Women in Logistics- Speakers Announced!

Alice Spink, Nestle

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Bio:

Alice Spink is Head of Network at Nestle for the United Kingdom and Ireland. Having worked for the Company for 18 years, Alice has responsibility for the distribution centre Network, which services the Coffee, Confectionery, Food & Dairy, Nutrition, Health Science, Cereal Partners and Waters divisions. The sites handle the storage and RH&D for Nestle covering a variety of services including customer deliveries and ecommerce. Alice started her career in the Production and Technical arena before moving into Supply Chain, gaining experience in Production Management, Supply Planning, Demand Planning and Logistics. Alice obtained a BSc (Hons) degree in Nutrition from Nottingham University.

Lesley O'Brien, Freightlink Europe

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Bio:

Lesley O'Brien OBE FCILT is an award-winning business professional with

over 40 years’ experience in the transport industry. She is an advocate for

women in the industry and the small transport operator. As well as running

haulage company Freightlink Europe and consultancy Freight Train, Lesley

is a Trustee of the Road Haulage Association (RHA) Benevolent Fund, a

member of the RHA Security Committee and Regional Council and a

Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport (CILT). She is a

tireless ambassador of the transport industry and served 9 years as an

RHA Main Board Director. In 2020 she launched transport forum, Freight

People, to unite and encourage those working in the transport industry to

support one another in addressing industry issues and to discuss hot

topics. Lesley uses her voice whenever possible to support and encourage

those underrepresented in the industry, to raise standards, improve road

safety and change industry perception. In 2020 she was awarded the OBE

for services to diversity and inclusion in the transport industry and in 2022

was elected to the Motor Transport Wall of Fame and voted Northern

Transport Personality of the Year by Transport News. She is a regular

contributor to the Commercial Motor Legal Panel, Motor Transport Vox Pop

and is invited by the BBC and other media to discuss topical and transport

related issues

Eva Pascoe, The Retail Practice

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Bio:

Eva is a pioneer of ecommerce in UK, industry leader in ecom retail Logistics. She has launched the first online fashion store for Topshop in 2000, working with the owners (Arcadia Group) to develp new Business -To-Consumer (B2C) remote delivery process for all Arcadia brands.

In the last 15 years, she has led the transformation of large Depot-style wholesale warehouses to nimble and agile B2C pick and pack hubs. Eva was instrumental in developing the model of multi-client warehouses, where dozens of small-to-medium ecom brands are serviced by third party warehouse suppliers.

She has project managed many large warehouse migrations, alongside developing multi-country location warehousing for growing UK businesses in Europe and in USA. Throughout her career, Eva has been a promoter of new technologies in logistics and supply chain, seeking to improve health and safety for staff as well as 'green credentials' for warehouses and datacentres in UK and EU. Today, Eva continues to be a thought leader in retail tech and ecom, advocating for optimisation of use of sensors in Internet of Things solutions and introducing new technical ways to improve ethical and sustainable practices in the industry. Since 2020 she has been collaborating with Block Dojo (London) start-up accelerator developing Web3 for optimisation of product provenance (Food, Fashion and Art) and improvement of transparency of supply chain.

Last year Eva co-authored a book "22 Ideas About The Future", with tips on how to improve predictions of technology impact in near -future.

Jenny Tipping,Communication4Diversity

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Bio:

Jenny Tipping is a coach and a trainer in empathic communication with a particularly focus on diversity. After nearly 20 years in the transport industry as a truck driver and instructor, she now helps organisations who want to attract and retain a diverse workforce, and supports those individuals to thrive.

Giulia Colombi, Swisslog

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Clare Davies, GXO

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Bio:

Clare has over 25 years’ experience in the supply chain and logistics industry, starting out in finance and more recently holding board director and COO roles across a range of sectors including news and media, healthcare and ecommerce. Clare now leads the GXO Direct division of GXO in the UK & Ireland with a portfolio of shared-user distribution centres. Clare has a track record of delivering corporate strategic growth and value creation through M&A, diversification and digitisation and converting boardroom ambitions into reality. Clare has a true passion for developing people and creating inclusive, cohesive and motivated teams.

