Speaker Profiles
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This conference took place on 14th June 2005. If you would like to order copies of the speaker's slide presentations, you can still do this using the booking page here.
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Chairs and speakers include: (Click on name to jump to profile)
- Trevor Merriden
Editor, Human Resources
- Mark Childs
Director, Outset
Former Vice President, CIPD
- Lisa Page
Senior Consultant and Actuary, Aon Consulting
- Marcus Underhill
Mercer Human Resource Consulting
- Carolyn Howes
Policy Advisor, Inland Revenue
- Kate Upcraft
Institute of Payroll & Pensions Management
- Ken Macintyre
National Association of Pension Funds
- Michael Ashton
Partner, Human Capital Practice, Deloitte
- Catherine Redmond
Head of Reward and Benefits, Barclays
- Alistair Denton
UK Managing Director, Motivano
- Graham Drewett
UK Compensation and Benefits Manager, Logica CMG
- Stuart Pembery
FutureMedia
Profiles:
Carolyn Howes, Policy Advisor, Inland Revenue
 Carolyn Howes has worked for the Inland Revenue since 1989. She has held a variety of roles including as a manager in a PAYE tax office, a tax inspector and an adviser on HR strategy. She has also worked for the Cabinet Office on the Civil Service reform agenda. Most recently she has worked in the Revenue's International Division and since June 2002 has worked in the Personal Tax policy area as an adviser on employer-provided benefits, specialising specifically on transport benefits and childcare.
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Michael Ashton, Partner, Human Capital Practice, Deloitte
 Mike is a Principal in Human Capital Practice at Deloitte. He has worked with both UK and multinational organisations to design, communicate and implement reward and employee benefit plans. With over 16 years experience, he specialises in developing flexible, fully integrated reward structures, focusing on the link between performance and reward. In particular, he brings significant experience of both the private and public sectors.
Given the importance of aligning commercial and people objectives he has also spent a considerable amount of time developing the business proposition underpinning flexible benefits to ensure it delivers a return on investment to companies when implemented.
Mike is an Associate of the Chartered Institute of Taxation and has a law degree. He has spoken at conferences on total reward and had various Thought Leadership articles published in these areas.
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Mark Childs, Director, Outset, Former Vice President, CIPD
 Mark Childs is Director HR Solutions, Outset; an HR outsourcing and consulting business. He is also a Companion and immediate past Vice President Reward of the Chartered Institute of Personnel & Development (CIPD).
Mark has headed up global compensation and benefits at Fidelity Investments, Seagram, Chubb, Reckitt & Colman plc and Forte plc. His extensive reward experience ranges across executive and employee compensation, international assignment management, incentive plans, the design and operation of core, flex and voluntary benefit plans and share plans.
Mark has an academic background in industrial relations, is an Associate of the Institute of Management Consultants , author of Personnel Today's One Stop Guide to Reward Management and Consultant Editor to CIPD's Reward Management publication.
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Kate Upcraft, Institute of Payroll & Pensions Management
 In 1999 Kate joined the IPPM and is now Policy & Research Manager. In this role she is the Technical Editor of PAY advice, manages the Advisory Service and sits on many government consultative groups representing the Institute. She is a regular conference speaker and writer on legislative issues, including tax and National Insurance, benefits and the whole range of employer compliance responsibilities.
Until early 2003 she was the Payroll Legislation Manager at M&S, for whom she worked for 21 years, twelve of them in payroll.
Kate graduated with the IPPM Diploma in Payroll Management in 1995 and is also a qualified NVQ tutor.
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Ken Macintyre, National Association of Pension Funds
 Ken MacIntyre is Policy Adviser (Pensions and benefits) reporting to the Policy Director, Joanne Segars. He joined NAPF as policy analyst in June 2004 with a particular brief to monitor the Pensions Bill and has also supported Christine Farnish in the scheme governance project.
He has many years experience in pensions, mostly in scheme management roles, including recent interim assignments for a PLC, a trade union and an energy company. Until 2003, he was for 4 years UK Pensions Manager at Halliburton (latterly its Kellogg Brown & Root subsidiary), the US energy company and led a small team responsible for a scheme of some 20,000 lives and £600m in assets.
