Age Pioneers Summit 29th January 2025 Speaker Line-Up

Lyndsey Simpson, Founder & CEO, 55/Redefined

Recognising a gap in the market for a brand that answers the call of the ‘bet-your-ass-I-can’ over50s, Lyndsey set up 55/Redefined to fly the flag for those who may be getting older but have no intention of slowing down. Their consumer lifestyle site Life/Redefined now has an audience of over 125,000 over-50s globally.

Commercially, Work/Redefined & Jobs/Redefined enable businesses to Attract, Grow & Engage over 50s talent and consumers and is solving Age Strategy globally for the world’s largest firms.

A serial entrepreneur and a regular commentator in the media, Lyndsey has been recognised in the ‘UK’s Top 35 Businesswomen’ by Management Today and The Sunday Times and is one of the ‘UK’s 50 Most Inspirational Female Entrepreneurs.’ In 2024 she was shortlisted for the Veuve Clicquot Bold Future Award.

Adam Hawkins , Head of Search & Staffing for EMEA & LATAM, LinkedIn

With over two decades of recruitment industry experience, Adam is a trusted advisor to leading recruitment firms across the globe. His team partners daily with the recruitment sector to arm them with unique solutions and insight trends from LinkedIn’s more than 1 billion global members, to help them find the best talent for their clients.  

Prior to LinkedIn, Adam spent 18 years at The Adecco Group in numerous executive leadership and board member roles. He has worked and lived abroad for 10 years where he gained unique exposure to many global staffing markets and managed a multitude of differing businesses. 

Kilver Sidhu, Head of Financial Assistance, Bereavement & Vulnerability, Barclays

Kilver is a customer-obsessed, delivery-focused leader who is passionate about growing individuals to reach their full potential. She leads 1,500 colleagues globally across 7 sites who help Barclay's most vulnerable customers in the UK.

With over 25 years of experience in financial services, Kilver utilises her in-depth knowledge across operations, customer experience, transformation, propositions and design to be a thought leader and strategic business growth driver across the industry.

Outside of Barclays, Kilver is a Non-Executive Director for Bassett JSF Swimming Club. As a dedicated advocate of inclusion, Kilver also co-chairs the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion agenda for Barclays's entire Customer Care team, which includes 15,000 colleagues and leaders.

Bill Williams, Senior Director of Learning & Development, Warner Bros Discovery

Bill Williams is Senior Director, Learning & Development for Warner Bros. Discovery. Bill originally joined WBD's predecessor company, Discovery Communications, Inc., in 2000. Prior to WBD, he spent 14 years with an investment management company in human resources, training and legal administration roles.

Bill earned his BA from the College of William and Mary and his MA in Counseling, with a career counselling concentration, from the University of Maryland College Park.

Bill lives in Silver Spring, MD, USA, with three cats, two dogs and his wife (not necessarily in priority order, but the cats dictated this bio). His two grown kids reside elsewhere, as does his daughter's horse.

In his spare time, he writes, records, and performs music with a half-dozen bands in the Washington, DC, area. His day job just covers the costs of all the guitars, pet food, and vet bills.

Maxine Pillinger, AMS Managing Director, EMEA

Maxine sits on the AMS global Executive Committee and, for the past 4 years, has had the role of Regional MD for EMEA, responsible for operational delivery and client sponsorship. Maxine has been with AMS for over 17 years and during her time has been a Client Relationship Director and led on the design and delivery of AMS flexible RPO Solutions service line globally including Project based RPO, Resource Augmentation and single service RPO models.

Maxine has extensive experience in leading solutions within the EMEA region specifically in the Pharma/Lifesciences / Energy, Renewables and Engineering /FMCG sectors allowing her to bring creative solutions while driving success to ensure our delivery teams exceed expectations. She is passionate about the AMS DEI agenda, leads the Women’s ERG and sits on the AMS Global Sustainability SteerCo.

Eleanor Mills, Founder & CEO, Noon - Home of the Queenager

Eleanor Mills is a campaigner, Founder, bestselling-author and award-winning journalist and editor. Her book Much More to Come: Lessons on the Mayhem and Magnificence of Midlife, published by HarperCollins in August 2024 is a Times bestseller and she is the founder of Noon.org.uk – a platform and community of women in midlife, she calls them Queenagers. Eleanor’s mission is to change the narrative around older women in our culture to something more positive and fit for purpose which befits their pioneering status. To do that she became an entrepreneur at 50 setting up noon.org.uk in 2021.

Prior to that, for 23 years, Eleanor was a senior executive on The Sunday Times; the paper’s Editorial Director, award-winning Editor of The Sunday Times Magazine, a columnist and she has interviewed everyone from David Cameron and Theresa May to Sheryl Sandberg, Harry Styles and the Dalai Lama. She was Chair of Women in Journalism UK from 2014-2021. She still writes regularly across UK newspapers and magazines, gives regular keynotes for global corporations on gendered-ageism and getting to gender parity and runs programmes within companies to help them retain their Queenager talent.