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Hugh Burkitt
chief executive, The Marketing Society

Hugh is chief executive of the Marketing Society - the leading network for senior marketers in the UK. He has been responsible for the launch of the Society’s Manifesto for Marketing, introduced the Marketing Leaders Programme for potential marketing directors and established the Panoramic Group which has created a new forum where all the UK’s marketing organisations have agreed to work together to promote marketing.

He began his own career as a Unilever trainee at Birds Eye Foods and progressed via the Manchester Business School to Collett Dickenson Pearce in 1972. He spent the next thirty years in advertising, founding the agency Burkitt Weinreich Bryant in 1986, and leaving in 2002 as chairman of Burkitt DDB.

He is co-author with John Zealley of Marketing Excellence: a review of the lessons to be learned from the winners of the Marketing Society’s Awards for Excellence.

Sir Richard Billing Dearlove KCMG, OBE

Sir Richard Dearlove served as chief (known as ‘C’) of the Secret Intelligence Service (SIS) from August 1999 until his retirement in July 2004. For the preceding five years he was director of Operations and, from 1998, assistant chief. As director of finance, administration and personnel he also oversaw the move of SIS into its Headquarter Building at Vauxhall Cross in 1994. He is a career intelligence officer of thirty-eight years standing and has served in Nairobi, Prague, Paris, Geneva and Washington as well as in a number of key London-based posts.

Sir Richard took up the mastership of Pembroke College Cambridge on 1 October 2004.

He is also a trustee of Kent School, connecticut, honorary fellow of Queens’ College Cambridge, a member of the International Advisory Board of AIG, senior adviser to the Monitor Group and chairman of Ascot Underwriting.