Careers Convention Programme

Welcome

Dear Parents, Guardians, Students and Staff,

Welcome to our 2023 Careers Convention. This is a biennial event which gives students the opportunity to meet with representatives from a wide range of career areas.

The main convention runs from 7pm to 9pm in the Taylor Building. You will find representatives from fields such as journalism, banking and finance, advertising, PR, technology, hospitality and many more, all keen to discuss their careers with you. Please take the time to find out about people’s different career paths – many of our exhibitors have had interesting careers with changes along the way. We are lucky to be joined by a number of successful entrepreneurs, for example, all of whom have interesting and varied backgrounds. We strongly encourage students to talk to representatives from fields they might be less familiar with, as well as those they know they are interested in.

For anyone considering degree apprenticeships as an option, we are also delighted that we have some apprentices joining us this evening.

Alongside the main convention, we have some talks and panel sessions taking place. We are very pleased to welcome graduate recruitment expert James Darley, who will be giving us an insight into what employers are looking for and how our students can give themselves a head-start. Doors to the Bourne Hall will open at 6.45pm and the talk will begin at promptly at 7pm. If you are unable to make it, this talk will be recorded and shared after the event.

In the Lime Tree Drama Studio, Magnus Djaba will be discussing his journey from Habs to becoming Global President of the world’s most famous advertising agency, Saatchi & Saatchi. There are also panel discussions taking place on

careers in science (Seldon Hall), and entrepreneurship (Aske Hall); and if you are not attending talks our exhibitors will be ready to speak to you all evening in the Taylor Building.

We are extremely grateful to all the exhibitors and speakers who have given up their time to share their expertise with you this evening. Please see pages 4 and 5 for a full list of exhibitors as well as details of all the talks and panel sessions on pages 6 and 7.

We hope you have a useful and enjoyable evening.

Kerry Nash Head of Careers, Habs Boys

List of exhibitors

THE TAYLOR BUILDING (7PM TO 9PM) (EXHIBITORS CONFIRMED AT TIME OF PRINTING)

ROOM CAREER AREA COMPANY/ORGANISATION NAME

Foyer Gap Years

Armed Forces

Real Estate Development/ Hospitality

Hospitality/ Entrepreneurship

T003 Science

Raleigh International

British Army

Shiva Hotels Group

JKS Restaurants

Johnson Matthey

PPD (A Thermo Fisher Scientific company)

