Overview
Join us, for our 2024 Power of Difference event, this Black History Month, hosted by the Bloomberg Black Professional Community.
Our annual summit welcomes influential and inspiring figures doing incredible work across different industries. This year we’ll explore the proactive measures of “Reclaiming Our Narrative” and continue conversations around Generational Wealth coupled with Black British entrepreneurialism. This is an event you don’t want to miss!
*In-person registration is now closed. Virtual link available at the bottom of the page.
Agenda
Registration and Welcome Drinks
- 5:30pm – 6:00pm
Opening Remarks
- 6:00pm – 6:10pm
Keynote Speaker
- 6:10pm – 6:40pm
- Speaker: Tom Ilube CBE
Panel Discussion and Q&A
- 6:40pm – 7:20pm
- Speakers: Darren Allaway, Jordan Mitchell, Tevin Tobun
Moderator: Sonia Meggie
Closing Remarks
- 7:20pm – 7:30pm
Networking and Refreshments
- 7:30pm – 8:30pm
Speakers
Tom Ilube CBE
Tom Ilube CBE is the Chair of the British education charity, the African Gifted Foundation, and launched the African Science Academy (ASA). He is also the Chair of the Rugby Football Union (RFU) and the King’s Trust.
Tom is a technology entrepreneur and educational philanthropist. He is the founder and CEO of London-based Crossword Cybersecurity plc, a Non-Executive Director at WPP, the world’s largest advertising group, and has previously served on the Board of the BBC.
He is an Honorary Fellow of both Jesus College, Oxford, and St Anne’s College, Oxford. His extensive contributions to education include founding and leading several schools, including Hammersmith Academy as its Founding Chair and ADA College, the UK’s National College for Digital Skills, among others.
In 2017, Tom was recognised as Britain’s most influential Black person. He was honoured with a CBE in 2018 for his services to technology and philanthropy and has received Honorary Doctorates from several universities.
Darren Allaway
Darren is a managing director in Goldman Sachs Apex, the dedicated family office coverage team that delivers a broad suite of investment opportunities and services to family office clients within Asset & Wealth Management, leading the effort in EMEA. He advises international family office and multi-family office clients on portfolio construction, investment selection and complex financing transactions. Darren is a member of the Asset & Wealth Management Inclusion and Diversity Council and Steering
Committee.
Darren first joined the firm as an analyst in the Investment Management Division, where he worked from 1998 to 2001. From 2009 to 2019, he was a founding member of the UBS Global Family Office Group. Darren rejoined the firm as a managing director in 2019.
Prior to initially joining the firm in 2001, Darren played professional basketball in Spain. Darren earned an AB in Human Biology from Stanford University in 1996 and holds the Chartered MCSI designation from the Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment.
Jordan Mitchell
Jordan has over a decade of experience building some of the world’s most coveted talent and brands. Having honed her skills working for blue-chip corporate giants, Jordan pivoted seamlessly into the entertainment, lifestyle and fashion realm, using her talent for ideation and strategic execution alongside global profile building.
Jordan has led cultural strategies for brands including Flannels, Creed, Airbnb, Barbour, Marc Jacobs, Farm Rio and the Dalmore. She is adept in road mapping long term strategy, brand extensions, partnerships and IP development for her clients, her roster boasts the best of British including Alessia Russo, Clara Amfo, Rochelle Humes, Rose Huntington-Whiteley, Sabrina Elba and more.
Jordan is a notable voice within the industry addressing topical subject matters and using her platform to write for publications including The Telegraph and Grazia, covering topics from diversity and equality to motherhood and careers.
Tevin Tobun
Sonia Meggie
Sonia is a EMEA D&I Business Partner for News and Media at Bloomberg. She is a ‘We Are The City’ Rising Star alumni and runs two social enterprises focused on the empowerment of women and the Black community.
She has led on Race Equality training, gender pay gap, diverse recruitment, mentoring, awards and diversity policies and strategies. She’s supported organisations such as Sky, Deloitte, Hachette, Michael Page, Tate and Pearson and sport England to name a few; helping them to understand their D&I strengths and identify business improvements, enabling them to re-prioritise activities and rationalise their priorities
When & Where
Thursday 31 October 2024
5:30pm – 8:30pm GMT
Bloomberg
3 Queen Victoria St
London, EC4N 4TQ