BRYANSTON BUSINESS CONFERENCE

B R Y A N S T O NB U S I N E S SC O N F E R E N C E

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B R Y A N S T O NB U S I N E S SC O N F E R E N C E

Welcome to the programme for this, the second Bryanston BusinessConference. Last year’s event was enjoyable and interesting in equalmeasure, and undoubtedly inspired some of our A3 students to think aboutbecoming employers themselves one day.

The list of speakers for this year is just as impressive and as varied as lastyear’s; I’m so grateful to all of them for saying, ‘Yes’!

Once again, I would like to acknowledge that the conference takes placebecause of the generosity of David Morris (H ’43), who retains a closeinterest in business education and who hopes that all of you learn lastinglessons from today.

Mark ChristieHead of Economics & Business

TIMETABLE

* Combined groups held in DJLT

ARRIVAL/COFFEE: 10.00–11.00 (Jeffreys)

OPENING ADDRESS: 11.15–12.00 – DJLT – all groupsSpeaker: Justin Urquhart Stewart

ROOM 2 3 4 5 6 23 24

SESSION 112.15–12.55

Gp1/NS

Gp2/PP

Gp3/CGB

Gp4/RB

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Gp7/AB

LUNCH: 13.05–14.30 (Phillips)

SESSION 214.30–15.10

Gp2/ER

Gp3/AL

Gp4/MH/DJLT*

Gp5/OB

Gp6/TMG

Gp7/MH/DJLT*

Gp1/EB

SESSION 315.15–15.55

Gp3/NS

Gp4/PP

Gp5/CGB

Gp6/RB

Gp7/IW

Gp1/VS

Gp2/AB

SESSION 316.00–16.40

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Gp6/MH/DJLT*

Gp7/OB

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TEA: 16.45–17.05 DJLT (Bramall/Lawn)

CLOSING ADDRESS: 17.15–18.00 – DJLT – all groupsSpeaker: Rachel Bridge

DINNER FOR SPEAKERS: 18.15–19.15 (Phillips)

GROUPS

Group 1Backhouse, Amelia Baird, Paloma Beaumont, Jessica Beddall, Kristina Bennett, Bryony Berkov, AlexeiBicket, Hannah Biddell, Molly Boatto, Zara Boothright, Annabel Brandis, Carlota Bridgen, Megan Bryant, Rollo Buckle, Frederick Butcher, Thomas Candide-Johnson, Oluwadare Card, Henry Cary, Annabel

Group 2Chaffey, William Chapman, Augustine Cherichenko, PhilippChristie, Connor Church, Hamish Clark, Lucy Coles, Matthew Cooper, George Cooper, Henry Cornelius-Jones, Oliver Court, Edward TCzartoryski-Bruseth, Auberon Dalley, ThomasDaniell, Edward Darlington, R Oscar Day, Johnde Weerth, JuliusDean, Barnaby DeFrance, Anicée Dennis, George

Group 3Devoy, Orlando Dickson, Joshua Dickson, OliverDingwall-Main, Theodore ADoherty, Conor Doyle-Chowen, Fionn Eatough, Emma Edward, Juliette Edwards, Katherine Elias, Anna Erard, Louana Evans, Alexander Fattorini, Anton Fu, Jia ChenGavin, India George, Charlie Graham, Rosemary Gray, George Guinness, Aidan Hansen, Edward

Group 4Head, Daniel Heffer, Samuel Heneage, Georgia Higginson, Cressida Hill, George Hoang, Gavin Hodgkinson-Gray, Flynn Hollingbery, March Hopewell, Thomas Hosford, Frederick Hosford, Willoughby Howcroft, Hugo Howes, Isabella Hughes-Chamberlain, Meg Hughes, Harrison Hughes, Tobias Illsley, Harry Ince, Joseph Ixer, James Jack, Emily

GROUPS cont.

