Innovation Dialogue 5 – The Change Challenge

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Mayank Prakash

Mayank Prakash is the Chief Digital and Information Officer at DWP Digital, leading the digital transformation of the UK’s biggest government department.

Voted Computer Weekly’s Most Influential Person in UK IT in 2017, Mayank is passionate about innovation and investigating ideas to create user-centred services that help 22 million UK citizens change their lives for the better.

Katherine Manuel

As SVP of Innovation at Thomson Reuters, Katherine Manuel is helping the company transition from an international holding company to a global innovator creating partnerships and growth opportunities for its customers, employees and shareholders.

Prior to this role, Katherine was a member of the Corporate Strategy team, where she worked with corporate leadership to create a long-term strategy based on market understanding and access to customers and products.

Katherine has been with Thomson Reuters for nearly 11 years, holding senior positions within both the Legal and Tax & Accounting businesses as well as leading Technology Strategy & Enterprise Architecture for Healthcare & Science. From there, she joined the Office of the CEO, where she worked on various projects within the News division and the company-wide Transformation program.

Before joining Thomson Reuters, Katherine worked for Accenture, focusing on the Media, Entertainment and Telecom industries. She holds a Bachelor of Arts from Davidson College and a Masters of Business Administration from Duke University. She sits on the Advisory Boards of Duke University’s The Fuqua School of Business’ Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, as well as SOAR Triangle, a non-profit established to support women-led startups in the Raleigh-Durham area of North Carolina.

Brian Franz

Brian Franz was appointed Chief Productivity Officer in July 2015. In this role he leads the Productivity agenda across the organisation and the global Technology Systems and Business Services function, to advance the delivery of the business goals and drive value for Diageo.

He is responsible for creating and embedding a business-wide culture of continuous improvement, and an organisation that is agile and focused on execution. Productivity is generating the fuel for growing Diageo’s business, brands and people, ensuring the delivery of £700m of savings by the end of F19.

The Technology and Business Services strategy includes a focus on innovation, digitalisation and customer satisfaction; actively progressing common global processes, and safeguarding our reputation, whilst maintaining a world class cost position.

Brian joined Diageo from PepsiCo where he was Senior Vice President and CIO for PepsiCo International. Prior to joining PepsiCo, he spent 14 years with General Electric (GE), latterly as Commercial CIO for all of GE's sales and marketing organisations globally. From 1998 to 2001 he held the position of CIO of Corporate Systems and Global Operations before becoming CIO and Integration Leader at Heller Financial, during their acquisition by GE in 2001. Brian's earlier career was spent in various IT roles at AT&T and Readers Digest.

Brian has a BA in Computer Science from Iona College, New York and a Masters in Telecommunications & Computing Management from New York University.

Brian lives in Connecticut, USA with his wife and two children.

Catherine Skinner

Dr. Catharine Skinner is an Innovation Manager at E.ON, based in Essen, Germany. She is leading an innovation team to develop a platform for growth in new product lines and new-build revenue streams. She has 12 years of experience in developing and delivering energy product services to market. Prior to joining E.ON, she worked as the Head of the Connected Home at British Gas, launching “Remote Heating Control” as the foundation product for its Hive brand, leading the transition from the corporate environment to build a sub-brand / growth business. Catharine holds a PhD in Chemistry from the University of Birmingham in the UK.

Gavin James

Gavin James is Head of Digital Adoption and Innovation at the Department for Transport. Gavin started his career as a policy professional in 2008. His passion for learning has taken him to diverse areas, including climate change strategy, London Olympics coordination and EU transport law. More recently he was responsible for telecoms, technology and data on the railway. It was in this role that he saw the impact that a few talented technologists can have when given the freedom to experiment. As a result he founded the DfT Lab, an innovation team with DfT. The Lab is working to prototype and develop technologies to make DfT the world leader in the governance of transport. Gavin is also proud to work at DfT, one of The Times Top 50 Employers for Women 2017 and Business in the Community's Best Employers for Race and an accredited Disability Confident Leader.

Marike Reis

Marika Reis is the Vice President of Innovation and head of E.ON’s Innovation Hub B2C based in Essen, Germany. She is responsible for managing E.ON’s global B2C innovation portfolio and leading a multinational team to drive innovation across E.ON regions, creating innovation culture and capabilities across the business. Prior to joining E.ON, she worked for Lloyds Apotek in Sweden, responsible for the launch and growth of new pharmacies in southern Sweden, successfully growing the company from less than 30 employees to over 700 in 2 years. Marika has a master’s degree in Analytical Chemistry from the University of Uppsala, is a licensed pharmacist, and is trained as a design sprint master.

John Thornhill

John Thornhill was appointed Innovation Editor in February 2016 with a brief to deepen the FT’s coverage of technology and write a regular column on its impact on our economies, societies, and lives. For the previous seven years he was deputy editor and news editor helping to steer the FT’s global news agenda.

Since joining the FT in 1988 as a graduate trainee, Mr Thornhill has also worked as the Europe edition editor, Paris bureau chief, world news editor, Asia editor, Moscow bureau chief, Lex columnist and companies reporter.

Mr Thornhill founded and runs the FT's 125 executive forum, which holds monthly meetings for senior executives from a range of industries. Previous speakers have included Bill Gates, Jack Dorsey, Ana Botin, and Mark Carney. He also hosts FT Tech Tonic, a weekly podcast on the impact of technology

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