Patrons & Board

Patrons

Lord Bhikhu Parekh
Sir David Green
Shobana Jeyasingh MBE
Serge Lourie

Board of Directors

Robin Thompson (Chair)

Robin spent his career in senior operational and consulting roles (TRW, Rockwell, TI plc, Inchcape, McKinsey & Co). He has lived and worked extensively in the United States, France and Italy.

Since his retirement Robin has carried out projects with REACH, the charity that matches executives with the charities that need their career skills. He has also dealt at Board level with Oxfam, and has been Chair of Cruse Bereavement Care and the Campaign to Protect Rural England, both in Buckinghamshire.

Peter Slavid (Secretary)

After 30 years as a Marketing Manager in the Computer Industry running multi-million pound budgets, Peter has spent the last 10 years in a variety of voluntary roles in the arts and other not-for-profit fields.

He is currently chair of the F-IRE Collective of young jazz musicians and does a weekly radio show on ukjazzradio.com. Peter is a trustee of EFDSS (The English Folk Dance & Song Society) and of Hayes FM, as well as a fundraiser and project organiser at London’s Thames Festival.

Zeeshan Tayyeb (Treasurer)

Zeeshan started his career with PricewaterhouseCoopers where he qualified as a chartered accountant, before working for Imperial Chemical Industries and DeBeers Industrial Diamonds. In 2012, Zeeshan set up his own management consulting company focusing on finance function transformation.

He has delivered finance education at Oxford University’s Saïd Business School as well as several universities and multinational organisations in Europe and Asia. He is also a Non-Executive Director of London Early Years Foundation.

Ansel Wong

Ansel has an in-depth knowledge of diversity issues in the education, criminal justice, health and third sectors with wide experience of policy formulation, leadership and management. He has pioneered and led many community organisations in London and is the Founder of Black History Month UK and the first chair of the London Health Commission.

Ansel is a Justice of the Peace and a Fellow of the RSA.

Ibrar Dar

Ibrar has over 20 years working in the private sector for large organisations such as Halifax Plc, Pannell Kerr Forster (PKF), KPMG and more recently Ernst and Young as Head of Diversity for EMEIA Financial Services.

Ibrar also sits on various Housing Panels for Hammersmith and Fulham Council.