Wally Olins in the chair

London 8 March 2007:

Putting Wally in the 'hot seat' were the following panellists:

Kathryn Sloane, New Business Manager, Pearlfisher
An unstoppable networker with a global reach, Kathryn has turned contacts into clients from Sydney to Shanghai. She now exploits her gregarious charms from Pearlfisher’s London office, wooing clients like InBev, Liberty and Pizza Express to our fold. Once Kathryn’s finished working the room, you’ll most likely find her on the dancefloor – with a cocktail in one hand and a clutch of new contacts in the other.

Gianni Tozi, Creative Director

Enterprise IG
Designer and art director Gianni has developed projects for clients such as Philips, Motorola, Orange, Fujitsu, Indesit and Vodafone, among others.
His personal work has been shown in exhibitions in Italy, Japan and the UK, and has been reviewed by several international magazines.

He has a deep understanding of design culture and different trends in society across international markets. His ability and willingness to combine this reasoned understanding with intuitive inspiration is an essential part of his working practice. His drink of choice is tea (milk, 1 sugar if you’re putting the kettle on), which fuels his creative energy, leadership, vision and optimism.

Born Italian, he arrived in the UK via the Royal College of Art.

Sarah Lewis, Designer, Navyblue
Retired roller dancer. Hat addict. Art director of a post-feminist feminist
magazine. Festival regular. Billy Holliday fan. Red head. Graphic designer.

A London born Midlands bred idealistic realist, I choose out over in, yes
over no and sooner over later.

Encouraged to explore my creative side by my Mother (who was not allowed to
study art at school) I studied Graphic Arts and Design at Leeds Metropolitan
University, where I edited the course magazine before taking the path well
worn to London.

A brief stint at Dazed and Confused and a collaboration with Love led me to
Blue Source, where I worked as a junior before joining Navyblue a year ago.

Caroline Pichel-Juan
Over the last twelve years, Caroline has developed a career in design
management and marketing across a range of industries including luxury
fashion, architecture, venture capital and telecommunications.

She is currently developing an interior design business from her home in
Lincolnshire, completing a Masters in Design Management from the London
College of Communication and writing a novel. Her current area of
academic interest is the effect of social software on design management
communication processes, with particular focus on social behaviourism.

Caroline has a first degree in Italian Studies from the University of
Reading. She is widely travelled, lived in Italy as a child, Holland in her
early twenties and speaks both Italian and Dutch.