Angela Woolnough
12 November 2021Can you please tell us a bit about yourself? I joined the Sixth Form at Wellington College in 1975 when the school first opened its doors to girls – 7 girls and 770 boys. This was a ground-breaking experiment for Wellington which had been a boys’ school for 120 years. I remember feeling petrified and […]
Daisy Crowfoot
12 November 2021Can you please tell us a bit about yourself? I am Daisy, my pronouns are she/they and I currently work as the Diversity & Inclusion (D&I) Lead at Energy Saving Trust. My previous role was working in the Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion team at Queen Mary University of London and before that, I was at […]
Kai Horstmann
11 November 2021Can you please tell us a bit about yourself? I was Born and raised in Zimbabwe but educated in England. I started playing professional rugby for Harlequins in 2001 before moving to Worcester Warriors in 2005 and Exeter Chiefs in 2012. I enjoyed silverware successes in European Cup, LV Cup, Anglo Welsh Cup and The […]
Tim Warrillow
05 July 2021What started your entrepreneurial career? My first attempt at a money making venture was an ‘after hours’ pizza delivery business whilst at Wellington, it involved persuading the local pizza delivery company to deliver pizzas in the cover of darkness. Much to their surprise the instruction was that they had to approach the main gate quietly […]
Adrian Lukis
01 June 2021The first play I was in was The Mummers Play, in which I had the second lead (!), the Turkish Knight. This was at my prep school, aged nine, when my family returned from Australia. The lead, quite rightly, was St George! This was the moment I fell in love with all the thrill of […]
George Humphreys
17 May 2021When did you know you wanted to be an opera singer? There was no real Eureka moment. I was always a singer and then when I went to Cambridge, a lot of my friends in the years above me would go to one of the music colleges in London after they finished to do a […]
Marcus Lyon
06 May 2021‘How has the last year with the pandemic affected you within the Arts industry?’ I have always championed the idea of reinvention and in truth the events of 2020-2021 have been a study in all our abilities to reinvent and reimagine. The Arts have been particularly hard hit, especially those working in performance. For […]
David J Hamblin Brown
22 April 2021Tell us about yourself – just a few sentences to introduce yourself. I have just returned from a two-year stint in Beijing as the chief physician at a group of Chinese hospitals. Since the start of the Pandemic, I have been locked-down in East Sussex with my family. I love playing the piano (although I’m […]
Sir Richard Feachem
21 April 2021A Journey in Global Health When I left Wellington in the summer of 1965, I was looking forward to spending a year with Voluntary Service Overseas (VSO). They had assigned me to my dream job as a climbing/ mountaineering instructor at the Outward Bound School at Loitokitok on the northern slopes of Mt. Kilimanjaro. Three […]
David Shipway
19 April 2021Tell us about yourself – just a few sentences to introduce yourself. I’m a Consultant Physician working in Bristol. I have a slightly unusual subspecialty, and I work as a medical doctor within surgical teams to help look after complicated surgical patients who have lots of other medical problems. These medical issues are typically cardiac, […]
Christopher Woelk
19 April 2021What is your speciality and how is the present Covid-19 pandemic affecting your normal working routine? I am currently Head of Systems Biology at an Exploratory Science Center belonging to MSD (Merck Sharp and Dohme), a large pharmaceutical company. My specialty is using computational biology to analyse the rich data that we can now generate […]
Will Maunder Taylor
15 April 2021What inspired you to work in AI? It’s a fast moving space similar to Cyber, MedTech and FinTech and you can feel the momentum as well as the constantly changing landscape. One is beginning to see meaningful applications helping solve problems rather than just experimentation, from helping detect cancer with large global medical data bases, help […]
Tom MacKinnon
15 April 2021Tell us about yourself – just a few sentences to introduce yourself. Since leaving Wellington (Ly 2012), I studied medicine at Imperial College and am currently a junior doctor working in a London hospital. I have a particular interest in surgery, and am due to start my specialty training in trauma and orthopaedic surgery in […]
Sharon Yip
15 April 2021Tell us a bit about yourself I was born and raised in Hong Kong. I joined Apsley in 2012 when I first came to the UK, went onto study medicine at St Peter’s College at Oxford and completed my clinical studies at University College London. What inspired you to work in medicine? About the time […]
Sasha Feachem
15 April 2021Tell us about yourself – just a few sentences to introduce yourself. Hello, I’m Sasha,(officially Alexandra ) Feachem. I was an Apsely girl from 1989 – 1991 and I’ve worked as a science producer for more than 20 years, most of which I’ve spent at the BBC. I’m also the producer and co-creator of BBC […]
Sabi Hippolyte
15 April 2021Tell us about yourself – just a few sentences to introduce yourself. I am a respiratory consultant working in Brighton and Sussex University Hospital Trust with a subspecialty interest in respiratory failure and ventilation. I completed my pre-clinical medical school at Cambridge University, my clinical years at GKT (now King’s College, London) and have just […]
Rachel Parish
15 April 2021Tell us about yourself – just a few sentences to introduce yourself I’m an emergency medicine and paediatric emergency medicine consultant at Frimley Park Hospital. I spend half my time working in the paediatric emergency department and half in the adult ED. In some of the time spent not at work I shoot clay targets! […]
Charles Durrant
15 April 2021My name is Charles Durrant. I am a Consultant Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeon living and working in Portsmouth on the South Coast. I am married with three kids and believe in the importance of maintaining a healthy work/life balance. I wanted to study medicine since I was about 8 years old. When people asked me […]
Claudia Lambeth
15 July 2016Founded in 2012, Luna Mae London empowers women by offering exquisite British lingerie and loungewear collections which are accompanied by an impeccable service, creating an unforgettable lingerie experience. After developing exceptionally high standards of quality and working with dedicated seamstresses in England, Luna Mae London was launched by appointment-only. Since its launch, the brand has […]