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Speakers - Financing Growth in the Plastics Industry

	Alex Bennett, Smart Currency Business Alex kick-started his career in international payments by joining Smart Currency as its very first dedicated Corporate Currency Consultant. Since then, he has quickly progressed to his current role as Head of Corporate Sales, where he oversees a team of seven. Having evolved with the company, Alex has gained in-depth appreciation of all aspects of Smart Currency's operations and the industry-specific needs of its diverse client base. In just one of his areas of expertise, plastics manufacturing, he has helped dozens of British firms establish effective risk mitigation strategies and cost-effective currency solutions to help drive operations forward.
	Phil Bidwell, Barclays Phil Bidwell is Relationship Director within the Manufacturing Transport & Logistics Team. He has worked for 27 years in Barclays, the last 15 of which have been as a manager responsible for business and corporate clients, ranging from start-ups through to those turning over £100m. The past 6 years have been in the MT & L team and prior to that 4 years focusing on the Retail & Wholesale sector.
	Mark Bryant, Business Growth Fund Mark Bryant is a member of the BGF Investment Committee and has over 30 years’ experience in Industry, primarily as the Managing Director/CEO of a number of global manufacturing businesses, ranging from instrumentation, sensors to rigid plastic packing, covering sectors from aviation, automotive, process, oil and gas, metrology to personal care. Export throughout the world has been a consistent aspect of all the Companies. Mark has sold a number of the Companies he has led and has successfully integrated bolt on acquisitions. Mark is based in Edinburgh and supports the investment team nationally to assess the operational capability of investees and works closely with management teams to maximise profitable growth.
	Dr Phil Fiddaman, University of Hertfordshire Prior to joining the University of Hertfordshire (UH) Phil worked as a post-doctoral researcher in applied plant pathology at the University of Nottingham and then went on to the SME Biotech arena with MicroBio Ltd (now Becker Underwood) as a Product Development Manager; one of his roles was as a TCS supervisor for 12 months. Since this introduction to knowledge transfer (KT) Phil has been part of a team of Knowledge Transfer Coordinators (KTCs) at UH for five and a half years and a further 2 years leading the team as a Senior KTC. More recently Phil has spearheaded the development and successful launch of the University’s own KT product, Knowledge for Business (K4B).
	Philip Law, British Plastics Federation Philip Law is the Public & Industrial Affairs Director at the British Plastics Federation, the UK Plastics Association, with more than 400 members. Philip was born in Lancaster, England, in 1954 and he holds qualifications from the Universities of Nottingham, York and Oxford. Philip joined the BPF in 1978 and in 2008 he was honoured with the award for Personal Contribution to the Plastics Industry at the Plastics Industry Awards. He is a former Chairman of the European Plastics Converters Association's Environment Committee in Brussels.
	Todd McCully, GGTC Todd has been with GGTC for over two years and is responsible for GGTC's business development through strategic alliances. Trained as a Bachelor of Business at La Trobe University Melbourne (Australia), with majors in Marketing and Management Studies, Todd has worked extensively across all aspects of the R&D model giving him a breadth and depth of knowledge in the scheme that enables him to quickly and expertly identify client claim opportunities as well identifying areas GGTC can significantly maximise the claim value for companies already claiming under the scheme. As part of his business development role Todd has brought other service offerings (such as the HMRC Patent Box scheme) into the GGTC fold, ultimately delivering value add services to GGTC's growing client base
	Denise Rowley, UK Export Finance Denise Rowley has extensive experience of the credit insurance industry and trade finance having worked for ECGD until privatisation of its short term arm in 1991. She continued to manage the London Office for the new owner, the Dutch insurance company NCM ( now called Atradius) and has also worked in the corporate sector in the areas of credit and risk protection involved in international trade. She has recently returned to ECGD, now known as UK Export Finance, as the Export Finance Adviser for London.

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