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Jamie Mitchell, managing director, Innocent Drinks

Jamie Mitchell is managing director and head of well-being at Innocent Drinks. He's also responsible for ensuring that the smoothie company gets all aspects of its work-life balance right. So far so good: Innocent was recently named 'The Best Place to Work in the UK' and aspires to be "the most talent-rich company in Europe. We want people of all ages, and from diverse cultural backgrounds, and, most importantly, we want people who inspire and deliver change around them".

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