen Timms MP
Minister of State for Competitiveness and Consumer Affairs
Keynote Speaker
Stephen Timms was appointed Minister for Competitiveness in June 2007 at the newly formed Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform. Prior to this he served as Chief Secretary to the Treasury, following his role as Minister for Pensions Reform in the Department for Work and Pensions. Other previous Ministerial positions include Financial Secretary to the Treasury; Minister for e-Commerce and Competitiveness and Minister of State for Energy, e-Commerce and Postal Services in the Department for Trade and Industry; Minister of State for School Standards; and Minister of State and Parliamentary Under Secretary in the then Department for Social Security.
Stephen entered Parliament in 1994 as MP for Newham North East, and has been MP for East Ham since 1997. He served as Parliamentary Private Secretary to Andrew Smith from May 1997 to March 1998, and to Mo Mowlam from March to July 1998.
Stephen was born in 1955. He was educated at Farnborough Grammar School and read mathematics at Emmanuel College, Cambridge. He has lived in the East London Borough of Newham since 1979 and married Hui-Leng in July 1986. Before entering Parliament, Stephen worked in the telcommunications industry for 15 years, first for Logica and then for Ovum. He was elected to Newham Council in 1984 and served as Leader of the Council from 1990 to 1994.
 Kim Clemo
Director of Climate Change
AXA Insurance
Kim Clemo joined AXA Insurance in 2004 as Human Resources Director. She is an experienced leader with expertise in organisational change, implementation of major change programmes, strategy development, communication and corporate responsibility.
Kim was appointed Climate Change Director in January 2007 with the focus on developing a leadership influencing strategy, developing internal carbon management strategy and awareness programme for employees and developing products in areas which include exposure management, communication and raising awareness with customers, promoting responsible behaviour, pricing through the incorporation of climate change and developing tailor made insurance products which reward and incentivise customers.
Kim has a diverse career history. She spent 10 years working in the licensed retail and brewing industries in several roles including Regional Programme Manager, Human Resources Director and Commercial Services Director. Kim has now been working in the financial services industry for 8 years mainly as Human Resources Director and currently as Climate Change Director.
 Julia Cleverdon
Chief Executive
Business in the Community
Julia Cleverdon is Chief Executive of Business in the Community, a unique movement of 750 companies across the UK committed to improving continually their positive impact on society.
Julia Cleverdon was appointed as Chief Executive of Business in the Community in 1992. During this period Julia has established a formidable reputation as a renowned leader and speaker on corporate social responsibility and has personally been responsible for introducing new thinking and action from within the UK’s top boardrooms.
Her energies in promoting responsible business practice and the significant impact of the campaigns of Business in the Community led to her being listed by The Times as one of the 50 most influential women in Britain. She was appointed CBE in 1996 and CVO in the New Year’s Honours’ list 2002.
Under Julia’s leadership the collective activities of Business in the Community have expanded to impact across local communities, support positive environmental activity, promote diversity and best practice in the workplace and encourage ethical operations in the wider marketplace.
Prior to her work at Business in the Community, Julia served as Director of The Industrial Society’s Education and Inner City Division from 1981 – 1988, during which time The Industrial Society became the leading provider of management training for education and voluntary organisations. She started her career working in industrial relations for British Leyland.
Julia was married to the late John Garnett, director of the Industrial Society, and has two daughters aged 18 and 21. In her voluntary roles, Julia serves as chair of Teach First, whose mission is to address educational disadvantage by transforming exceptional graduates into effective, inspirational teachers and leaders in all fields. She is also a director of ‘In Kind Direct’, Governor of Henley Management College, Trustee of Timebank, patron of the Helena Kennedy Bursary Scheme, patron of Volunteer Reading Help and an Ambassador for the World Wildlife Fund.
 Christine Farnish
Director, Public Policy & Sustainability, Barclays Corporate Affairs
Barclays Plc
Christine Farnish joined Barclays as its Public Policy Director on 2 October 2006. She leads a global team responsible for public policy issues across Barclays businesses.
Prior to joining Barclays Christine was Chief Executive of the National Association of Pension Funds, the leading UK lobby group on pensions.
Christine joined the NAPF from the Financial Services Authority where she was Consumer Director from 1998 to 2002. She initiated the FSA’s work on Treating Customers Fairly, set up the new Ombudsman and Compensation Schemes, and led the FSA’s early work on consumer education.
Prior to the FSA, Christine was Deputy Director-General at OFTEL.
Before joining Barclays Christine served as a Non Executive Director of the Office of Fair Trading and remains a Council member of the Advertising Standards Authority. She has also served on the Advisory Board of ING Direct UK and as a NED of Papworth NHS Trust.
Christine is married with 4 grown up children.
