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Appendix the Mentoring Foundation FTSE 100® Cross-Company Mentoring Executive Programme Mentors (March 2015) Appendix The Mentoring Foundation FTSE 100® Cross-Company Mentoring Executive Programme Mentors (March 2015) 1. John Abbott Downstream Director Royal Dutch Shell Group plc 2. Marcus Agius Chairman PA Consulting Group 3. Peter Ayliffffe Chairman Monitise Group plc 4. John Barton Chairman easyJet plc 5. Andrew Beeson Chairman Schroders plc 6. Mike Biggs Chairman Direct Line Insurance Group plc 7. Sir Win Bischoffff Chairman Financial Reporting Council 8. Clement Booth Former Member of the Allianz SE Board of Management Former Chairman Allianz UK 9. Sir Richard Broadbent, Chairman Tesco plc KCB 10. John F Brock Chairman & Chief Coca-Cola Enterprises Inc Executive Offiffi cer 11. Monica Burch Senior Partner Addleshaw Goddard LLP 12. Patrick Burgess, MBE Chairman Intu Properties plc 13. Lord Burns, GCB Chairman Santander UK plc 14. Dame Alison Carnwath Chairman Land Securities Group plc 15. Dominic Casserley CEO Willis Group Holdings Ltd 16. David Cruickshank Chairman Deloitte LLP 17. Spencer Dale Chief Economist BP plc 18. Richard Davey Chairman Amlin plc (continued) 241 Appendix 242 appendix Continued 19. Simon Davies Firmwide Managing Linklaters LLP Partner 20. Ian Davis Chairman Rolls-Royce plc 21. David Fass Chief Executive Macquarie Group Ltd Offiffi cer, EMEA 22. Nicholas Ferguson CBE Chairman Sky plc 23. Niall FitzGerald KBE Chairman The Leverhulme Trust 24. Douglas Flint, CBE Group Chairman HSBC Holdings plc 25. Sir Simon Fraser, KCMG Permanent Under- Foreign and Secretary of State Commonwealth Offiffice 26. Charlie Geffffen Chair of London Gibson, Dunn & Corporate Crutcher LLP 27. Sir Peter Gershon CBE, Chairman National Grid plc FREng 28. Sir Philip Hampton Chairman Former Chairman, Royal Bank of Scotland Group plc, Chairman GlaxoSmithKline plc 29. Richard Haythornthwaite Chairman Centrica plc 30. Andrew Higginson Chairman Morrisons plc 31. Anthony Hobson, FCA Senior Independent James Dyson Ltd Director 32. Baroness Hogg Former Chairman Financial Reporting Council 33. Dennis Holt Chairman Beazley plc 34. António Horta-Osório Group Chief Lloyds Banking Group plc Executive Offiffi cer 35. Vivian Hunt Managing Partner McKinsey & Company 36. Glyn Jones Chairman Aspen Insurance Holdings Limited 37. David Kappler Deputy Chairman Shire plc 38. Nigel Keen Chairman Syncona Partners LLP 39. Irwin Lee Vice President & Procter & Gamble Managing Director UK & Ireland 40. Wilson Leech CEO, EMEA Northern Trust 41. Sir Nicholas Macpherson Permanent Secretary HM Treasury KCB, GCB 42. Strone Macpherson Chairman Close Brothers Group plc 43. Sir Rob Margetts, CBE, Chairman Ordnance Survey FREng (continued) Appendix 243 appendix Continued 44. Sir Mark Moody-Stuart, Chairman UN Global Compact KCMG Foundation 45. Sir Richard Olver, FREng Former Chairman BAE Systems plc 46. Patrick O’Sullivan Chairman Old Mutual plc 47. Gavin Patterson Chief Executive Offiffi cer BT Group plc 48. Sir John Peace Chairman Standard Chartered plc 49. Jan du Plessis Chairman Rio Tinto plc 50. Ian Powell Chairman and PwC LLP Senior Partner 51. Sir Michael Rake Chairman BT Group plc President CBI 52. Sir David Reid Chairman Intertek Group plc 53. Richard Reid London Chairman KPMG LLP 54. Nigel Rich, CBE Chairman SEGRO plc 55. Don Robert Chairman Experian plc 56. Sir Simon Robertson Deputy Chairman & HSBC plc Senior Independent Non-Executive Director 57. Bill Ronald Chairman Dialight plc 58. Lord Stuart Rose Chairman Ocado Group plc 59. Sir John Sawers, KCMG Chairman and Partner Macro Advisory Partners 60. Charles Sinclair Chairman Associated British Foods plc 61. Nicholas Smith Chairman Ophir Energy plc 62. John Stewart Chairman Legal & General Group plc 63. Richard Stillwell Chairman St Ives plc 64. Carl-Henric Svanberg Chairman BP plc 65. Michael Treschow Chairman Unilever plc 66. David Tyler Chairman J Sainsbury plc 67. Graham van’t Hoffff Executive Vice Shell UK Group Ltd President, Global Chemicals 68. Sir David Walker Chairman Barclays plc Notes 1 The Big Project 1. Sian Griffiths, ‘Cracknell tells workaholic dads: spend more time with kids’, Sunday Times, 14 September 2014). 2. Martin Wolf, ‘Failing elites threaten our future’, Financial Times, 15 January 2014. 3. Alison Wolf, ‘Feminists today are too obsessed with their own elite, metropolitan lives’, The Guardian, 21 January 2015. 4. Jill Rutter, http://www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/blog/4688/. 5. ‘Talent Action Plan: removing the barriers to success’, Cabinet Office, September 2014. 6. Caroline Binham, ‘Law firms try a female leadership’, FT.com, 10 March 2014. 7. Pui-Guan Man, ‘Following an uncertain path’, Legal Week, 30 May 2014. 