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Variety-Catherine-Awards-Judges-And Catherine Awards Judging Panel Jasmin Buttar Company: BBC Position: Business and Economics Unit Editor Jasmin began her career at the BBC as a News Trainee. She joined Newsnight in 1997 and worked on the programme as a producer, film-maker and output editor before becoming Deputy Editor in 2006. She was Newsnight's political producer for a number of years working with Mark Mardell and Martha Kearney on coverage of events including the Northern Ireland peace process. Jasmin is now the Business and Economics Unit Editor at BBC, and responsible for producing output for all BBC platforms and offer editorial guidance to the full range of BBC programmes. They have a truly global presence including teams based in Singapore, New York, Johannesburg and Mumbai. Jasmin holds one of the most senior roles in BBC News, leading the BBC‘s coverage across all platforms, domestic and international. Catherine Awards Judging Panel Charlotte Crosswell Company: NASDAQ Position: Strategic Advisor Charlotte has recently stepped down from her executive role at Nasdaq to move to a portfolio career and have the ability and time to pursue some personal initiatives. She continues to be a Strategic Advisor for NASDAQ and sits on the boards of LCH Ltd and City UK. She was most recently Founder and Chief Executive Officer for Nasdaq NLX (―NLX‖), a London-based derivatives market trading the full European interest curve on a single market. Charlotte believes strongly in building a diverse executive pipeline and board. She has been exposed to many different sectors throughout her career with a particular emphasis on public companies in technology, shipping and financial services; and undertaken significant market infrastructure roles covering equities, fixed income, OTC derivatives and clearing. She has considerable previous international experience, in the USA, Asia, Russia, Israel and mainland Europe. Prior to setting up Nasdaq NLX, Ms. Crosswell held a number of management positions at Nasdaq and London Stock Exchange covering international capital markets, and equity, fixed income and OTC derivatives trading and clearing. Ms Crosswell started her financial services career at Goldman Sachs in European Equity Sales and holds a BA (Hons.) in French from the University of Southampton. Catherine Awards Judging Panel Sahar Hashemi OBE Company: Coffee Republic Position: Co-Founder Sahar Hashemi founded Coffee Republic, the UK‘s first US style coffee bar chain with her brother and built it into one of the UK‘s most recognised high street brands with 110 bars and a turnover of £30m. Giving up professional careers (she as a lawyer in London and Bobby as an investment banker in New York) they staked everything on a dream and made Coffee Republic one of the main players in the coffee revolution that transformed the UK high street. Sahar left the day-to-day management of Coffee Republic in 2001 and published a bestselling book Anyone Can Do It – Building Coffee Republic from Our Kitchen Table, which has been translated into 6 languages and is 2nd-highest selling book on entrepreneurship after Richard Branson. In 2005 she founded Skinny Candy, a brand of sugar free sweets, labeled hip by Vogue magazine. Skinny Candy was sold to confectionery conglomerate Glisten PLC in 2007. In 2011 Sahar was nominated by Director Magazine as one of its Top 10 Original Thinkers, alongside Sir Tim Berners-Lee and Sir Jonathan Ive and was invited to join the Entrepreneurs Forum set up by UK Business Secretary Vince Cable to give informal personal advice to the government on enterprise policies. An internationally recognized speaker, Sahar‘s captivating and uplifting speeches are unique as she converges the power of her personal ‗story‘ with key themes of innovation, creativity and change management. Her speeches touch on thought processes and behaviours that help develop an entrepreneurial mindset even within the largest of organisations. In June 2012 Sahar was awarded an OBE for services to the UK economy and to charity. Catherine Awards Judging Panel Helena Morrissey CBE Company: Newton Investment Management Position: Non-Executive Director, Chair of Newton Board Helena is one of the best known women in the City of London. She started her career in New York with Schroder Capital Management. After returning to London she joined Newton Investment Management in 1994 as a junior fund manager and was appointed CEO in 2001. During her fifteen years leading the firm, assets under management grew from £20 billion to over £50 billion. Helena is now Chair of Newton and the Investment Association, the UK‘s industry trade body whose members manage more than £5 trillion. In 2010, Helena founded the 30% Club, a cross-business initiative to achieve better gender-balanced UK company boards through men and women working together on voluntary actions. These efforts now span the whole career journey from schoolroom to boardroom, and the proportion of female directors on UK listed company boards has more than doubled. The 30% Club approach has been adopted