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Alumni Biographies
Below is a small selection of past Quest participants.
URSULA BRENNAN
Ursula Brennan joined the Office for Criminal Justice Reform (OCJR) as Chief Executive in May 2006. Before that Ursula spent two years as Director General, Living, Land and Seas, at the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (DEFRA). Her responsibilities included leading work on policy and strategy for rural disadvantage, protection of wildlife and the countryside and marine and fisheries business. Prior to this Ursula worked for the Department for Work and Pensions, latterly leading the strategy on welfare to work and benefit fraud. She joined the Department of Health and Social Security in 1975 after two years with the Inner London Education Authority.
JUSTIN FORSYTH
Justin is Special Advisor to the UK Prime Minister on international development. He is an expert on issues of poverty and development having been actively involved in campaigning on poverty and injustice for 20 years Justin was formerly Campaign and Policy Director for Oxfam, one of the largest development organisations in the world, and has worked for Oxfam for the last 13 years in a variety of roles.
GILES GOODHEAD
Giles Goodhead lives in Los Angeles and is an entrepreneur in the publishing sector, with a background in consulting with Monitor. Giles has grown and sold a number of niche information companies. His current business engagements include his role as Chairman of Pyramid Research, a market research company that forecasts telecoms markets and comments on competitive issues around the world. His first book was published in 2003 by Penguin; “Us v Them” recounts a series of trips to classic football derby matches around the world.
GOPAL JAIN
Gopal is Managing Partner, Gopal Jain Capital Partners, based in Mumbai, India. GJCP is one of the first international private equity firms to focus on private equity opportunities in the Indian domestic market. Prior to founding GJCP, Gopal was Managing Director, India, of View Group. View is a private equity firm focused on the US-India corridor. He is one of the few investors in the Indian Private equity sector that has a successful full-cycle investing track record in venture capital and private equity investments. His subject expertise includes Business Process Outsourcing and Financial services. His interests include entrepreneurship development in India.
MARK JONES
Mark is the Director of the Victoria & Albert Museum in London. Since assuming this position in May 2001, the Museum has seen the launch of the British Galleries, the return of free entry, a substantial rise in visitor numbers and a renewed confidence in the Museum' ability to balance historical obligations with its contemporary remit. Prior to this, Mark was Director of the National Museums of Scotland (1992-2001) and oversaw the opening of the award-winning new Museum of Scotland in 1998, the creation of the National War Museum of Scotland (Edinburgh Castle) and the Museum of Scottish Country Life at Kittochside in East Kilbride. Mark is also an author and Honorary Professor at the University of Edinburgh.
SARAH KETTERER
Sarah is CEO of Causeway Capital Management LLC, a Los Angeles-based investment management firm with over $12 billion of assets under management. Over the past 20 years, she has held a variety of positions in finance, including MD and co-head of international equities for the Hotchkis and Wiley division of Merrill Lynch Investment Managers, an associate with Bankers Trust Company's Merchant Banking Group and its affiliate, BT Securities Company, and as a Financial Analyst with Dean Witter Reynolds in the Corporate Finance Department.
ITU KGABOESELE CEO and Co-Founder of Sphere Holdings (Pty) Ltd, an investment company focused on financial and industrial services in South Africa. Director of Ethos Private Equity Ltd. and a member of the Advisory Board of the Student Sponsorship Programme (a charitable organization which enables students from the townships surrounding Johannesburg to attend some of the city’s finest high schools). Previously an investment banker in London and Jo’burg. Based in South Africa.
DAVID LEVIN
David is CEO at United Business Media PLC, a publicly listed international business information group with a market capitalization of circa £1.5bn. Its businesses include PRNewswire and over 200 leading exhibitions worldwide (including shows such as Web 2.0, the Pharmaceutical shows CPhI and the largest jewellery show in Asia), data businesses such as OAG (Official Airline Guide) as well as many on line products and magazines covering diverse fields including Medicine, Technology, Architecture, Jewellery, Furniture, Shipping and many others.
