THREE’S A CROWD
Friday 11th April at 18:00 | Marlborough Suite | £15.00
After a grueling week, the idea of talking shop might not grab you. Yet you might see evenings as an opportunity to prioritise your professional development or initiate a change in direction. With this in mind, the Rag presents “Three’s A Crowd” an evening offering an informal couple of hours on Friday when you can join three trailblazers who have each taken paths in their respective fields that should be inspirational as you weigh up your own options. Bar a formal introduction they will, drink in hand, mix among you allowing a chance to quiz them without this feeling like a Spanish Inquisition, as well as a just to listen to their conversation with others. In all a chance for you to reflect on where you are professionally and to meet others likeminded or otherwise, while at the same time enjoying the club’s Marlborough Suite in the unique space usually occupied by the Portland Club, London’s finest card school.
Joining us will Julian Critchlow, Gemma Ospedale, and Guiseppe Gollo for an informal drink and moment to chat about key landmarks in their career paths and how things have ended up as they have. At the same time, meet other members in similar situations. In all, without the stifling protocol of formal networking, it is the perfect opportunity for stories and circumstances to be shared in the hope that this produces a positive impact, amid convivial surrounds with a glass of something to hand.
Julian Critchlow is a partner at the management consultancy, Bain, and he also did a stint as Director General of Energy Transformation and Clean Growth at the Department for Business. This, from 2018 for three years, involved a 90% pay cut. To him, a sacrifice worth enduring to make a difference in an area he believes is critical to the UK’s future, and beyond.
Gemma Ospedale is, on the face of it, a partner in lawyer firm specialising in employment. Bar her distinguished rise to this height in a hugely respected practice, nothing to see here. Except Gemma began her path working in horseracing, which was her passion, for the sport’s secretariat, Weatherbys. Then took the decision to qualify as a lawyer so that she could return to the world of her first love and ensure common practice was up to standard and no one was unfairly exploited. Today Gemma’s prime focus with her employment practice is on the racing and bloodstock sector in which she remains very well connected, with a particular interest in supporting whistleblowers.
As an Italian, Giuseppe Gollo grew up surrounded by enoteca culture, where a restaurant fulfils the role here that off licenses do. To enable him to work as he had dreamt with producers of the very best wines, he opened Lume in Primrose Hill. As well as the finest food, Lume offers diners and those passing by the chance to buy wines by producers offering unique blends and drawing on a wide range of indigenous grapes. Is he a wine merchant? Or a restauranteur? He is not sure, either.