Presenter Bios

Peter Sewell

Peter Sewell has worked in the Expatriate arena for the last 12 years. His first appointment as International HR Manager was at Marks and Spencer and from there he moved to be a Senior Manager at Andersen/Deloitte. Peter joined Tesco in 2006 where he is the Head of Expatriate Services.

Tesco are expanding their International presence and now have expatriates in 16 locations worldwide. Peter has recently set up a Global Employment Company in Thailand to both manage the expatriate population and introduce new ways of working into the organisation.

Stuart Woollard

Stuart Woollard is Director of the King’s College London HRM Learning Board (www.kcl.ac.uk/hrmlb). After gaining 10 years’ senior level business and consulting experience with Arthur Andersen, Stuart created a management consultancy in 2000 and has advised a number of major multinational corporations on strategic human resource initiatives.

He also worked for several years as a global HR director in the financial services industry and was managing director of UK operations.

Stuart has published research on the role of HR in international mergers and acquisitions (CIPD, 2008) and is author of King’s annual State of HR Survey (www.thestateofhr.com). Stuart makes regular contributions on workforce issues to a variety of industry and special interest groups.

Dr David Collings

David Collings (PhD) is a Senior Lecturer in International Management at the National University of Ireland, Galway. Previously he was on the faculty at the University of Sheffield Management School and a Visiting Research Fellow at Strathclyde Business School.

He also has significant international experience in delivering executive education courses on aspects of global mobility and talent management.

His research and consulting interests focus on management in multinational corporations with a particular emphasis on staffing and talent management. He has published over 50 papers in leading journals and edited collections and has published six books, most recently Global Talent Management, with Hugh Scullion (Routledge-2010) and Human Resource Management: A critical approachwith Geoff Wood (Routledge- 2009). He is also the editor of the Human Resource Management Journal which is the only academic journal to be endorsed by the CIPD.

Carole Crossley

Carole Crossley has extensive leadership experience in Global Mobility and HR Transformation. She has direct experience as both a professional services provider and in-house corporate roles spanning assignment services and expatriate tax, together with direct experience as an expatriate herself, having lived and worked in the US for 7 years.

Carole is currently an HR Project Director for Lloyds Banking Group, focussed on a diverse range of projects including organizational design, process reengineering for processes that cross Reward and HR Operations and bank payroll tax.

Previously Carole was the VP HR International Mobility Transformation for BP and a member of BP’s Group HR Leadership Team. As part of a 5 year global HR Transformation, Carole insourced the global mobility function for 3400 assignees from an HRO provider and transformed the mobility function. This involved a complex transformation project to build a global inhouse team across 17 countries, 2 centres of excellence, reengineering mobility processes and integrating a new mobility system with the global SAP HR system. Carole also redesigned mobility policies to better support diversity of the assignee population and to support business growth in high hardship locations such as Iraq, Libya and Angola.

Prior to her role at BP, Carole was a Human Capital Partner and Global Leader of Ernst & Young’s assignment management outsourcing practice, based in New York, responsible for 200 staff and 7 service centres providing assignment services to over 60 Fortune 500 companies.

Carole’s early career was in expatriate tax and assignment services with Arthur Andersen, providing  consulting and compliance services to large Fortune 500 companies across a range of sectors from financial services, airlines, hi-tech and professional services.

Carole is a Fellow of the CIPD and she regularly speaks at conferences in the UK and internationally, on mobility, immigration, global governance and HR transformation.

Andy Burley

Andy Burley is Global Mobility Manager at GKN plc with responsibility for managing their diverse international assignee population.  Andy’s background is in Expatriate tax, having trained with Arthur Andersen and Deloitte before moving into the broader arena of Global Mobility.

Andy has been with GKN since 2007 and in this role has responsibility for assignment policy development and ensuring Global Mobility policies are aligned with business need.

In addition, he oversees operational management of the company’s global international assignee population and ensures tax, social security and immigration compliance in the different jurisdictions where GKN has assignees.

Milton Ives

Milton Ives is the Global Mobility Director for Mars Incorporated. Over the past two years, he has driven a major transformation of the mobility programme to ensure alignment with business goals and the talent management strategy.

Before joining Mars, Milton worked in financial services and management consulting and has lived and worked in the Middle East and Asia.

