Ana Laiu 
Head of Payroll, PPHE Hotel Group

Ana is a strategic payroll professional with extensive payroll experience spanning over 20 years. She has a passion for working with people and for elevating the profile of the industry to C-suite level whilst maintaining a strong focus on continuous process improvement and challenging the status-quo.

Mathew Akrigg 
Policy & Research Officer, The Chartered Institute of Payroll Professionals (CIPP)

Mathew Akrigg is a policy and research officer at the CIPP. His role is to keep the payroll world updated about the latest news, legislation and thought-provoking topics to hit the profession. The CIPP works hard to represent payroll professionals, engaging with government agencies at every opportunity and giving its members a voice in those discussions. 

Katie Sharpe

Head of UK Payroll, Mazars

Experienced Global Head of Pay & Reward with a demonstrated history of working in various Global industries. Skilled in a number of Payroll and HR systems, Pay and Reward Analytics, Benchmarking, Total Reward, Executive Compensation, People Management, and Report Writing. Strong operations professional with process improvement focus. Data-driven mind-set, advanced user of the entire Microsoft Office Suite and an efficient communicator. Excellent organisational skills, with high attention to detail.

Wendy Muirhead
Managing Director and Regional Leader, Ceridian

Wendy is responsible and accountable for the commercial and strategic growth of Ceridian Europe. Having spent most of her career working with organisations undertaking Global HCM and payroll transformation, she has a wealth of industry experience.

As a strong advocate for identifying value through shared insights, Wendy is cultivating a collaborative culture within Ceridian which is delivering tangible benefits to her team and customers alike.

Mirko D'Arcangelo

Head of Global Payroll, Hopper

A former boss described Mirko as an eclectic person due to his varied interests, and this is reflective of his career as well. He started my professional journey in the Italian army where he was deployed to Kosovo, Lebanon and Afghanistan, before transitioning into HR and later, Payroll, where he is experienced in working for some of the world’s largest companies, such as Revolut and Deliveroo. The common thread across all of these roles is teamwork, resilience and stakeholder management. Mirko is an italian coffee lover, and very passionate about keeping his colleagues happy!

Ted Bechman

Founder & CFO, Income Group 

Ted qualified with Ernst and Young and has been the CFO of a number of quoted and unquoted technology companies over four decades.  He co-founded Income Group in 2016 with the aim of transforming payroll payments and bringing them into the digital age whilst positively disrupting the high street banking practices. Ted continues to follow his keen instincts for improving employee and employer wellbeing, promoting inclusion through Income Group’s partnership with Mastercard. Ted’s desire is to use technology to modernise working practices and create a platform which increases employee disposable income without additional cost to the company.