LDBEN is a network of senior business people and entrepreneurs, from across the UK determined to help keep Britain open for business. Here is our team.

Simon Curtis, Chair
Former Senior Counsel, Haynes & Boone LLP
Leslie Hurst, Deputy Chair
Non-Executive Board Chair

Caroline Kenyon, Deputy Chair
Founder and Director, The Food Awards Company

Thrusie Maurseth-Cahill, LDBEN Executive
Executive Committee Members

Andrew Dixon
Founder, ARC InterCapital

Laura Lomer
Co-Founder, Relevant Now

John MacKenzie
Partner, Shepherd and Wedderburn LLP

Juergen Maier
Chairman of the Board, Digital Catapult & Former CEO, Siemens UK

Tilly McAuliffe
Founder, Think Publishing

Mark Petterson
Director, Warwick Energy

Chuka Umunna
Head of ESG, Edelman,
Non-Executive Director, Advanced, Digital Identity Net and Signal AI, and Former Member of Parliament