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BUSINESS, FINANCE & INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
POWERLIST 2010
TREVOR WILLIAMS DANIEL TAYLOR
Chief economist, Lloyds TSB Corporate Founder and MD, Metro Design Consultants
NEW ENTRANT
Williams is in the elite band of Taylor has grown the award-winning
economists at the heart of the Metro Design Consultants into one
financial sector. In addition to of the UK’s most dynamic design
leading the team that supports and build companies with an annual
Lloyds’ trading and sales turnover exceeding £20m. His
activities, Williams regularly enviable client list includes Boeing,
appears on radio and TV to offer Skype and Harley-Davidson, all of
expert opinion on the fiscal issues whom have used Metro to build
of the day. Williams is a member impressive UK bases. Metro, a family-
of the Institute for Economic run business, was also involved
Affairs shadow monetary policy in the interior design of Arsenal’s
committee, an elite group of Emirates Stadium and the Thomson
independent leading monetary Reuters building in Canary Wharf.
economists. Since June 2007, Metro consistently wins high-profi le
Williams has been one of the nine voting members, and one contracts including one to build and design revolutionary spaces
of only four City-based members, with the remaining being across the UK for the super-union Unite, and one to provide major
professors and academics. Williams joined Lloyds from the new complexes for the NHS. Daniel is a founder board member of the
civil service, where he worked as an economist. Before that government’s Creative & Cultural Skills Council. He also represents
he was a lecturer. He writes articles for various Lloyds TSB the design industry on the board of trustees for the Government’s
publications and financial trade journals. Licensed Sector Skills Council for the creative and cultural industries.
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prominent and respected economists in interior design industry, Taylor is one of
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KAREN BLACKETT
PIERS LINNEY
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Chief operations director, MediaCom
Director, Outsourcery
NEW ENTRANT
Such is the infl uence of Karen Blackett at the UK’s largest Linney is a whizz-kid when it
media agency that since making the Powerlist last year she comes to technology. In 2007
has been promoted from managing partner & marketing the 38-year-old acquired mobile
director (UK) to chief operations director looking phone company Genesis from
after Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Her role DSG, formerly Dixons, and made
now is to develop the territory in terms of new it a leading communications and
business growth. Blackett has always made a mark hosted IT company with 65,000
since beginning her media career in 1993. She customers, 250 employees and
was the youngest person to reach board level at revenues of £60m. The company
MediaCom. In 2003 and 2005 she was voted by was awarded Microsoft gold
Management Today as one of 35 Most Powerful partner status, representing the
Women Under 35 in the UK – one of only two highest level of competence
women to feature in the list consecutively. She and expertise with Microsoft
also sits on the board of advisers for the technologies. Spearheading the
Duke of Edinburgh Award Charity, with development of the UK software as a service (SAAS) market, Genesis
the Countess of Wessex. Communications recently changed its name to Outsourcery. Linney
qualifi ed as a solicitor, but left law to pursue a career in banking at
Infl uential because…
Credit Suisse. In 2000, the son of a Bajan mother and English father
moved on to pursue his passion for business and started an internet
she decides where
company.
advertisers spend their
money and can therefore
Infl uential because... his stock as an
make or break many
innovator in communications and IT
publications.
rapidly increases each year.
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