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At London Chamber of Commerce,
33 Queen Street, London EC4R 1AP
From 12.00pm - 2.00pm
Wednesday 14 JulyClaire Smith, Non-Executive Director, Mott MacDonald Thursday 9 SeptemberDame Lynne Brindley DBE, Chief Executive, The British Library Wednesday 6 OctoberBelinda Phipps, Chief Executive, NCT (National Childbirth Trust) Tuesday 9 NovemberJustine Roberts, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Mumsnet Women in Business lunches are designed to • Encourage personal development• Share knowledge and experience with others• Help you expand your network of business contacts• Inspire • Their personal and professional story• Chal enges they have overcome in their careers• Qualities important for success• Specific business techniques and external support that contributed to their achievements Standing sandwich lunch and informal networking Tea, coffee, cake and an opportunity for more networking Open to both men and women, between 40-60 guests attend each event from a variety of industry sectors including professional services, IT, marketing, media, property, leisure and tourism, recruitment and training.
Book now at www.londonchamber.co.uk/events Our Business is Your Business
Wednesday 14 July
Claire Smith
Non-Executive Director, Mott MacDonald
Claire Smith spent 26 years as a British diplomat, serving in China, Germany and Pakistan. In an unconventional career,she interspersed traditional diplomatic postings with a private sector role and secondments to the German ForeignMinistry and the Cabinet Office. After leaving the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) in 2007, she reinventedherself and is now a non-executive director at Mott MacDonald, an employee-owned, multi-disciplinary consultancy;chair of governors at an East End primary school, recognised as “outstanding” by OFSTED and one of the 100 mostimproved schools in England; she sits on a government appeals panel, and is an occasional lecturer at the Universityof Westminster.
Thursday 9 September
Dame Lynne Brindley DBE
Chief Executive, The British Library
Dame Lynne Brindley has been the chief executive of the British Library since July 2000. She is the first woman andthe first information professional to have held the post. Since her appointment, Lynne has led a major strategicdevelopment and modernisation programme to ensure that the British Library remains relevant, innovative andaccessible in the 21st century.
Lynne came to the British Library from the University of Leeds where she was pro-vice-chancel or. Previously shewas a senior consultant with KPMG and has held leadership positions in information technology and knowledgemanagement at Aston University and at the London School of Economics.
Lynne was appointed a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the New Year Honours List 2008for services to education and the British Library.
Wednesday 6 October
Belinda Phipps
Chief Executive, NCT (National Childbirth Trust)
After completing a BSc (Microbiology), Belinda joined Glaxo Pharmaceuticals working in market research, sales, andmarketing. After a time as UK sales manager (the first female sales manager) she moved to become UK marketingmanager managing, among others, Zantac, Glaxo’s key profit generator. It was expected to decline in sales, howeveras a result of marketing the product in a new medical indication, sales grew. Belinda moved to study for an MBA atAshridge Management Col ege.
She joined the Blood Transfusion Service to lead the merger of two of the services to form the largest transfusionservice in the UK; the service won an NHS quality award for improvements in platelet quality and the DuncanNichol s Health Service leadership award. After a time managing a medical publishing company she became chiefexecutive officer of an NHS Trust. The Trust made substantial, sustained reductions in waiting times across alspecialties. As part of the NHS task force on waiting times, Belinda worked with many NHS Trust Boards to teachthe operation skil s needed to enable them to reduce their waits. Belinda then joined the NCT as its chief executive officer. Belinda has three daughters al born at home and it wasthis experience that sparked her passion and enthusiasm for working to enable al parents to have a much betterexperience of becoming and being the parents of a new baby.
Tuesday 9 November
Justine Roberts
Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Mumsnet
Justine Roberts is the founder and chief executive officer of Mumsnet, an online community of parents sharing advice,support and product recommendations. Over the last ten years Mumsnet has grown into the UK’s leading socialnetwork for mums with 1,000,000 monthly unique visitors. Before that Justine wrote about footbal and cricket for the Daily Telegraph and before that she was a strategist forSG Warburg.