He holds a Masters degree in Human Resource Management, a Business Studies degree and is a member of the Institute of Personnel & Development (MIPD).

Alex Paterson

Alex is Managing Partner of Fragomen’s London office. She represents some of the world’s largest companies across a diverse industry base. Alex has extensive experience of advising on complex UK immigration law matters and she also assists companies with many complex multi-jurisdictional project requirements, with a particular focus on the EMEA region.

Alex advises companies on design and implementation of global and regional immigration programmes to facilitate effective movement of resources, whilst ensuring full compliance. She also helps global companies implement policies in respect of business visitor travel.

Alex has particular expertise in respect of all matters relating to the Points Based System (PBS), introduced in the UK in November 2008. She has supported many companies through the Sponsorship Licence application and advises companies on required compliance, monitoring and record-keeping obligations. Alex has responsibility for Fragomen’s PBS Consult Team and its UK Government Liaison Team. She has participated in government panels and consulted with key government stakeholders on a number of key policy matters and refinements to the PBS. She also represents companies in key government lobby exercises.

Alex has practiced immigration law for 14 years. Prior to joining Fragomen, Alex ran the UK immigration practice at Andersen Legal for five years. She has also worked in a Big Four Accounting firm and in private legal practice at a large London based commercial law firm.

Mark Sallis

Mark Sallis is a highly experienced global mobility professional having spent over 20 years specialising in expatriate and employment tax planning and compliance management.

Mark is the Employee Taxes Manager for BAE Systems plc and this follows a varied career in Ernst & Young’s UK Human Capital Practice and most recently with global engineering and construction contractor Foster Wheeler.

Gareth Davies

Gareth Davies is an Accenture senior manager based in London with responsibility for all UK and Ireland International Mobility and Individual Tax matters. He has 2 local teams covering tax and mobility client service matters, but he also manages a number of offshore teams who handle operational mobility functions. Gareth joined RMS, Finance in 2006 after having spent 11 years managing expatriates in professional advisory roles.

Gareth’s career started in the Construction Industry after completing his Project Management degree at the University of Salford. In 1995, Gareth joined Arthur Andersen specialising in UK & US expatriate tax compliance.

In 1998 he joined PriceWaterhouseCoopers to expand this expertise through undertaking global tax compliance and tax planning review projects for major blue chip organisations and developing specialist knowledge in International Social Security matters. In 2004 Gareth joined State Street Bank & Trust Co to manage primarily their UK, but also the wider European Mobility and tax compliance programmes. Gareth is ATT and CIPD qualified.

Peter Lambert

Peter Lambert has worked in Global Mobility for nearly 30 years. He gained his professional qualifications with one of the now big 4 accountancy firms specialising in expatriate tax and social security. Peter then moved to International HR in the financial services sector and primarily worked with organisations to help ensure their internal mobility function was fit to support the changing needs of the business.

This experience included building global mobility functions, broadened out into remuneration and benefits strategy, design and implementation, into interim HR management and also included first hand experience of outsourcing HR functions. Based in the UK, he has previously lived and worked in Switzerland and Australia and has travelled extensively to experience and understand differences in living conditions around the world. Peter moved from the financial services sector in 2008 and joined BAE Systems as Director of Global Mobility at the end of 2009.

Scott Radford

Scott Radford spent several years working in expatriate taxation within most of the Big 4 firms before finally making the leap into industry with Intel.  After some years there, managing employee taxes for EMEA, he and his family moved to Toulouse, where he worked first for Airbus and now for the parent group, EADS.

As Head of the newly-formed EADS International Mobility Center, Scott tries to oversee the consistent implementation of group-wide assignment policies alongside improved management of service providers.

Ellen Jansma

Ellen is, together with her team (total 10), responsible for all International Assignments within Heineken, since 2004. In this position lie both a policy and an operational responsibility. Expatriation within Heineken is centralised at Corporate Office in Amsterdam.Currently she is working on; culture awareness programs for all expatriates and their family’s , integrating policy’s of new acquired company Femsa/CCM, optimizing financial and internal processes, balancing in and outsourcing assignment related responsibilities and aiming to find a balance between operational opportunism, compliance, innovatory attitude and necessary perseverance.

Ellen has an extensive HR background. Prior to joining Heineken, Ellen worked in various International HR management positions. She graduated in Human Resource Management and is currently a MBA student at Nyenrode University.

