Skills & Diversity Council members
Pamela Daley
Pamela Daley
With over 16 years-experience in HR and people related roles, Pam demonstrates a broad, deep knowledge of the employee lifecycle, strategies and activities which support colleague and business performance. Identifying and advising on people risks and external developments impacting business culture.
Pam's key strengths are drive & execution, reinforced by the feedback she has received on her tenacity, resilience & proven track record of delivery. This is balanced with Pam's personality of honesty, integrity & self awareness. To summarise, Pam's leadership style is about making things happen through collaborative working & engaging hearts and minds.
Sian Wilson
Sian Wilson
With over 21 years of experience in the Edtech industry, Sian joined The Skills Network in February 2022.
Experienced in growth, strategic business development, strategic skills strategies, customer experience, marketing and brand, Sian works with customers, colleagues, and partners to further the reach and impact of FE and HE.
As a member of numerous social cause groups, Sian advocates for inclusive skills opportunities for all, driving forward accessible learning and skills opportunities throughout the sector and beyond.
- Twitter:
- @SianWilsonMyers
- Website:
- https://theskillsnetwork.com/
- LinkedIn:
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/sianwilsonmyers/?originalSubdomain=uk
Abidemi Ogunbowale-Thomas
Abidemi Ogunbowale-Thomas
Abidemi is a passionate people advocate focused on cultivating a society that cares and nurtures individuals as humans first; by representing the inclusivity and vibrancy of diverse perspectives. Abidemi is on Accenture UKI’s Technology People Committee, Afro-Caribbean Network Committee (AACN) and Technology Apprenticeship Committee. Additionally, he works closely with Accenture UKI’s Technology Analyst Group AACN, Human Capital & Diversity, and Recruitment teams. Through these networks, he mentors, interviews, has spoken on numerous panels, designed workshops and initiatives, and also presented at Accenture’s 2019 Black History month Flagship event. Externally, Abidemi is a member of techUK Skills and Diversity Council and has spoken on numerous panels at Bright Network, Powerlist Foundation, BYP Network, Makers Academy and presented at SkillsMatter. Furthermore, Abidemi, as part of the Tech Partnership Degrees program, is contributing to the BSc Digital and Technology Solutions Degree Apprenticeship rewrite to ensure definition and applicability to a wide talent pool.
- Twitter:
- @aeothomas
- Website:
- www.accenture.com/gb-en
Alice Harrison
Alice Harrison
Alice is passionate about conformity and data trust across complex contract environments, leveraging information in a directly meaningful way to deliver simple insight and assurance across programmes. She is a commercially focused Client Relations Director of a Welsh technology SME, and a keen supporter for championing diversity and inclusion within the technology sector and wider society.
- Website:
- https://athensys.com/
- LinkedIn:
- https://twitter.com/alicebharrison
Amanda Cooper
Amanda Cooper
- Twitter:
- @ajcoops70
- Website:
- www.thalesgroup.com/en/countries/europe/united-kingdom
- LinkedIn:
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/amanda-cooper-3145a72/
James Corcoran
James Corcoran
- Twitter:
- @SandersonGDplc
- Website:
- www.sandersonplc.com/sectors/government-and-defence
- LinkedIn:
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/james-corcoran-a272398/
Joanna Hitchen
Joanna Hitchen
- Twitter:
- @juanitalarubia
- Website:
- www.costain.com/
- LinkedIn:
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/joanna-hitchen-gallacher-she-her-6a6a90/
Jenny Ledger
Jenny Ledger
Kathryn Baddeley
Kathryn Baddeley
Kathryn is the Head of Corporate Social Responsibility for Cisco UK & Ireland, leading and enabling innovative CSR initiatives across the organisation: engaging employees, benefiting the business and supporting Cisco’s not for profit partners.
- Twitter:
- @kbaddele
- Website:
- www.cisco.com/c/en_uk/index.html
- LinkedIn:
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/kathrynbaddeley
Pallavi Malhotra
Pallavi Malhotra
Pallavi is Director for the Huawei ICT Academy Programme in Western Europe. She also sits on the IoT Board for Barking & Dagenham College, SELEP DSP Board and represents Huawei on the TechUK Skills and Diversity Council. As a pioneering female telecommunications engineer, she spent 18 years with British Telecommunication before going on to an esteemed career in academia, as a lecturer and Head of School for Computing in the Further Education Sector. As an academic Pallavi has developed and managed various vendor academy programmes since 1997 and since starting work with Huawei in December 2015, has grown the Huawei Academy programme throughout Western Europe.