Justine studied Politics, Philosophy and Economics at New Col ege, Oxford, is a mother of four; 11 year old identicaltwins - Lola and Scarlet, Jake who is seven and Jesse, four.
HSF health plan is the trading company of the charity The Hospital Saturday Fund (Number 1123381), which has been providingsupport for generations of families since 1873. HSF health plan is designed to help employees cover the costs of their everyday health care expenses like dental and optical fees.
Partners and dependent children may also be added to the registration at no additional cost.
Other benefits include; hospital admissions, physiotherapy and a number of complementary and specialist treatments including al ergytesting.
The plan also includes a ful personal injury benefit. Schemes range from £1.00 to £12.00 per week and can be run on a voluntary,part-funded or ful y funded basis. HSF health plan includes confidential medical, stress and legal help lines for employees and theirfamilies in al its schemes.
The GP Advice Line is popular with employers and employees as a telephone consultation often avoids the need to take time off work.
HSF heath plan is easy to set up and operate and requires little administrative input from the company once it is up and running.
HSF deals with al claims and queries directly with its contributors.
HSF health plan operates within many major organisations throughout the UK and the Republic of Ireland. Among these are G4S,Royal Mail, Ed’s Diner, London Clubs International, Leonard Cheshire, PizzaExpress, IPC Media and Treloar Trust. However, you do notneed to be an organisation of this size to run a scheme and give your employees access to the group rates available. HSF operateswithin companies of al sizes.
Book now at www.londonchamber.co.uk/events Our Business is Your Business
WOMEN IN BUSINESS NETWORKING LUNCHES 2010 At London Chamber of Commerce, 33 Queen Street, London EC4R 1AP
TO REGISTER: Please complete the booking form in BLOCK CAPITALS and fax/post to The Events Team, London Chamber of Commerce and Industry, 33 Queen Street, London EC4R 1AP, T: +44 (0)20 7203 1700, F: +44 (0)20 7203 1893, E: events@londonchamber.co.uk Book online at www.londonchamber.co.uk/events PRICES AND PAYMENT DETAILS, PER PERSON PER EVENT please tick OPEN TO PREMIER PLUS MEMBERS ONLY
Claire Smith, Non-Executive Director, Mott MacDonald, Wednesday 14 July
Dame Lynne Brindley DBE, Chief Executive, The British Library, Thursday 9 September
Belinda Phipps, Chief Executive, NCT (National Childbirth Trust), Wednesday 6 October
Justine Roberts, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Mumsnet, Tuesday 9 November
If you are unsure about your membership status please contact the Member Relationship team on +44 (0)20 7203 1713 or email: membersupport@londonchamber.co.uk.
Cheques should be made payable to: London Chamber of Commerce and Industry. Alternatively, please complete your credit card details below. Al bookings must be made in writing using the application form and ful payment received with the application form to secure bookings. Please note we do not invoice for places. Al cancel ations must be made in writing. Cancel ations received six weeks prior to each event wil be given a ful refund. Al cancel ations after that date wil be subject to the loss of the ful fee. We are unable to transfer bookings to future events. Named substitutes are welcome at any time and must be made in writing. Please note that while speaker(s) were confirmed at the time of publishing, circumstances beyond the control of London Chamber of Commerce and Industry may necessitate substitutions, alterationsor cancel ations of the speaker(s). As such, London Chamber of Commerce and Industry reserves the right to alter or modify the advertised speaker(s) if necessary without any liability to you whatsoever. I have read and agree to the terms and conditions above: signature I attach payment for place(s) in the sum of £ Debit card/Mastercard/Maestro/Visa/Solo/Visa Electron/JCB/Amex APPLICATION DETAILS - if attending with guests please photocopy and complete this form description of business (for guest list) please indicate if you have any requirements e.g. access, dietary or information in an alternative format PRIVACY AND DATA PROTECTION: We are committed to protecting your privacy and will only use the information we collect about you in accordance with the reasons stated when we collect the information. The informationsupplied by you will be held on the database by London Chamber of Commerce and used to notify you of future events and services.
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