Inspirational Female Leaders in Business – Speaker Profiles Yiyang Edge Job title & Company: Senior Manager, EY - Banking and Capital Markets Audit Employee history: Yiyang holds a BSc in Accounting and Financial Management from Loughborough University, an MSc in Trade & Finance at CASS Business School, and a chartered accountant qualification (CA) with the Institute Chartered Accountants of Scotland. Currently acting as a senior manager within EY’s Banking and Capital Markets Audit Practice, Yiyang has 11 years of professional experience leading cross- border client engagements within the Financial Services industry. During her career, Yiyang has worked across several different EY service lines including Audit, Advisory and Extended Assurance. She has managed large multi-geography financial audits, conducted high profile regulatory investigations, and led large scale Front to Bank reviews for major global Investment Banking clients. Currently, she has undertaken a secondment with the Bank of England and supervised one of the largest US broker dealers and supported the initial Brexit working group. Colette Dennehy Job Title: Global Esprit Recruitment Manager for MBA programme at GSK Employee history: Colette has over 20 years of recruitment experience across various industries. Her early career was spent recruiting for SME Engineering Consultancies at a local and global level. Since then she has worked across financial services and the healthcare industry in some of the largest matrix organisations with the focus on reorganisation projects. She is an advocate for employing effective talent management strategies, beginning with recruitment as it has a direct correlation to an agile, engaged, diverse and high performing organisation. Colette is currently the Global Esprit Recruitment Manager for GSK’s flagship leadership development programme for MBA Students.
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Inspirational Female Leaders in Business – Speaker Profiles
Yiyang EdgeJob title & Company: Senior Manager, EY - Banking and Capital Markets Audit Employee history: Yiyang holds a BSc in Accounting and Financial Management from Loughborough University, an MSc in Trade & Finance at CASS Business School, and a chartered accountant qualification (CA) with the Institute Chartered Accountants of Scotland.
Currently acting as a senior manager within EY’s Banking and Capital Markets Audit Practice, Yiyang has 11 years of professional experience leading cross-border client engagements within the Financial Services industry. During her career, Yiyang has worked across several different EY service lines including Audit, Advisory and
Extended Assurance. She has managed large multi-geography financial audits, conducted high profile regulatory investigations, and led large scale Front to Bank reviews for major global Investment Banking clients. Currently, she has undertaken a secondment with the Bank of England and supervised one of the largest US broker dealers and supported the initial Brexit working group.
Colette Dennehy Job Title: Global Esprit Recruitment Manager for MBA programme at GSK
Employee history: Colette has over 20 years of recruitment experience across various industries. Her early career was spent recruiting for SME Engineering Consultancies at a local and global level. Since then she has worked across financial services and the healthcare industry in some of the largest matrix organisations with the focus on reorganisation projects. She is an advocate for employing effective talent management strategies, beginning with recruitment as it has a direct correlation to an agile, engaged, diverse and high performing organisation. Colette is currently the Global Esprit Recruitment Manager for GSK’s flagship leadership development programme for MBA Students.
Alison BreadonJob Title: Partner, Government and Health Industries Leader, PwC
Employee history:Ali joined PricewaterhouseCoopers in 1996, after graduating with a degree in Law and is now a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Public Finance Accountants.
She has over 20 years’ experience in the provision of assurance and advisory services to a range of public sector organisations, but specialises in Healthcare, Education and Local Government where she leads a wide range of audit and advisory engagements including board development and governance, due diligence, risk and regulatory reviews.Ali is the responsible partner for PwC’s Government and Health Industries in the Midlands region, through which she brings together the firms’ thinking and solutions in all parts of the sector. She is currently Chair of the Audit and Risk
Committee at Swim England and formerly Deputy Chair and Chair of the Corporate Governance Committee at Rainbows Hospice for Children and Young People.
Jane FordhamJob Title: Founder, Jane Fordham Consultancy
Employee history:Jane achieved a 2:1 in BA Hons in European Business at Loughborough University in 1998 and did a placement at a paper company in Paris and a 3-month internship at PR giant, Hill & Knowlton in London.
Jane started work at RS Consulting, project managing and delivering research projects, for brands such as HP and Telefonica. She then joined a technology PR agency called Firefly in 2000 and was headhunted by a trailblazing PR agency Golin and spent 15 years there. The first 8 years was spent working on business-to-business communications campaigns for clients such as Orange, Tetra Pak, Oracle & EMC. Then, as Executive Director of Talent and Marketing, she led the talent
programmes and recruitment for the 150-strong award-winning London team. In April last year Jane founded her own business as a people, culture and diversity consultant working with individuals, policymakers, HR professionals and business leaders to make more equal, more productive and happier workplaces. Clients include Ticketmaster/Live Nation, Centrica, Scottish Gas and The Civil Aviation Authority.
Sarah TaylorJob Title: People Director, Staffline Recruitment Ltd
Employee history:Sarah completed a Retail Management Degree at Loughborough University and later completed her Chartered Institute of Personnel Development qualification.
Sarah started her career working at BAE systems from 2000 to 2006 in a variety of roles that focused on building her HR generalist and specialist knowledge across a number of sites and functions. She then went on to work for Boots between June 2006 – December 2014 in positions including: Area Manager for Derbyshire – a role outside of HR for two years, Head of Capability, HR BP Logistics and HRBP for HR and Property. She then moved to work for Carlsberg in 2014 as the Head of Talent and Organisational Effectiveness and Head of HR for the Supply Chain
Company. Sarah now works for Staffline Recruitment creating and delivering against a five year People Strategy, where they put people first by connecting their teams, workers and clients across the UK, to be the trusted market leader.
Lucille FloodJob Title: Freelance Creative Producer and Photographer
Employee history:Having studied publishing at University, which included a year in industry working in equities research for a merchant bank, Lucille decided to buck the trend of her peers and go into a more creative role. Having previously spent a year working and travelling across east and southern Africa, she went looking for something to combine the voluntary work she had done with a more creative role.Comic Relief, and later Red Nose Day, first appeared in 1985 it had always been a big event in her primary school so when a job in the production team arose, she jumped at the chance to get involved.
Lucille started out as the Production Assistant, but quickly moved towards the stills department. Having worked with a wide rage of hugely talented photographers, taking inspiration from their work and encouragement from many, she finally decided to pick up a camera and start taking pictures for her own projects. she is now leaving Comic Relief to pursue a career as a photographer and creative producer, continuing to create imagery but also to produce work with hugely talented and inspirational individuals.
