Bill Bartlett was appointed McCain Corporate Affairs Director in July 2006. Prior to this role, Bartlett was sales director of McCain Food Service for seven years and has been with the company for 17 years. Bartlett joined in 1989 as a territory manager and looked after a region in the Midlands. Bartlett soon progressed to regional manager and national account manager and in 1996 was seconded to central Europe. Bartlett returned in 1998 to run the sales function in Food Service.

Mike Bonnici is the European Demand Planning Manager for H. J. Heinz Company Ltd. Where he has been involved in the establishment and on-going development of the companies demand forecasting process across Europe

He is now involved with Heinz’s European affiliates helping to develop S&OP to support their Integrated Business Management process

Enrico Camerinelli, Supply Chain Council Chief Analyst and European Director has extensive experience implementing and streamlining complex matrices of customers, partners and suppliers. In his past tenure at META Group as Vice President and Research Leader for Supply Chain and Business Management Applications, he focused on models and methodologies for return-on-investment evaluations and total cost of ownership models. Enrico’s research also encompassed supply chain management, integration of enterprise resource planning systems with marketplaces and manufacturing applications for vertical industries.

Prior to META Group, he gained experience in plant and logistics / operational management through work with several European automobile manufacturers and held a senior marketing position with JD Edwards in Italy.

Enrico received a degree in Electronic Engineering from Universita La Sapienza in Rome.

A graduate of the University of Birmingham, Richard Cox began his career in the mid 1980'swith Grand Met Brewing in sales and marketing before moving to Taunton Cider, finishing his career there as Senior Brands Manager launching new products and brands into the marketplace.

A move to Douwe Egberts UK as Trade Development Manager saw the launching of Continental Gold into the UK market.  This was then followed by a period of time at Whitbread Beer Company which saw Richard working on a variety of new product launches and trade introductions as Marketing Manager for the On Trade, including Tooheys, Boston Beer and Boddingtons Draught Flow.

Moving to Butcher's Pet Care as Commercial Marketing Manager followed, working on the launch of successful new products into pet care.

James Dorling has worked for Tesco for five years and leads Tesco’s work to develop their environmental stores and deliver the resulting improvements into the Tesco estate.

Tesco has delivered three environmental stores in Diss, Swansea and most recently Wick. The next store in Shrewsbury will open in spring 2007.

Dominic Dyer joined the Food and Drink Federation (FDF) in 2000 having spent most of his career in the UK Ministry of Agriculture Fisheries and Food (MAFF). During his career in MAFF he worked in a number of key food policy areas both within the UK and in the European Commission in Brussels covering issues such as external trade policy, organic farming developments and areas relating to the European Common Agricultural and Fisheries Policies.

Dominic is Executive Director of the Soya Protein Association which operates from the FDF and is the leading voice of the rapidly expanding European Soya Food Industry. He is also the Membership Services Manager for the Food and Drink Federation.

In addition to his food industry interests, Dominic is also

·    Founder and Executive Director of the American European Institute

·    Fellow and a Director of the British American Project

·    Chairman of Care for the Wild International

Since joining TNS in 1998 as an Account Director within the Television Consumer Audit division, Ed Garner has been instrumental in raising the company’s profile in order to increase its customer base and position it as a leading market research company.

Throughout his professional career, Ed has gained vast knowledge of the promotions, advertising and grocery retailing sectors, which he has implemented across a variety of roles. He began his working life in Unilever, gaining experience in sales and marketing, before taking charge of Continuous Research for Elida Gibbs. 

Ed is a well-respected individual in his field and is regularly invited to speak at key international industry events. To date, he has presented at conferences across Europe, USA, Australasia and Asia Pacific for numerous organisations including IGD, Citigroup, McKinsey, Marketing Week, ADMAP, AGRA, The Grocer and many leading UK FMCG clients. In addition he is a regular commentator within the media on retail and FMCG topics.

Mehmood Khan originates from India and has lived in Holland, Singapore and is now living in the UK. He graduated from HAU Hissar and Post Graduated in Management in 1977 from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIMA).While still at IIMA, Mehmood worked with Prof Ravi J Matthai on Experiments in Educational Innovation. On graduation from IIMA, Mehmood  worked in the Voluntary sector, making Indian livestock more productive resources and creating cottage industries. This work led Mehmood to building professional farmers organisations.

Mehmood has been with Unilever since 1982 and has worked in wide areas of the business; Marketing, Exports, Procurement, Business Development and Innovation. Out of 22 years in Unilever, 10 years have been in pioneering new Unilever business in places such as Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Mongolia and North Korea, along with developing new portfolios in China and other countries in East Asia.

Mehmood is currently the Global Leader for Unilever Innovation Process Development which has added yet another dimension to his expertise in the Unilever Business of accelerating business growth through Innovation by following common global process and systems.  The nature of this work involves working with people around Unilever by establishing Unilever Innovation Communities across the business; spanning across Categories, Brands, Continents and Country boundaries.

Through Mehmood's drive, these Innovation communities provide a platform for Building Innovation capabilities, incubate creativities, and grow them into true business innovations.

Mehmood is Managing Trustee of Rasuli Kanwar Khan Trust and IIM Europe and a Trustee of GEN Initiative UK.

Hilary Parsons has worked for Nestlé for 16 years.  Most recently she was heavily involved in the company’s latest sustainability initiative, the launch of Nescafé Partners Blend Fairtrade Certified Coffee.

She has made regular visits to Africa and Central America, mainly in connection with sustainable coffee sourcing.

A languages and business studies graduate from Bristol, Sue has worked within the FMCG industry for the duration of her 14 year career across a number of food & non-food categories with blue chip companies like Allied Domecq, Reckitt Benckiser & PepsiCo, in a variety of sales and marketing roles.  She joined Coca-Cola Enterprises in 2004 to head up their category management function with major grocery accounts, to understand shopper behaviour and unlock new opportunities for their retailer partners.

Jon Walsh is currently on the board of Nestlé UK as their Marketing and Communications Director.  Jon is responsible with the board for the company’s new growth strategy, their transition to a Health, Nutrition and Wellness company, and overall Communications.

Previously Jon was Marketing Director for Nestlé Foodservices, responsible for growing key Nestlé brands out of home including Beverages (Nescafe, Gold Blend, Cappuccino and Aero Hot Chocolate), Food (Maggi, Chef, Toll House Cookies and Herta) and Confectionery (Kit Kat, Yorkie, Aero and Rowntrees).

Jon joined Nestlé in 2001 as the Kid’s Drinks and Strategic Innovation Marketing Director.

Jon joined Nestlé from Betfair.com / Flutter.com where he was the Marketing Director and founding employee of the world’s first person-to-person betting company.