Group 5Jackson, Maximilian Jardine Paterson, AlasdairJobson, Flora Johnston, Jemima Juchniewicz, Joseph Judd, Milo Kampert, JustusKerridge, Katie Kidd, Katharine Killner, Eleanor Lawson, Cosmo Le Marquand, Courtney Leitermann, CarolinLinehan, Arran Livingstone, Jessica Lucas, Monique Macfarlane, Jennifer Mackay, Hugh Mackay, Micah

Group 6Macmillan-Scott, OliviaMartin, Quentin Mertes, Paula Moncrieff, Harry Mortimer, India Newburg, Alexander Nunes da Costa, Isabella Oakshott, Patrick Oatts, Robert Perrone Da Zara, Eduardo Post, Hannah Rafferty, Kathleen Ricci, AnitaRichards, Henry Salander, Levke MSalter, Charlotte Sanakoev, Ilya Schuch, Louis Scott-Barrett, Alice

Group 7Selkirk, Benedict Sewart, Thomas Sherborne, Tom Simm, Henry Simpson, Niamh Solomon, RachelSweeney, EvangelineThomas, Alice Thorn, Tate Tingley, Benjamin Tollman, Jack Turrill, Jenni Vautier, Toby Wallington, Hugo Wallis, Olivia White, Bryony Whyte, Harry Wikeley, Helena Williams, Jack Wyld, Victoria Yeates, Patrick

SPEAKERS OLIVER BAILEY (H ’94)

Oliver is the co-owner and CreativeDirector ofChangingHorizons, a visualcommunicationsagencyspecialising invideo production.

After graduating from Exeter Universitywith a BA Hons in music, he set up hisown web and print design company. Helater moved into video production,joining forces with Emily Blanden (Ht ’94)to set up Changing Horizons.

Oliver manages the creative productionflow of the business, which includesscripting, directing, filming and editing aswell as any required web and interactivedevelopment.

As a former Bryanston music scholar,Oliver still maintains his passion formusic, writing and performing withseveral bands in London.

ROBERT BICKET

A serialentrepreneurspecialising inmarine andtelecoms-relatedbusinesses.

Robert started out in the City but, aged24, decided to ‘go it alone’ after comingacross an exciting new marine safetyproduct that needed ‘taking to market’.Founder of Ocean Safety in 1988, Robertled the company through rapid growth asit became well established as a leadingsales, service and technical authority formarine leisure, commercial and militarysafety equipment.

In 2002, whilst on a business trip toVancouver, Robert became interested intelecoms, after spotting a new techniquefor burying fibre optic cables in roads. In2003 he co-founded FibreSpan, which wasawarded a UK national utility licence tobuild fibre optic networks in city centresusing the new technology.

In 2010, Robert formed a joint venturewith algorithmic trading softwarespecialists, AlgoEngineering LLC to formAlgoSpan, a company specialising in panEuropean electronic trading services.

EMILY BLANDEN (Ht ’94)

Emily Blanden is ManagingDirector and co-owner ofChangingHorizons.

Emily graduated from the University ofNewcastle in 1999 with a BA Hons inFrench with Spanish. After seven yearsworking in a variety of roles in sales atPepsiCo, she joined forces with OliverBailey (H ’94) in 2005 and set up ChangingHorizons, a visual communications agency.

To date, Changing Horizons has producedover 2000 videos for large-scaleorganisations such as Mars, PepsiCo, theEuropean Commission and Bupa. Sinceinception, Changing Horizons has enjoyedimpressive year-on-year growth and nowemploys eight full-time members of staffand works with numerous freelancecameramen, editors and animators.

Emily is responsible for the day-to-dayoperations at Changing Horizons as well asproducing and directing new video content.Her business background is invaluable toany project.

Find out more: www.changinghorizons.co.uk

ALEX BOLWELL (C ’94)

With over 12 years’experience in theoffice productsindustry, Alexhas run his ownbusiness, TheCopy Shop, since 2002.

Alex has been solely responsible for thecomplete management of the companyfrom customer service to marketing andP&L to staff management.

Using his knowledge of office products aswell as his strong skills in IT, creativemarketing/design and his businessacumen he has project managed fromstart to finish the creation, developmentand deployment of (of-is)® – agroundbreaking new office supplies appfor iOS.

RACHEL BRIDGE

Rachel Bridge isthe formerEnterpriseEditor of TheSunday Timesand is now acolumnist forThe SundayTelegraph.

