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Founder of Oxford University Centre for Business Taxation, Jonathan Richard Symonds is a British businessperson who has been the head of 8 different companies and is Non-Executive Chairman at GlaxoSmithKline Plc and Chairman at Proteus Digital Health, Inc. Mr. Symonds is also on the board of Genomics England Ltd. (former Chairman), Rubius Therapeutics, Inc. and Harrow School and Head-Corporate Finance & Strategy at Mesoblast Ltd. He previously was Chairman at The 100 Group, Chairman-Supervisory Board at Innocoll Holdings Plc Chairman at Innocoll, Inc. and Chairman-Supervisory Board for Innocoll AG (both are subsidiaries of Innocoll Holdings Plc), Chief Financial Officer of AstraZeneca Plc and Director-Finance at Zeneca Group Plc (a subsidiary of AstraZeneca Plc), Chief Financial Officer at Novartis AG, Managing Director at The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., Director at Accounting Standards Board, Chairman at HSBC Bank Plc and Partner at KPMG LLP (Canada). Jonathan Richard Symonds received an undergraduate degree from the University of Hertfordshire.

Symonds currently works at Berkeley Junior School, as Member-Governors Board.

Shelley L.
Symonds is currently the Vice President-Marketing at Right90, Inc. She previously worked as the Senior Director-Worldwide Marketing at Oracle Corp., Principal at Retix, Inc., Vice President-Marketing at Comergent Technologies, Inc., Principal at The ASK Group, Inc., Principal at Ingress Corp.
Bhd., and Principal at Ashton-Tate Corp.
She holds an MBA from the University of Southern California and an undergraduate degree from the University of California, Los Angeles.

Wayne A.
Symonds currently works at Methuen Construction Co., Inc., as Executive Vice President from 2016.

Mr. Symonds is President of the T.
Howard Foundation, a non-profit organization devoted to promoting women and people of color in the satellite and telecommunications industries.
He is also President & CEO of Symonds Synergy Group, a marketing consulting firm.
He served as the Executive Vice President of Affiliate Sales & Marketing for Black Entertainment Television from 1988 to 2001, and he also was Executive Vice President of BET on Jazz from 1996 to 2001, President of BET Action Pay Per View from 1992 to 2001, and President of BET International from 1992 to 2001.
Prior to joining BET, he spent five years at ESPN, Inc. Mr. Symonds spent 10 years on the board of directors of the National Association of Minorities in Communications, and in 1998 he received the National Cable Television Association Vanguard Award for marketing excellence.
In 1997, he was presented the Black United Fund's Walter Bremond Achieving Against the Odds Award.