 Caroline Goodall
Partner, Head of Mergers & Acquisitions
Herbert Smith LLP
Caroline Goodall is a Partner at Herbert Smith LLP and Global Head of the Mergers and Acquisitions practice. Her practice spans a broad range of corporate work with a particular emphasis on corporate finance and mergers and acquisitions. She has been involved, as adviser to both companies and to investment banks, in numerous takeovers, international mergers and acquisitions, international share issues, and cross-border transactions. She also provides strategic advice to company boards on a variety of issues, including corporate governance. She has also acted an an adviser to the Department of Trade & Industry on a number of matters including on corporate governance issues.
Caroline has for many years been recommended by the leading UK and European Legal Directives as a leading lawyer for Corporate Finance and Mergers & Acquisitions.
Caroline is a member of the Law Society's Company Law Committee which continues to be in regular dialogue with the DTI/DBERR as regards the drafting and implementation of the Companies Act 2006.
Caroline is also an Associate Fellow of Newnham College, Cambridge.
 Baroness Sally Greengross
Chair
All Party Parliamentary Group on Corporate Responsibility
Sally Greengross was born in 1935 and educated at the London School of Economics. She has been a cross-bench member of the House of Lords since 2000, prior to which she worked as a linguist, industry executive, lecturer and researcher.
Baroness Greengross was the Director-General of Age Concern from 1987-2000 (she is now their Vice-President); the European Vice-President of the International Federation on Ageing from 1987-2001; the Joint Chair of the Age Concern Institute of Gerontology at King's College London from 1987-2000; Chair of the Experience Corps from 2001-04; and the Executive Chair of the International Longevity Centre UK from 2000-04. She is currently the Chief Executive of the International Longevity Centre UK, Chair of UCL’s advisory group for the English Longitudinal Study on Ageing, co-Chair of the Alliance for Health and The Future and patron of Beginnings.
She has been a patron of Action on Elder Abuse since 1994, and is also a trustee of Help Age International and the Resolution Foundation. Baroness Greengross is the President of the Pensions Policy Institute and Honorary Vice-President of the Royal Society for the Promotion of Health. She edited Ageing: an adventure in living in 1985 and has been a consultant for the Journal of Educational Gerontology since 1987. She was named UK Woman of Europe in 1990, and holds honorary doctorates from seven UK universities. She was awarded the OBE in 2003.
 Peter Kenyon
Chief Executive
Chelsea Football Club
Of all the big money signings made by Chelsea after the takeover of Roman Abramovich, perhaps the biggest shock was the signing of chief executive Peter Kenyon from Manchester United. Peter oversaw United's dramatic success and rise on and off the field when the club established itself as the biggest in the world. But the opportunity presented by Chelsea's ambition to displace United from that position was one Peter could not resist.
Peter began his professional career specialising in management accounting. He joined Courtaulds, the largest textile company in England, in 1979, as Divisional Executive. In 1986 he joined the sports world for the first time with kit company Umbro UK in Manchester. From Operations Director he became Managing Director where he started to focus the Umbro brand around one single sport, soccer. Peter rapidly established the brand as one of the market leaders kitting out some of the world's biggest teams, such as Manchester United, Ajax, Inter Milan and four-time World Cup champions, Brazil.
In 1992, he handled the sale of Umbro UK to Stone Manufacturing of Greenville, South Carolina, bringing the company under American ownership. Kenyon was then appointed Chief Executive of Umbro Europe and two years later, Executive Vice-President and Chief Operating Officer of Umbro International Worldwide. His expertise attracted United and in May 1997, he joined as Deputy Chief Executive, a newly created position with responsibility for building the brand internationally.
In August 2000, Peter Kenyon was appointed as United's Chief Executive and under his guidance the club's commercial operations made it the wealthiest in the world. He also broke new ground when the club signed a partnership with the New York Yankees. It was this success and ground breaking vision which attracted Chelsea and he quit United to move to Stamford Bridge in September 2003, arriving finally in February 2004. In the summer of 2004 he masterminded the capture of new manager Jose Mourinho.
Under the leadership of Peter, the club has been transformed and he is widely regarded as one of world soccer’s leading executives with an unparalleled network of contacts across FIFA, UEFA, and the commercial world. He was instrumental in the club’s two record commercial deals, a new shirt sponsorship with Samsung, the biggest in Premiership history, and a new kit supplier deal with adidas, worth around £96m over 8 years. Most importantly on the field Chelsea won the Premiership, Carling Cup and FA Community Shield in the 2004/5 season.
 Peter Montagnon
Head of Investment Affairs
Association of British Insurers
Peter Montagnon joined the Association of British Insurers as Director of Investment Affairs in October 2000. ABI members are large investors controlling funds worth some £1,100bn. Mr Montagnon’s department is responsible for representing the interests of ABI members as investors to the broader public, government and the companies in which the industry holds stakes.
Previously Mr Montagnon had spent two decades as a senior journalist on the Financial Times, including spells as Head of the Lex Column and in charge of coverage of the international capital markets. His last assignment, from 1994 to 2000, was as Asia Editor, responsible for the FT’s coverage of a region stretching from Pakistan to New Zealand.
