Author: Treasure Earth C.I.C.

Colum O’Dwyer

Prize Campaigns and Awards Documentary Filmmaker

Treasure Earth is pleased to announce the appointment of Colum O’Dwyer as Prize Campaigns and Awards  Documentary Filmmaker effective 12 April 2021. As highly skilled and critically acclaimed documentary filmmaker, cinematographer, cameraman, self-shooting director and editor, Colum’s specialisation is in creating narrative and his work has been selected for screening at festivals all over the world, most notably at the Camerimage Festival for Cinematography in Poland. He has worked on documentary film productions by the BBC, CNN, RTE, The Food Network US, The Travel Channel and he has also worked with a wide variety of other organisations developing corporate branded content for the corporate, banking and charity sectors.

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Louise Foster

Head of Governance, Policy & Compliance & Member of the Advisory Board

Treasure Earth is pleased to announce the appointment of Louise Foster as Head of Governance, Policy and Compliance and Member of the Advisory Board at Treasure Earth C.I.C. effective 11 April 2021. Her role extends across the entire C.I.C. and all Prizes, Campaigns and Awards. A highly accomplished Compliance, Finance and Audit professional and a qualified Chartered Accountant (PwC) Louise has industry-wide experience ensuring exemplary ethics and compliance underpin good governance, company-wide commercial policy and best practice in both small start-ups as well as some of the world’s largest multinational corporations. She is recognised as a trusted advisor and Business Partner whose passion for professional ethics, and whose motivational and leadership skills have earned her a reputation for empathy, supporting teams to continuous improvement and exceptional growth.

Louise was until recently UK Compliance Lead at Microsoft since 2009 where as a Key member of the Finance Leadership team supporting the CFO and working with both the Head of Legal and the Global Compliance Officer, they created a culture of trust and a standard of exemplary business conduct across the entire Microsoft UK organisation.  Working with US and EMEA teams to implement FCPA and SOX requirements required robust control and maintenance of risk and compliance across sales deal execution, supplier management, data privacy, security and financial reporting, the Conflicts of Interest programme, the Internal Audit process, the outsourced Self-Audit programme and the quarterly compliance metrics.

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Gary Norman

Head of Broadcast Media, Senior Producer & Creative Director & Member of the Advisory Board

Treasure Earth is pleased to announce the appointment of Gary Norman as Head of Broadcast Media, Senior Producer, Creative Director and Member of the Advisory Board, Treasure Earth Prize and Awards effective 14 February 2021. Sport has historically, and continues today to champion some of the world’s major causes with significant results. For the sports enthusiasts among you, you will recognise Gary from when he was Senior Producer and Sports Presenter at BSKYB. A seasoned professional, he brings a wealth of experience as a highly skilled, experienced and popular broadcast media professional, who has hosted and produced some of the top sporting events around the world, for leading broadcast media companies such as the BBC, BSB, BSKYB, SkySports and IMG. He is Co-Founder of Defined Media, a media training company providing bespoke courses, which he co-founded with his good friend and TV colleague, Andy Finn and the distinguished former Sky News presenter, Jeremy Thompson, whose credentials include 3 BAFTA’s, reporting on no less than 6 x US Presidential campaigns and interviewing World Statesmen, such as Nelson Mandela.

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