Event Sponsors

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  Mattioli Woods is one of the UK’s leading providers of employee benefits and wealth management services, employing over 600 staff across offices nationwide and taking care of £9.3bn of clients’ assets. The Mattioli Woods employee benefits team delivers benefit solutions to help clients increase productivity and profitability through improved employee engagement, retention and motivation. These include:

  • flexible benefits – our portals allow for all sizes of business, covering employee engagement, total reward statements and employee discounts
  • pensions and workplace savings – pensions and group SIPPs
  • employee health and wellbeing – financial education, executive financial counselling, healthcare and risk benefits
  • specialist services – covering mergers and acquisitions and international

  Our wealth management clients, meanwhile, come from many walks of life – from the young entrepreneur in the early stages of their career to the retired property developer couple with a combined wealth of more than £20 million.

  Whoever they are, Mattioli Woods is here to help and support our clients in protecting and growing their finances to meet their aims and ambitions.

  Visit Mattioli Woods website

Mattioli Woods is one of the UK’s leading providers of employee benefits and wealth management services, employing over 600 staff across offices nationwide and taking care of £9.3bn of clients’ assets. The Mattioli Woods employee benefits team delivers benefit solutions to help clients increase productivity and profitability through improved employee engagement, retention and motivation. These include:
• flexible benefits – our portals allow for all sizes of business, covering employee engagement, total reward statements and employee discounts
• pensions and workplace savings – pensions and group SIPPs
• employee health and wellbeing – financial education, executive financial counselling, healthcare and risk benefits
• specialist services – covering mergers and acquisitions and international
Our wealth management clients, meanwhile, come from many walks of life – from the young entrepreneur in the early stages of their career to the retired property developer couple with a combined wealth of more than £20 million.
Whoever they are, Mattioli Woods is here to help and support our clients in protecting and growing their finances to meet their aims and ambitions.
Visit Mattioli Woods website
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activpayroll is a leading global professional service organisation, offering integrated global payroll solutions, expatriate taxation services and online HR people management tools to over 1,000 customers operating in more than 140 countries worldwide. The company was founded in 2001 by CEO Alison Sellar in Aberdeen and is an SSAE 16 & ISAE 3402 Type II approved organisation holding the highest level of BACS accreditation available. Over the past 16 years, activpayroll has gone from a small local firm to an award-winning international leader servicing some of the world’s leading brands, growing organically through recommendation and without a sales team.
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The CIPD team in Scotland works closely with our network of members, volunteers and stakeholders to develop the profession and build our policy relevance and reach. Our mission is to establish the voice of CIPD in Scotland.
With more than 11,000 CIPD members across Scotland, we sit at the heart of a proud, growing community of practitioners, members, partners, policymakers and thought leaders in the world of work. Through our collaborative efforts we’ll take big steps towards championing better work and working lives.
Visit CIPD website
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CNOOC International, the international division of CNOOC Limited, is a global energy company with operations in Asia, Africa, the Americas and Europe. Our successful growth as an upstream oil and gas producer has been achieved by consistently finding and developing world-class assets.
 
Our business is focused on safely exploring and producing from conventional offshore, unconventional and oil sands assets. As part of the CNOOC Group of companies, which span the entire energy supply chain, our size and capability create a competitive advantage that ensures we deliver long-term value. Our growth strategy is to safely and sustainably develop our high-quality portfolio to deliver energy for all.
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Lindsay & Lang are a people-focused consultancy concentrating on Whole Person Management.  We support businesses to deliver a positive culture in the workplace. We create this by looking at Development, Wellbeing and Communication within the organisation. This includes resilience, self-awareness, mental health, and behaviours to improve the employee experience and the organisation’s productivity and profitability.
 
Whole Person Management is centred around Wellbeing and Mental Health. Our Wellbeing programmes combine emotional and physical support to encourage organisations to foster an open company culture when it comes to mental health issues.
 
Whole person management provides the catalyst for a meaningful conversation within the workforce that connects and underpins leadership, people and wellbeing within an organisation. This is even more important in our current challenging climate.
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Orion Group is an international leader in the provision of personnel and specialist manpower to a number of industry sectors.  Today Orion Group manages the recruitment and supplementary services of thousands of contractors and permanent personnel every year throughout our worldwide network of offices. Our footprint spans Europe, the Americas, the Middle East, Asia Pacific and Africa.  Orion Group has the market intelligence and vital project experience that ensures a holistic approach to project delivery for our all our clients manpower requirements, from start to finish.
 
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Aberdeen Business School (ABS) comprises 3 departments, Management, Accounting and Finance and People, Organisations and Practice.
At undergraduate level students study can study BA and BA (Hons) in various Management related areas, or BSc Accounting.
At Postgraduate level prospective students have the choice of studying a variety of Degree courses including an AMBA accredited MBA which also has various specialist routes.  A range of specialist MSc courses is offered including International Business, Finance, Project Management, Human Resource Management and Purchasing and Supply Chain Management.
A feature of study at the Aberdeen Business School is that the majority of our Degree courses carry Professional Practitioner Accreditation, for example, the HRM course is accredited by the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD).
Prospective students interested in undertaking a Postgraduate Degree, but who may not have a previous degree, may achieve entry to their selected course by completing the Graduate Certificate in Management Studies.  The Aberdeen Business School is also developing its business in the delivery of Corporate Programmes and has a growing reputation in Research.
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Listed on the Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange (ADX), TAQA is an international energy and water company operating in 11 countries across four continents.
TAQA’s operations in Europe are based in the United Kingdom and the Netherlands and focus on the full cycle of oil and gas operations, from exploration and production through to decommissioning, as well as gas storage and energy innovations.
In the UK TAQA operates eight platforms, which produce from several fields spread across the northern North Sea and the central North Sea. TAQA is also the operator of the Brent System Pipeline which transports oil from some 14 northern North Sea fields to the Sullom Voe Terminal in Shetland, of which it also has a 24% non-operated interest. 
TAQA continues to ensure a relentless focus on ensuring excellence across all areas of late-life operational management. This includes safely and efficiently maximising economic recovery and life extension; driving operational excellence; effectively managing integrity, while at the same time taking ownership of and planning for decommissioning.
For more information please visit www.eu.taqa.com
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Founded in 1495, The University of Aberdeen is the third oldest University in Scotland. With a community of 120 nationalities and 14,500 students the University is ranked consistently among the world’s top universities.
Our Business School is internationally recognised for its excellence in world-leading research, and was ranked as a top three UK University for impact in Business and Management Studies as ranked by Times Higher Education based on REF 2014 GPA scores. REF assesses the quality of research in UK higher education institutions. Our strength in research means that Masters students benefit from the expertise of staff who are pioneers in their discipline, and the personalised nature of the study experience ensures a high degree of individual contact with leading academics.
The University’s location in Aberdeen – an internationally recognised business centre that boasts the offices of 20 FTSE 100 companies – means that our curriculum is strongly geared towards the needs of industry.  Many of our academics began their careers in the business world, and our courses benefit from strong engagement with industry meaning that students are ready to hit the ground running in the workplace. 
Another strength of the Business School is the flexibility that we offer to students. There are a number of part-time and distance learning study options, plus we offer all students the chance to break into the business world by converting their undergraduate degree from any discipline, in any background, into a highly valuable Masters degree in accounting, finance, economics, marketing, or real estate.
With academics at the forefront of research and teaching, and a curriculum that is relevant to the needs of industry, the University of Aberdeen Business School is a place where students can benefit from a highly personalised and flexible study experience that will considerably enhance their job prospects and set them on a path to a brilliant career.
Visit University of Aberdeen Business School website