country. My accreditations include civil and commercial matters, workplace, community, and, since going back to university (Brussels) in September 2011, I can now include international disputes. I have twice won industry awards for telephone Mediation and am involved in the formation of a new professional body for UK Mediators who have been working with the Court Service and Ministry of Justice. A key event for me is that I was invited to deliver an intensive 3-day training course to the Law School in December to prepare them for their new 2012 teaching syllabus including the latest dispute resolution techniques. This used the Mediation Centre in the new Law Court Building and is hoped will be the start of more really exciting developments.


Nigel Barton, BSc(Hons) Aerospace Engineering, 1996 I am currently an Airbus ICT Infrastructure Architect, working on transnational IT solutions for A350.


Jeremy McLoughlin, MBA, 1997 I’m a project manager at Rolls-Royce for the Next Generation Nuclear Propulsion Programme, which is designing and building a new reactor to power the successor class submarine for the UK.


Neo Combarro, LLB(Hons), 1997 and LLM, 1999


When I eventually left the University of Hertfordshire in 2000, following undergraduate and post graduate studies in law and a year as a student union sabbatical, I was fortunate to join KPMG (the


accountants) and began formative training in the graduate programme within the Forensic Accountancy practice. The position exposed me to a number of high profi le money laundering and fraud investigations, as well as a number of litigations where KPMG provided expert witness accounts. I eventually left KPMG to join the London insurance market specializing in liability and crime risks for fi nancial institutions and representing a number of high profi le International Financial Institutions, principally Wall Street banks. Since 2009 I have worked for Lockton Partners LLP, the largest privately held insurance brokers and risk consultancy fi rm, where as an Executive Director, I am responsible for Financial Institutions liability risk as well as heading the M&A and Contingency Risks team. I still live in Hertfordshire with my wife Nicola Combarro and our proudest achievement Olivia (5) and Rafael (3.5).


2000s


and am now offi cially a “successful BBC Dragons’ Den entrepreneur”. 8 years earlier I had found myself on the most amazing Post Graduate course and in the company of wonderfully inspirational women entrepreneurs, bizmums and mumpreneurs (long before such terms existed). Co- students and tutors may remember me as the pregnant one who set up the Costumed Character Company. In the 9 years between now and then, I discovered that business was the common ground for my skills and experience as a parent, teacher and actress, enabling me to be both ethical inventor and social innovator. With and for my young family, I developed an award- winning communication concept: the story making and sharing activity called Storyshaping and, in 2008, established StoryShapes Limited as the UK company that makes and sells the tools of Storyshaping and delivers training in the skills of Storyshaping. The course taught me many important ways to create a sustainable business, not least the value of the business plan, but it is the learning by listening that I remember and treasure. www.storyshapes.com


Richard Stathers, BSc(Hons) Computer Science, 2003


After graduating I worked for Filtronic, a telecoms company and then in 2003 I joined CSC; a multinational IT outsourcer and systems integrator, on their graduate management scheme. I had the opportunity to work within the engineering departments, project management and service delivery. During my eight years at CSC I have worked with the NHS account as part of a programme to modernise their patient care records system and I have spent eighteen months in Norway working with NBIM to transform their IT infrastructure. My current role is European Service Executive for CSC’s client Estee Lauder.


Maggie Pyrah, Counselling Certifi cate 2005, Postgraduate Counselling, 2007


I now work two days per week as a counsellor with Bedfordshire PCT. Three days as a Team Leader for a new Health and Wellbeing Team for Horizon Health Choices Ltd in Bedford.


Julia Damassa, PgCert Small Business Management, 2002


In 2010, 8 years after graduating with Distinction in Small Business Management, I slayed a dragon


Nomah Dziruni, BSc(Hons) Business and Computing, 2007 I graduated as a mature student in 2007 with a degree in Business and Computing. It was challenging as I studied the whole of my fi rst year expecting my now 7 year old child. Being a very ambitious mumprenuer, I decided at 28 years of age to start my own online business: www.lilyhippo.


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