Shauna Page

Shauna has worked in Global Relocation for ten years and has held a number of positions during this time. She began her career at Cisco as leader of Global Relocation for European Markets. She also worked for Cartus as an Account Director and then held contracting roles with Goldman Sachs and Experian. Shauna returned to Cisco two years ago and is now the Global Relocation lead for European and Emerging Markets.

Tricia Kollinsky

Expatriate management is an experiential role, and when it comes to experience there are not many Global Mobility Managers with more experience than Patricia! She chose to specialise very early in her career and now has more than twenty years experience, most if it in the demanding world of investment banking, but for the last three years in various senior Interim roles

She considers herself very fortunate as she genuinely loves what she does; the mix of technical and practical advice plays to her strengths of being able to focus on the big picture while keeping a close eye on the detail.

When not working she can often be found riding her horse on the Ashdown Forest, with her dogs at her side. She also enjoys scuba diving and skiing – particularly in Austria, probably because it is the best place for après ski partying!

Kay Hall

Kay is based at AIRINC’s European Headquarters in Brussels, responsible for developing and implementing the European business strategy. Kay brings to AIRINC extensive corporate sales and product management experience.

Her career started in the Healthcare industry working in Sales and Product Development for Abbott Diagnostics and Boehringer Mannheim. Since 2000 she has assisted service providers develop their businesses with a special focus on International Mobility.

She has familiarity with global mobility issues both as an expat herself and through her professional career.  She joined AIRINC in 2008. Kay graduated in Economics and French at the University of London (RHBNC) and is fluent in English, French, Dutch and German.

She has served on the Worldwide ERC’s EMEA Committee and is on the Marketing Committee of the British School of Brussels.

Siobhan Cummins

Siobhan Cummins became EMEA Mobility Leader for Mercer in August 2010 when ORC become part of Mercer. Siobhan is a partner and heads up the Mobility Centre of Excellence for EMEA in the IPS business. In her prior role Siobhan was Managing Director EMEA for ORC Worldwide and Executive Vice President of the firm. Siobhan was responsible for ORC’s operations in EMEA and for the development of the International Compensation Practice. She is actively involved in international project consulting and, in particular, the design and development of global mobility programme strategies.

Siobhan regularly speaks at conferences and meetings in the UK and internationally. In addition to her other activities, she chairs two networking groups: the UK Expatriate Forum and the European Expatriate Policy Forum, both are multi-industry networks of HR professionals each with over 40 member companies, focusing on all aspects of international mobility. In addition she runs the UAE HR Forum which is based in Dubai and discusses HR matters relating to the Middle East.  She has regularly taken part in ORC’s public and custom training programmes. Siobhan is a regular contributor of articles to a number of magazines and books on a wide range of mobility-related issues.

Before joining ORC, Siobhan held a number of personnel management positions with a variety of companies. She has lived and worked in the Far East, Middle East, Australia and Africa. Siobhan is a Companion of the CIPD, member of SHRM, a faculty member of World at Work. She is a board member of the Permits Foundation and a member of the Advisory Council of AHRMIO. From 2008 – 2009 she served as Vice President International for the CIPD.

Richard Constable

Born in Trindad & Tobago, migrated to the US and completed secondary schooling as well as University there. Completed a Business Associates Degree and then relocated to Tucson, Arizona where I obtained a Bachelors in Psychology.

My career at Bloomberg began in October 2000 in Human Resources and I have been in three major roles throughout the past 10 years. Firstly as a Shared Service Specialist focusing on US Immigration, US Benefits & US Retirement, US and coordinating US HR programmes. I then moved on to specialise in US Immigration Law and assisted our headquarters with securing work permits and residence visas for our employees and their family members (US and Caribbean).

In April 2008 I began my career in Global Mobility in our London office with a strong focus on EMEA immigration laws and vendor management. Currently managing the immigration program for 60+ offices in 50 different countries as well as Bloomberg’s EMEA mobility programme.

I have volunterred for an Immigration non profit organisation and currently volunteer as a Math mentor in London’s schools.

Miranda Arya

Miranda Arya is Director of NET EXPAT UK & Ireland where she is responsible for both leading and developing NET EXPAT in the UK and delivering coaching and training programmes to expats and spouses.

