IR35 Planning and Preparation Conference for Private Sector Employers

Chris Bryce

Chief Executive , FCSA

Chris Bryce

Chief Executive , FCSA

Theresa Mimnagh

Associate Director , Lawspeed

An expert lawyer in contract, recruitment and employment law relevant to the recruitment industry. Qualified as a solicitor (now non-practising) in February 2004 and previously worked in private practice as an employment lawyer. Joined Lawspeed in 2005 and specialises in employment law, recruitment law, discrimination, employment status, employment contracts and policies as well as tax related issues. Heads up the Lawspeed client support and audit team and speaks regularly at Lawspeed seminars on employment related subjects. More recently Theresa has become one of Lawspeed's chief presenters on the Agency Workers Regulations and is an expert on related issues. Lawspeed has provided expert services to the recruitment industry since 1997, working with recruitment agencies, umbrella companies, hr consultancies, and contractors. We provide an extensive range of services for recruitment business including on Agency Workers Regulations (AWR), swedish derogation, agency conduct regulations, IR35, Managed service company tax advice and MSC contracts, all client contracts and candidate contracts, terms of business, employment law advice, employment contracts, staff manuals, defence of employment tribunal claims, employment dispute advice, telephone helpline, training on areas of recruitment law and process, legal research, political research.

Peter J. Wright

Partner , Leadership Forum Inc.

Peter Wright is a truly global executive experienced in leading HR functions for some of the world’s best-known companies. He has held senior positions in companies as diverse as Zurich Insurance, AIG, Estee Lauder, Merrill Lynch, BP, Allied Domecq and Unilever. He has travelled extensively and worked on every continent. He is highly skilled in leading organizations and executive teams through significant growth, crisis and business transformation, including mergers and acquisitions divestitures, restructuring, organizational transformation and public offerings. At the beginning of 2014 Peter took his many years of experience and applied it to the founding of his own consultancy Acorn Strategy Consulting. This boutique consultancy will specialize in helping companies improve their Organizational Effectiveness and Change Management capabilities as well as advising on all aspects of Talent Management. Subsequently, Peter became a partner in Leadership Forum Inc., merging Acorn Strategy Consulting with Leadership Forum Inc. In addition to his corporate experience, Peter is a business entrepreneur. In 2007 he co-founded Global Energy Talent, a business dedicated to the recruitment and deployment of people for oil and energy companies. He continues to serve as an advisor to the company. Born in London into a military family he grew up travelling around the world before attending the British Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, and St John’s College Cambridge where he earned a Masters Degree in History. He served the first twelve years of his adult life as an army officer in the British Army. Peter has a unique lens on the realities of global leadership and change management. A true citizen of the world he is frequently invited to write, teach, speak and consult for businesses, executive education schools and non-profit organizations. He has a highly entertaining, provocative and motivational style and is respected for delivering sound and workable end results.

Dave Chaplin (1)

CEO , ContractorCalculator

Dave Chaplin is the founder and CEO of ContractorCalculator.co.uk an online resource visited by circa 200,000 people per month. The site is for contractors, freelancers and the self-employed and has become the expert guide to contracting since it was launched in 1999. He is also the author of The Contractors’ Handbook Third Edition and Beat IR35. Dave Chaplin has lived and breathed contracting since he first took the plunge and became ‘one of the chosen’ in 1997. He spent seven years working as an IT contractor in the City of London on critical, cutting-edge IT infrastructure and development projects for global players like HSBC, Merrill Lynch, Cable and Wireless, and many others.

Ornella Nsio

Stakeholder Engagement Manager , REC

Ornella Nsio is the Stakeholder Engagement Manger at the REC. The REC is a membership body representing the recruitment industry. As the largest voice for the recruitment industry, the REC represent over 3,000 recruitment businesses and 10,000 individual recruiters through our Institute of Recruitment Professionals. Ornella's role focuses on lobbying key Government and business partners on a wide range of employment and labour market issues. The work also involves highlighting REC initiatives to promote industry standards. As the policy lead for IR35, Ornella manages the Interim Management Association (IMA), an REC sector group. A University of Nottingham French and Politics graduate, Ornella is a keen traveller and has a background in education and youth employment policy.

Colin Morley

Director , Hays Technology

Colin has 24 years of experience of delivering workforce solutions across the UK, Ireland, Europe and America. Colin has architected and delivered scalable services and products to private, non-for-profit and public sector organisations from delivery functions onshore, nearshore and offshore. Colin has a particular specialism in contingent workforce legislation and helping his clients to procure more sophisticated outcome based solutions.