Inclusion is about Diverse Outcomes

Asif is currently Senior Vice President, Head of Equity and Inclusion, International at WarnerMedia and has a long and rich career in the diversity and inclusion space with senior roles at Adidas, The Telegraph Media Group, EY Financial Services and the City of London Police.

Asif has received a number of accolades for his work that include the Mosaic (Prince’s Trust) Award for mentoring, Police Officer of the Year Award, the Civil Servant of the Year Award and the highly commended Head of Diversity Award at the European Diversity Awards. Asif was honoured in 2017 in the Queen’s birthday honours list and is a member of the HR Guild, The Worshipful  Company of Security Professionals and is a Freeman of the City.

He is currently a leadership fellow at St George’s House at Windsor Castle, a Judge for numerous Awards including the CIPD Awards, BIMA Awards, Personnel Today Awards and the Lord Mayor’s Dragon Awards, an Ambassador for Remembering Srebrenica, Member of the APPG (All Party Parliamentary Group) on Hate Crime, Special Advisory to the charity Penny Appeal and a member of the AICPA board.

Marissa Davis is Founder & Principal of Tallawah Consulting, a social impact consultancy that helps mission-driven brands maximize their impact by using equity, innovation, and inclusion to drive their core strategy forward.

Marissa has spent over 10 years spearheading and advancing initiatives to improve organizations’ commitments to social impact and inclusion, with a focus on underrepresented communities. She has done so with organizations including WeWork, RISE San Diego, UNHCR, & the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation. She also founded non-profit, NOLArize!, to aid in community rebuilding efforts after Hurricane Katrina. She currently serves as an Advisor for Root Financial, WorkSchool, co-chairs the B Local NYC Board, and teaches social innovation at City College’s Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership.

She is the recipient of various awards, including Harvard’s Public Service Fellowship and the Cultural Bridge Fellowship from Harvard Kennedy School’s Women and Public Policy Program. She holds a BA with honors from Swarthmore College and a Master’s in Public Policy.

Liz is currently interim CEO of R3 – the trade body for restructuring professionals in the UK – an organisation she was honoured to be elected by her industry peers to be President, earlier in her career.

Liz had a long and illustrious career with Big 4 firm EY. As well as an outstanding career as a restructuring expert, she held a number of positions of responsibility in the firm. These include her role as Managing Partner of the UK and Ireland Board which led the development and delivery of the firm’s extraordinarily successful strategy for employer brand, talent development and Diversity and Inclusion. This strategy not only enhanced EY’s reputation but also resulted in Liz being recognised by HM Queen with the honour of OBE for services to equality in the workplace.

Liz has received numerous awards and honours throughout her career including ranked in the top 50 of World Pride Power List of influential LGBT people worldwide, in the top 20 of the FT Top 50 Outstanding in Business List and in a number of other lists including both appearing in and later judging BBC Radio 4 Woman’s Hour 100 Power List. She holds an Honorary Doctorate of Business Administration from BPP University.

TJ Haynes-Morgan is the Chief Audit Executive for Raymond James Financial, Inc. In this role since January 2020, TJ is responsible for the Internal Audit department and the independent assessment of governance, risk management and various controls across the firm.

With over twenty years of experience in global financial services covering banking, consumer finance, internal audit, and compliance risk management, TJ joined Raymond James in 2018 as the Senior Vice President of Compliance Assurance. TJ was responsible for designing and overseeing various aspects of the compliance risk management framework including compliance risk assessment, testing, monitoring, quality assurance, and branch examination.

Prior to June 2018, TJ was the Head of Compliance Risk Assessment & Analytics for Citigroup where she was responsible for managing the enterprise-wide compliance risk assessment processes, encompassing core compliance, AML, OFAC/Sanctions, and Anti-Bribery and Corruption risks. Previously, TJ held various audit leadership roles across Citi’s Consumer and Institutional Clients businesses including Chief Auditor of AML and EMEA Consumer Audit Director, located in London with audit responsibilities for consumer businesses across 19 countries.

TJ graduated from the University of Texas in Arlington with a Bachelor of Science in Accounting and is a member of the Board of Directors for Tanenbaum Center for Interreligious Understanding based in NY. She also serves as the council chairperson for the Risk Management Association (RMA) Internal Audit Council.

TJ resides in Tampa, FL and enjoys spending time with her husband, Michael.

Tunde is the Chief Executive and Founder of Making The Leap, an inspirational youth & social mobility charity that makes a positive impact for thousands of young people every year.  In 2017, he founded the UK Social Mobility Awards, an initiative with the ambition to make the advancement of social mobility a key part of how organisations are run in this country.

He has an MSc in Urban Regeneration from UCL, was awarded an OBE in the 2008 Queen’s Birthday Honours List, is Chair of an education charity that supports children in Africa, and is a Trustee of a multi-academy schools trust and of a prominent arts charity. Tunde acts as a consultant to organisations on improving race equality in the workplace, is trained as an executive coach and hosts a podcast on addressing socio-economic disadvantage, The Social Mobility Podcast.

A passionate champion of creativity and the talented people and marketers who fuel it, Brandon is FCB’s Global Chief Marketing & Reputation Officer, a newly created role that focuses on forging business relationships with current and prospective clients, while managing FCB’s reputation on a domestic and global basis. With a unique and diverse background that spans copywriting to account management and ultimately global business development, Brandon collaborates with his fellow leaders in 109 operations in 80 countries to push FCB to the forefront of creativity, diversity, culture and innovation. Brandon recently led the FCB partnership with EY and Out Leadership on LGBTQ ally research and sits on the Out Leadership Board

Throughout Brandon’s tenure, FCB was named Adweek Global Creative Agency of the Year and Global Creative Network of the Year by The One Club for Creativity in 2020, picked up 2018, 2019 and 2020 Ad Age A-List honors, enjoyed its best Cannes Lions showing ever, with a top-three Global Network ranking in 2019, and – most important to Brandon – made headlines for taking bold actions to lead the industry in improving inclusivity, equality and generosity. He was an Ad Age 40 Under 40 honoree and was inducted into the American Advertising Federation’s Hall of Achievement.

A small-town boy from the foothills of North Carolina and a proud graduate of The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Brandon carries a strong commitment to service and is an active member of several University and philanthropic boards. He brings a highly creative mindset to everything he does and is an entrepreneur at heart who’s consistently challenging himself and those around him to raise the bar, think big, do the right thing and always remember to laugh.