David spent 6 years as the CEO of technology companies - Symbian Ltd, the author of the leading operating system for Mobile Phones and its original founder company Psion PLC, the innovator on handheld devices. Prior to that he was COO of the international publisher Euromoney Institutional Investor plc. and spent his early career was spent with the management consultants Bain and Co. based in the Far East, California and West Africa.
David is also the Chairman of the International Steering Committee of OneVoice, a group working directly with Palestinians and Israelis to support conflict resolution.
CAROLYN MADDOX
Carolyn is a founder Director of Bridges Community Ventures, which is the UK's first community development venture capital company, established to invest in ambitious businesses in the most under-invested parts of England. The fund - mission is to show that thriving businesses can be created and developed in deprived communities. Formerly, Carolyn worked for the LEK Partnership as a strategy consultant, the 3i Group PLc, Causeway Capital Limited and, most recently, for ABN Amro as Director of ABN Amro Private Equity (UK) Limited. Carolyn has joined our Quests to India and Brazil.
CHRIS MATHIAS
Chris is an entrepreneur whose track record includes start-ups, acquisitions and turnarounds culminating most recently in the sale in 1999 of a company he started in 93 and sold as the UK's largest internet consulting company. Today he is an investor and non Executive Director in various companies and is also supporting various not for profit development projects in India and Africa, and Digital Reach, a charity which he founded to provide digital connectivity in developing countries.
SUBRAMANIAN RANGAN
Subi is Associate Professor of Strategy and Management at INSEAD, the international business school in Fontainebleau, France. His research and teaching revolves around the strategy and management challenges facing multinational firms. Subi is an active writer and has published in such journals as the Academy of Management Review and the Journal of International Business Studies, and he has co-written two books: "Manager in the International Economy", a 1996 Prentice-Hall text on international business; and "A Prism on Globalization", Brookings Institution, 1999. Subi is an MBA graduate from the MIT Sloan School of Management and a Ph.D. graduate from Harvard University.
ANDREW RATCLIFFE
Andrew is a partner of PwC in the UK and is Chairman of the Global Board of the PwC organisation, which has responsibility for the governance of the PwC network of member firms. Andrew joined the firm on graduation in 1976 and became a partner in 1986. Throughout his career, he has worked with a wide variety of multi-national clients primarily in the pharmaceutical and insurance industries, and has carried out a range of work including audits, investigations, IPO and other transaction support. Andrew is also Chair of the Audit and Assurance Faculty of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales.
JEAN-BAPTISTE RENARD
Jean-Baptiste is Group Vice President for BP- Business Marketing and New Markets sectors. In this role he oversees BP Oil Fuels Marketing, Aviation, LPG, and Marine businesses as well as BP Oil operations in China, South East Asia, Africa and Latin America. He is also part of the BP Oil Executive Committee providing strategic leadership to BP - worldwide downstream operations. Jean-Baptiste began his career with BP in 1986 and has since held various roles including postings to the UK and Colombia.
JOHN STUDZINSKI
John Studzinski is Global Head of Corporate Advisory Services with the Blackstone Group, an American Private Equity firm. Prior to that he was CEO Investment, Corporate Banking and Marketing at HSBC and Deputy Chairman of Morgan Stanley International. He has over 20 years of Securities Industry experience that includes management, origination and execution of Mergers & Acquisitions, Equity and Fixed Income Financing and a broad range of Restructuring Projects as well as consumer financial services. John is also involved in a wide range of charities and initiatives in the Arts and for the homeless and is a Trustee of Human Rights Watch.
CHRISTOPHE TELLIER
Christophe Tellier leads the European activities of Russell Reynolds Associates in Paris, specialising in assignments for industrial manufacturing and distribution. Prior to joining Russell Reynolds, Christophe worked at Toys 'R' Us in France as Director of Human Resources, and Operations Manager for France, Belgium and Luxembourg. He also held international HR and sales functions with Rank Xerox and Tenneco- J.I. Case unit, a manufacturer of farm and construction equipment. Christophe has a degree in Human Resources Management from the Ecole des Psychologues Praticiens in Paris.
