Sandy Lucas is the HR Director, Alexander Mann Solutions.

Prior to joining AMS, Sandy had a 23 year career at GE spanning both consumer and commercial finance where she successfully developed her career in marketing, sales, operational excellence, quality and business management. Her most recent position at GE was appointed Chief Operating Officer for Capital UK where she headed up the Operations, IT, Sourcing, BCM and Strategic Projects functions.

She is a certified GE Quality Leader. Sandy champions gender diversity: she co-led the EMEA community of the GE Women’s Network which spans 35 countries.

Sally is a senior corporate affairs and communications professional with over 20 years’ experience providing trusted counsel to Boards, CEOs and CIOs within the investment industry. She has extensive experience of developing complex investment marketing and communications strategies on market and brand positioning, reputation risk and corporate affairs, and actioning these to directly influence target internal and external stakeholder groups. Sally has a strong track record of building, leading and mobilising highly effective teams to execute swiftly and purposefully. Sally is currently Global Head of Communications at Janus Henderson Investors.

Most recently, Sally was Director of Marketing and Communications at Northill Capital, an asset management business investing long-term equity and seed capital in specialist investment boutiques, which she joined in 2014.

Sally was previously Managing Partner at Penrose Financial, the financial services public relations consultancy where she built and lead its asset management consulting team. Following the sale of Penrose to Engine Group in 2010, Penrose completed a three-way merger to co-found MHP Communications in 2011 where she became Managing Director and Head of Asset Management, and a Partner at Engine Group. During her consulting career, Sally advised asset management, alternative investment firms and pensions businesses on corporate issues and crisis management, financial transactions and strategic communications frameworks.

Previously, Sally spent four years at Moore Capital Management within the London-based Strategy Group. She started her public relations consulting career advising European technology and electronics businesses before moving to financial services in 1997.

Sally is President of City Women Network (CWN), the business network for senior professional women founded in 1978. She is Chair of the Communications Committee of the Alternative Investment Management Association (AIMA) and is a former member (2012-2014) of the Girls’ Cricket Board of charity Chance to Shine.

She holds MSc and MA (Hons) degrees from the University of Edinburgh.

Uma was born in Uganda and now runs her own international HR consulting business from London.

Prior to this, Uma spent over 20 years in senior HR roles across Europe, the Middle East, North America, Asia and Australasia. She has a wealth of directly relevant cross-cultural practitioner experience having worked with the global heads of multiple business lines within the sell side at ANZ Banking Group Limited and Deutsche Bank and from the buy side within AXA Rosenberg.

Uma has operated at C-Suite level dealing with topics including gender and diversity, regulatory and compliance adherence, HR transformation, talent acquisition, succession planning and change management.

Uma is passionate about developing top talent and exploring all things that are ‘HR disruption’ related.  She is an ardent Leicester City football fan and is fluent in Hindi and Gujarati.

Tracey is a trusted business adviser to Boards and Senior Business Leaders and has deep consulting and business transformation experience.  Working at PwC UK for over 25 years, the last 6 years as a Partner, Tracey’s specialism is advising on Corporate Governance, Trust and Ethical Business Conduct, driven by reputational risk across all types of organisations and industries.

As the Founder and Director of her advisory business, Intelligent Ethics, Tracey is passionate about helping leaders define and embrace what ‘doing the right thing’ means to them using behaviours, culture and trustworthiness as critical levers for change. Through her work she enables organisations to unlock high performance and business integrity by designing and developing enhanced risk-based corporate governance frameworks with business ethics and values at their heart.

Tracey helps Boards and Leaders to think differently about responsible leadership, diversity, inclusive culture and ethical behaviours as drivers of a high performing business and creation of trust. As a qualified chartered accountant and certified organisational change management practitioner, her work ranges from effectiveness reviews of existing frameworks to the design and development of good practice governance and ethical compliance driven by key risks such as bribery and corruption, fraud data privacy, and competition law.

In addition, Tracey is a leading voice in the analysis of the impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI) on business ethics.  She works with organisations to help them better understand and prepare for the consequences of AI on corporate governance including the impact on leadership and accountability, decision-making, integrity and use of good judgement. 

