AGR board members

Chair, Terence Perrin, EMEA Head of Recruitment & Resourcing, JPMorgan Asset Management

After graduation, Terence spent 5 years working as an HR Manager in the charity/voluntary sector before leading graduate recruitment for the National Audit Office. He then took a specialist recruitment role, including graduate recruitment, with Watson Wyatt before moving to manage graduate and MBA recruitment for the investment bank Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein (DrKW.) This role had a particular focus on building relationships with target universities across Europe, especially the UK, France, Spain, Italy, Germany and the Nordics.

More recently, Terence worked at KPMG as Head of Recruitment & Resourcing. This role looked at recruitment and resourcing across KPMG in the UK for all function areas - Financial Advisory Services, Tax, Assurance & Infrastructure. Terence joined JPMorgan in 2004 and is currently managing campus & experienced hire resourcing for the Private Bank & Investment Management functions in EMEA (Europe, Middle East & Africa.)

Terence has contributed to numerous media articles on graduate, MBA and experienced hire recruitment as well as appearing regularly as a speaker at conferences and an awards judge on these subject areas. He is a Chartered Fellow of the CIPD, and holds Level A and B status in psychometric testing.

His first exposure to AGR was through his involvement in the AGCAS International Students Committee and he was elected to join the AGR board in 2002. Terence became Finance Director in 2003 and Vice Chair in 2006.

Finance Director, Rebecca Fielding, Head of Leadership and Culture, ASDA

Nikki Williams, Head of Resourcing, Allen & Overy LLP

Nikki's career in graduate recruitment began at Deloitte & Touche in London as Graduate Recruitment Manager, responsible for recruitment into audit, tax and consultancy, with a particular focus on recruitment marketing.

In 2001, Nikki moved to Allen & Overy LLP as their Graduate Recruitment Manager, with responsibility for all trainee and vacation student recruitment for the London office. She is now Head of Resourcing for the firm as a whole, spending much of her time advising the 25 international offices on their recruitment approach and developing the strategy for recruitment of entry-level and qualified lawyers, partners and support staff. Nikki also has responsibility for internal and external secondments and continues to run the firm's HR team for its UK trainee and student population.

In her spare time, Nikki enjoys being outside - ideally on skis, boats or hills. She also enjoys good food and wine with friends and travelling.

Anne Farquharson, Marketing Director, Henderson Loggie

Whilst studying accountancy at university Anne took asummer job with a firm of accountants, working in their marketing department. After discovering how well suited she was to long marketing lunches as opposed to long accountancy exams, she decided on a career in marketing instead. Having graduated, she worked for the Royal College of General Practitioners promoting clinical guidelines for a number of years, before joinging the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland in 2000. Having worked her way up to Marketing Director, after seven years with ICAS she moved to Henderson Loggie, one of the top four independent accountancy firms in Scotland, with offices in Edinburgh, Glasgow, Dundee and Aberdeen. Anne is based in their Edinburgh Office.

Henderson Loggie recruit around six graduates each year, and Anne is responsible for all the firm's marketing activities, including those aimed at their graduates. Anne is a member of the CIM (Chartered Institute of Marketing) and joined the AGR board in 2003. She is also chair of the AGR Scottish Forum.

Anne's favourite pass time involves a lot of muck, wet clothes and a wind-swept look, but allows her to enjoy the fabulous countryside around Edinburgh accompanied by the handsome Mr Darcy (her horse).

Sonja Stockton, Head of Graduate Recruitment, PricewaterhouseCoopers

Sonja began her career in education where she held a number of senior roles. She joined National Grid in 1998 on a leadership secondment and stayed! Joining the HR function in learning and development Sonja project managed a number of learning and development initiatives and programmes including the design and development of student programmes before leading on Graduate Recruitment and Development in 1999. Following on Sonja became Learning Manager with responsibility for the management of the company’s training centre and the delivery of over 15,000 delegate days training from craft apprentices to graduates and senior managers. The training covered both technical and core programmes and the IEE accredited Graduate Development Programme.