She was an expat child living in Borneo, Croatia and Brazil and then lived abroad further as a modern languages student and graduate.  After a few years of working in international publishing in London, Miranda realised her real interest was in people and organizations and carried out a part-time MSc in Organisational Behaviour at Birkbeck, University of London whist working at the Institute of Directors, promoting best practice for directors in business.  In 2003, she completed a coaching diploma and also moved to Geneva as an expat spouse where she built a private coaching business with clients in the UN and banking sector.  Miranda joined NET EXPAT in 2006.

Jeremy Beglin

Jeremy joined Sterling in 2005 and has many years of senior level experience in the relocation and global mobility industry.

He has previously served as Chief Executive of Rowan Simmons and President of SIRVA Relocation Europe. Jeremy is also a graduate of Harvard Business School’s Programme for Leadership Development (PLD).

As COO, Jeremy works closely with Sterling’s global client base driving continual improvements, innovation and best practice across the Sterling Group.

Jane Harris

Jane has been working at Thomson Reuters for just under two years where she first held the role of Director, Global Mobility EMEA and is now VP Global Mobility. Since joining Thomson Reuters she has been involved in developing new policies for the combined organisation and latterly has been involved in the implementation of a new Expatriate Management System. This has involved much change management due to the complexity and diversity of the organisation.Prior to joining Thomson Reuters, Jane headed up Expatriate Management and Taxation globally at IHG for five years. She has also worked at IBM and PwC Consulting where she held roles managing the assignment population for their consulting practices. Jane has lived and worked in Australia, Papua New Guinea, Malaysia and Indonesia.

Rhonda Olsen

With overall responsibility for managing Robinsons’ global sales and marketing  strategy, Group Sales Director, Rhonda Olsen is responsible for the sales, marketing, client services and business development teams encompassing the key areas within the relocation market of accelerating growth, best practice and service levels.

Before joining Robinsons, Rhonda held a series of senior positions within leading publishing companies, including 8 years with UK giant Reed Business Information.  A Fellow of the Institute of Sales & Marketing (and a fluent speaker of Spanish), she has become one of the most respected sales professionals within the global relocations industry, as well as building a strong reputation as a business advisor, executive coach and sales trainer.

Her vision, direction and leadership have been instrumental in successfully diversifying the company’s offering to meet the changing needs of the global corporate market, whilst her ability to motivate, innovate and embrace change played a decisive role in Robinsons winning the Best Relocation Service Provider Award 2010.

Tracy Figliola

Tracy Figliola heads the Global Mobility Regional Hub for EMEA for HSBC Bank

The Group presently has 1950 International Assignees, across 86 countries managed through four Regional Hubs covering ASP, EMEA, NAM, LATAM and a Central Operations Team based in Hyderabad India. Global Mobility as a function executes the Group’s International Mobility Programs covering four assignee categories: International Managers (IM), International Secondees (IS), International Contract Executives (ICE) & Short Term Assignees (STA)

The Central Operations Team manages the transactional activities, whereas the Regional Hubs consists of Relationship Managers who act as the conduit between home and host businesses and HR’s, Global Mobility Central Operations Team and the respective home and host Global Mobility Regional hub, multiple vendors and the assignee. The key objectives of the hubs are to provide a quality and timely experience for the assignee and their family, provide consultative and technical advice to the business and HR’s to assist with assignment packages, compliance and tax and social security planning.

Tracy’s extensive experience and knowledge in the Global Mobility field she has played an integral part in HSBC’s recent Global Mobility Transformation initiative which developed new global process, structure and systems. Before her career in Global Mobility and International Compensation Tracy was Compensations Manager for HSBC.

Mike Eckes

Mike is a Partner in KPMG’s People Services practice and has been providing performance, reward and tax advice to individuals and companies for over eleven years.  Mike specialises in advising employers on employee incentives and reward as well as on the UK and international tax and social security implications of moving employees around the world.

Over the years Mike has worked with a wide range of large organisations in a variety of sectors and geographies.

However, over the past five years, Mike has predominantly advised the financial services sector, and his clients include a range of global retail and investment banks, investment managers and hedge funds headquartered both in the UK and overseas. Mike is qualified as a Chartered Tax Adviser (CTA).

Michael Rooney

Michael is a Director in KPMG’s People Services practice and has extensive experience in global taxation and social security.  He also has experience in structuring employee remuneration packages and designing assignment policies for global companies.

