Business, financial and consumer
• Martin Devenish – Managing Director, Goldman Sachs International (BCom, Industrial Economics & Business Studies)
• Mike Welton - Chairman, Premier Oil Plc (BSc, Civil Engineering, 1968; Deng, Honorary Degree, 2008)
• Mike Coupe - Director, J Sainsbury’s (BSc, Physics, 1982)
Media and the arts
• Cilla Snowball CBE – Group Chairman and Group CEO, AMV BBDO (BA, French, 1981)
• Phyllida Lloyd CBE - Director of plays, opera and film including Mamma Mia! on stage and screen (BA, English, 1979; DLitt, Honorary Degree, 2009)
• Tamsin Greig - Actress (BA, Drama & Theatre Arts, 1988)
• Simon Halsey - Chorus Director, City of Birmingham Symphony Choruses (DMus, Honorary Degree, 2008)
• Alan Davey - Chief Executive, Arts Council England (BA, English, 1982)
• Baroness Patience Wheatcroft – Former Editor of the Wall Street Journal Europe (LLB, Law, 1972)
Full biographies of the mentors are also available.
Further media information:
Rachel Burrows – Head of Communications, University of Birmingham
tel: 0121 414 6681 / mob: 07789 921165 / email: r.burrows@bham.ac.uk
Amy Cory – Press & PR Assistant
tel: 0121 414 6029 / email: a.cory@bham.ac.uk