Speakers
 Dr Richard Barkham, Grosvenor Ltd
Richard Barkham has a PhD in Economics from the University of Reading. From 1987 to 1998 he had a tenure track position in the Faculty of Urban and Regional Studies where he taught micro and macro economics, land economics, real estate finance and investment, real estate market research and analysis, and managerial economics. In 1997 he was Visiting Professor in the College of Business at the University of Cincinnati. Richard has published articles and papers in a number of areas including: capital budgeting, real estate securitisation, housing market economics and the development of regional economies.
In 1998 Richard joined the investment research department of CB Richard Ellis where he worked on economic forecasting, investment hurdle rates and consultancy projects. In 2000 he joined Grosvenor as head of research for the UK and Ireland. Since September 2005 he has been Grosvenor Group Research Director.
He is married with three children and is a member of Oxford Sailing Club.
 Adrian Cutcliffe, D&B
Adrian Cutcliffe, DipM, Marketing Director for D&B Sales & Marketing Solutions since summer 2004, has notched up more than 20 years' industry experience, holding senior marketing roles in multi-national business information and technology enterprises.
Adrian understands first-hand the importance of using data to provide strategic answers to those tough marketing questions and from the start he's been instrumental in helping D&B determine which customers and prospects they should be targeting. Adrian loves the fact that the businesses he works with share a desire to become smarter at marketing. Working with D&B gives him immediate access to the world's largest commercial database, powerful best-of-breed insight technology and exceptionally bright analysts. He knows that having these assets in his kit-bag makes all the difference.
 Keith Dugmore, Director, Demographic Decisions Ltd
Keith Dugmore had already had a long and varied career in market analysis when he founded Demographic Decisions in 1996.
At CACI Keith set up and managed the Public Services and Utilities Group, and later became Director of its Financial Services Group. His earlier life included an enjoyable time as a census analyst at the Greater London Council. He is an active member of both MRS and the Royal Statistical Society.
Keith established Demographic Decisions to provide impartial advice on the use of data to answer business questions. He also set up the Demographics User Group to represent 15 large commercial companies’ needs for government demographic data. Keith’s clients include Boots, Nationwide, Powergen. Sainsbury’s and Yell, and also the Cabinet Office, Office of the Deputy Prime Minister and the Office for National Statistics.
Mike Fishwick, Yell Group
Mike Fishwick is a leading information professional who runs the information and commercial data group at Yell plc, the Yellow Pages business listings publisher. He is an active member of the Demographics User Group (DUG) which represents the interests of 15 major commercial companies, which make use of government data for strategic planning purposes. Mike is also a member of the government’s Geographical information (GI) panel which aims to advise ministers on the future of geographical information in the UK. His role is to represent the DUG community and its members’ current and future needs from Geographical information on this panel.
Having trained as a civil engineer, Mike then obtained an MSc in Geographical information systems. He joined Marks and Spencer Plc in 1990, where he was responsible for the company’s Geographical information strategy, plus development of applications which shaped its worldwide store development strategy. He left M&S in 1998 to join Yell, to define its information and data strategy and set up the department he heads today.
Adrian Gregory, DQM Group Ltd
Adrian has over 20 years' in B2B marketing. He started his career in the marketing practice with PE Consulting Group working on various market research assignments in Europe and the Middle East. In 1985 he joined leading Yellow Pages publisher GTE Directories to build its UK business database and information services division.
In 1988 he formed TDS Group which grew to become the leading B2B database marketing firm pioneering several important initiatives including the world’s first business demographic classification system and 'The Business Census' a business universe sold to Scoot.com (now part of BT Directories). He was a founding director of PointX, a JV between Ordnance Survey and Landmark Information to build an accurate database of points of interest in 1999.
He is currently MD of DQM Group providing data and research services including mail media analysis. Clients include Royal Mail for whom it develops the Business Changes File® and an evolving range of B2B data services which involves processing over 6M business records a month from Royal Mail, D&B and Experian to help improve the cover and quality of business data and assist the effectiveness of DM generally.
Eileen Howes, Greater London Authority
Eileen Howes is a statistician working for the Greater London Authority (GLA). Her main role is to lead on all Census issues for the GLA including responsibility for acquiring, disseminating and analysing the data for London. This involves working closely with all the London boroughs and providing a series of London wide analyses of the data for the boroughs. She is also very much involved in representing London issues in the consultation for 2011 and planning for the GLA need for data from future Censuses.
She is a member of the CLIP Census Advisory Group on the local authority side. She previously worked in a similar role at the London Research Centre on both the 1991 and 2001 Censuses, and published a series of in depth analyses of the 1981 Census data for the London Borough of Hackney.
 John Perry, Head of Business Registers Unit, Statistical Framework Division, Office for National Statistics
John is responsible for the interdepartmental business register (IDBR). He and his team maintain and develop the IDBR and provide a survey sampling and analysis service to the ONS, other government bodies and the wider community. He is active internationally, working with Eurostat and the UN in developing standards and providing support to other countries.
Jan Shury, IFF Research
Jan Shury is a Board Director at IFF Research, where he has worked since 1997.
Jan specialises in designing telephone surveys of employers, with a particular focus on projects intended to contribute to understanding and measurement of the skills, learning and training environment and how it impacts on the social agenda.
Recent projects which Jan has directed include the National Employer Skills Surveys in England and in Scotland, the 1st and 2nd Phase Evaluations of the Skills for Business network, as well as the DTI’s survey of Social Enterprises Across the UK. He is currently working on an evaluation of Companies Benefiting from European Social Funding.
Prior to joining IFF Jan was living and working in Paris, conducting post-graduate research into political and social identities among second generation immigrants in England and in France.
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