internationally, notably in the US, Hong Kong, Ireland, Italy, South Africa, Australia, Canada, Malaysia and the Gulf Co-Operation Countries. Helena also chairs Opportunity Now, Business in the Community‘s gender equality campaign which forms part of the Prince of Wales‘ Responsible Business network. Helena has been named one of Fortune Magazine‘s World‘s 50 Greatest Leaders. She has twice been voted one of the 50 Most Influential People in Finance globally by Bloomberg Markets. Helena is a regular media commentator on topics as wide-ranging as climate change, executive pay and Brexit, all linked by her view that active investors should engage on key issues. Helena is a Fellow of London Business School and was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by Cambridge University in 2016. She was appointed CBE in the 2012 New Year‘s Honours list for her contribution to the role of women in business. A Cambridge philosophy graduate, Helena is married to a Buddhist meditation teacher and they have nine children, six girls and three boys whose ages range from seven to 24. Catherine Awards Judging Panel Lynne Atkin Company: Barclays Position: HR Director for Barclays UK, HR Director for Barclaycard and Head of Central Employee Relations Barclays Bank PLC Lynne has over 25 years experience within HR. Working within the energy industry and financial services. Lynne joined Barclays in 2005 becoming the HR Director for UK Retail and Business Banking in 2009. She also assumed responsibility for HR in Europe in 2013. Following the Bank‘s strategic review, in May 2014 Lynne became the HR Director for Personal and Corporate Banking, leading the HR function supporting the business and its c40,000 colleagues. At the same time Lynne also became the Head of Employee Relations across Barclays. In March 2016, Lynne was appointed HR Director for Barclaycard in addition to her existing role as HR Director for Barclays UK (formerly known as PCB) and Head of Employee Relations. Prior to Barclays she spent 3 years at AVIVA in HR within the Life and Pensions business. Previous to that she was at Yorkshire Electricity for 11 years as HR Director for the energy supply business, supporting the business through privatisation, with the significant skills and cultural transformation required to drive success in a highly competitive, low margin industry. Lynne is passionate about diversity and inclusivity in Talent Management and Early Careers, becoming the driving force behind the Bank‘s Apprenticeship Programme, and culture and engagement in driving business performance. She lives in Greenwich, married for more than 25 years to Michael, with one daughter, Jasmin, aged 26 who currently lives in New York. Catherine Awards Judging Panel Charlotte Ross Company: Evening Standard Position: Deputy Editor As Deputy Editor of the Evening Standard Charlotte Ross helps set the tone and steer the editorial direction of the capital‘s agenda-setting newspaper, a title that reaches 2m Londoners daily. With a remit spanning politics to pollution, celebrity interviews to street food trends, Charlotte oversees the Standard‘s features, arts and magazine content, managing the teams to ensure that they generate highly relevant material and hit challenging deadlines. Areas of special interest have included promoting gender equality at work, the newspaper‘s campaign to end FGM, its drive to improve childhood literacy and London‘s transformation into a cycling city. Charlotte began her career in the features department of The Scotsman newspaper. She went on to be Assistant Editor on the launch of The Sunday Herald, creating its award- winning magazine, before returning to the Scotsman as Executive Editor. She moved to London to take up the position of Assistant Editor, Saturday of the Independent, overseeing the revamp of the Saturday paper from broadsheet to tabloid. A stint at Hearst working on glossy magazines followed before a return to newsprint at the Evening Standard ten years ago. Catherine Awards Judging Panel Debbie Wosskow OBE Company: Love Home Swap Position: CEO and Founder On a "particularly bad and very expensive" holiday to St Lucia, Debbie found herself sitting in a darkened room with a crying child, watching Cameron Diaz and Kate Winslet in The Holiday. The film, about two women who swap their homes, inspired her to set up Love Home Swap, a website that allows members to do just that. It launched in 2011 with just 250 properties (a figure that has since grown to more than 100,000), and is the world leader in its field. After graduating with a degree in philosophy and theology from the University of Oxford, Debbie founded her first business, PR agency Mantra, way back in 1999 when she was just 25. Since then Debbie has co-founded several other ventures including ‗Collaborative Consumption Europe and Maidthorn Partners. She is a passionate advocate of the sharing economy and is Founding Chair of the government-backed sharing economy trade body SEUK which she penned a 60,000-word independent report in just 10 weeks for – Unlocking the Sharing Economy.
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