When the company merged with Transco, Sonja was responsible for the integration of all development programmes including the revised Graduate programme, Sonja now heads up the New Talent Team and is responsible for National Grid Transco’s strategic resourcing and development programmes feeding the talent pipeline through to leadership.

In the summer of 2006, Sonja took up a new role with PWC in graduate development and leadership development for the UK tax business. In June 2007 Sonja began the role of Head of Graduate Recruitment.

Sonja has presented on Talent Management in a number of professional forums and sits on a number of boards and groups including the Power Academy to promote engineering careers to young people. She is a member of the Chartered Institute of Management and the Institute of Directors.

Sonja is passionate about developing people and thoroughly enjoys all aspects of recruitment and development. She joined the AGR Executive in 2003 and is the Chair of the Education and Training Task Group.

Navjot Singh, Global Marketing Manager - Recruitment, Shell

As a business graduate having spent his early years in various marketing roles for a company specialising in duplicating music for the record industry, Navjot Singh at the age of 24 became the baby of the MBA class. In 1994, during his time at Bradford studying for his full-time MBA in Marketing Management, Navjot together with fellow team members also picked up the annual 3i Venture Capital prize.

On leaving Bradford in 1995, he continued his career with Unilever’s cosmetics arm Elizabeth Arden and Parfums International. Shortly afterwards, he joined the DaimlerChrysler group of companies in the UK progressing through various marketing roles which culminated in his position as Marketing Director responsible for managing brands such as Mercedes-Benz, Smart, Chrysler and Jeep. During his time with the automobile manufacturer, Navjot also picked up the Young Achiever of the Year Award in 1999 from Eddie George, Governor of the Bank of England.

In 2001, he was approached by the energy giant Shell and joined as Vice-President of Customer Relationship Management leading a study to understand the true value of CRM for Shell, which within nine months subsequently led to runners-up prize being awarded within the Gartner CRM Excellence Awards. Four months later, Navjot has now moved on once again within Shell as Global Marketing Manager responsible for attracting Top Talent for the Shell Group from Graduates, Experienced hires to MBA’s across 135 countries.

Commenting on his Marketing career to date, “people very quickly loose sight in today’s business environment that people are the most important asset to any organisation. People make and break companies, and to ensure the workforce of today is a well oiled machine, quality driven MBA programmes such as the one I undertook at Bradford provide aspiring executives the opportunity to achieve their career aspirations, once pondered many times during an MBA elective.”

Marina Aldridge, Head of Resourcing & Recruitment, Audit Commission

Marina graduated in Paris with a BA Hons in History and worked for the Prudential Assurance Co for nearly 14 years, in a variety of technical sales support roles.

1991 brought a radical change of career and life, when she moved to Scotland from London, and joined the HR department of Grampian Regional Council.

After 6 years she decided to leave Scotland but stick with HR, and moved down to Essex, joining Visteon (formerly part of Ford Motor Co), recruiting project and sales engineers to new offices being set up close to the other car manufacturers across Europe. She became a member of CIPD and gained level A & B status in psychometric testing.

In 1999, she joined an independent part of the Audit Commission called District Audit as a Recruitment Manager. About a year later she was asked to take additional responsibility for the graduate recruitment scheme, and then when District Audit joined forces with the Audit Commission Marina was appointed Head of Resourcing and Recruitment.

She has been a member of AGR since 2001, and was one of the founder members of the public sector focus group and has been part of the conference planning group.

When she's not either working or commuting to and from work she likes to spend time with my 13 year-old daughter. She also enjoy sailing, skiing, catching some live music, travelling or just wining and dining.

Donna Miller, Human Resources Director, European Operations, Enterprise Rent-A-Car

As the Human Resources Director of European Operations for Enterprise Rent-A-Car, Donna oversees all aspects of people development for Enterprise in the United Kingdom, Ireland and Germany, which include more than 4,700 employees. In her 15 years with the company, she has been instrumental in the recruitment growth for Enterprise in the U.S., Canada and Europe and now serves as one of the company’s officers.

