Alan Chambers
Adventurer
Feet of Green

• Former Royal Marine with over 12 years polar experience
• Led the first British team to walk unsupported to the North Pole from Canada in 2000 and earned the MBE for ‘exceptional leadership in the face of extreme adversity’.
• Member of the first winter expedition to traverse Iceland by ski.
• Leader of Britain’s top business executives to the geographic North Pole.
• Sledged across Greenland, Canada North West Territories, Norway and Iceland.
• Inspirational leadership speaker, facilitator and provider of leadership development materials.
• Co-author with Dr Richard Hale of best selling business development book Keep Walking: Leadership Learning in Action.
• Partner of Adventurous Business Ltd, providing inspirational presentations and workshops focussed on leadership and team development.


 

Damian Preston
Museum Manager
Manchester United

I graduated Sheffield Hallam University with a BA Honours Degree in Recreation, Leisure and Tourism Management in 1994 and began working for Manchester United in July 1996.  After 4 years working in the extremely busy environment of the Ticket Office I moved to the Museum and Tour Centre as Deputy Manager and by 2004 I took up the post of Museum Manager.

During my time in my current post the Museum and Tour Centre has seen a massive increase in visitor figures from 180,000 to almost 300,000 visitors.


 

Gavin Eccles
Consultor Internacional

Licenciado e Mestre em Turismo. Desenvolveu a sua actividade de consultoria como Consultor Sénior na área da gestão e do marketing durante mais de 10 anos. É responsável pelas estratégias de negócio, marketing e comunicação de várias empresas multinacionais, com clientes na Europa, África, USA e Ásia. Trabalhou com clientes internacionais como a American Airlines, Marks and Spencer, Syngenta, Shell, BBC, Guinness and Marriott Hotels. Foi responsável pela estratégia de marketing da British Airways, recebendo um prémio de excelência.


 

Jaime Esteves
PriceWaterhouseCoopers

Partner da PwC, é responsável pelo Departamento fiscal do Porto e líder do Hospitality and Leisure. Iniciou a sua carreira em 1988.
 
Especialista em Turismo e em serviços fiscais e estruturas societárias, incluindo Planeamento Fiscal, Reorganizações Societárias, Preços de Transferência e Fusões e Aquisições.

Colaborador do CIJE da Faculdade de Direito da Universidade do Porto e docente de fiscalidade no IFB, ISAG, Faculdade de Direito da Universidade do Porto, bem como da Escola Profissional Cristóvão Colombo. Autor de várias escritas sobre fiscalidade.

Jemima Pyne
Communications & Publishing Manager
Tate Liverpool

Jemima Pyne is Communications and Publishing Manager for Tate Liverpool, the most visited modern art gallery in England outside London.  In 2008 Tate Liverpool has welcome more than 1 million visitors including 200,000 to Gustav Klimt: Painting, Design and Modern Life in Vienna 1900.  Jemima's responsibilities include managing Tate's involvement with Mersey Tourism and Liverpool 08's marketing activity.

She is also Chair of the Liverpool Attractions Group, which represents the leading visitor attractions in the city.  The Group works with both Mersey Tourism and Liverpool City Council's Tourism Team to deliver day visitor marketing, the group has also lobbied to ensure more coach parking throughout the city.  Jemima represent the interests of visitor attractions on the Liverpool Tourism Business Network

Jemima has a BA (Hons) in Fine Art, M Des and Post Graduate Diploma in Management and is a Member of the Chartered Management Institute.

Kirsty Connell
Welcome Manager
Liverpool Cuture Company

Kirsty started her career in retail management, before moving into a learning and development role with a major U.K. retailer.

She has a background in developing commercially focussed training interventions for customer facing staff.
 
She returned to her home town of Liverpool in 2005 to develop and manage the 08 Welcome initiative.

08 Welcome aims to ensure that Liverpool is seen as one of the friendliest and most welcoming cities in Europe during and after its Capital of Culture year, ensuring that the city maximises the business benefits of the increased visitor numbers.

08 Welcome has been innovative in the approach it has taken. The initiative has seen training delivered to a whole range of key workers including taxi drivers, bar staff and transport staff as well as the traditional tourism businesses.

To date over 5,000 front line staff have participated in a 08 Welcome workshop and a range of support products including language materials are also available.

Kirsty has delivered presentations on culture, tourism and business engagement within Liverpool both nationally and internationally.


 

Luís Monteiro D’Aguiar
CEO Eurofun, Lda

É licenciado em Economia pela Faculdade de Economia da Universidade do Porto. É CEO e fundador da Eurofun, Lda e Managing Director da Buzzpath e da Eurocongressos, Lda. Já desempenhu funções como Director Sénior na área de serviços financeiros na PriceWaterhouseCoopers, foi Director Executivo da AcrossAsiaMultimedia, em Hong Kong. Desempenhou funções no Westpac Banking em Paris, Londres e Austrália. Antes de ingressar na carreira bancária desempenhou vários cargos em Portugal e em Paris nas áreas de comércio internacional e ensino especializado (economia e gestão).

Miguel Júdice
Lágrimas Hotels & Emotions
 

Nuno Azevedo
Casa da Música

Licenciado em Ciência Política, vertente de relações Internacionais pela Université Catholique de Louvain, Bélgica. Desde Janeiro de 2006 é Administrador Delegado da Fundação Casa da Música. Paralelamente é Administrador da Efanor Investimentos SGPS, SA. e da Fundação Portugal África.  Já desempenhou funções na Sonae Investimentos SGPS, SA e foi administrador da Sonae Imobiliária SGPS, SA, da Sonae Retalho Especializado, SGPS, SA., da Sonae Indústria, SGPS, SA. e da Sonae, SGPS, SA. 


 

Richard Hale
Business Liaison Director
Feet of Green

• Dr Richard Hale is the Business Liaison Director responsible for developing relationships with sponsor organisations and supporting communications on the ground.
• Author of several business books and co-author with Alan Chambers MBE of the best selling Keep Walking: Leadership Learning in Action which links Alan’s historic North Pole expedition with the theme of leadership in business.
• Co-founder of Value Projects Ltd, the business education organisation and publisher focused on work based learning.
• Developer of coaching and mentoring resources available at www.keepcoaching.com
• Partner of Adventurous Business Ltd, providing inspirational presentations and workshops focussed on leadership and team development