Dalton Grant
The immensely friendly Hackney born Dalton Grant, is one of Great Britain’s finest high jumpers. Dalton competed at the Seoul, Barcelona and Atlanta Olympic Games. He is a European Championships and Commonwealth Games Gold medalist and in 2008 Dalton equalled the world veteran record at Banska Bystrica, Slovakia. |
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The immensely friendly Hackney born Dalton Grant, is one of Great Britain’s finest high jumpers. Dalton competed at the Seoul, Barcelona and Atlanta Olympic Games. He is a European Championships and Commonwealth Games Gold medalist and in 2008 Dalton equalled the world veteran record at Banska Bystrica, Slovakia.
His personal best jump was 2.36 metres, achieved at the 1991 World Championships in Tokyo. He has a personal indoor best of 2.37 metres.
Likeable and hugely talented, Dalton set nine successive national records between 1988 and 1991, becoming the first Briton to be ranked in the world's top 10 since Alan Paterson in 1950. Having narrowly missed a medal at the Seoul Olympics, he earned his greatest success a decade later taking the Commonwealth title in Kuala Lumpur and earning a European outdoor silver medal to add to the European indoor goals he had won in 1994.
A London 2012 Ambassador and from East End of London, Dalton is hugely excited about the positive changes that Olympics will bring about, not just in London, but beyond. |
Jo Ankier, Conference Chairwoman
Jo is a former international elite athlete who has competed at World and Commonwealth level, now working as a Sports Reporter she has appeared on Chelsea TV, Sky Sports and BBC Radio among others.
AMBASSADOR ROLES London 2012 Olympics Ambassador Running through the streets of London, starred in the acclaimed London 2012 |
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official bid video that also featured a rich variety of British sporting icons. This promotion played a key role inspiring the public to vote for London to host the 2012 Games.
Sporting Champions, Sport England Initiative organised by Sir Steve Redgrave. This involved attending schools and sports events delivering talks and making presentations to motivate and inspire young sporting talent in the UK.
GLL Sport Foundation Ambassador Awarded ambassadorial role to help inspire and encourage young sporting talent in the run up to the 2012 Olympic Games. The role has involved addressing athletes, governing bodies and MPs, including speaking at the House of Commons.
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Mark Henderson, Managing director, Gieves and Hawkes
Mark Henderson is the managing director of Gieves and Hawkes, which can be found at Number One Savile Row.
The company has represented the very best in men''s tailoring for a long time, and was granted their first Royal Warrant from George III for making velvet caps. Other world famouscustomers of days gone by have includedAdmiral Lord Nelson and The Duke of Wellington. |
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To this day Gieves and Hawkes continues to kit out the Queen’s Body Guard.
Other current customers include rock stars, actors, politicians and those who just love beautifully made clothes. But don’t ask for names – the company is far too discrete.
Mark's Top Tip:
"The British fashion industry is the best in the world - but remember you've got to prove yourself - so get loads of work experience and make sure you've got a grounding in the practical skills – they’ll take you a long way."
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Richard Morris
Commander Richard Morris joined the Metropolitan Police in 1988 and served in a range of uniform and detective roles in south and central London prior to joining Surrey Police on promotion to Superintendent in 2002. In Surrey, Richard worked as both Superintendent and Chief Superintendent (BCU Commander) on North Surrey Division, as well as leading the force change programme on neighbourhood policing and workforce modernisation. |
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Richard returned to the Met in 2008, being promoted to Commander in the role of Director of Business Performance within the Strategy and Improvement Department. He then moved to Territorial Policing, working firstly with the Crown Prosecution Service in recommending structural changes to deal better with serious crime, and latterly as Link Commander overseeing the policing of eleven boroughs in east and north London. He joined Central Operations, as ACPO / MPS lead on co-ordinating Olympics delivery nationally on behalf of the Assistant Commissioner CO (who is also Chair of the ACPO Olympics Business Area), in June 2009. Richard now heads up the national Olympic and Paralympic Policing Coordination team (OPC), which performs the functions of ‘delivery coordination partner’ for all police-led projects within the Olympic Safety and Security Programme.
In addition to his roles in the Met and Surrey, Richard also worked for two years at the National Criminal Intelligence Service, and has performed two short secondments to the Home Office, firstly on the 2002 Policing Bureaucracy Taskforce and secondly, in 2007, working as secretariat lead on neighbourhood policing and reducing bureaucracy in Sir Ronnie Flanagan’s Review of Policing. These experiences have inspired him to write several articles on the subject of reducing unnecessary red tape! As well as his national Olympics work, he is also involved in the ACPO Workforce Development Business Area, as lead on performance development reviews (PDRs) and assisting with the HMIC workforce inspection planned for 2010.
Richard is married with a teenage daughter. In his spare time, he likes to spend time with his family, walk the dog and keep abreast of current affairs. He is a keen historian, and enjoys most sports, although these days that tends to mean watching rather than playing!
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Niccolò Rossi Di Montelera
Education:
SDA BOCCONI, Milan (ITALY) 2004
Master of Business Administration
UNIVERSTITÀ DEGLI STUDI DI TORINO, Torino (ITALY) 1991-1996
Master Degree in Economics.
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Professional Experience
BIRKS & MAYORS INC, Montreal (CANADA)
Group Divisional Vice President 2007 – 2010
Product Development, Wholesale and E-Commerce
Co-manager for the Vancouver 2010 Project
Group Director 2005 – 2006
Product Development, Wholesale and E-Commerce 2005 – 2006
REGALUXE INVESTMENTS SA, Luxembourg (LUXEMBOURG)
Sales And Marketing 2002-2003
• ROYALE DE CHAMPAGNE SA: North America business development.
