JOANNA VARLEY - FINANCIAL SERVICES
ALAN CARPENTER - AUTOMOTIVE
Joanna started her career in Financial Services with the Prudential almost 30 years ago and held a number of senior roles in sales and marketing driving major organisational change programmes. In 1996 she joined Henderson Global Investors as Director of Strategy & Business Development with accountability for new products & markets. Following Henderson's acquisition by AMP she was asked to lead all aspects of e-business development culminating in the launch of Ample and its subsequent acquisition of iii with the combined business winning the 2002/3 award for the best financial services website. Her final role at AMP was as Director of European Business Development. She then joined Barclays UK Banking as MD for Debt & Deposits leading multi-disciplinary teams managing the full choice of lending, savings and liquidity products across UK Banking. After a period at Fidelity she moved into consulting with a number of major UK Financial Services companies with more recent work specialising in directing M&A programmes. Her most recent role saw her work for two years as Interim Chief Operating Officer for Just Group plc.
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Alan began his automotive career with Ford Credit with roles in UK sales and marketing in before managing a major organisational change programme & then moving on to establish pan-European leasing capabilities. In '92 he joined Volvo Car UK to head up a new function managing sales to the UK's largest 50 leasing companies. In '97 he was asked to create and lead Volvo Car Corporation's global fleet division, growing this to a $50m operation. After a period consulting for several European OEMs and International Fleet Operators he was headhunted by Al Futtaim in Dubai to modernise their Fleet Sales Operations in their flagship Toyota brand. Over a six year period he overhauled that operation and doubled fleet sales whilst expanding his responsibilities to include all distributor sales, marketing and product management and being a key player in the small team who grew the business to an $800m profit operation. Alongside successful numbers he recorded one of the highest ever employee engagement scores. Since leaving Dubai he's been developing his photography business, a holiday rental property portfolio and consulted on B2B sales projects and various automotive sales and distribution projects.
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