Award-Winning Comedian
You might have seen Ria Lina on Live at the Apollo, Have I Got News For You, and Mock The Week or even heard her on shows such as The News Quiz and The Now Show. Before she went into comedy she was a virologist and then an IT Forensic Investigator for the Serious Fraud Office, and as a result of her science background, she's also a regular pundit on Sky News, and Times Radio.
Vice President, Patient Strategy & Engagement at Lumanity
As Vice President of Patient Strategy and Engagement at Lumanity, a medical communications agency, Susan builds and embeds a culture of patient centricity across the business. She’s developed a suite of patient programmes to support clients to engage patients and their advocates in medicine development. A pharmacist and passionate patient advocate, she is a lymphoma survivor and sits on the Board of Lymphoma Action in the UK, and in all her capacities, empowers patients and families to form strong partnerships with their healthcare providers for better outcomes.
Head of Strategy at Leith
Vic is Head of Strategy at Leith and is very proud to manage a team of brilliant people with capabilities ranging from traditional brand planning to digital ecosystem modelling. In her 27 years in the industry she has worked across a multitude of campaigns that range from selling whisky and fizzy pop to behaviour change to improve health outcomes – the irony of this combination is not lost on her.
Patient
Tatum was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2011, while living in LA, but she had to come back to the UK and start her life here from scratch without her circle of friends. What started as a drinks meet up with Shine, the only UK charity supporting adults 20-40 who have experienced a cancer diagnosis, has turned into a passion for Tatum. Over 8 years, she’s worn many different hats at Shine, including being facilitator on Shine’s Break Out programme, creating yoga classes for Shine, as well as hosting Shine’s podcast Not Your Grandma’s Cancer Show.
Director of the Pleasance
In 2005, Anthony became Director of the Pleasance Theatre Trust with the ambition of growing the Pleasance platform and creating more opportunities for artistic entrepreneurship and expanding the Pleasance’s development and performance platform in London and Edinburgh. Since then, he’s sold millions of tickets to tens of millions of visitors, accounting for one in every five tickets sold at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe for a show at the Pleasance. He’s also on the board of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society, and was former Vice-Chair. He is proud to be a Patron of Waverley Care for the last 20 years, a leading charity in Scotland caring for people with HIV and Hepatitis C, where he’s helped to raise over £700,000 through the Pleasance partnership. He is passionate in supporting mental health amongst young people.
