Geoff Dobson - A PLC Board level Human Resources professional, Geoff Dobson has over twenty years' experience in blue chip organisations acrossa diverse range of industries. He has managed at every stage of the business cycle, from start up and growth stages to mature international operations.

Geoff has had strategic responsibility for the HR function and General Management oversight of an international business. The majority of his senior roles have been within the biotechnology, pharmaceutical, medical systems and medical devices sector. In addition he has worked for one of the world's leading oil firms, and has worked in manufacturing, industrial chemicals and gases, and in logistics.

Geoff maintains a broad interest in all aspects of HR and can offer a real depth of experience and expertise in recruitment and selection, organisation development, change management, professional development and compensation. He has substantial international experience, particularly with 'transatlantic' life science company cultures. He has also experienced the diversity of business cultures in Western and Central Europe, Scandinavia, the Middle and Far East and Latin America

Geoff has sharpened his commercial expertise with an eighteen month assignment as the General Manager of the North American operations of a UK PLC, so he is very aware of commercial significance of the HR function.

Geoff is a Chartered Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development. He has a Masters Degree in Organisation Consulting, a Bachelors Degree in Social Sciences, and is a qualified psychometric tester.

Mary Hanley - As a Chartered Psychologist, Dr. Mary Hanley utilises her academic and consulting experience to direct the research and development activities supporting Newgrange Consultants. Mary holds a PhD in Psychology, an MSc in Occupational Psychology, a Post Graduate Certificate in Evidence Based Healthcare, and is chartered with the British Psychological Society.

In addition to her work with Newgrange Consultants, Mary leads all Post Registration Education for Healthcare Professionals at The University of Northampton School of Health. She works in collaboration with a range of healthcare providers to meet the training needs of their professional staff. Mary has been a consultant to the Open University on occupational health psychology and stress management. She is an external examiner and has been a guest lecturer at several UK universities.

Examples of her industrial and commercial consulting work include leading a project on behavioural indicators in recruitment and selection for a regional energy provider, and consulting work with an executive recruitment and selection company.

Mary has an extensive record in research and her work has been published by the Open University and in professional journals. Her professional interests include psychometrics at both testing and evaluation levels, the design of healthful organisations, and the goodness of fit between individuals and their career choices.

Allison Vann has over fifteen years experience as a recruitment and selection specialist, and has wider HR experience including responsibilities for induction programmes, employment policies and creation of organisation's 'Employment Brand'.

Alison has managed recruitment and selection campaigns across a number of industry sectors, including IT, advertising and communications, biotechnology, medical devices, marketing, paper and packaging, retail and high technology businesses. Alison has recruited at technical and professional, middle and senior management level.

Whilst the majority of her experience has been with recruitment service businesses, Alison has also worked in-house with the HR functions of major organisations to run special recruitment campaigns. Alison has deep experience of the advertised selection sector, together with specialist expertise around innovations in on-line recruitment and selection methods. Alison is also developing her skills in psychometric assessment