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Adams, Paul, CEO, British American Tobacco
Amelio, Bill, president & CEO, Lenovo
Armitage, Mark, president US, The CarbonNeutral Company
Arora, Nikesh, president, EMEA operations, Google
Bailey, Sly, CEO, Trinity Mirror
Bajaj, Rahul, chairman, Bajaj Auto
Baker, Richard, former CEO, Alliance Boots
Banga, Vindi, president, foods, home and personal care, Unilever
Barry, Mike, head of corporate social responsibility, Marks & Spencer
Basing, Nick, former CEO, Paramount Restaurants
Beeston, Kevin, executive chairman, Serco
Bell, Chris, CEO, Ladbrokes
Bell, Sir David, chairman, Financial Times
Berrien, James, president and publisher, Forbes Magazine Group
Bilefield, James, former CEO, OpenX
Bolland, Marc, CEO, Morrisons
Bond, Sir John, chairman, Vodafone
Breedon, Tim, CEO, Legal & General
Brikho, Samir, CEO, AMEC
Broughton, Martin, chairman, British Airways
Brown, Frank, dean, INSEAD
Browne, John, Baron Browne of Madingley, former CEO, BP
Butler-Wheelhouse, Keith, former CEO, Smiths Group
Carayol, René, leadership expert
Carr, Neil, vice-president, Rohm & Haas
Carson, Neil, CEO, Johnson Matthey
Castell, Sir Bill, former CEO, GE Healthcare; chairman, The Wellcome Trust
Cheung, Stanley, managing director, Walt Disney China
Clare, Mark, CEO, Barratt Developments
Clarke, Tim, CEO, Mitchells & Butler
Clifford, Leigh, former CEO, Rio Tinto
Conde, Cris, CEO, Sungard
Coull, Ian, CEO, Segro
Cox, Phil, CEO, International Power
Crawshaw, Steven, former CEO, Bradford & Bingley
Crombie, Sandy, CEO, Standard Life
Daniels, Eric, CEO, Lloyds TSB
Davies, Mervyn, chairman and former CEO, Standard Chartered
Davies, Sian, CEO, Henley Centre
Davis, Sir Crispin, CEO, Reed Elsevier
Davis, Gareth, CEO, Imperial Tobacco
Davis, Mick, CEO, Xstrata
Davis, Tony, president and CEO, Tiger Airways
Dell, Michael, chairman and CEO, Dell Computer
Diamond, Bob, chief executive of investment banking and investment management, Barclays
DiPietro, Kenneth, senior vice-president, human resources, Lenovo
Dobson, Michael, CEO, Schroders
Drechsler, Paul, Chairman & CEO, Wates Group
Duddy, Terry, CEO, Home Retail Group
Dyke, Greg, former director-general, BBC
Dyson, Sir James, founder, Dyson
Emmens, Matt, CEO, Shire Pharmaceuticals
Fahour, Ahmed, CEO Australia, National Australia Bank
Fairhead, Rona, CEO, Financial Times
Fake, Caterina, co-founder, Flickr
Fawcett, Adrian, CEO, General Healthcare Group
Ferguson, Iain, CEO, Tate & Lyle
Flynn, Doug, former CEO, Rentokil Initial
Fox, Simon, CEO, HMV Group
Frangos, Jean-Marc, senior vice-president of technology and innovation, BT
Froggatt, Tony, former CEO, Scottish & Newcastle
Gammell, Sir Bill, CEO, Cairn Energy
Garber, Mitch, former CEO, PartyGaming
Gardner, Sir Roy, former CEO, Centrica
Giampaolo, David, CEO, Pi Capital
Glocer, Tom, CEO, Thomson Reuters
Gooding, Val, former CEO, BUPA
Green, Harriet, CEO, Premier Farnell
Green, Philip, CEO, United Utilities
Halusa, Martin, CEO, Apax Partners
Harrison, Andy, CEO, easyJet
Harrison, Bob, CEO, Clinton Global Initiative
Hartman, Richard, CEO, Millennium & Copthorne Hotels
Haste, Andy, CEO, RSA (formerly Royal & Sun Alliance)
Havner, Ron, vice-chairman, CEO and president, Public Storage
Hennessy, Murray, former CEO, Avis Europe
Hester, Stephen, CEO, British Land
Hoberman, Brent, co-founder, Lastminute.com
Hogarth, Peter, founder, The Change Partnership
Holliday, Steve, CEO, National Grid
Hornby, Andy, CEO, HBOS
Hornsby, Chip, CEO, Wolseley
Howard, Stephen, CEO, Business in the Community
Iyar, Subrah, CEO, WebEx
Jackson, Michael, chairman, PartyGaming
Jiren, Liu, chairman and CEO, Neusoft
Johnson, Peter, former chairman and CEO, Inchcape
Judge, Barbara, chairman, UK Atomic Energy Authority
Kakabadse, Andrew, professor of international management development, Cranfield University, School of Management
Kelly, Kevin, CEO, Heidrick & Struggles
Kemp, Harriet, former vice-president human resources excellence, ICI
Kent, Muhtar, president and CEO, The Coca-Cola Company
King, Martina, former managing director of country operations for Europe, Yahoo!
