18 October 2026, 12:30 – 16:30
PaTHways Careers Day
- LocationLecture Theatre & Graham Storey Room
- Booking closing dateSaturday, 17 October 2026 12:00pm
- Dress codeNo dress code
- Event typePanel discussions and networking breaks
The PaTHways Careers Day is an wonderful opportunity for you to glimpse into the diverse world of careers available. Throughout the day, Trinity Hall alumni and volunteers working across academia and research, AI entrepreneurship, the arts, banking, consulting, finance, film and media, higher education, law, and policing, will talk about their professional paths through careers panels and networking opportunities. During the course of the day, there will be two careers pannels and two breaks where you will have the opportunity to network over nibbles.
The day offers a structured opportunity to gain insight into how to break different careers, make professional connections, and learn more about the College’s careers resources. Book now and save your space.
The PaTHways Careers Day is free of charge and has no dress code. Please join us in the Lecture Theatre from 12:25, ready for a prompt 12:30 (GMT) start.
Parts of this yearly event were made possible by generous donations of the Nicholson Family and the Trinity Hall Alumni Association.
Panel One Chair
Bridget Wheeler (1977, Law)
Formerly a partner at Holman Fenwick & Willan specialising in international trade, Bridget subsequently headed up the London international arbitration practice at a major American law firm. Bridget has conducted a wide range of High Court, Court of Appeal and Supreme Court cases on many aspects of international commerce and has represented commercial clients in arbitrations throughout the world. She is a solicitor of the Supreme Court and a CEDR and LMAA accredited mediator. Bridget has written books on International Sale of Goods, International Arbitration Institutions and published numerous articles.
Panel One Panellist
Caroline Lindner
Caroline has extensive experience as a graduate recruitment, HR, and communications professional, and spent 20 years working in the commercial legal sector. At Cambridge, Caroline works closely with the Faculty of History, Faculty of Law and Institute of Criminology and is the Careers Service point of contact for Trinity Hall. She is also a contact for students who wish to discuss disabilities. Caroline specialises in empowering students and graduates, from all degree disciplines, with high quality, tailored careers guidance, up-to-date knowledge of the labour market, and tools to develop confidence and employability skills.
Panel One Panellist
Sam Hardy (2010, Philosophy)
Sam graduated in 2013 having read Philosophy, having been Captain of Trinity Hall Boat Club. After a short time with a proprietary trading firm, he moved into financial advice, beginning at a firm in Cambridge. Sam has subsequently worked in a range of firms, including an independent financial adviser (IFA), multi-family office and a private bank. He now works for Barclays Private Bank as a Director – Wealth Planner. During Sam’s career he has progressed from a support role to advising clients and he now combines delivering advice with increased strategic responsibility and leading a small team. Sam is a specialist in financial planning but have previously combined this with advising on investments. He is a Chartered Financial Planner and holds the Advanced Diploma in Financial Planning from the Chartered Insurance Institute. Beyond work, Sam is married and has three children, and is actively involved with his church.
Panel One Panellist
William Swannell (2006, Finance)
Will Swannell is co-founder and CEO of Hire Space, the London-based platform that helps companies find and book venues for their events. He completed an MPhil in Finance at Cambridge Judge Business School, where he has returned as a guest speaker on the MBA programme. He then started his professional career as a Maths Teacher through Teach First and as a management consultant with L.E.K. Consulting. In 2012 he co-founded Hire Space as a social enterprise, working from his kitchen. As CEO he has grown it to a team of 40, handling roughly £25m+ of bookings a year for tech and professional services clients. With two AI Application patents to his name, he is now moving to a Chief Product & Technology Officer role, focusing on how AI is changing how events are sourced and booked.
Panel One Panellist
Nikola Milojkovic (2022, Economics)
Nikola is an Equity Research Analyst at J.P Morgan. Nikola grew up in London where he finished his early schooling before going on to study Economics at Trinity Hall between 2022 – 2025. While at Cambridge he completed a summer internship at JP Morgan, and after graduating returned to join full time as an investor in their asset management division. Beyond his academic work, Nikola was closely involved in university life. He served as President of the student investment fund, giving him early hands-on experience analysing companies and making investment decisions. He also pursued his interest in sports, playing both tennis and football, which he has continued to do following his graduation from Cambridge.
Panel Two Chair
Liz Simmonds (1998, Natural Sciences)
Liz is the Head of Research Culture at the University of Cambridge, responsible for creating the best conditions for research and researchers at the University. She co-chairs the Research Culture Steering Committee, setting the strategy and priorities for research culture. She also works with universities, funders and other stakeholders nationally and internationally to help build a collaborative approach to tackling research culture across the HE sector. Liz has worked at the University of Cambridge for almost 20 years, primarily in roles supporting early career researchers. She studied Natural Sciences at Trinity Hall, matriculating in 1998.
Panel Two Panellist
Chris Balmer (2000, Natural Sciences)
After graduating with a BA in Natural Sciences in 2003 Chris moved from Gown to Town and began my policing career in Cambridge. Starting on the beat, Chris became a detective after two years and first sought promotion three years later. In the last 23 years Chris has served in uniform and detective roles, in every rank and several specialisms across the Eastern Region. He has led operations from maintaining public order at significant sporting events and protests to investigating international gun-runners and exploitation gangs. Nowadays as the Deputy Chief Constable for Cambridgeshire Chris is responsible for the day- to-day running of the force, maintaining professional standards and all elements of public-facing police performance. He is also the national police lead for Defending Democracy. Whilst Chris doesn’t use his academic knowledge at all, he still applies every day the self-motivation and pursuit of excellence he learned at Trinity Hall.
