Kester Scrope is the CEO of Odgers Berndtson's UK and Asian Offices. His career began in industry within the paper and packaging sector and he has held various senior positions within the Mondi division of Anglo American. He has consulted to a wide range of businesses in sectors as diverse as engineering, motor racing, healthcare and shipping. He is also member of the Advisory Council of TheCityUK.
Aalap Shah is a managing director in the New York office of Pearl Meyer. With more than 15 years' experience, Mr Shah advises public and privately held companies on executive compensation issues, with focus on pay governance, pay-for-performance alignment and incentive plan design. He advises clients in a variety of industries, including high-tech, healthcare, financial services, consumer products, retail, manufacturing, real estate and media. Prior to joining Pearl Meyer in 2006, Mr Shah was with Mercer Human Resource Consulting, where he specialised in executive remuneration advisory services.
Mara Shah-Coulon runs Ernst & Young's corporate governance team. She has written several publications on these subjects including 'Board Effectiveness – Continuing the Journey', published in April 2015.
She is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales and has audited a number of multinational companies in the industrial and chemical sector. Prior to her move to the corporate governance team, Mala spent six years working in EY’s Professional Practice Directorate, advising audit teams and senior client handlers on technical auditing, corporate governance and risk management issues. In this role, she formulated EY's policies to implement various legal and regulatory changes affecting the audit profession, including the Companies Act 2006 and the 2012 Corporate Governance Code.
Avi Shankar is professor of consumer research at the School of Management—University of Bath, and visiting professor at Stockholm University Business School.
Avi is interested in what people do with stuff and what stuff does to people. How do people use stuff, what does this stuff mean to them, how is this stuff integrated into their everyday lives and what does this stuff do to or for them? And by stuff, he's not limited to just studying the material or tangible things you can buy in shops, but also leisure activities, like dance or surf culture, or anything that provides us with an experience—pleasant or unpleasant.
Susan Sharawi is a senior manager working in the cyber-security department within KPMG's risk consulting practice. Information Protection is one area that KPMG has identified for tremendous investment and growth. Susan has worked on helping clients deal effectively with technology-related risks and derive maximum value from data and documentation.
Sandeep Sharma is a director within the technology consulting & assurance practice at Mazars UK, specialising in penetration testing and red teaming. Sandeep has over 18 years’ experience delivering and managing large scale security engagements for clients from numerous industry sectors including banking, manufacturing, retail and central government.
The late Haydn Shaughnessy worked as an adviser to the EU, SWIFT and other international bodies as well as to Fortune 100 companies. He worked in the US think tank industry and wrote about change for the Harvard Business Review, Forbes, Wall St Journal and other renowned publications.
Richard is a director at Independent Audit. As well as wide experience in board and committee effectiveness built up over 14 years, Richard has special expertise in risk governance and the work of audit and risk committees. He also has considerable experience in board and committee reviews, with clients including Rolls-Royce, National Grid, Prudential and the Unilever Pension Fund Trustee Board. Richard was formerly a Partner in the risk management practice at PwC.
Dr Stanislav Shekshnia is senior affiliate professor of entrepreneurship and family enterprise at INSEAD. He also directs the Leading from the Chair Programme. Stanislav's research concentrates on leadership, leadership development and effective governance at emerging markets and organisations. He is a senior partner at Ward Howell talent equity advisory, which has offices in Moscow, Paris, St. Petersburg, Kiev, and Alma-Aty. Stanislav also provides advice and personal coaching to business owners, senior executives and executive teams. Dr Shekshnia is the author, co-author, or editor of seven books, including "Coaching: How to Manage Free People (2010, 2013, 2015)", "The New Russian Business Leaders (2004 with M.Kets deVries, K. Korotov, E. Florent-Treacy), "Corporate Governance in Russia" (2004, edit. with S. Puffer and D. McCarthy). His articles have appeared in journals such as "The Academy of Management Executive, the "European Management Journal" and "Harvard Business Review Russia".
Andrew Shipilov is a professor of strategy and the John H Loudon chair of international management at INSEAD. In 2014, Professor Shipilov received a prestigious Emerging Scholar Award from the Strategic Management Society. He is an expert in the areas of strategy, innovation, and networks. His current academic research examines how social networks, strategic alliances, and partnerships affect firms' competitive advantage. At INSEAD, Professor Shipilov teaches and directs Executive Education programmes on competitive strategy, collaborative strategy, and Blue Ocean Strategy. He has been an academic director of the INSEAD Blue Ocean Strategy open programme since 2010. His clients include Abbott Labs, IBM, Microsoft Corp., Bayer, BNP Paribas, Royal Dutch Shell and other well-known companies.
Philip Shrives is professor of accounting and corporate governance and head of the accounting and financial management department at Newcastle Business School, Northumbria University. Professor Shrives became principal lecturer in 1992 and enjoyed being part of an era that fundamentally altered research capacity within the school, including completing his own PhD at University College Dublin in 2011. He helped in a number of ways to change the culture towards research while maintaining a very high standard of teaching and learning development. Philip is a chartered accountant (FCA, ICAEW) having qualified with the firm Arthur Young (now part of Ernst and Young), and is a fellow of the UK Higher Academy.