Laidlaw, Sam, CEO, Centrica
Larcombe, Brian, former CEO, 3i
Leahy, Sir Terry, CEO, Tesco
Leighton, Allan, chairman, Royal Mail
Levy, Gigi, CEO, 888 Holdings
Makin, Louise, CEO, BTG
Mallya, Vijay, chairman, Kingfisher Airlines and United Breweries
Manduca, Paul, senior independent director, Morrisons
Manwaring, Tony, CEO, Tomorrow’s Company
Mayfield, Charlie, chairman, John Lewis Partnership
McCaig, Ian, CEO, Lastminute.com
McCall, Carolyn, CEO, Guardian Media Group
McGregor-Smith, Ruby, CEO, MITIE
Middleton, Julia, CEO, Common Purpose
Mills, Brad, CEO, Lonmin
Moore, Philip, former CEO, Friends Provident
Moraitis, Thras, head of group strategy and corporate affairs, Xstrata
Mordashov, Alexey, CEO, Severstal
Morton, Bruce, co-founder, Ask Gen Y and e3 unlimited
Moulton, Jon, founder and managing partner, Alchemy Partners
Murdoch, James, chairman and CEO, Europe and Asia, News Corporation
Murphy, Gerry, former CEO, Kingfisher
Murphy, Stephen, CEO, Virgin Group
Murray, Alan, former CEO, Hanson
Murthy, Narayana, chairman and chief mentor, Infosys
Nadar, Shiv, founder, HCL; chairman and chief strategy officer, HCL Technologies
Neill, John, CEO, Unipart
Norman, Archie, former CEO, Asda; founder, Aurigo Management
O’Donnell, Sir Christopher, former CEO, Smith & Nephew
Parker, Alan, CEO, Whitbread
Parker, Sir John, chairman, National Grid
Patel, Ketan, founder partner, Greater Pacific Capital
Philipps, Charles, CEO, Amlin
Pindar, Paul, CEO, Capita
Pluthero, John, executive chairman of Europe, Asia and US and international, Cable & Wireless
Poler, Dwight, managing director, Bain Capital Europe
Premji, Azim, chairman and CEO, Wipro
Pym, Richard, former CEO, Alliance & Leicester
Quintana, Bob, president and founder, RLQ Consulting Group
Rake, Sir Michael, chairman, BT
Reece, Damian, head of business, Daily Telegraph
Reynolds, Emma, co-founder, Ask Gen Y and e3 unlimited
Richards, John, CEO, Hammerson
Robbins, Anthony, CEO, Anthony Robbins Companies
Robert, Don, CEO, Experian
Robinson, Sir Gerry, former CEO, Granada
Roney, Mike, CEO, Bunzl
Rosedale, Philip, founder and chairman, Linden Lab
Rosling, Alan, executive director, Tata Sons
Rudd, Sir Nigel, chairman, BAA
Salway, Francis, CEO, Land Securities
Satwalekar, Deepak, lead independent director, Infosys; CEO, HDFC Standard Life
Scheifele, Bernd, chairman, Heidelberg Cement
Schoenmaker, Theo, head of sustainability, Philips
Secher, Jan, CEO, Clariant
Shareef, Juhi, consultant sustainable management, Arup
Shaw, Russ, director of innovation, Telefonica
Sinclair, Charles, former CEO, Daily Mail and General Trust
Smith, Angela, group people director, Virgin Management
Sorrell, Sir Martin, CEO, WPP
Standage, Tom, business editor, The Economist
Stitzer, Todd, CEO, Cadbury
Story, Ed, CEO, SOCO International
Studzinski, John, senior managing director, Blackstone
Sutcliffe, Jim, CEO, Old Mutual
Svensson, Krister, founder, CMi
Tan Pheng Hock, president and CEO, Singapore Technologies Engineering
Tang, Frank, founder, Fountainvest
Taylor, Stephen, CEO, BizzEnergy
Thompson, Dorothy, CEO, Drax
Thompson, Paul, former CEO, Resolution
Tucker, Mark, CEO, Prudential
Turner, Mike, chairman, Babcock International; former CEO, BAE Systems
van der Heijden, Ido, founder, Van der Heijden Associates
Vardanian, Ruben, CEO, Troika Dialog
Varley, John, CEO, Barclays
Verwaayen, Ben, former CEO, BT
Walker, Paul, CEO, Sage
Walker, Simon, group strategy director, Emap
Walker, Tom, senior member London, CCMP Capital
Wallace, Graham, former CEO, Cable & Wireless
Walsh, Paul, CEO, Diageo
Walton, David, former CEO, API Group
Waples, John, business editor, Sunday Times
Warry, Peter, former CEO, British Energy
Watkins, Alan, founder, Cardiac Coherence
Weldon, Guy, partner, Bridgepoint Capital
Weston, George, CEO, Associated British Foods
Weston, John, former CEO, BAE Systems
Whiteman, Kevin, CEO, Kelda Group
Wilkus, Malon, chairman and CEO, American Capital
Zore, Ed, CEO, Northwestern Mutual
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