The People Behind
Each Person

Woosh Raza

Award winning People & Culture Director | Founder & Principle Consultant | HR Most Influential 2026 | Chartered Fellow CIPD

Woosh Raza is an award-winning People & Culture Director and the Founder and Principal Consultant of Into the Orbit Consulting, a bespoke consultancy that helps clients transform workplace cultures. A Chartered Fellow of the CIPD, Woosh has spent more than a decade in senior and executive HR roles, building a proven track record in leading transformational change and creating people strategies that drive lasting impact.

Karl Bennet

Founder of The Wellbeing Consortium | Wellbeing Director & EAPA UK Chair | Employee Benefits | Recognition Rewards | Mental Health | EAP

Karl Bennet is a recognised leader in workplace wellbeing, employee benefits, and recognition and reward. As Founder of The Wellbeing Consortium, Wellbeing Director, and Chair of EAPA UK, he brings deep expertise in helping organisations create healthier, more supportive, and more engaged workplaces. With a strong focus on mental health and employee assistance programmes, Karl works at the forefront of shaping wellbeing strategies that deliver meaningful impact for both people and businesses.

Georgina Kelly

HR Most Influential #3 2026/2025, #2 2024 #14 2023 | HR Matchmaker & Super Connector | Founder Women in HR | UN Women UK Delegate CSW70 | Co-Founder HR Leaders Unconference

As a recognised HR matchmaker, Georgina's superpower is to connect quality providers with leading in-house HR professionals, making meaningful introductions not just based on requirement, but on shared values, culture and personality. Georgina offers specialist expertise spanning Reward, Benefits & Recognition, Learning & Development, Talent Acquisition, Employee Experience, Comms & Engagement, EDI & Wellbeing. She is also an accomplished International Sales and Business Development Director with over 20 years of event management and sales experience in the HR industry.

Gary Adey

CEO & Executive Director | Chair | NED | Advisor | Trustee

Leader of change and transformation with a track record of creating and executing strategies that deliver new business models, performance turnaround and sustainable growth, especially in International B2B and B2T environments. Proven ability to inspire and empower diverse and inclusive teams to collaborate and materially exceed expectations. 30 years of expertise spanning Finance, Sales, Commercial Management, Marketing, Strategic Partnership Development, Strategy, Business Transformation, Digital, Automation, GBS Offshoring and large scale, multi-country Shared Operations.

Ross Truesdale

Director of Ecommerce at Future

Experienced Commercial Director with a demonstrated history of working in the financial services industry. Skilled in Digital Strategy, Search Engine Optimisation (SEO), Performance Marketing, Search Engine Marketing (SEM), Project Management, Customer Retention and Loyalty Strategy. Strong business development professional with a Bachelor of Communications focused in Marketing from Bond University.

Simon Jones

Expert Advisor in Reputation & Crisis Management | 30+ Years Supporting Global Leaders & Organisations | Board Advisor | Trustee | Author & Speaker

Simon Jones is a specialist in strategic communications, international relations and reputation management, with more than 30 years' experience advising organisations and leaders operating in complex global environments. He previously served as a lead consultant at VCCP (Chime Group) and worked extensively with NGOs across China, India, and Europe. He is the co-author of the award-winning book 'Lie-Ability' and is a frequent speaker on crisis and reputation management at international forums.

Bryan Duffy

Chairman and CEO, MBI MBO Ltd

Serial entrepreneur, CEO and Founder of MBI MBO Ltd, holding company for several successful blue ocean strategy start-up businesses. Built from scratch with an original equity base of £100 to produce total exit values of over £100 million across two decades. Most recent exit, Hostelbookers, was floated on the London Stock Exchange in November 2015 after a merger with Hostelworld. For over 35 years he has been engaged in philanthropic and charitable causes.