NHS

Doctorpreneurs

Engineering Alstom

Volker Fitzpatrick

Architecture ZMMA

Burrell Foley Fischer

T004 Investment Banking Winton

Banking Bank of America

Morgan Stanley

FinTech

Accomplish

Smart Pension

Ella Watson

Leanne Brill

Rishi Sachdev*

Jyotin Sethi*

Chris Todd

Kelsey Richbell

Dr Dan Carter

Dr Leona Fitzgerald

Helen Newman

Dr Vishaal Virani*

Shuchi Tomar

Mifaz Mifta

Sally Hill

Ben Walker

Adam Zombory-Moldovan

Helen Grassly

Nick Saunders*

Alex Newman*

Jay Parshottam

Simon Bradley*

Andrew Evans*

T006 Medicine and Dentistry

NHS

NHS

Simpson House Medical Centre

Honeypot Medical Centre

Cockfosters Dental Practice

Douglas Miller Dental Practice

T009 PwC Audit

Dr Raj Shah*

Dr Ronak Shah*

Dr Daniel Goldwater*

Dr Anjna Vekaria

Dr Ketan Vekaria

Dr Sachin Shah*

Dr Veehar Malde*

Jon Hinchliffe*

Ash Talai*

Tax - P&O Janak Vyas*

Deals/Strategy

Riva Patel*

Akash Roy*

Richard Comras*

Hari Asokan*

Tax Shameera Sharma*

Karan Amin*

Vishnu Sarma*

Suganya Arnold*

Consulting

Jake Krais*

Nish Selvakumar*

T010 Advertising Publicis Groupe Magnus Djaba*

PR Andrew Bloch Associates

Journalism Record Collector Magazine

Translating Marc Joss

T011 Consultancy/ Apprenticeships EY

Banking/ Apprenticeships

Andrew Bloch*

Paul Lester*

Marc Joss*

Joel Carlowe*

HSBC Viren Dulabh*

Law Fladgate

Harcourt Chambers

Gatehouse Chambers

Technology, Consultancy/ Apprenticeships

Technology

IBM

Computacenter

Alex Haffner*

Adam Kayani*

Jonathan Titmuss*

Adam Hammond*

Nathan John

Renee Ramsay-Nicol

Leon Lecky

* Old Haberdasher

Talks and Panel sessions

(PANELLISTS SUBJECT TO CHANGE)

KEYNOTE SPEECH

THE BOURNE HALL, 7PM TO 7.45PM

JAMES DARLEY, GRADUATE RECRUITMENT

PANEL AND Q&A SESSIONS

ALL 8.15PM TO 8.45PM

THE LIME TREE DRAMA STUDIO, 1ST FLOOR OF TAYLOR BUILDING Q&A WITH MAGNUS DJABA, CHIEF CLIENT OFFICER, PUBLICIS GROUPE

THE ASKE HALL, GROUND FLOOR OF THE ASKE BUILDING ENTREPRENEURSHIP WITH:

JYOTIN SETHI, JKS RESTAURANTS

ANDREW BLOCH, ANDREW BLOCH ASSOCIATES

ANDREW EVANS, SMART PENSION

PANEL AND Q&A SESSIONS

THE SELDON HALL, GROUND FLOOR OF THE SELDON BUILDING CAREERS IN SCIENCE WITH:

DR DAN CARTER, JOHNSON MATTHEY

DR LEONA FITZGERALD, PPD

HELEN NEWMAN, NHS

Meet our speakers

JAMES DARLEY

With more than 25 years’ experience in graduate recruitment James is widely recognised as one of the leading figures in the sector. He has served as a Trustee for Frontline, Police Now, Think Ahead and Unlocked and was, for 15 years part of the original senior leadership team at Teach First which, under his aegis, reached #2 in the Times Top 100 of graduate employers and became the largest single recruiter of graduates in the UK. James is a Trustee of Now Teach, Romodels and also sits on the advisory board of the Royal National Children’s Springboard

Foundation, a charity giving life-transforming education opportunities to disadvantaged and vulnerable children. Finally he is part of the Government’s National Leadership Programme for the top-100 public sector leaders.

MAGNUS DJABA

Magnus Djaba was appointed Chief Client Officer for Publicis Groupe in November 2021. He oversees the Groupe’s global client relationships and is on the Management Committee. Djaba previously led Publicis Groupe UK’s creative agencies, including Saatchi & Saatchi, Leo Burnett and Digitas whose clients are some of the UK’s biggest advertisers. He was also global president of the Saatchi & Saatchi network from 2017 to 2021.

From 2011 to 2020, Djaba was CEO of Saatchi & Saatchi London and led a period of transformation at the world’s most famous ad agency. Prior to this, he was managing director of the acclaimed start-up agency Fallon London, which became one of the most awarded creative agencies of the 2000s, best known for ground-breaking campaigns for the BBC, Cadbury and Skoda.

Djaba is also a leading voice on diversity and sits on the MGGB Council, the Black Business Institute Advisory Board, the English Premier League Equality Panel, the IPA Council and the Effies UK Board.

Meet our speakers

Andrew Bloch is a non-executive director at Frank, the PR agency he founded in 2000. He is a consultant in the creative and marketing services industry, and involved at board-level in a number of businesses, helping them create new business relationships, spot opportunities and add value. In 2022 he was named as one of the Top Ten most Influential PR people in the world by Buzz Sumo.

