Meet the team
Key People
The people who work at the McKenzie Delis Foundation share the vision and values of our community. We’re committed to embedding diversity, equity, and inclusion into everything we do and making sure everyone is respected, treated equally, and celebrated for who they are—no matter what. Our team brings a wealth of experience from some of the world’s biggest companies and all work to drive great diversity and equality in our workplaces.
Leila McKenzie-Delis (She/Her)
Founder & CEO of DIAL Global
Leila is a passionate business owner and entrepreneur, born in Hong Kong and adopted and brought up with her younger brother by British parents with origins from England, Scotland, and Wales. She is married to a Greek American.
Michelle Audette (She/Her)
Managing Director
Michelle is a senior strategic marketing professional with over 20 years’ experience of driving global marketing and strategy in both FMCG and B2B organisations. Originally from the Boston area, Michelle is an American who has lived in the UK for over 20 years.
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Zareena Brown (She/Her)
Co-Chair
"I believe that our organisations, economies and society are strongest when we embrace equality and inclusion to it’s fullest and that means opening the door to possibility and opportunity to everyone."
Zareena is the Chief People Officer at Royal Mail.
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Andrew Denton (He/Him)
Co-Chair
"Diversity and inclusion are fundamental. Excluding, suppressing, or aggressing someone just because they are different to you is fundamentally wrong; any form of prejudice or bigotry is fundamentally wrong. I believe that sincerely and passionately. Which is why I believe that we all have a responsibility to take tangible actions that move us towards lasting change in the form of a more inclusive, equal and equitable workplace and wider society."
Andrew is the Chief Executive Officer at Alfa Financial Systems.
Pauline Miller (She/Her)
Trustee
Suzie Welch (She/Her)
Trustee
"I am passionate about inclusion because I believe that every opportunity should be available to all, whoever you are and whatever your circumstance. We should celebrate difference as it gives richness to the environment around us and enables all of us to achieve more."
Suzie is the Group Chief People Officer at ODEON Cinemas Group.
Dean Curtin (He/Him)
Trustee
Dean is the Group Managing Director - Risk & Business Analytics at RELX
It is my belief that you become the people you touch and life is short. Spend time on something which has your passion and surround yourself with inspiring people that are totally committed and enable you to be at your best too. So far in my career I have worked for, and with, some remarkable people and feel I am blessed, as part of this it is an obligation to give back and like to work on different charitable initiatives like the McKenzie-Delis Foundation.
All high performance and successful teams, businesses, communities and nations have inclusion at their heart and a high degree of psychological safety. Without inclusion, sustainable diversity cannot exist. Inclusion is imperative to promote breadth of thought, innovation and best outcomes, driven from difference in experience, backgrounds and beliefs and ensuring everyone can be the very best version of themselves, always.
Flick Collingwood (She/Her)
Chief of Staff of DIAL Global and the
McKenzie-Delis Foundation
With over 20 years in FMCG, Flick is a trusted team leader with extensive commercial operations experience, motivating and developing teams to be their best to make things happen. She has a strong track record of adding sustainable bottom-line value through programme & project delivery across diverse functions within a business with a genuine passion to deliver while remaining authentic. Driving and building a diverse workforce with inclusion at its heart to deliver a high performance culture through all her teams has always been core to Flick’s values.
Review Committee UK
The members of the UK and USA Review Committees are industry leaders who have volunteered their time to review and oversee the annual diagnostic reports.
The McKenzie-Delis Review recognises the expertise of these leaders and includes committee members’ candid thoughts, experience and opinions about the data and insights in our reports and what is needed to make progress in diversity moving forward.