Rachel covers issues of interest toentrepreneurs and small and mediumsized businesses. She has written fivebest-selling books about entrepreneurs,including How to Make a Million BeforeLunch and How to Start a Business withoutany Money.

Rachel took a one-woman show aboutentrepreneurs to the Edinburgh ComedyFestival and has an economics MAdegree from Cambridge University.

CORRINA GORDON-BARNES

Corrina Gordon-Barnes is knownas the “guardianangel for the self-employed”and teachesmarketingstrategy to solobusiness owners.

She is committed to creating a worldwhere clients turn up easily, and moneyflows to businesses that do good.

Corrina provides support, communityand step-by-step guidance through twopopular online courses, Blog for Clients,and Passion to Profit, has been featuredin The Guardian, The Ecologist, and onBBC Radio, and previously trained as anEnglish and drama teacher at CambridgeUniversity.

MATT HAMILTON (P ’95)

Matt is theTechnicalDirector ofNetsight InternetSolutions Limitedand has workedas a consultantfor a number oflarge web andintranet projects.

Matt graduated from Bristol University in2000 with a MEng in computer science.He went to work for HP for a shortperiod before founding Netsight with auniversity colleague. Netsight nowemploys 16 people and developsintranets and business web applicationsfor organisations as diverse as Autoglass,the Marine Stewardship Council andNHS Health and Social Care InformationCentre.

He has served on the board of directorsof the Plone Foundation, a not-for-profitsoftware foundation, for seven years andregularly speaks at international softwareconferences.

He is married with three children andlives in Bristol. When not working he isusually tinkering with his motorbike orconverting a van into a motorhome.

ANDREW LUNT

Andrew runs ahighly successfultextiles printcompany with hisbrother Jon inWiltshire,producing printedmerchandise formusic, fashion andcharity sectors.

Andrew has been involved in thedevelopment of certified organic printtechniques and is considered an industryleader in his field.

TOM MALCOLMGREEN (Sa ’03)

Tom MalcolmGreen is co-founder ofluxury homefragrance brandWick & Tallow.

Following a degree in biology from theUniversity of Edinburgh and a five-yearstint spent working for a children’s charityin Ghana, Tom set up Wick & Tallow in2011 with his twin brother James (D ’03)and James’ fiancée, Alice Barrow.

Following two years of product testingand development the company launchedits first range of scented candles inNovember 2013. With an ever expandingnetwork of retailers up and down theUK, together with its own showroom andseasonal pop-up shops across the capital,Wick & Tallow is quickly building areputation for creating some of the besthome fragrance products on the market.Wick & Tallow also creates bespoke andwhite-labelled products for private clientsand companies.

www.wickandtallow.com

PHILLIP PAIGE

Phill is a VicePresidentworking withinthe CorporateInvestment Bankand now leadsthe Schools andCollegeEngagementTeam at J.P.

Morgan in Bournemouth.

He has been in the organisation for 15years and has a wealth of knowledge of theinvestment bank and the firm as a whole.He has had a variety of roles around thebank and the opportunity to work in anumber of locations around the world.

Phill has a real passion for developing youngpeople and believes they help diversify andgrow an organisation such as J.P. Morgan.Phill now leads a team whose primary goalis to recruit young talent into theorganisation through a variety of channelsranging from Young Enterprise, workexperience, the Apprenticeship and theCorporate Graduate Programme.

Phill believes the only way J.P. Morgan canachieve this goal is to ensure it has strongpartnerships with local schools and collegesto provide the best advice to the students.

Phill recently spoke at the Bryanston HEDay.

ELIZABETH ROSE (G ’95)

Elizabeth Rosestudied fine art atCity and Guildsof London ArtSchool (several ofher works areheld in The RoyalCollection) andinterior design atthe prestigious

Inchbald School of Design in Eaton Gate.

Having graduated from the Inchbald with adistinction certificate (and invited back as acourse tutor), Elizabeth went on to workfor prominent London-based interiordesigner Ina Lindemann. There she ran top-end design projects for high-profileclients all over the world including NewYork, Oslo and Copenhagen.

On moving back to Dorset, Elizabeth drewon her design knowledge, business flair andenthusiasm for detail and in 2006 foundedher successful events business, CornucopiaEvent Hire. The company, which wasbought in April by Total Event Hire, suppliedsuperior quality tableware and organisedparties for clients ranging from the Princeof Wales to Cameron Mackintosh incastles, on islands, in barns and marquees.