Michael has worked for KPMG for 13 years and advises on a number of major clients. He is also responsible for KPMG’s Middle East expatriate clients and has hosted a wide range of seminars for KPMG on topics such as short term business visitors and EU social security.

Michael is qualified as a Chartered Tax Adviser (CTA).

Paul Beard

Paul was brought up in the West Yorkshire village of Thorp Arch and joined the Life and Pensions industry in 1975 working for Property Growth Assurance. In 1978 he joined Allied Dunbar’s Bond Street branch where, most notably, he opened up the music and entertainment industry as a lucrative client base, and in May 1995 won their top new business producer award.

In October 1987, with the first Financial Services Act looming, Paul decided to start his own independent practice aimed solely at the music and entertainment industry and Alexander Beard Group plc now has a client roll call containing some of the most famous names in British pop music as well as TV and radio presenters, Fashion models, Producers, Sound Engineers and Composers. In the 23 years since the group was formed it has grown into a tightly focussed worldwide business with 5 operating divisions and offices in Cyprus, Sydney, Auckland and San Francisco. It’s Sports Media and Entertainment Division also manages the financial affairs of over 100 Barclays Premier and ‘N’ Power Football league players.

The Group’s exposure to internationally mobile clients led them to acquire Midian Investments in 2005 which became the Group’s International Schools Division and the re-building and re-branding of its main product is the subject of today’s case study. Four years ago Paul through the Group’s activities in the USA also saw the opportunity to develop a service focussed upon providing a high level service relating to Employment Benefits to USA corporations who had small groups of employees in the UK. This business has become a major success for the group with them now serving a number of high profile Silicon Valley businesses as well as both Dow-Jones and Nasdaq listed clients. Paul has been married to Sue for 26 years and they have two sons Alex 23 and Ben 22. He has been a keen fan and season ticket holder of Leeds United since 1962 and enjoys ski-ing and Indian cookery!

John Errington

After joining Xchanging plc as a member of the Senior Management Team in spring 2006, John was appointed as Managing Director of Ferguson Snell & Associates early in 2008. Xchanging had bought the market-leading immigration consultancy to add further legal expertise to its HR Outsourcing platform in 2006. John has since led the international expansion of the business and the more recent activity to consolidate and expand Xchanging’s various Global Mobility assets in order to launch XGMS.

XGMS delivers tax, immigration, payroll and relocation services through international assignment management as part of Xchanging’s fast-growing, global BPO offering.

Before Xchanging, John was at QA plc where he sold and delivered outsourced professional HR services to multi-national corporations.

Sara Ambler

Sara Ambler joined BG Group in 2000 and has worked in Global Mobility for the past five years taking on the role of Global Mobility Policy Manager in September 2009.

Sara’s responsibilities cover the formulation, implementation, management and review process for all BG Group’s global mobility polices.

Prior to joining BG Group, Sara spent a year travelling and previously worked in the information technology industry for ICL Fujitsu.

Brian Friedman

Brian is the Founder of the Forum for Expatriate Management. A 25 year plus veteran of global mobility and international HR, Brian is one of the most highly regarded names in the profession. Brian has the possibly unique distinction of being triple qualified as a Chartered Accountant, Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Taxation and Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development. Brian also holds a Masters degree in Economics from St Johns College Cambridge.

Brian is the author of four books on employee issues including the US business book bestseller “Delivering on the Promise – How to attract, manage and retain Human Capital”. Brian has for many years been a commentator on expatriate issues in the quality media including The Telegraph, The Times, The BBC and Sky. He currently writes a monthly Global Living column in Canary Wharf and City Life magazines.

Prior to establishing the Forum for Expatriate Management, Brian was CEO of both Ernst & Young and, before that, Arthur Andersen’s Human Capital practices.

Travis Vincent

Travis has extensive experience in the fields of travel risk management, business continuity, physical and personal security as well as evacuation planning and conduct. His expertise has been gained through working in a diverse range of regions including Europe, Middle East, Africa, Asia, Central America and the Pacific.

Travis has authored numerous articles on Duty of Care and travel security as well as presenting at numerous industry events. Prior to joining International SOS, Travis served for over 14 years in the military, including a variety of postings in the fields of Infantry, Intelligence and Civil Affairs.