After graduating in Modern Languages from Cambridge University in 1972, Mr Montagnon joined Reuters news agency as a financial journalist. At Reuters he completed assignments in Hong Kong, Zurich and Washington before joining the Financial Times.
Mr Montagnon has been appointed by the European Commission to serve on the new European Corporate Governance Forum.
Mr Montagnon is Chairman of the Board of the International Corporate Governance Network
 Lord Dick Newby
Live Consulting
Chairman, Live Consulting and Member, All Parliamentary Group on CR
Dick Newby has been active in the CR field for over 15 years, since his time as Director of Corporate Affairs at Rosehaugh plc. He now Chairs Live Consulting, a CR consultancy, which specialises in putting together partnerships between the corporate, voluntary and public sectors. He is an active member of the All Party Parliamentary Group on CR and Lib Dem Treasury Spokesman in the House of Lords.
 Nigel Pate
Senior Manager, Corporate Responsibility
HSBC Holdings plc
Nigel leads a team that supports HSBC’s businesses around the world in developing strategic corporate responsibility (CR) partnerships, benefiting communities and the business. The team, which is part of HSBC’s Group Corporate Sustainability department based at the financial services company’s global headquarters in London, also sets policy and collates data and plans on the HSBC Group’s philanthropic partnerships and their impacts.
The team successfully developed and managed HSBC’s first flagship environmental programme, ‘Investing in Nature’, a $50 million, five-year partnership with WWF, BGCI and Earthwatch that breathed new life into three of the world’s great rivers, saved 16,000 plant species from extinction and sent 2,000 HSBC employees on environmental projects around the world.
Nigel’s team is also responsible for the development and co-ordination of the $100 million successor programme, ‘The HSBC Climate Partnership’.
In 2006, HSBC was named FT Sustainable Bank of the Year in recognition of its leadership in merging social, environmental and business objectives.
Prior to his current role, Nigel had 20 years experience in marketing, internal communications and change management with organisations including British Gas and Midland Bank.
 Phillip Roark
Chief Executive Officer
Insala
Phillip C. Roark, President & Chief Executive Officer, is an energetic entrepreneur, leader and founding partner of Insala. In the role of President and CEO for Insala he has effectively led the team of HR practitioners and web technologists through Insala's self-funded start-up process to the position of leading provider of Career Services Technology. The success of the tools and processes is evidenced today by Insala currently supporting nearly 30% of the recognized global outplacement and career management industry.
In October 2006, Insala was recognized for its inclusion on the 2006 Software 500, Software Magazine’s list of the world’s foremost software and services providers. Insala was further noted as a Leader in Software/Services Revenue Growth listed in the Top 10 Growth Companies in its revenue ranking. In 2005, Insala was recognized by Deloitte's Fast 50 Program as one of Texas' fastest growing organizations and as one of the top 100 businesses ever started by graduates of the Texas A&M University System.
Phillip's experiences prior to Insala include executive human resources and electronic communication positions with national and international corporations. He achieved the level of Corporate Director of Communication and Employee Relations for a Forbes 500 privately-held corporation before the age of 30.
Phillip holds a Masters of Arts degree in Communication from West Texas A&M University and is a certified licensed trainer for Development Dimensions International's Interaction Management, Personnel Decisions International's Profiler, the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, as well as concept creator and author of web-based learning and career development systems used today by more than 300,000 individuals.
 Neil Sherlock
Partner, Public Affairs
KPMG LLP
Neil Sherlock is the partner in charge of public affairs at KPMG. He joined KPMG in 1985 as an economist in the consulting firm and worked in a variety of roles including heading the office of Lord Sharman when he was Chairman, KPMG International. More recently Neil worked closely with KPMG International Chairman Sir Michael Rake on global regulatory issues. Educated at Oxford University, Neil graduated with a first in Philosophy, Politics and Economics and was President of the Oxford Union. He was joint editor of the book The Progressive Century :the future of the centre-left in Britain. He is Chair of Trustees at Working Families, Vice Chair of the KPMG Foundation, is a member of the Advisory Board of the IPPR Review and on the Management Committee of Centreforum. He is an adviser to Sir Menzies Campbell and was a former adviser to Paddy Ashdown, stood for Parliament in 1992 and 1997 and was a member of the Armed Forces’ Pay Review Body.
 Dr Chris Tuppen
Head of Sustainable Development & Corporate Accountability
BT
Chris Tuppen co-ordinates development of BT's global strategy across the social, environmental and economic dimensions of sustainable development. He is also responsible for producing the company's corporate accountability reports and for communicating BT's business case for corporate social responsibility. He formerly led BT's environmental issues unit.
He has served on the boards of CSR Europe and Business for Social Responsibility and currently sits on the Council of AccountAbility, the board of the Global e- Sustainability Initiative and the Social and Environmental Committee of the ACCA. He previously co-chaired the GRI measurement working group and chaired the ETNO (European Telecommunication Network Operators Association) environmental working group. He is a member of Nike's report Review Committee.
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