Frank is one of the UK’s most respected PR agencies and has

represented some of the nation’s best-known brands. It is the only agency to have been named ‘Agency of the Year’ three times by Marketing Magazine. In May 2020, Bloch stepped down as managing partner of the agency to become a non-executive director. He now runs Andrew Bloch & Associates, a boutique consultancy that helps brands, agencies and celebrities create new business relationships. In 2023, Andrew Bloch & Associates was named Boutique Marketing Agency of the Year.

Bloch has acted as official spokesperson and PR advisor to Lord Sugar for over 20 years, and has handled the PR for all The Apprentice winners and their companies since the show started in 2005. He is listed in the ‘PR Week Power Book’ and is ranked as the most influential PR person on Twitter (@AndrewBloch).

ANDREW BLOCH

JYOTIN SETHI

After leaving Haberdashers in 1998, Jyotin went on to study Economics at Churchill College, Cambridge. Following ten years in private equity at Barclays Bank, Jyotin, together with his brother Karam (also an Old Haberdasher) and sister Sunaina, founded JKS Restaurants (www.jksrestaurants.com), a market leading independent restaurant group, in 2008. JKS currently operate 18 restaurants and two pubs in Central London: including Michelin Starred restaurants Trishna, Gymkhana, Kitchen Table, Sabor and Lyles, and fine casual brands Bao,

Hoppers and Berenjak, which all hold Michelin Bib Gourmands.

Meet our speakers

ANDREW EVANS

Andrew is the co-founder and CEO of Smart Pension, a Fintech business now used by over a million people in the UK saving for their retirement, and by government and institutional contracts around the globe. There is a focus on digital innovation, transparency and technology.

Smart employs over 800 people and has raised over £250mn in funding, with investors including J.P. Morgan, Fidelity, Barclays and Legal & General.

Dr Dan Carter is a chemist by training and currently manages Johnson Matthey’s (JM) corporate market intelligence team. JM is a global leader in sustainable technologies with a vision to create a cleaner, healthier world. The company supports their customers in the automotive, chemicals and energy sectors by developing solutions to catalyse the net zero transition.

The market intelligence team is key to JM understanding its markets and the technologies they need to develop to play and

win on a global stage. JM also support the company’s intellectual property team who file patents to protect Johnson Matthey’s market leading position. As part of JM’s marketing efforts, the team also publishes a peer-reviewed journal of industrial science and technology. Read the journal online at www.technology.matthey.com and visit the corporate website at www.matthey.com.

Meet our speakers

DR LEONA FITZGERALD

Dr Leona Fitzgerald is an Executive Director of the Regulatory Affairs function at PPD, part of Thermo Fisher Scientific. Leona started at PPD in January 2005 as a regulatory affairs executive and has advanced through different career levels, building expertise to lead customers through the necessary regulatory requirements to achieve successful clinical trial execution. This includes enabling the execution of virtual and digital trials. Leona has responsibility for the global professional regulatory affairs team who provide expertise and deliver regulatory

projects aimed at the pharmaceutical industry.

PPD is a contract research organisation that is a global provider of clinical development and laboratory services, focused on operational excellence. We improve health by helping customers deliver life-changing medicines. Patients are always at the heart of our work, driving us to continually reimagine – and reformulate – the future of pharmaceutical product development.

Helen has over 20 years clinical experience working as a speech and language therapist (SLT) in the UK and NZ. She currently holds an NIHR Clinical Doctoral Research Fellowship, jointly hosted by Barnet Hospital (Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust), and the UCL Division of Surgery and Interventional Science. Her PhD focuses on how to choose the best tracheostomy tube size for adults in ICU. She has co-authored a book chapter on the power of communication in critical care and the SLT Pillar of the ICS Allied Health Professionals (AHP)

Professional Development Framework. She is involved in the AHP critical care workforce project and is a member of the international group of SLTs working in ultrasound. Helen is committee member and Treasurer of the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists’ Tracheostomy Clinical Expert Network.