Bina Mehta
(Co-Chair)
Chair of KPMG UK
Lord Simon Woolley
(Co-Chair)
Principal at Homerton College, Cambridge University
Founder of Operation Black Vote
Andrew Pearce
Managing Director at Accenture
Ben Page
CEO of Ipsos
Andrew Allner
Chairman of SIG Group Plc,
Chairman of Shepherd Building Group
Charlene Oke
Senior Diversity and Inclusion Business Partner at LexisNexis Risk Solutions Group
Debbie Hewitt MBE
Plural Non-Executive Chairman
of VISA Europe, BGL Group,
White Stuff, The FA
Denise Keating
CEO of Umbrella HR
Edleen John
International Relations, Corporate Affairs & Co-Partner
for Equality, Diversity & Inclusion
at the FA
Helen Webb
Chief People & Services Officer at Co-op
Senda Kavindele
Interim Head of Inclusion, Diversity & Equity, Black Leadership Director at KPMG UK
Joanna Allen
CEO of GRAZE
Mduduzi Mswabuki
Partner EY UK Financial Services, Co Chair Diversity & Inclusion, Partner Sponsor EY Race & Ethnicity Network
Dr Hayaatun Sillem CBE
CEO at Royal Academy of Engineering and Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering
Rupinder Bains
MD of Pinder Reaux & Associates, Board Member at The Football Association & Board Member on The Women's Football Board
Kari Daniels
CEO at Tesco Ireland
Paul Monekosso Cleal OBE
NED Guy’s & St Thomas’ NHS Trust, Met Police, Board Advisor to Premier League
Sam Allen
Managing Director at
Sam Allen Associates
Ruwan Kodikara
Vice President, Corporate Comms, International at Sony Music Entertainment
Jo Portlock
Vice President of Diversity & Inclusion at LexisNexis
Risk Solutions Group
Lianna Brinded
Director, Creative Content Development at Yahoo
Fiona Vernon
Senior Manager Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Walgreens Boots Alliance
Shoku Amirani
Diversity & Inclusion Lead, BBC Children In Need
Jali Packer
Researcher, McKinsey Global Institute
Kevin Hogarth
Partner & Chief People Officer
KPMG UK
Margot Slattery
Global Head of Diversity and Inclusion at ISS A/S at ISS A/S
Paulette Cohen
Head of Diversity and Inclusion at Barclays Bank
Carole Easton
CEO of the Centre for Ageing Better
Review Committee US
The members of the UK and USA Review Committees are industry leaders who have volunteered their time to review and oversee the annual diagnostic reports. The McKenzie-Delis Review recognises the expertise of these leaders and includes committee members’ candid thoughts, experience and opinions about the data and insights in our reports and what is needed to make progress in diversity moving forward.
Tami Erwin
(Co-Chair)
CEO, Verizon Business
John Standley
(Co-Chair)
Executive Vice President of Walgreens Boots Alliance & President of Walgreens
Sandy Gould
VP, Talent at Verizon Media
Carlos Cubia
Senior Vice President, Global Chief Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Officer at Walgreen Boots Alliance
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Jia-Shin Osiel
Senior Director, Diversity &
Inclusion at BP
Adrian Taylor
Director of Diversity at
Premier Health
Amina Folarin
Chief Inclusion and People Officer at Inside Ideas Group Ltd
Tinisha Agramonte
Chief Diversity Officer at
Motorola Solutions
Ray Dempsey
Chief Diversity Officer at Barclays
Evelyn Espinal
Global Vice President Equity, Diversity & Inclusion at Unilever
Alex UY
Technology Strategist Director
Scott Olster
Senior Editor at LinkedIn News
Adrianne C. Smith
SVP & Senior Partner, Chief Diversity & Inclusion Officer at Fleishman Hillard
Michael Kamins
EVP North America at
The Gap Partnership
KR Liu
Head of Brand Accessibility
at Google
Kimberlee Bradshaw Archibald
Communications Lead, Corporate Communications at NetApp
Jessica Rafuse
Director of Strategic Partnerships
& Policy at Microsoft
Darryl Adams
Accessible Computing
Innovation at Intel
Magda Yrizarry
Chief Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Officer SVP - Global DEI and Employee Engagement
Verizon Media
Charity Research & Specialist Experts
Steve Kenzie
Executive Director of UN Global Compact Network
Dianne Lightfoot
CEO of the Business
Disability Forum
Amazin LeThi
CEO/Founder - Amazin Group,
Global LGBTQ Advocate, Advisor,
Keynote Speaker
Nancy Kelley
CEO of Stonewall
Debra Ruh
CEO of Ruh Global IMPACT & the Executive Chair of Billion Strong
LaMondre Pough
Chief Executive Officer at Billion Strong
Sanjay Bhandari
Chair of Kick It Out
Rev. Mark E. Fowler
Chief Executive Officer,
Tanenbaum Center for Interreligious Understanding
Jill Houghton
CEO of Disability:IN
Jonathan Lovitz
Senior Vice President at NGLCC
Katrina Gay
Chief Development Officer, Strategic Alliances & Development
NAMI
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Ebonee Davis Ifeobu
VP, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at Bridgestone Americas
Seollan Kim
Director of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at AMC Theatres
Ramcess Jean-Louis
Global Chief Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Officer at Pfizer