He co-authored a paper on pensions policy published in 2003; is a member of the Independent Pensions Research Group, a volunteer adviser for the Pensions Advisory Service and a Fellow of the Pensions Management Institute.
Ken enjoys walking near his home in Surrey . He also is a member of the Woking Wind Orchestra.
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Stuart Pembery, FutureMedia
 Stuart Pembery has championed the creation of a market-leading tax-efficient employee benefits service, YouChooseT for Futuremedia plc and is Futuremedia's VP, Market and Product Development.
An experienced and successful line and programme manager, Stuart directed the award-winning Learning For All programme for Royal Mail Group plc, installing over 26,000 home computers in employees' homes. Stuart has been working on HCI since 2000, when he conceived and led pioneering HCI projects and he was a founder member of the HCI Advisory Committee at the Office of the e-Envoy.
Stuart is also a Chartered Information Systems Professional and a Member of the British Computer Society.
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Marcus Underhill, Mercer Human Resource Consulting
 Marcus is an Actuary who specialises in designing and implementing flexible benefits plans in the UK and Europe. He is head of Mercer's flexible benefits team and has fifteen years experience in flexible benefits plans in the UK and Europe. He is a regular speaker at conferences on project plan design and management covering all aspects of the flex process.
Since joining Mercer he has managed projects with companies including Alcatel Telecom, British Airways, BT, Diageo, HBOS and Nortel Networks.
In total, Marcus has been involved in flexibility studies for over sixty organisations. In 1994 he presented the only paper to date in the UK on 'Flexible Benefit Pricing' to the Institute of Actuaries.
Marcus has a First Class Honours Degree in Actuarial Science from City University.
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Lisa Page, Senior Consultant and Actuary, Aon Consulting
 Lisa has been with Aon Consulting since October 1993 and currently leads the Flex Consulting team which deliver a spectrum of tailored solutions incorporating feasibility reviews, employee research, benefits plan design, benefit procurement, administration advice and communication services to organisations. She is also responsible for developing flexible and voluntary benefit services within Aon Consulting.
Lisa is a graduate of Imperial College and is a qualified actuary. She has spent over 10 years working in the employee benefits arena. She is enthusiastic about providing companies with modern benefits packages that provide employees with choice, security and simplicity.
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Catherine Redmond, Head of Reward and Benefits, Barclays
 Catherine Redmond is based in Human Resources at Barclays Plc. She joined in October 2003 and was appointed Head of Benefits. Catherine has recently been appointed to Head of Reward and Benefits and now has responsibility for the design and delivery of employee reward and benefit programmes for 65,000 UK based employees.
Prior to joining Barclays, Catherine was employed as an employee benefits consultant at a major international human resources consulting firm. In this role she advised a variety of domestic and international clients on all aspects of employee benefits strategy and implementation. Assignments included the design and delivery of flexible benefit programmes, total reward communications and benefits integration for a number of merger and acquisitions.
Catherine is a Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries, and is also a Fellow of the Society of Actuaries in Ireland.
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Trevor Merriden, Editor, Human Resources
 Trevor Merriden has been editor of the Human Resources group of magazines since July 2002. After beginning his career as an international economist at the Bank of England, he moved into journalism at the Economist Group, before arriving at Haymarket Publishing on Management Today and Internet Business magazines, before taking up his current position.
Trevor is the author of three business books and has written, lectured and broadcast on a wide range of business and economic issues for media in Europe, North America and Australasia.
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Graham Drewett, UK Compensation and Benefits Manager, Logica CMG
 I have been in the Compensation and Benefits field for the last 30 years. The first half of that time was spent in the Financial Services industry in life assurance and latterly with a financial planning division of American Express. Since then my experience has included retail, where I worked with the DIY firm Wickes and then House of Fraser, followed by my current role in LogicaCMG who specialise in systems integration, IT consultancy and outsourcing services.
My compensation and benefits experience has covered varied aspects of remuneration including incentives benchmarking and payroll as well as the full range of benefits including pensions and cars. Most recently at Logica CMG I have managed the integration of benefits following our merger and introduced a flexible benefits system in conjunction with Vebnet in January this year.
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