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Prior to joining the UK Hydrographic Office, Vanessa has been a multi-award-winning consultant and senior customer experience (CX) and end-to-end customer lifecycle leader. She has over 25 years’ experience in creating and implementing successful transformation and CX strategies for customer-centric...
Vanessa is a non executive board member at Companies House. Vanessa is an experienced commercial solicitor, beginning her professional career in a London city firm specialising in multinational commercial and insurance issues. She joined KPMG as general counsel in the...
Vanessa has spent most of her 20 year civil service career focusing on security and law enforcement. Her previous posts include Director of Crime and Drugs Strategy in the Home Office, a secondment to the Metropolitan Police (Met) as Strategy...
Vanessa Havard-Williams OBE is the senior independent director for UK Export Finance, and chair of the UK Export Guarantee Advisory Council (EGAC). Vanessa has had a long career as a senior lawyer. She led Linklaters’ global environmental and climate change...
Vanessa joined the MHRA as Director of Human Resources in January 2015. Immediately prior to her appointment she was the Strategic Head of Human Resources for Virgin Care; a private provider of NHS community services across England. Vanessa joined Virgin...
Vanessa Howlison was appointed Chief Finance Officer (CFO) for Highways England in June 2016. Prior to this, Vanessa was Group Finance Director at the Department for Transport. She was also Finance Director for the Department of Energy and Climate Change,...
The UKHO has appointed Vanessa Blake, who has been Interim Chief Executive since May 2024, as its Chief Executive on a permanent basis.
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