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Natali Horbenko, Hileya Ukraine

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Bio:

Make your logistics with transport company Hileya.

Hileya is Family owned transport company, so Family Business, Family Values.

Hileya is healthy, family-owned profitable transport company for 20 years. Have own transport - 65 tilt and refrigerators trucks.

Offices in Khmelnitskii (Ukraine), Tallinn (Estonia), London (UK).

Our advantageous - own transport, family values, have the will to work, love what we do with passion, make a complex solutions in road transportations.

We want to assume responsibilities and we have the know-how, have management by objective and result oriented company.

Hileya strives to build long-term, trust-based cooperation relationships and our customers have worked with us for decades.

Hileya always bear in mind - The only really valuable assets we have is truly satisfied customer.

Kate Fairbrother, Tesco

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Bio:

I am 53 years old and have worked for Tesco for 34 years this year. All of this time has been within the distribution division.

I started with Tesco in 1989 as a clerk in a Fresh Distribution Centre. My career really continued through the admin and planning division for Distribution for 13 years.

Progression took me then into Personnel, following then by more Warehouse and Transport roles.

After moving then to a few other Distribution Centres for short term secondments, around 2010, I went on Distribution Centre Manager training.

I then moved to Goole Depot as the Distribution Centre Manager for 2 years.

I moved to be the Distribution Centre Manager of Daventry Clothing for 3 years, then Lichfield Distribution Centre Manager for 3 years and am now currently the Distribution Centre Manager of Daventry Grocery Depot.

I have worked hard, always made sure I worked on relationships in my team and have enjoyed every job I have done.

I have only ever changed jobs if I could balance them with what my family needs were, so that I always knew I could give every job 100%. I didn’t progress until I was happy that I could manage this with my family commitments too. For me success in logistics has been very rewarding. The key to being successful has been, not frightened of getting stuck in, building relationships with all levels, and always being myself. Gaining the people leadership skills have helped me manage through people and my team in all the jobs I have done.

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Phil Robinson, GXO

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Bio:

Phil Robinson is a Digital Transformation Manager for the UK and Ireland at GXO, the world’s largest pure-play contract logistics provider . A seasoned logistics professional, Phil has worked in the sector since graduating from university in 2000 obtaining a BA (Hons) degree in Hotel, Catering, and Institutional Management. His experience spans various logistics and supply chain environments and he currently leads a highly dedicated and diverse team who focus on directional strategy, digital innovation and cutting-edge automation, which improves productivity and reduces repetition. Phil started his career in the automation distribution sector, before moving into supply chain and programme management, gaining experience in customer portfolios.

Whilst working in programme management, Phil led highly performing teams on designing and managing large scale distribution centre start-up operations with artificial intelligence, advance analytics and automation.

Lesley Batchelor, Export Bootcamps

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Bio:

Lesley Batchelor CBE is a champion of UK exporters, with a powerful track record in enhancing the international performance of hundreds of businesses. Known as a force of nature within the industry she has changed many businesses fortunes in terms of exporting and helped to promote the need for to professionalise the approach the UK takes to trading globally.

Lesley currently runs International Trade Experts Ltd (ITE Ltd) which has newly launched Export-Angels.com a brand new approach offering an intelligent exporting service for manufacturers, and producers, which helps them find, and succeed in new, or to excel in existing markets, using our talented team’s truly holistic approach to establish the best market, marketing intelligence, financial planning, which includes funding for any eligible business no matter the size.

ITE Ltd also runs Exportbootcamps.com an ICC and ILM accredited training company with a real difference.

She also acts as a board advisor to Smart & Savvy Women Ltd, Open Borders Direct and the International Trade Institute in Dublin. With invaluable expertise in intellectual property, global licensing and marketing Lesley has been awarded CBI Real Business First Woman in Business Services and CEO of the year from Trade Association Congress. She was honoured with the Order of the British Empire by the Queen in her birthday honours list in 2014 now promoted to a Commander of the British Empire in New Year’s Honours list 2023.

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