Tracey is an award-winning leader of gender diversity initiatives in organisations to maximise the benefits of inclusion and valuing difference in the workplace. She is an established author of published research, thought leadership papers, TEDx speaker and is an inspirational conference speaker and panellist on corporate governance, trust, business ethics and diversity.

Tracey is recognised in the City as an expert in her field and has received many accolades.  Recent awards include Real Model in the City, Green Park, 2017; Top 10 Powerful Women in Finance, City AM, 2016; and Inspirational Woman, WeAreTheCity, 2015.

Anne-Marie Balfe is the Global Talent Leader for EY's People Advisory Services and Managed Services businesses.

Anne-Marie joined EY in New York in 2005, and has worked in a variety of Talent related roles within EY in the US, Japan, Hong Kong and London. 

In her more than 15 years of international human resources experience, Anne-Marie has worked in recruitment, learning and development, organizational development, performance management and diversity and inclusiveness.

Prior to relocating to London, Anne-Marie was the Co-Chair of the Women of Influence committee and a Board member of the American Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong. 

Anne-Marie lives in Hampstead with her husband Shaun and their two children Cillian and Sophie.

In her spare time she is a keen runner and cyclist, and loves exploring new countries and cities with her family. 

Barbara Cremer is Executive Director at Nomura, an Asian based global investment bank.  She is Head of Relationship Management in Nomura’s Treasury Department, responsible for managing the firm's overall relationships with its clients in Europe and the Middle East.  She is also responsible for debt investor relations in the region.  Barbara joined the firm in 2009 after Nomura’s acquisition of Lehman Brothers in Europe.

Prior to this, Barbara worked for a number of investment banks, including Merrill Lynch & Co, where she was a Director in Asset-Backed Commercial Paper origination in the investment banking group.  After eight years working in Merrill’s New York office covering European bank clients, she re-located to London to grow Merrill’s commercial paper business in Europe.  She has worked in Finance for over 20 years, with roles in legal and regulatory policy, as well as banking.

Barbara graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) from Queen’s University in Ontario, Canada majoring in Politics and Economics.  She also has a Master’s in Business Administration (MBA) from the New York University Stern School of Business in New York City with a major in Finance.

Ana is an experienced business partner working with organisations to drive their commercial agenda. A naturally collaborative person she develops relationships quickly and thrives on seeing projects come to life. She credits her skills from working over 20 years in professional services, helping clients across a range of industry sectors. Currently, Ana is the Director of Marketing, Research and Planning at The Pipeline, a business which helps organisations achieve their diversity goals and women move into senior roles.

Previously, she was the Head of Marketing and Business Development for the Forensics and Business Recovery Services at PwC. In that role, Ana soon built credibility with senior stakeholders by creating and leading a highly engaged team which were motivated to meet targets and support the business as it transformed from focusing on crisis led-work to proactively seeking out and winning new business.

Prior to that she developed her business acumen leading the propositions and sales teams in PwC’s consulting business. During her time there, she became known as a hands-on leader which made robust commercial decisions, established successful key account programmes delivering significant revenue growth and produced campaigns on constrained budgets which appealed to senior decision makers. Ana started her career at PwC in the expatriate tax team running the sales and bids team, where she increased the win rate during considerable market change and she is still proud of the successful pitches she led.

Ana is the Chair of the Marketing and Communications Committee at the City Women Network (CWN), the business network for senior professional women founded in 1978. Her aim is to build CWN's profile and ensure members receive insightful updates to help them achieve their professional goals.

Ana holds a BA Hons degree from Southampton University.

After moving from Sydney Australia with her family in 2015, and taking up some charity volunteer work, Jules joined CWN in 2017 as board secretary in addition to providing operational and event support to the board and committees.

Jules has a background in financial services, working for several years at MLC (National Australia Bank’s wealth management division) across a range of roles, including customer service and graduate program management, training and facilitation, HR projects and business development.

After taking a career break to raise her young boys, whilst moving between Dubai, Singapore and back to Sydney, Jules took on a fundraising and communications role at Australian cancer charity Tour de Cure.

Jules is enjoying the rolling hills of the Kent countryside where she lives, and whilst slowly getting acclimatised to the English weather, enjoys travelling home and to other warmer climates when she can!