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Wendy Granditer has been a journalist
for 15 years, and in that time has
contributed news and features to a
range of publications including Hotel
Report, Sky and Sugar
Peter Hackleton is a senior manager
in the corporate tax team at Deloitte
and advises a number of major
organisations on all aspects of corporate
tax. He has a broad scope of
experience including tax structuring
assignments in a number of jurisdictions, transactions
work as well as significant UK compliance and consulting
assignments. A member of the Sports Business Group,
Peter is one of the authors of the Deloitte Annual Review
of Football Finance.
Janet Hanson is the Senior Corporate Communications
Manager for Visit London - the official visitor organisation
for London. She is responsible for the profile of organisation,
Visit London’s input into tourism plans for the
2012 London Olympic and Paralympic Games - working
closely with all the key bodies including LOCOG (London
Organising Committee for the Olympic Games) - and
promoting Visit London’s dedicated analysis function
which, amongst other things, compiles regular data about
hotel developments across London. With over 10 years
experience in the PR industry working on campaigns and
projects for consumer PR agencies, within the education
sector, and now for Visit London, she has a accumulated
a wealth of expertise in a range of industries.
Tim Helliwell is Head of Hotel
Finance, Business Banking Barclays.
He became the head of Barclays’
Hotels team in 2006 and has responsibility
for the Bank’s business hotel
customers within the UK and Western
Europe. Tim has worked with the hotels team over the
last five years. He first joined Barclays in 1990 following
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the completion of a graduate-training programme. Since
then he has undertaken a number of roles within Barclays,
around the UK, where he has honed his skills in within
corporate sector customer management.
Tom Jenkins is the Executive Director
of the European Tour Operators
Association (ETOA), which represents
tour operators and their suppliers
at European level. It promotes
greater awareness of the benefits
provided by the group travel industry and influences
European tourism policy and legislation. He has been
responsible for championing tourist access to historic
cities, for initiating a Europe-wide coach safety code and
for leading a campaign that successfully blocked changes
to EU VAT legislation that would have jeopardised 5,000
tourism jobs in Europe.
Christopher Mumford is Managing
Director of HVS Executive Search in
London and specializes in executive
search and compensation consulting
for clients in the hospitality industry
throughout Europe, the Middle East
and Africa. A regular speaker on industry related issues,
Chris is a frequent author of articles on executive selection,
compensation trends, and general Human Resources
topics affecting the hospitality industry. A selection of
hospitality clients include Emaar (Armani) Hotels &
Resorts, Fairmont Hotels & Resorts, Hilton Hotels Corporation,
Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group, Maybourne
Hotel Group, Morgan Stanley, Sama Dubai, The Stein
Group and Rezidor Hotel Group.
Mark Nichols is a tax partner at CMS
Cameron McKenna advising on all
aspects of UK and international commercial
tax matters, including both tax
planning and transactional/structuring
advice. He is a core member of the
CMS and Cameron McKenna hotel teams, advising on tax
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