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Toria Farrell is joined by Dara Urquhart and Laurissa Yeung Shea 楊翠珊 to explore what it is like to be a Rise Mentor, why mentoring matters and how it has impacted their own perspectives.

Dara Urquhart is Red Bee’s Chief Operations Officer and leads the company’s Markets & Operations unit.

With a decade and a half worth of experience, Dara has delivered thousands of hours of high-quality broadcast services and events on behalf of some of the world’s strongest media brands and broadcasters. She joined Red Bee in 2008 and has consistently developed her leadership and taken on wider responsibilities within the company. Dara has been instrumental in delivering new broadcaster launches, significant outsourcing transformation projects, service migrations and ongoing high-stakes and complex service delivery flows.

Laurissa Yeung Shea is a Broadcast Bookings Application Owner at Warner Bros. Discovery with over 25 years of experience in linear broadcasting and live sports. Specializing in system management, change transformation, and technical innovation, she leverages her expertise as a business analyst and project manager to drive continuous improvement and optimize complex systems in the fast-evolving media landscape.

Host Toria Farrell is joined by Freelance Video Engineer May Coughlan and Tia Shenton, Broadcast Engineer Degree Apprentice at Channel 4 to talk about their experience of being mentored, the importance of peer support and being there for each other at times of big change and transition.