Speaker Biographies

Rachel Haller, Vice President - International Partnerships, Live Nation Entertainment

Rachel began her career with a move to Asia where she lived in Tokyo, Japan for 5 years and 7 years in China. She first “cut her teeth” on the music business in the Asian markets with Live Nation in 2008. Rachel held an integral role in the set-up and build of the Live Nation business in China.

She deviated from Live Nation to broaden her comprehension of the wider industry in Europe across major labels at Universal Music, the loved and iconic Abbey Road Studios and continuing her work in the Live and music tech sectors, ensuring a holistic approach to her expertise of the business.

She has won several awards for her work, creating compelling brand partnerships in the music industry including Music Week awards and a coveted D&AD pencil.

She continues to be enthusiastic with her work with a great sense of perseverance, strategy, drive, and creativity.

Rachel is a devoted partner and a mother to a little tenacious 18-month-old girl. Originally from Canada but her family is quite at home here in London.



Prue Thompson, Head of Marketing & Client Engagement, Royal Bank of Canada Wealth Management

Prue leads the Marketing & Client Engagement teams for Wealth Management in the British Isles and Asia, and the global Investor & Treasury Services marketing team at Royal Bank of Canada.

Prue is based in London and her teams support businesses in the UK, Channel Islands, Europe, Singapore, Hong Kong and North America, delivering brand, marketing, sponsorship, event, design and citizenship activity.

Prior to joining RBC, Prue’s experience included the complex delivery of multi stakeholder client programmes spanning Olympic Games, Commonwealth Games, Formula 1 racing, rugby and cricket - together with developing bespoke marketing strategies for major events like the public celebration of HRH Queen Elizabeth’s 90th birthday.

Originally from Australia, Prue was educated in the UK and has a BA Single Hons degree in Sociology from Goldsmith’s College, University of London.

In her spare time, Prue loves swimming in the ocean, pretty much any sport and gardening and DIY on the weekends.



Natalie Hopkins - Partnerships - Roald Dahl at Netflix

Natalie has worked within marketing + partnerships for the past 7 years, spanning across a range of industries, entertainment, publishing, telecommunications and travel, both client and agency side. Natalie won the Most Promising Young Exec award at the 2022 Sponsorship Awards for her work on creating a brand new partnership strategy for LNER, and increasing sponsorship results by 230%, with a bespoke football sponsorship strategy and two stadium naming rights deals and launches. Natalie now works for Netflix, partnering the Roald Dahl IP commercially across global content, experience + advertising partnerships. Natalie is passionate about inspiring women in the industry, and pushing the boundaries within marketing teams to work partnerships + sponsorships harder over the long term using passion point marketing.