Like the majority of Enterprise’s officers, she began her career at Enterprise in the company’s Management Training program, where she worked with customers at a rental branch in the Southern California region. As a Management Trainee, she learned the Enterprise business from the ground up, from providing superior customer service to developing and implementing marketing plans and managing profit and loss statements. In 1991, within one year of her start with the company, she was leading the human resources and recruitment efforts for one of the Southern California regions.

After serving as Human Resources Manager in Southern California, Miller was promoted to the position of Group Human Resources Manager, and oversaw HR operations for four states in the New York/New Jersey area of the country. In 1997, she was promoted to Corporate Human Resources Manager, and moved to Enterprise’s corporate headquarters in St. Louis, Missouri. In this position, Donna provided support and assistance to Enterprise operating groups in Canada. After one year, she moved to a similar role to work with European operations. In 2002, she was promoted to the position of Assistant Vice President/HR Director of Enterprise’s human resources operations in Europe.

In 2003, Donna moved to England. She is originally from Orange County, California, and graduated from San Diego State University. She lives in Surrey, where she has made her home for the past two years.

Anglie Johns, Manager Recruitment Services, Waitrose

Anglie graduated with a BSc from The University of Manchester (then UMIST) with a degree in Management. After travelling for a year, she joined the Waitrose Graduate Scheme. For three and a half years, she developed her general management skills working on the operational side of the business across several London branches.

In 2004 she took the opportunity to move across to Personnel and she was appointed as the Graduate Recruitment Manager for Waitrose. She was successful in this role for 3 years, and more recently (2007) was promoted to Manager, Recruitment Services, managing a team responsible for  recruiting Graduates, Industrial Placements, A-level entrants, as well as various streams of experienced hire recruitment for Waitrose stores.

Anglie has a keen interest in Management Development and is trained as a MBTI practitioner. She has been an active member of the AGR since 2004, and was one of the founder members of the Retail Sector Focus Group.

In her spare time she enjoys socialising with friends and family, and travelling.

Vice Presidents

Alison Hodgson, Head of Resourcing, Royal Mail Group

Alison has a BA Hons Psychology degree and MSC Occupational Psychology from The Queens University of Belfast, and The Henley Certificate in Business and Management postgraduate qualification. She started her career at Marks and Spencer PLC on their graduate management development programme. Alison worked as an Human Resources Manager at M&S for 5 years during which time she achieved her CIPD qualification.

She then moved to SalamonSmithBarney as Assistant Vice President in Graduate and MBA Recruitment for Europe. After a year in the City Alison moved to become a Manger in International Resourcing at WorldCom where her responsibilities covered both the recruitment and development of graduates for EMEA and Asia Pacific as well as wider Resourcing responsibilities. After spending a couple of years as HR Resourcing & Projects Director for Sodexho Ltd UK, Alison moved to become European HR & Resourcing Manager, Expedia.

She has recently been appointed Head of Resourcing at the Royal Mail Group where she will be working in the People and Organisational Development department.

In the middle of her career, Alison took a year out and travelled around Thailand, the South Pacific, Malaysia and India. She particularly enjoys golf, scuba diving and singing in her spare time.

Linsey Perry, Graduate Recruitment & Development Manager, Network Rail

Having initially trained as a history teacher, Linsey had a radical career change when she joined BT and specialised in HR work. She moved into the training and development function spending a few years delivering training around the country but then went on to design training and then managing the whole process. In 1993, she was tempted into graduate recruitment where she ran the BT campaign for some years before moving to Network Rail where she now heads up the Graduate Recruitment and Development Unit.

Linsey regards graduate recruitment as the best job she has done and enjoys the challenge of working out various strategies to attract applicants. Linsey is a fellow of the IPD and enjoys relaxing with a good book and a bottle of Chardonnay.

She joined the Executive Committee during 1999 and became Vice-Chair at the Annual General Meeting in October 2002.