Panel Two Panellist
Emily Bosley (2012, Natural Sciences)
Emily is currently Director of Finance at Porton Biopharma Limited, a 100% government owned corporation selling pharmaceuticals and Head of Financial Control at the UK Health Security Agency, a government body whose remit is to prepare for, prevent and respond to health threats to UK population. These include infectious diseases as well as chemical and radiological hazards. Her role includes running the PBL finance department and facilitating statutory audits, as well as managing the accounting for complex areas including vaccines and the Agency’s collection of cell cultures. Matriculating in 2012, she studied Natural Sciences before training as an accountant. Her previous roles have included Head of Performance Reporting for Covid at UKHSA, rolling out Covid Vaccines in the NHS, heading up financial governance for Suffolk and North East Essex CCGs, and being an auditor at KPMG.
Panel Two Panellist
Kate Cullinan (1980, English)
Kate is Head of Events at St John’s, where she works to bring to life St John’s vision of events and gatherings across cultural, charitable, and corporate activity streams. Kate’s career has been varied and fulfilling, working across HR, training and education, at institutions like Deutsche Bank, the London Youth Opera, and Lionheart Education. At the age of 60, Kate applied to what turned out to be her dream job at St John’s, a leading arts and culture organisation in London’s South Bank. She loves large scale events, concerts, cultural activities and gatherings in all their forms. Kate is particularly interested in new choral music and is a trustee of several choirs. When not helping St John’s clients, cultural partners and bookers to organise memorable events, baroque music, running and trying to keep up with her fellow sopranos keep her occupied.
Panel Two Panellist
Richard Thomson (1997, Law)
Richard Thomson studied law 1997-2000, He is an actor and personal trainer, and primary carer for his two children. As an actor, he was a stand-up and character stand-up, toured one-man shows and made a radio show with the BBC. He has been in various film and TV including Pirates of the Caribbean IV, Netflix’ Lovesick, Shetland for BBC/Amazon and, of course, Eastenders, where he played a really bad dude. He also has his own personal training business, helping people move without pain, specialising in back care. He deals with complex cases, illness and injury, older clients and women’s health.
Networking Alum
Brian Healy (1998, Mathematics)
Dr. Brian Healy is a quantitative finance expert with over 25 years’ experience in algorithmic trading, machine learning and AI. He is the Founder and CEO of Algo Trading Ltd, focused on developing systematic trading strategies, and of Decision Science, his advisory firm, through which he has worked with a wide range of asset managers and financial institutions on all aspects of modelling, trading and risk. He spent his early career as an options trader and quant at Deutsche Bank, Citigroup, Barclays Capital, Dresdner Kleinwort, and UniCredit. He holds a Ph.D. in Finance from University College Dublin, an M.Sc. in Mathematical Finance from Imperial College London, and part III in Mathematics from Cambridge. He is a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society and an adjunct professor at Stanford, Cambridge, and UCL in computational finance, machine learning, and derivative pricing.
Networking Participant
Luca Mannocchi
Luca Mannocchi is an Innovation Lead at UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), working on the R&D Opportunity Mission to support innovation, commercialisation and impact pathways for social innovations benefiting children and young people. He has over 15 years of international experience across innovation, entrepreneurship and economic development, with roles at Cambridge Enterprise, Fauna & Flora, UKRI and the United Nations. His work focuses on helping innovators and communities develop ideas, build partnerships and access the resources needed to scale impact. Luca holds a PhD in Management and Finance from SOAS University of London and has held postdoctoral positions at the Universities of Birmingham and Cambridge.
Networking Alum
Natalie Norouzy (2020, Social Innovation)
Natalie is a Co-Founder and Director of Cambridge Social Impact Consulting and an engineer by background, working across business, sustainability, innovation, and impact. Her career spans banking and finance, telecommunications, pharmaceuticals, government, technology, sustainability, and higher education and innovation programmes across the UK, Ireland, and Australia. Natalie’s experience encompasses engineering, software development, business and systems analysis, sustainability consulting, supply-chain decarbonisation, programme delivery, and the development of technical solutions. Natalie is a Social Innovation Fellow at CJBS, co-chairs Cambridge Alumni for Sustainability, and sits on the boards of CJBS alumni council and Journal for Social Innovation. She mentors emerging social innovators and start-ups through Cambridge Centre for Social Innovation, the CISL/JETRO Mentor Marathon, and University of Helsinki Incubators. Last year she delivered the Trinity Hall Catalysts Programme, supporting early- stage social ventures. She holds a BEng in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, an MBA, and an MSt in Social Innovation from the University of Cambridge.
Please let us know in advance in case you book but can’t make it to the event, since it is important that we avoid food wastage.
You will receive an email reminder by 12pm on Saturday 17 October
Contact
If you have any queries, please contact Matthew Jennings on careers@trinhall.cam.ac.uk.
Photography
We like to take photographs at our alumni events to use in our digital and print communications. If you do not wish to have your photo taken, please let us know in advance or on the day.
Location
The Lecture Theatre, Trinity Hall, Trinity Lane, Cambridge, CB2 1TJ.
Cancellations
Please let us know as soon as possible if you find you are no longer able to attend, as we have limited capacity for this event.