David Lancefield is a strategist and coach who has advised more than 35 CEOs and has led 15 digital transformations. He is a contributing editor to Board Agenda and he also hosts the interview series Lancefield on the Line and publishes the email newsletter Flashes+Sparks. Lancefield was a senior partner with Strategy&, PwC’s strategy consulting business.
Baron Laudermilk has six years of experience as a financial editor and journalist covering Asian banking, business and infrastructure.
Working in Singapore, Beijing and Hong Kong as a lead correspondent, Baron has managed the organization of prominent financial conferences, moderated key dialogues, and has written influential pieces on Asian banking that touches on everything from The Asian Financial Crises in 1998 to the liberalization of the renminbi and its impact on global finance.
Baron speaks fluent English and Mandarin, and graduated from Ohio University with a BA in political science and Asian studies.
Partner - UK Head of Investigations - Mazars UK. Over the past thirty years, Nigel has advised many multinational companies, law firms and financial institutions, on a variety of matters, particularly involving bribery, corruption and fraud. Nigel has established strong relationships with our some of Mazars largest clients, ensuring that we deliver on complex projects and helping our clients in their pursuit of growth, efficiency, and success. He has conducted investigations into bribery, corruption, and fraud in a number of jurisdictions including all major continents of the world. He has also performed many compliance assignments covering areas such as: compliance with the UK Bribery Act and FCPA; anti-money laundering compliance assignments; sanctions; modern slavery; and internal audit risk assignments. Nigel is also Mazars’ Global Head of Pharma & Life Sciences and as an expert in that sector, works with some of the largest companies in that sector, specialising in the provision of forensic services to solicitors and corporates.
Dr Richard Leblanc is a professor of corporate governance, law and ethics at York University, Toronto.
Richard adopts a framework for governance effectiveness developed over several years. His work, directly or indirectly, has impacted companies throughout the world, including those that have used Richard’s methodology to strengthen their governance effectiveness and accountability practices.
Richard is a strategic advisor at the Institute for Excellence in Corporate Governance at the University of Texas at Dallas and developed and taught a course in corporate governance at Harvard University.
Professor Leblanc is the recipient of awards for his research, teaching and other contributions, including the School of Administrative Studies Award for Theory and Practice, the Schulich School of Business Award for Teaching Excellence, and Merit Awards. He is the editor of The Handbook of Board Governance (Wiley, 2020).
Pierre Lechat is head of ESG services at TMF Group, a global provider of critical business administration services. Before joining TMF Group, he was working at Morningstar on sustainability and ESG reporting.
Katherine Lee is a founder of Bendon Lee, the investor relations advisers. She is a former CFO at YouGov plc, where she was instrumental in growing the business from £2m to £43m in revenues and internationalising the group. Katherine was awarded the Finance Director of the year - Growing business in 2007. She has managed investor relations from within corporates and worked in corporate finance and advisory at both PwC and Grant Thornton.
Stephanie Lee is a partner in the dispute resolution department of Travers Smith.
She is a skilled commercial litigator, acting for domestic and international clients across a broad range of contentious matters, often involving high-profile and complex claims of significant value.
Stephanie has particular expertise in the financial services sector, both in litigation and contentious regulatory investigations, and in matters involving allegations of fraud. She also has a breadth of experience, having acted on insolvency, environmental, intellectual property and defamation disputes. Her cases frequently have a multi-jurisdictional element to them.
Stephanie is recommended in The Legal 500 UK for her contentious financial services work.
Stephanie is a member of the London Solicitors Litigation Association, the International Association of Young Lawyers and the Commercial Fraud Lawyers Association.
Linda Lee-Davies is a senior, commercial academic and leadership specialist with a particular interest in intergenerational leadership and the impact of technology on corporate culture.
Linda has extensive experience in the provision of on-site, blended and distance-learning executive training and development for a wide range of global corporate clients.
She has also run and designed university MBAs for large, local, national and international mixed cohorts for over ten years and was awarded for outstanding achievement having brought essential commercial elements to academic provision and procedures.
Linda has secured large corporate training contracts for accreditation for universities, including a ‘paperless’ MBA. She has also designed and validated a number of masters courses as well as provided business consultancy for a range of SMEs. Prior to that, she held a senior position with a large recruitment firm running a £10m section of their business across the UK.
Andrew is author of 'Ethical Leadership: Creating and Sustaining an Ethical Business Culture' (Kogan Page, 2013) and writes regularly on this at www.ethical-leadership.co.uk. He is a joint founder of Maynard Leigh Associates whose mission is to 'Inspire Greater Impact'. The company pioneered the use of ideas from theatre in business and is now in its 26th year of trading, with many global and international clients.
Roland is a partner at Kekst CNC and advises clients on all aspects of financial communications, crisis communications and reputation management.
Roland has extensive experience in the financial services sector, having held senior communications roles with leading global financial institutions before rejoining Kekst CNC in 2019. Roland rejoined Kekst CNC after five years at BlackRock, Inc, the world’s largest asset management firm, where he held several senior communications roles in London and Frankfurt.
Roland previously worked for the Goldman Sachs Group, Inc, where he was a member of the executive office team managing communications for the German-speaking region, Eastern Europe and Russia. Roland initially joined Kekst CNC in 2006 and worked as a consultant in the Munich and Frankfurt offices.
Roland graduated with an MA in Philosophy, German Literature and Communication Sciences from the University of Leipzig and a BA in Philosophy from the University of Edinburgh.
Per Lekvall is a former executive director of the Swedish Corporate Governance Board and is now an associate member of the same body. Prior to this he was the head secretary of the Governmental Commission on Business Confidence and its sub-commission The Code Group, which developed the Swedish Corporate Governance Code.
From 1995 until 2006 he served as CEO of the Swedish Academy of Board Directors and now chairs the international committee of this association. He is also a member of the ecoDa policy committee.
Stuart Lemmon is chief executive (Northern Europe) of climate and sustainability consultancy EcoAct.
Having worked in the sector for 25 years, his expertise spans climate, sustainability, risk and environmental management disciplines. He has a BSc (Hons) in Environmental Sciences and an MBA. Over the course of his career he has worked with a wide range of both private and public sectors including property, construction, financial services, process industries, utilities, oil & gas, as well as central and local government.
He provides technical direction, account lead and project management across EcoAct’s broad consulting and carbon offsetting services. He specialises in strategy development and the integration of sustainability activity with operational and reporting processes.
