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197. Dr. Annalisa Jenkins OBE: How to build a plural career - lessons from 50+ board roles

Dr. Annalisa Jenkins has held around fifty board and trustee roles across biotech, venture capital, public bodies and medical charities, including Compass Pathways, AVROB

196. Conor Boden: How private equity decides who gets the board seat

Conor Boden spent over two decades building boards for private equity funds. He was Head of Portfolio Board Development at Advent International. Listen to this episode to

195. Debbie Hewitt MBE: Chairing the FA - how to do the top job in the face of public scrutiny

Debbie Hewitt MBE is Chair of The Football Association, the first woman to hold the role in its history. She is also a Vice-President of FIFA. Alongside football, she cha

194. Matthew Lester: How a chair finds out what's really going on inside the business

Matthew Lester is Chairman of Kier group plc and NED and Chair of the Audit Committee at Intermediate Capital Group plc. Previously, he was CFO of Royal Mail plc. Listen

193. Dame Hayaatun Sillem: How to use early board roles to accelerate your exec career and set up a non-exec portfolio

Dame Hayaatun is the founder and CEO of Argentic Associates. Previously, she was CEO of the Royal Academy of Engineering and the Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering Fou

192. Nick Wheeler OBE: The tortoise who built Charles Tyrwhitt - focus, founders and knowing when to step back

Nick Wheeler OBE founded Charles Tyrwhitt in 1986 from his university room in Bristol. Forty years later it is a £400 million revenue business operating across the UK, US

191. Debbie Wosskow CBE: How entrepreneurs can become high-impact board members

Debbie Wosskow CBE is one of the UK's best-known entrepreneurs. Today, she is NED of Channel 4 and co-chair of the government-backed Invest in Women Taskforce. Tune

190. Sir Lloyd Dorfman CBE: Why boards need to encourage more persistence and risk - lessons from Travelex and the Royal Ballet and Opera

Sir Lloyd Dorfman CBE is founder of Travelex, the world's largest retailer of foreign exchange. Today, he is Chair of the Royal Ballet and Opera and sits on the Mayo

189. Jacqui Ferguson: How boards choose a chair, and how to be the one they pick

Jacqui Ferguson started her career as a technologist in Scotland and rose to become a divisional CEO at Hewlett Packard. Today, she is a SID at Croda International plc an

188. James Thornton: How to get founder-to-CEO succession right

James Thornton is CEO of Intrepid Travel, the world's largest adventure travel B Corp, operating in more than 100 countries with $809 million in revenue and 317,880

187. Ilse Howling: How to be the chair a board needs - create space, listen, pick the team

Ilse Howling is Chair of Frontier Developments, the AIM-listed video games company behind Planet Zoo and the Jurassic World Evolution franchise. Previously, she spent ove

186. Tom Toumazis MBE: How to build a portfolio career: getting your foot in the door, identity challenges and the exec-to-non-exec transition

Tom Toumazis spent 8 years as EVP and Managing Director of Disney-ABC-ESPN in EMEA. Since stepping off the executive track a decade ago he has built a portfolio career wh

185. Dame Anne Richards: From CERN to Coutts: How boards behave under pressure

Dame Anne Richards is Chair of Coutts, NED at Land Securities and Chair of TheCityUK Leadership Council. Previously, she was CEO of Fidelity International. Listen to this

184. Gavin Patterson: How boards make or break a CEO - lessons from the BT boardroom

Why becoming a NED made Gavin a better CEO (01:33) The advice Gavin would give himself  looking back (09:12) How to unlock the high-flying CEO who always thinks they’re r

183. Ian Filby: Power in the boardroom: PE control, public scrutiny & activist pressure

Ian Filby spent almost 30 years at Alliance Boots before becoming CEO of DFS. He then served as Chair at Joules and Pendragon, where he navigated activist shareholder pre

182. Celia Huber: The complete guide to AI in the boardroom

Celia Huber is a Senior Partner at McKinsey & Company and leads McKinsey's boards services work in North America. Celia also serves on the executive committee of the

181. Chris Murray MBE: How board members succeed in high-risk-high-regulation environments

Chris Murray MBE  has chaired National Grid Gas plc, National Grid Electricity pls and National Grid Gas Holdings. He now sits on the board of SGN. Listen to this episode

180. Betsy Atkins: Key lessons from 38 public company boards across four continents

Betsy Atkins has sat on more than 38 public company boards, been through 17 IPOs, and has done it all while running three companies of her own.  She co-founded Ascend Com

179. Gareth Penny: Diamonds and Coal: Governing when the odds are stacked against you

Gareth Penny spent 22 years at De Beers, joining the board in 2003 and serving as Group CEO from 2006 to 2010 during which he dismantled over a century of supply-side mon

178. The Rt Hon Justine Greening: The talent question most boards are not asking, from Rotherham to Westminster

The Rt Hon Justine Greening has served as Economic Secretary to the Treasure and later held three Cabinet posts. She left the Cabinet in 2018 to found the Social Mobility