GEOFF UNWIN
Geoff Unwin started his business career in 1963 with Cadbury' with a job no child believes exists - a professional chocolate taster. In 1968 he joined Hoskyns the computer services company. Appointed Managing Director in 1984, Geoff took the company public in 1986 and became COO of Cap Gemini Sogeti in 1993. He led the integration with Ernst & Young in 1999 and became CEO of Cap Gemini Ernst & Young in 2000. Since retiring from CGEY in 2002, Geoff has created a varied portfolio. He is Chairman of United Business Media plc, Halma plc, Liberata plc and Trigenix Ltd (formerly known as 3G Lab) and sits on the Advisory Boards of Palamon Capital Partners and Hartwell plc. Geoff remains a non-voting Board Director of CGE&Y.
BIRANCHI UPADHYAYA
Biranchi is Oxfam GB' Regional Programme Manager for South Asia, managing programmes across Bangladesh, Nepal, India, Sri Lanka, Pakistan and Afghanistan. Biranchi is a development specialist, having worked in the development sector for over 15 years. Biranchi has worked with Oxfam GB for over 9 years, first as head of the Cambodian Country Programme for 5 years and then as the India Country Representative. He started his career with local NGOs and then worked as a development consultant with different international agencies before joining Oxfam GB.
DAVID WEEKLEY
David Weekley is Chairman of David Weekley Homes, an award-winning homebuilding company in the USA. He is an active community leader, chairing several civic organisations (including Past Chairman and current Executive Committee Member of the Sam Houston Area Council of Boy Scouts, Past President of the Houston Chapter of the Young Presidents’ Organisation, former Chairman and member of the Steering Committee of Metro Houston Young Life, former Chair of the Greater Houston Community Foundation). David is based in the USA.
PETER WHEELER
Peter is Chairman of IPValue, a company that partners with major global companies with deep research commitments to manage their intellectual property commercialisation activity. IPValue was formed in 2001 by Goldman Sachs, General Atlantic Partners and The Boston Consulting Group through their joint investment vehicle, iFormation Group. Prior to this, Peter spent fifteen years with Goldman Sachs in the US, Hong Kong (where he established the firm's Investment Banking business for Asia outside of Japan) and the UK, becoming a partner of the firm in 1994. He is also involved with a number of other venture and private capital-backed companies.
Peter is also a trustee of Kids Company, an inner London-based charity serving 'at risk' youth, and a founder and trustee of New Philanthropy Capital, a charity serving donors in the UK by providing independent research on the efficacy of charities and projects in their field of interest; and of Charity Technology Trust, which provides technology services to charities in the UK. He sits on the Investment Advisory Committee of UnLTD, a government-endowed organisation with a mandate to develop social entrepreneurs and their projects nationwide in the UK.
SIR ROBIN YOUNG
Sir Robin Young was Permanent Secretary at the Department of Trade and Industry for the UK Government until 2005. Robin was educated at Fettes College, Edinburgh and University College, Oxford, and joined the Department of the Environment in 1973. His early posts included work on housing and transport; finance; and Private Secretary to Guy Barnett, Parliamentary Secretary for planning and local government, and John Stanley, Minister for Housing. He was promoted to Assistant Secretary in 1984, working on local government finance. Between 1985 and 1988 he was Private Secretary to three Secretaries of State – Patrick Jenkin, Kenneth Baker and Nicholas Ridley.
Robin was promoted to Under Secretary in 1989 and in 1994 he became Deputy Secretary and first Regional Director of the Government Office for London. He transferred to the Cabinet Office in July 1997, where he headed the Economic and Domestic Affairs Secretariat. He was Permanent Secretary at the Department for Culture, Media and Sport from April 1998 to June 2001, and then Permanent Secretary at the Department of Trade and Industry for 4 years. He left the Civil Service aged 56 in April 2005 to start a new portfolio career. He is currently Deputy Chairman of Dr Foster Ltd (a health informatics company), Chairman of Dr Foster Intelligence Ltd (a joint venture with the Department of Health) and Chairman of EuroRSCG Apex Communications Ltd (a start-up public affairs consultancy).
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