Artistes of the Month
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Garry
Richardson, Dave Wolfe
Nik
Gowing
Nik
Gowing is main BBC News programme presenter on BBC World, the BBC's international
TV news channel distributed to 275 million worldwide, with a weekly audience
of 65 million. He has been deeply involved with on-screen coverage of
most of the world's major news events in the past three decades. He announced
Princess Diana's death; was on air for six hours during the unfolding
11 September terror attacks in New York and Washington.; was a lead presenter
from the Gulf for the Iraq War in 2003 and for coverage of the unfolding
2004 Tsunami catastrophe.
Nik is also a distinguished conference chair/moderator and speaker. Among
public gatherings chaired recently have been main plenary and 'town hall'
debates at the World Economic Forum meetings in Davos, Singapore, Tokyo,
New York, Warsaw, Jordan, Sharm el-Sheik and Capetown (with President
Mbeki), plus 'in the round' CEO forums at the annual meetings of IATA
(International
Air Transport Association - pictured) in Singapore, Tokyo and Paris; the
WTTC (World Travel and Tourism Council) in Qatar, Delhi and Washington;
and PATA (Pacific Asia Travel Association) in Macau and Pattaya.
Nik is much in demand as a speaker and published analyst on crisis management
and the handling of real-time information in times of major emergencies.
His international portfolio of commitments draws on his extensive experience
over almost three decades in diplomacy, defence and international security.
He was head-hunted by the BBC from ITN, where he was award-winning Diplomatic
Editor for Channel 4 News and for 18 years covered most of the world's
major news events.
He was a member of the council of the Royal Institute for International Affairs (Chatham House) for six years until 2004, and a vice chair and independent governor of the Westminster Foundation for Democracy for nine years until 2005. He was appointed to the Executive Council of the Royal United Services Institute in 2005. He is a governor of the Ditchley Foundation, and a member of the academic council of the Wilton Park conference centre.
Chair and Moderator
Public events have included:
- Televised debates between the world's leading corporate and government figures at successive World Economic Forums in Davos (1996 to present) and New York (2002), plus regional summits in Delhi (1998- ), Jordan (2003, 2004, Town Hall debate 2005), Sharm El Sheik (2006). Warsaw on the eve of EU accession (2004), plus Doha, Singapore, and Capetown (2005, 2006) and Tokyo (2006).
- 150-minute interactive debate among 600 airline CEO's and senior airline executives at the annual meeting of IATA (International Air Transport Association) in Singapore 2004, Tokyo 2005, Paris 2006.
- Debates 'in the round' for 600 delegates over two days at the annual World Travel & Tourism Council in Doha, Qatar (2004), Delhi (2005), Washington (2006).
- Annual televised debates between the Nobel Prize winners at Nobel Foundation award ceremonies in Stockholm (1999 to present ). Re-invited for 2006.
- Closed sessions and televised debates for European Business Leaders' Convention, Helsinki . CEO's/Chairmen of leading European Corporations + bankers, political leaders, government officials.
- Business conference on IT & Telecommunications in the Arab World, 600 delegates, major corporate sponsorship (2003 to present).
- Plenary sessions of the Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA) annual conferences in Manila, Nagoya, Delhi, Pattaya.
- 'We Media' summit, London (2006)
- 'Media in the Arab World', Dubai (2005)
- Full day international conference debate on Media Coverage of the Millenium Development Goals (2004).
- Public debates on global water and environmental challenges (including issues of corruption) at annual Stockholm Water Symposium (2000 to present).
- Future Summit, Brisbane, Australia (2006)
- Televised round table debate for major global leaders at Ambrosetti European House, Lake Como, Italy (2004 to present).
- Club of Madrid Democracy and Terrorism Summit of global leaders to mark the anniversary of the 3/11 Madrid train bombings. (2005)
- Town Hall meetings and open debates with Egypt's rime minister for international political/business/diplomatic audience, Cairo (2004, 2006)
- Televised debates with senior global energy experts on 'Energy Challenges', in Delhi and Muscat, Oman. .
- European Union E-Skills Summit conference jointly hosted by the Danish EU Presidency and a consortium of international IT companies led by Cisco. 350 delegates. Copenhagen.
- Televised debate between European leading business and political figures on European enlargement for BBC World 'The Business of Enlargement' in Solvay library, Brussels. Included business and political leaders from most of future 25 EU nations.
- Mexico Mexico Business Summit, Veracruz.
- Two sessions, including one with Heads of State and Government, at the UN World Information Society Summit, Geneva.