FERRERO GROUP, Luxembourg (LUXEMBOURG)
Project Leader 1999-2002
Product development – Biscuits and Pralines division
ITALIAN ARMY - MOUNTAIN TROUPS - SMALP Aosta (ITALY) Lieutennant 1997-1998
BORGOSESIA SPA, Torino (ITALY)
Junior Assistant Controller 1996
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Tony Bryant – Head of Business Development
Tony Bryant heads up the Food and drink/FMCG sector for K3 Retail Business Solutions. Tony has had many years experience (he says too many to be published!) working in a retail environment, the majority of which was spent at Marks and Spencer. Tony covered roles from Store/Area Manager, Divisional Operations Manager,and Retail Project Manager to Food Senior Programme Manager managing a large end to end supply chain transformation.
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Tony has a passion for the fast moving industry and has detailed knowledge of the key functions - Plan, Buy, Make, Move and Sell and understands the interdependencies of information, products and services. He is commercially driven in developing IT solutions and business processes to improve product availability, drive profitable sales and reduce costs.
Outside work Tony plays drums in a local band and tries very hard to maintain a very old Caterham 7 (Car). He also has four Daughters who also require high maintenance and a permanent taxi service. |
Sandie Dawe MBE Chief Executive, VisitBritain
Sandie was appointed chief executive of VisitBritain in May 2009.
She joined VisitBritain (formerly the British Tourist Authority) in 1991 during
which time she has led marketing, business development and publicity strategies to grow the value of tourism to Britain. With industry partners she established the Tourism Industry Emergency Response Group (TIER) in 2001
and chaired it till 2009.
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Having managed VisitBritain’s support of the London 2012 bid, she led the development of VB’s strategy to maximise the UK-wide tourism opportunities of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games.
Her first job was with the BBC World Service, following which she worked in communications, marketing and business development roles in book publishing and tourism, including the Book Marketing Council, the English Tourist Board and the London Tourist Board (now Visit London).
As well as sitting on the board of Visit London, she serves on the board of VisitEngland.
Sandie received a Shine Award for Tourism Woman of the Year in 2005 and was awarded an MBE for her services to the tourist industry in the Queen's Birthday Honours 2008.
She grew up in Sri Lanka and was educated in Scotland, graduating from Edinburgh University with MA in German and English Literature. |
Richard Lloyd-Owen
Richard is the Industry Leader for Deloitte’s Consumer Business practice – the fastest growing industry group within the firm, with over 1,000 industry aligned employees across all four service lines. He is also the Global Retail Leader. Richard has more than 20 years experience of working with major retail and consumer businesses. He also has significant business transaction and investigation experience and currently works in the firm’s transaction services and audit practices. |
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Heather Hancock
Heather is the Partner responsible for Deloitte’s Olympic and Paralympic relationships and services, and the Managing Partner for Innovation & Brand.
As the Partner responsible for Deloitte’s Olympic and Paralympic relationships and services she looks after all the secondments we make to LOCOG, the advisory work we provide, and our widercontributions to the Olympic and Paralympic Family. |
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As Deloitte’s Managing Partner for Innovation & Brand I have Executive responsibility, amongst other things, for our sponsorship of London 2012 and how we activate that across the UK. Heather is also the lead Partner globally for all Deloitte’s Olympic relationships, coordinating between London, Singapore, Vancouver and the USA on sponsorship relationships the other Deloitte firms are delivering. |
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Colin Grannell FIFS, Executive Vice President
Colin Grannell joined Visa in 1990 after spending 17 years at Midland Bank. He ventured into
the card payment business with Midland Access in 1984 and has therefore witnessed at close
quarters the staggering growth in the industry over the past 24 years.
Within Visa he has worked extensively in Europe and spent three years at Visa HQ in SanFrancisco during the 1990s at the outset of global chip card development. |
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In 2000 he wasappointed Managing Director Visa UK Limited with responsibility for the strategic direction of the Company and the interface with all UK Member Banks. During his tenure London won the bid for host city 2012 and Colin was appointed Executive Vice President Partnership Marketing in 2006 with a brief to harness the business value of Visa Europe sponsorships and partnerships with a particular emphasis on Visa sponsorship of the Olympic Games.
A keen sportsman, he is also a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Financial Services. |
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Richard Keay
Richard Keay is a Senior Consultant within the Customer Management team at Deloitte. Richard specialises in helping organisations to design and improve their customers’ experiences across all channels by optimising people, processes and technology. He has recently finished helping LOCOG to design and procure a contact centre capability to support enquiries in the run up to, and during, the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. |
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Richard Hyman
Richard is the one of the UK’s most influential retail analysts and is the founder of Verdict Research, the leading provider of analysis to the retail industry.
Richard brings over 25 years of experience in this sector, in recent years, Richard has worked with and advised many of the UK’s leading retailers, including Marks & Spencer, Tesco, Debenhams,
Sainsbury’s, Littlewoods, John Lewis and New Look. |
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Prior to establishing Verdict, Richard worked for five years as Editorial and Marketing Director of Mintel and previous to this as a Researcher at the Financial Times.
Following the sale of Verdict to Datamonitor, Richard has been Strategic Advisor to the Retail Practice of Deloitte, the professional services company.
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