March 12th 2021
On the 5 and 6 March we were joined by 82 delegates from the Old Shirburnian community and parent body for Sherborne’s first virtual Careers Convention. A total of 24 panel discussions were held covering different industries or career areas, including creative disciplines, technology, sales and marketing, legal, finance, property and military careers, to name just a few.
Rob Marston, Assistant Head (Sixth Form) comments: ‘On behalf of the entire Lower Sixth Form, we’d like to extend a huge thank you to the delegates for their time and for such honest insights and advice. Once again, the OS community has added vital breadth and depth to Sherborne’s careers programme. We are extremely grateful for their ongoing support.’
Please click here for full programme across the two days.
PROFILES: OPENING SPEAKERS
Charlie Habershon
Charlie Habershon is an Associate Partner at the Impact Strategy Consulting firm Dalberg Advisors. Charlie works on a wide range of areas including digital agriculture, education, youth employment, and gender. Prior to Dalberg, Charlie worked in the education practice at PA Consulting, set-up and ran a social enterprise in Sierra Leone, and taught History and Economics in a London secondary school as part of the Teach First program.
Richard Robinson
Richard Robinson is the Managing Director of Xeim, Econsultancy and Oystercatchers. Richard specialises in accelerating marketing performance & delivering digital transformation. He has been named in the top 100 people working in Digital Marketing in the UK, is a Chartered Marketer, award-winning diversity advocate and Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. Career highlights include heading marketing for McDonald’s in the UK, working internationally for The Coca-Cola Company and leading the P&G business for Publicis Worldwide in Europe, Middle East & Africa.
Ed Short
Ed Short is the Managing Director of The Possibility Pod, a consulting business that specialises in business transformation, leadership, culture, and team performance. His experience spans scaling behavioural change platforms, running large businesses at Amazon, consulting to FTSE 250 executive teams at the Boston Consulting Group to serving on operational duty in the Armed Forces. He has a degree in Experimental Psychology from the University of Bristol and is passionate about mental health and the great outdoors.
Jamie Snudden
Since leaving Sherborne in 2009, Jamie has completed an MEng and PhD in aerospace engineering at Bristol University. After working as a research associate for a short period, Jamie joined Airborne, an SME based in the Netherlands with offices in the UK focused on developing manufacturing technology for composite materials. Starting as an engineer, Jamie has now worked in project and programme management and is moving into commercial management. Alongside working at Airborne, he is in the last stages of an executive MBA.
Alex Webb
Alex Webb is a business journalist. He graduated from UCL with a degree in French and German, followed by a master’s degree in newspaper journalism from City University London. He then worked as a reporter for Bloomberg News in Frankfurt, Munich, and San Francisco, and is now the European technology columnist for Bloomberg Opinion in London.
WEBINAR SPEAKERS
(to see full list, please click here)
Lieutenant Colonel Simon Horne OBE RAMC
Lt Col Simon Horne is an Emergency Medicine Consultant based in Plymouth. After medical school at Oxford, he joined the Army - deploying to Northern Ireland and then going on expedition to Antarctica (2001-2) before starting training in Emergency Medicine. He has deployed to Kuwait (2003), Afghanistan (2011,12,13), South Sudan (2017) and was Medical Director of the UK Military Ebola Treatment Unit in Sierra Leone 2014-5. He was awarded an OBE for work during COVID19. When made to put his bass guitar down, his free time mostly entails a PhD at King’s College London.
Crispian Poon
Crispian Poon is the co-founder of Pelation, a British cycle tech startup developing bike mounted sensors and machine learning to help authorities detect, assess and prevent dangerous near misses on the road. Crispian's startup is currently collaborating with Oxfordshire County Council and prominent cycle logistics companies to make this a reality.
Before this, Crispian earned an MBA at Imperial College Business School with a specialism in Entrepreneurship. He previously graduated with a degree in Electronic Engineering from Imperial and had a career developing state of the art electric vehicles for partners including TfL, Amazon and several global OEMs
Simon Robson
Simon is the President International of Warner Music Group. He has been with Warner Music Group since 1998 working in a number of key roles including most recently President, Asia; VP Finance, Europe and CFO, UK. He has been involved in the music world for many years and worked with many of the world’s leading artists. He previously worked for PwC and attended the University of Exeter to read Economics after Sherborne.
Kevin Tse
Mr. Tse joined Ortus Capital in 2006 - He is the currently COO and chairs the Operating Committee. Ortus Capital is a Hong Kong based investment manager that manages over 700m USD, focusing on global macro investment strategies. Mr. Tse received his BSc. (Hon) in Mathematics in 2002 from Warwick University (UK).