8. Science Council, http://www.sciencecouncil.org/content/100-leading-uk- practising-scientists. 9. Vibeka Mair, ‘Steady as she goes’, Charity Finance, 1 July 2014. 10. Jonathan Dean and John Harlow, ‘Cut! Celluloid ceiling must go, says Knightley’, Sunday Times, 29 June 2014. 11. Dr Martha Lauzen, ‘The celluloid ceiling: behind-the-scenes employment of women on the top 250 films of 2014’, 2015. Center for the Study of Women in Television and Film at San Diego State University. 12. Sheryl Sandberg, Lean In: Women, Work and the Will to Lead (Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 2013). 13. Simon Collins, ‘Millennials look to tech stars as finance careers leave them cold’, Financial Times, 8 November 2014. 14. Chris Bryant, ‘Auf Wiedersehen, Post – Daimler staff get break from holiday email’, Financial Times, 14 August 2014. 244 Notes 245 2 The Story so Far 1. Ruth Sunderland, ‘Cable praise for Glencore’, Daily Mail, 27 June 2014. 2. Elizabeth Coffey, Peninah Thomson and Clare Huffington, The Changing Culture of Leadership: Women Leaders’ Voices. The Change Partnership, 1999. 3. Roy Adler, Women in the Executive Suite Correlate to High Profits, Pepperdine University, 2001. 4. Groundbreakers: Using the Strength of Women to Rebuild the Economy. Ernst & Young, 2009. 5. Charlotte Sweeney, ‘Women on boards: voluntary code for executive search firms – taking the next step’. Department for Business, Innovation and Skills March 2014. 6. Sharon Allen, ‘The death of groupthink’. Bloomberg Businessweek, 5 February 2008. 7. ‘IMA stewardship code survey’, Governance + Compliance, July 2014. 3 The Political Environment 1. Gender Balance on Corporate Boards: Europe Is Cracking the Glass Ceiling, European Commission, March 2014. 2. ‘Yoshida ‘picks up baton’ for Japan’s women executives’, Financial Times, 5 March 2015. 3. Danielle Paquette, ‘Why American women hate board quotas’, Washington Post, 9 February 2015. 4. Anne Alstott, ‘Gender quotas for corporate boards: options for legal design in the United States’, Yale Law School, Public Law Research Paper No.489. 21 November 2013. 5. ‘Legislating a woman’s seat on the board: institutional factors driving gender quotas for boards of directors’, Journal of Business Ethics, January 2014. 4 Cross-Company Mentoring Works 1. Sylvia Ann Hewlett, Kerrie Peraino, Laura Sherbin and Karen Sumberg, The Sponsor Effect: Breaking through the Last Glass Ceiling. Harvard Business Review Research Report, 12 January 2011. Notes 246 5 Network Capital 1. Adam Grant, Give and Take: A Revolutionary Approach to Success (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2013). 2. Athena Vongalis-Macrow, ‘Assess the value of your networks’. Harvard Business Review, 29 June 2012. 3. Trowers and Hamlins, FDU group (2014) Networking Survey Report, http:// www.trowers.com/uploads/Blogs/Networking_survey_report_Final.pdf. 4. Frances Rosenbluth, ‘Working capital’. RSA Journal, autumn 2010. 5. Avivah Wittenberg-Cox, ‘Your company doesn’t need a women’s network’. Harvard Business Review, 12 June 2013. 6 When is the Price Too High? 1. About AFF. History and Context. http://www.agilefutureforum.co.uk. 7 The Pipeline Challenge 1. Brian Groom, ‘Male culture puts young women off finance careers’, Financial Times, 2 May 2014. 2. Cracking the Code. KPMG LLP, Young Samuel Chambers Ltd and the 30% Club. 2014. 8 The Pipeliners 1. Sheryl Sandberg, Lean In: Women, Work and the Will to Lead (Alfred A. Knopf, 2013). 2. Lisa Petrilli, The Introvert’s Guide to Success in Business and Leadership. 3. Cameron Anderson and Gavin Kilduff, ‘Why do dominant personalities attain influ- ence in face-to-face groups? The competence-signalling effects of trait dominance’, Journal of Personality and Social Psychologyy, Vol. 96, No. 2 (2009). 10 Beyond the Davies Review 1. Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011). Notes 247 11 Culture, Culture 1. Chris Bryant, ‘Auf wiedersehen, post – Daimler staff get break from holiday email’, Financial Times, 14 August 2014. 2. Jessica Twentyman, ‘Social networks are one answer to information overload at work’, Financial Times, 24 September 2014. 3. Amy Wrzesniewski and Jane Dutton, ‘Crafting a job: revisioning employees as active crafters of their work’, Academy of Management Review, Vol. 26, No. 2 (2001), pp. 179–201. 4. Stephen Jay Gould, The Flamingo’s Smile (W. W. Norton, 1985). 5. William Whyte, The Organization Man (Simon & Schuster, 1956). 6. Alison Wolf, The XX Factor: How Working Women Are Creating A New Societyy (London: Profile Books, 2013). Bibliography Adler, Roy. (2001) Women in the Executive Suite Correlate to High Profits, European Project on Equal Pay. Agile Future Forum. http://www.agilefutureforum.co.uk. Allen, Sharon. (July 2014) ‘The death of groupthink’. Bloomberg Business Week 5 February. 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