- Annual Hay Festival sessions, including with Bill Clinton in front
of 1100 audience (televised by BBC)
- INSEAD debate on US Presidential Election (2004)
- Intelligence Squared public debates with audience of 800 on Africa, and the Intelligence Services after the Iraq War failures.
- Conference sessions for World Business Council for Sustainable Development; World Bank; United Nations; British Energy seminar,:FTSE Global Index Forum; Royal Institute for International Affairs (Chatham House), London; Royal College of Defence Studies debates; German Marshall Fund, Brussels; Transfuse Association, Istanbul; International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC); Aspen Institute; Bosnia Reconciliation Conference bringing together senior figures (political and military) from the three warring factions; British Council events including a conference on Governance and Media in developing countries and the launch of policy initiatives.
- NewsWorld Convention for 400 global news broadcasters in Barcelona
(1998-2001); NewsXchange convention for 500 global news broadcasters
(2002 to present).
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Garry
Richardson
Garry
Richardson has been a broadcaster for the BBC for over 30 years.
He is best known as the sports presenter on Radio Four's prestigious "Today"
programme. He also presents "Sportsweek" on Five Live every
Sunday morning (for which he won a Gold Sony - the radio equivalent to
the Oscars - in March 2007) and is the chair of comedy sports quiz "Look
Away Now" which is broadcast in the 6.30pm comedy slot on Radio 4.
He is also a regular contributor to BBC Television.
However, Garry's big love is performing on the after dinner circuit and 2007 will mark his 21st year as one of the country's funniest speakers. Garry's speech is a rich mixture of stories and anecdotes about his life in broadcasting including his incredible interview with President Bill Clinton in Wimbledon's royal box, in front of 18 thousand tennis fans sitting under umbrellas and 10 million viewers on BBC 1.
During the past 22 years Garry has performed to a wide range of clients on the after dinner circuit and has been booked on no less than on 9 occasions by the Institute of Directors. He has also spoken at 4 dinners in the Directors dining room at Coutts bank and has been booked by Coutts again this year. Other clients have included the AA, Audi, AT and T, BA, Tesco, KPMG, IMechE, IBM, Society of Chartered Accountants, Institution of Lighting Engineers and Savills Estate Agents to name but a few!
Garry believes that his popularity as a speaker is down to his routine. As he says "All audiences will contain sports fans but even if you are not a sports fan my stories are so general it doesn't matter" This point is underlined by an appearance for the National School Bursars Association where 80% of the audience out of 250 were women. The organisation were so delighted with Garry's performance they booked him for their for their national event.
n March he won a "Sony Gold" (radio's equivalent of an Oscar) for his Sportsweek programme. He also won best Sports magazine programme from the National Union of journalists.
"He immediately got the crowd laughing and kept us well entertained
with his anecdotes and observations...A truly accomplished speaker it
was a performance myself and others have rarely seen bettered "
Paul Watkins Tesco October 2007
" Garry was excellent hitting just the right note to appeal not just to the sportsmen but to the non-sports minded as well" Jill Graham The Fleet Street Club
"He gave a fantastic speech and a number of our participants described him as an inspired choice" Petro- Canada July 2007
"Your contribution set the atmosphere for the event perfectly" The Teaching Awards July 2007
"Please pass on our effusive thanks to Garry Richardson.
His contribution as the After Dinner speaker at the DAF Trucks conference
dinner last week was outstanding and our client was more than pleased
with his very entertaining and very, very funny stories."
Meteor Events
"Garry was extremely well received and kept our guests so well
entertained, it was difficult to get them to leave!'
Celerant Consulting
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Dave Wolfe
Dave
Wolfe has the unique ability to tailor his material perfectly to suit
the wide range of work that his reputation demands.
Dave Wolfe made his television debut in 1979 on LWT's search for a star and went on to win the final, beginning 1980 with his own television special.
Since then he has worked extensively in television, radio, theatre, cabaret and conferences, and is now acknowledged as one of this country's finest after dinner speakers.
For the past twelve years Dave has concentrated solely on the corporate
market, where his unique ability to tailor and personalise his material
keeps him in constant demand.
Companies requiring the ultimate professional have flown Dave all over the world to "front" their conferences or entertain at their dinners.
Dave specialises in personalisation for corporate events, and customer satisfaction is substantainted by the number of re-bookings he receives. He acknowledged by his peers to be one of the country's funniest comedians and finest after-dinner speakers.
Dave has appeared at the London Palladium, The Royal Albert Hall and just about every major theatre in the country.
A keen golfer, Dave plays in many charitable events, both at home and abroad.
His extensive television experience includes 'Only Joking', 2 Royal Variety Shows, 'Live from Her Majesty's', 'Night of 100 Stars', 'Summertime Special' etc. etc.
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