In the frame - Faraz Yousufzai, Sarah Gee, Richard Riley, Gurjeet Kaur Bains, Jemima Prasadam and David Waller
Jun 9 2009 Power 50
Faraz Yousufzai
A senior partner at Waterhouse Consulting Group, which specialises in executive search and selection, diversity solutions, government relations, counter extremism and PR. He is chairman of the Reflection Network, a national charity established in 2004 to deliver diversity solutions on faith communities to public and private sector organisations. Faraz also has a reputation as an outspoken Birmingham blogger, commenting on Muslim issues.
Sarah Gee
Managing partner of Indigo, a marketing and fundraising consultancy working with the arts, culture and heritage sectors in Europe and Australia, Sarah is a founding director of Birmingham Professional Diversity, chairman of Gigbeth, a trustee of Motionhouse, and a former Chairman of Birmingham Future. In 2004, Sarah was elected as a fellow of the British American Project, an initiative designed to establish stronger trans-Atlantic relationships across both public and private sectors.
Richard Riley
A senior tutor at Small Heath School in Birmingham, Richard Riley was a pioneer of forging links between schools and industry long before it was fashionable. A tireless networker, his energy and drive has helped the inner city school where he has worked for the last 33 years become a local success story.
Mr Riley teaches PE but also has responsibility for work-related learning, enterprise education, information, advice and guidance and marketing and public relations.
Gurjeet Kaur Bains
Editor of the Sikh Times, a weekly English Punjab newspaper that is published in Birmingham and distributed nationally.
She was appointed as the first female elected chair of the Institute of Asian Business in 2005 and as a council member of both Birmingham Chamber of Commerce and Industry and Birmingham Professional DiverCity. She was invited to become one of a number of Ambassadors for the UK’s successful 2012 Olympics Bidding Team.
Jemima Prasadam
Canon Jemima Prasadam, the vicar of St Paul and St Silas, has been a figurehead of the Lozells community for 11 years. She is known by local residents as the “alternative bobby on the beat” – befriending people in one of the most varied ethnic neighbourhoods in Britain.
In 1987, she was the first black woman to become a Church of England deacon, and she was immediately ordained when that became possible in 1994.
David Waller
Regional chairman of accountants PricewaterhouseCooper and senior partner at the firm’s Birmingham office, Mr Waller is at the forefront of business life in the West Midlands. External appointments include chairman of the Employer Skills Board, Council member of the Birmingham Chamber of Commerce, Regional CBI Council member, Board member of Marketing Birmingham and the West Midlands Industrial Development Board.
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