Speakers
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Dawid Konotey-Ahulu 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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Chetan Ghosh Outsourced CIO - Schroders
Chetan is the Chief Investment Officer for Centrica’s pension scheme arrangements within a Common Investment Fund and has held an in-house role for the last 16 years. For the last three years, he has carried out that role under an OCIO relationship within Schroders. His role covers investment strategy considerations, asset class and manager research, and all aspects of investment implementation. He has 30 years of industry experience, which started on the consultancy side, where he spent five years as a pensions actuary, and 10 years on the investment side, a large part of which was at Hewitt. Immediately prior to joining Centrica, Chetan developed the fiduciary management offering at an asset manager where he was able to gain valuable experience in improving investment decision making governance structures.
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Guy Coughlan Trustee, COO - Clota Varde
Guy is Chief Operating Officer at Clota Värde, a corporate finance advisory firm focused on impact investment. He is also a Non-executive Trustee Director of J.P. Morgan Pension Trustees. Guy’s career spans investment and risk advisory, pension advisory and pension management. He spent 17 years at J.P. Morgan where he was a managing director holding different senior roles, including global head of longevity solutions and co-head of pension advisory. Following J.P. Morgan, Guy was chief risk and analytics officer at Pacific Global Advisors, a US pension fiduciary manager. Most recently, he spent nearly eight years at Universities Superannuation Scheme (USS), a UK pension plan with £90bn of assets as of 31 March 2022. At USS, he held the positions of chief risk officer, valuation programme executive and senior strategic adviser, serving on the executive committees of both USS and its investment management subsidiary. Guy has a D.Phil (PhD) from Oxford University and an MBA from Henley Business School.