- Twitter:
- @pallavim59
- Website:
- https://e.huawei.com/en/talent/#/ict-academy/home
- LinkedIn:
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/pallavi-malhotra-7a0a492/
Ralitsa Nenkov
Ralitsa Nenkov
Ralitsa is EY Life and Pensions Technology Lead and also takes EY New Technology offerings & Tech Alliances/ Insurtechs propositions to market. She has over 15 years financial services experience in Life & Pensions, Wealth Management, Financial planning and General Insurance. Prior to EY, worked for one of the largest leading global insurers MetLife and a leading UK digital insurer CTM. She is CII Chartered Financial Planner, Insurance Supper Club Member, 1 of 25 CII Inspirational Women in Insurance. Her experience and focus is in Digital transformation, Big Data, Cloud, smart platforms, Insurtechs . She also has extensive experience in Strategic programmes, M&A, Operational Models, Proposition, Distribution channels incl. affinities and B2B. Ralitsa loves travelling, West End, hiking and charity work.
- Website:
- www.ey.com/en_uk
- LinkedIn:
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/ralitsanenkova/?originalSubdomain=uk
Riham Satti
Riham Satti
Riham is a female clinical neuroscientist turned entrepreneur in a male-dominated start-up field. She is the co-founder and CEO of MeVitae, a cognitive recruiting system that makes intelligent and personalised hiring decisions.
- Twitter:
- @rihamsatti
- Website:
- www.mevitae.com/
- LinkedIn:
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/rihamsatti/?originalSubdomain=uk
Sarah Atkinson
Sarah Atkinson
An experienced leader and former news journalist, Sarah Atkinson has over 20 years of experience in multinational organizations including Cisco, 3Com and most recently spent ten years as Vice President, Communications & Social Responsibility, EMEA at CA Technologies. A member of the company’s leadership team, she also led Create Tomorrow, a program designed to inspire and excite young people, particularly girls, about careers in STEM, as well as the company’s Diversity & Inclusion strategy in EMEA.
From 2015 to 2018, she served on the main board of techUK, a non-profit representing the companies and technologies that are defining today, the world that we will live in tomorrow.
Today, she is the Vice Chair of the Diversity & Skills Council at techUK and is actively involved in several Diversity & Inclusion programs including Gender Pay Gap reporting, Returners Programs and is a founding supporter of the WISE Campaign’s People Like Me Digital which aims to influence 200,000 11-15-year-old girls in the UK to consider a career in STEM. In 2018, she also worked with Girlguiding to incorporate STEM into their badges and attended 2018 Camp CEO as a role model for Girl Guides.
She was listed in Cranfield University’s School of Management 100 Women to Watch report – a supplement to the Female FTSE Board Report 2018 and in the Computer Weekly 100 Most Influential Women in Technology in 2017 & 2018.
A regular commentator on STEM, equality and inclusion topics, she has appeared on BBC News, BBC World and in various publications.
- Twitter:
- @Comms_Sarah
- Website:
- www.microfocus.com/en-us/home
- LinkedIn:
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarahatkinson2019/?originalSubdomain=uk
Simon Corbin
Simon Corbin
Tribeni Chougule
Tribeni Chougule
Tribeni, a multi-award winner, has over 20 years’ experience in technology across diverse sectors and geographies. She is currently Head of Change Management in Visa Finance (Europe). Prior to this, she led the Technology innovation team in London Innovation Centre. Tribeni has delivered multiple Agile transformations and managed multiple complex programmes and projects throughout her career including mergers and acquisitions. She is also a WBS Executive MBA student. Her dissertation explores Responsible Innovation using fair and unbiased AI within the financial services.
Passionate about inclusion of diversity and social impact, Tribeni is the co-chair of Visa’s Women in Technology Europe network. She is a Cherie Blair foundation Women in Business mentor alumnus, Women in Payments, Migrant Leader and a Visa mentor. She is also an AI APPG task force member. Tribeni has established a STEM bursary for girls from disadvantaged backgrounds.
- Twitter:
- @trio1545
- Website:
- https://usa.visa.com/
- LinkedIn:
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/tribenichougule/?originalSubdomain=uk
Nimmi Patel
Nimmi Patel
Nimmi Patel is the Head of Skills, Talent and Diversity at techUK.
She works on all things skills, education, and future of work policy, focusing on upskilling and retraining. Nimmi is also an Advisory Board member of Digital Futures at Work Research Centre (digit). The Centre research aims to increase understanding of how digital technologies are changing work and the implications for employers, workers, job seekers and governments. She is also a member of Chatham House's Common Futures Conversations
Prior to joining the team, she worked for the UK Labour Party and New Zealand Labour Party, and holds a BA in Politics, Philosophy and Economics from the University of Manchester and is currently studying MA Strategic Communications at King’s College London.
- Email:
- [email protected]
- Phone:
- 07805744520
- Twitter:
- @nimmiptl
- Website:
- www.techuk.org
- LinkedIn:
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/nimmi-patel1/
Jake Wall
Jake Wall
Jake has been the Policy Manager for Skills and Future of Work since May 2022, supporting techUK's work to empower the UK to skill, attract and retain the brightest global talent, and prepare for the digital transformations of the future workplace.
Previously, Jake was the Programme Assistant for Policy. He joined techUK in March 2019 and has also worked across the EU Exit, International Trade, and Cloud, Data Analytics and AI programmes.
- Email:
- [email protected]
- Website:
- www.techuk.org
- LinkedIn:
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/jwwuk
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