Since selling her business Elizabeth hasbeen working on a number of privatecommissions and is planning a full-timereturn to interior design.

NADIM SADEK

Nadim Sadek isPartner and CEOat TransgressiveX, a brandmanagement

Market research was an intenseapprenticeship, and led to Nadim foundingwhat became the world’s biggest qualitativeresearch agency, which he sold to WPP.

With Inish Turk Beg he created a newbrand, operating in six different categories(whiskey, music, art, food, hospitality andhorse-breeding), based on the eponymousisland off the west coast of Ireland, which hehad bought and developed. It came first inthe Mobius Awards for great new brands,out of nearly 5000 entries from 36countries.

Back in marketing services, Nadim foundedTransgressiveX, where, with innovativeintellectual property and process, brandmanagement is guided to ‘eXchange’ betterwith their audiences. Meanwhile, Nadim wasinvolved in making The Secret Millionaire inIreland and doing a TEDx Talk on Life’seXchanges, the underpinning thinking toTransgressiveX.

VICTORIA SUFFIELD(Hn ’84)

Victoria is thefounder of TheHambledon, aleading lifestyleretailer based inWinchester.

Following work as a curator, filmdistributor and director of a mail orderbusiness, Victoria worked in the familyretail business. She set up TheHambledon in 1999.

Victoria also lectures in retail and fashionmanagement at the University ofSouthampton and writes on retail forvarious publications.

Victoria has a BA in history of art fromCambridge University.

JUSTIN URQUHARTSTEWART (Sh ’72)

Having trained asa barrister, Justintook upcorporatefinance, workingin both Africa andSingapore.

He then returned to the UK and helped inthe developments towards Big Bang in1986 in London, which led to him helpingto found Broker Services in 1986.

In early 2001, he co-founded SevenInvestment Management, an investmentmanagement business that innovated theUK investment market. Seven InvestmentManagement now manages andadministers around £6 billion on behalf ofprofessional financial wealth managers andintermediaries.

Justin has a keen interest in developing theinvestment market to break down as manyof the traditional barriers as possible forboth private investors and smallercompanies. As part of this he was involvedin the original development of the AIM.

IAIN WEATHERBY

Iain Weatherby isa writer fortelevision andfilm, a creativedirector inadvertising and afilm andcommercialsdirector.

He lives in Durweston. Emily, his wife, is a member of the Bryanston Englishdepartment.

DAVID MORRIS (H ‘43)

Bryanston has always managed(sometimes only just!) to fundnew developments; this willcontinue, but financing bursariesmay become harder and moreimportant. Being a relativelyyoung school it has not got asustainable investment fund and Ihope the Bryanston BusinessConference will eventually helpto achieve this.

The school is known for its uniqueeducation, led by Sarah Thomas, for itsart, music, drama and sport, and now forbusiness under Mark Christie, Head ofEconomics.

Through the conference, Bryanston istaking a lead and business organisationsare supporting it. Pupils and businesspeople will be involved together.Hopefully, as pupils succeed in business,they will complete the virtuous circle andcontribute to the endowment fund that Ihave set up in order to finance thisannual conference, or the vitallyimportant Bursaries Fund. I hope thatthe Bryanston Business Conference willalso help the school’s youngentrepreneurs fulfil their dreams at thisimportant stage in their careers.

For myself, I benefited from learningeconomics at Bryanston and also ‘how to

learn’, both of which helped me in mycareer. In January 1943, I volunteered,trained and became a Spitfire pilot in theFleet Air Arm, a useless occupation whenI was demobbed four years later. I then had to find an interesting career andtrained to be a chartered surveyor. I joined Allsop and later became seniorpartner for 30 years.

Since retiring 25 years ago, I have had anumber of paid and voluntary jobs butthroughout I have been an investor andinterested in business.

In this capacity, I have helped to fundbursaries for parents caught out by thefinancial collapse and also the future ofbusiness at Bryanston.

David Morris (H ’43)

BRYANSTON SCHOOLwww.br yanston.co.uk