A Meeting of Minds Wealth Management and Private Banking

Speakers

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  Nick Hulme

  Head of Department, Financial Conduct Authority

  Nick joined the FCA in 2019 after a decade in financial stability and prudential supervision roles at the FSA, Bank of England and Prudential Regulation Authority. He has also worked in private office for two Ministers of State at HM Treasury. Prior to this role in Consumer Investments, he worked in the FCA’s Financial Resilience Department. He holds an MBA Dip from Said Business School, Oxford University and BA Hons in Financial Management and Italian from Royal Holloway, University of London. He is also a publicly elected volunteer Governor of East Kent Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and previously a Treasurer Trustee at two sports charities.

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  Alex Barker

  Author, speaker, coach and expert in organisational culture change

  Alex Barker is an author, speaker, coach and expert in organisational culture change. Working alongside author and entrepreneur Sam Conniff, Alex leads their global Be More Pirate network. Using the most interesting and inspiring stories from the community, Alex helps organisations to challenge the way things are usually done. Clients include Salesforce, Dyson, innocent drinks as well as teams across the NHS. In September 2020 Alex and Sam’s new book How to: Be More Pirate was published – an update on the original, which dives much deeper into how to effectively rewrite ‘the rules’. Alex holds an MA in International Relations from King’s College London, where she focused on Middle East politics. After a six-month stint backpacking around the region, she took a job in international development, moved briefly into social care before spending seven years at the Royal Society of Arts (RSA) as communications manager. After working freelance for a year with author and campaigner Onjali Q. Rauf and author Alastair Humphreys, she teamed up with Sam Conniff in January 2019. Alex also coaches, speaks, and runs programmes supporting women to improve their confidence and ability to influence through speaking, from public presenting to interview preparation.

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  Pippa Crerar

  Political Editor, The Guardian

  Pippa has covered Westminster and international politics for more than two decades, reporting on six general elections, seven prime ministers and too many major news stories to mention, from the Iraq war and the financial crash to Brexit and parliamentary scandals. Pippa is a warm, witty and authoritative speaker who has long experience of chairing, presenting and speaking at events in the political world and beyond. She has trusted contacts right at the heart of government, across Whitehall and in the main opposition parties so has a deep insight into what is going on in British politics and society. Pippa is Political Editor of The Guardian, previously holding the same role at the Daily Mirror where she exposed the Partygate and Barnard Castle scandals. Before that she covered politics at the London Evening Standard.