Speakers
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Dawid Konotey-Ahulu CBE DL CBE DL, Co-founder, mallowstreet
Dawid is a serial entrepreneur, having co-founded Redington and mallowstreet with Robert Gardner. Dawid remains involved in mallowstreet as a Board Director.
Most recently Dawid co-founded The #10000BlackInterns programme with Jonathan Sorrell (President of Capstone Investment Advisers), Michael Barrington-Hibbert (founder of Barrington-Hibbert Associates), and Wol Kolade (Managing Partner of Livingbridge), the group which founded #100BlackInterns in August 2020.
Through the #100BlackInterns initiative, leading players in the investment management industry have come together to address the chronic underrepresentation of Black talent in that sector. Since its launch, the programme has garnered extraordinary support with 200 investment management companies offering internships in the Summer of 2021 to Black students in the United Kingdom as a way of attracting a more diverse range of talent to their industry.
Following the launch of #100BlackInterns, the #10000BlackInterns initiative has been designed to help transform the horizons and prospects of young Black people in the United Kingdom. The 10,000 Black Interns programme will offer paid work experience across a wide range of sectors, providing training and development opportunities and creating a sustainable cycle of mentorship and sponsorship for the Black community.
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Sally Bridgeland Chair - Nest Invest Ltd
Sally is an actuary with pensions and investment experience as an Adviser, Trustee, and Non executive Director. Sally is Chair at Nest Invest Ltd (the investment manager for NEST Corporation), the Development Bank of Wales and at BelleVie Care and a non-executive director at insurers Pension Insurance Corporation and Intact UK (previously RSA).
Her non-executive portfolio has included risk and investment roles at PIC, the Nuclear Liabilities Fund, the Lloyds Bank pension schemes and as chair of the local government pensions pools LPPI and Brunel. She was CEO of the BP Pension Scheme in the interesting years of 2007-14 after 20 years with Aon Hewitt working as a pensions consultant and in investment research and innovation.
Sally chairs the Strategic Advisory Board for the Centre for Mathematical Cognition at Loughborough University and is an Honorary Group Captain with 601 Squadron RAuxAF
