The Leaders Council of Great Britain & Northern Ireland

Anne Beckett-Allen is a founding director of Rosedale Funeral Home, a funeral director with seven branches based in Norfolk and Suffolk, employing 60 members of staff.

Anne became one of the founding directors of the Rosedale Funeral Home business in 2004, originally balancing her director responsibilities with a marketing consultant role at Colney Woodland Burial Park, which she held until 2010.

Anna Goodband is the principal of The Liverpool School of English [LSE], the largest and longest established language school in the city of Liverpool.

Anna has been with LSE as principal since 2011 and is buoyed by years of experience as a teacher educator, academic co-ordinator, lecturer and studies director

Simon Hudson is the managing director at Oxley’s Furniture Ltd, a Cotswolds-based producer of fine quality cast and fabricated aluminium furniture.

The business was founded in 1991 with Hudson a co-founder, but its roots go back four years earlier.

Rolf Apweiler is a director at the European Bioinformatics Instituteheadquartered in Cambridge.

Rolf Apweiler has a vast academic and scientific background, having studied biology at Heidelberg University before becoming a Swiss-Prot Annotator at Heidelberg’s European Molecular Biology Laboratory in 1987. He held the role until 1994, and carried out research for Boehringer Mannheim between 1991 and 1994.