Steve Butler

2022 Shortlisted Nominee Chief Executive of the Year Award Steve Butler is CEO at Punter Southall Aspire, a national retirement savings business. Steve takes an active leadership role as a diversity and inclusion champion in the investment and savings industry and within Punter Southall Aspire. By blending academic research, writing books on diversity issues, publishing articles and blogs, and delivering …

Alan Jope

2022 Shortlisted Nominee Chief Executive of the Year Award Alan was appointed Chief Executive Officer in January 2019. As CEO of Unilever, Alan is responsible for leading one of the world’s largest and most geographically diverse consumer goods businesses, with presence in 190 countries, serving 2.5 billion people every day. As a business leader, Alan is resolute in his vision …

Caroline Rainbird

2022 Shortlisted Nominee Chief Executive of the Year Award Caroline was appointed CEO of Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS) in May 2019. She sits on the Board of Directors and is Chair of the Executive Committee. In addition to bringing a wealth of global experience in the financial services sector, Caroline is a role model and passionate advocate for diversity, …

Nadeem Ahmad

2022 Shortlisted Nominee Chief Executive of the Year Award As a young person from a BAME background, Templeton’s Founder and CEO Nadeem Ahmad was driven by the need for diversity and set out to lead diversity in tech and business. Templeton & Partners is a recruitment agency which was founded 25 years ago with a track record and a great …

Tristia Harrison

2022 Shortlisted Nominee Chief Executive of the Year Award Tristia has been CEO of TalkTalk Group since March 2017. She has developed TalkTalk’s community engagement programme in the North West since moving its HQ to Salford in 2019, including partnerships with local foodbanks and other community projects to help disadvantaged families in the area. Tristia is an Independent Non-Executive Director at Next Plc, …

Ivan Menezes

2022 Shortlisted Nominee Chief Executive of the Year Award Since becoming the CEO of Diageo in 2013, Ivan has passionately championed inclusion and diversity across the company. In 2020 he launched a new 10-year sustainability action plan titled ‘Society 2030: Spirit of Progress’. The plan sets out ambitious inclusion and diversity goals including to have 50% representation of women in …

Andrea Sutcliffe

2022 Shortlisted Nominee Chief Executive of the Year Award Andrea Sutcliffe is the Chief Executive and Registrar of the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) – the independent regulator of nursing and midwifery professionals in the UK. Andrea works tirelessly to champion EDI and to create an organisation that listens to, respects and celebrates all of its employees, and the wider …

Caroline Frankum

2022 Shortlisted Nominee Chief Executive of the Year Award Caroline Frankum is a multi-award-winning Global CEO with a proven track record for defying the odds and driving inclusive change leadership by positively disrupting the status quo. Kantar is a world leading Market Research agency, and Caroline is Global CEO of Kantar Profiles – the multi-million-dollar first party data division helping …