50 men who are championing gender diversity – full list

Some of the biggest names in technology have been included in a prestigious list of 50 men from across the UK who are championing women in business.

The FT & HERoes Champions of Women in Business lists were published today and are broken down into three listings: 100 Female Executives; 50 Female Future Leaders; and 50 Male Executives.

The announcement comes as BusinessCloud continues its hunt for 101 Female Entrepreneurs in Tech – deadline for nominations 28^th September.

The CEO of US cloud computing company Salesforce, Marc Benioff, was at third place with Vodafone CEO Vittorio Colao coming in fourth.

Telstra’s CEO Andrew Penn is in eighth place with Cicero Group Executive Chairman Iain Anderson ranked at number 13.

Rob Mukherjee, Vodafone’s outgoing North West Regional Chair, is at  number 34. Mukherjee has played a pivotal role in the Northern Powerhouse agenda and won a string of awards including Best Male Mentor in 2017 and Northern Power Women Agent of Change in 2018.  In August he announced he would be leaving the telecoms giant after 12 years.

INvolve is a membership organisation championing diversity and inclusion in business.

See the full list below.

1. Paul Polman, CEO,Unilever
2. Peter T Grauer, Executive Chairman, Bloomberg
3. Marc Benioff, CEO, Salesforce
4. Vittorio Colao, CEO, Vodafone
5. Michael Cole-Fontayn, Chairman, AFME
6. Steve Varley, UK Chairman, EY
7. Brian Cornell, CEO, Target
8. Andrew Penn, CEO,Telstra
9. Peter Harrison, Group Chief Executive, Schroders
10. Paul Rawlinson, Global Chair, Baker McKenzie
11. Les Matheson, CEO, Personal & Business Banking, RBS
12. Wim Dejonghe, Senior Partner, Allen & Overy
13. Iain Anderson, Executive Chairman, Cicero Group
14. Ajay Banga, President & CEO, Mastercard
15. Ivan Menezes, Chief Executive, Diageo
16. Chris Wei, Global Chairman Aviva Digital, Executive, Aviva
17. Ron O’Hanley, President & COO, State Street
18. Christopher Stirling, Global Chair, KPMG Life Sciences, KPMG
19. Jim Cowles, EMEA CEO, Citi
20. David Liao, President & CEO, HSBC Bank China
21. David Sproul, Senior Partner & Chief Executive, Deloitte
22. Oliver Benzecry, UKI Chairman and Country Director, Accenture
23. Matt Elliott, People Director, Virgin Money
24. Dominic Christian, Global Chairman Aon, Aon Benfield
25. Mark Read, CEO & COO, Wunderman & WPP
26. Rakesh Kapoor, Chief Executive Officer, RB
27. Andrew Pearce, Managing Director-Operations, Accenture
28. Johan Lundgren, CEO, easyJet
29. Keith Weed, Chief Marketing and Communications Officer, Unilever
30. Murtaza Ahmed, Managing Director, Artistic Milliners
31. Richard Robinson, Managing Partner, Econsultancy
32. Josh Graff, EMEA Vice-President of Marketing Solutions and UK Country Manager at LinkedIn
33. Sir Roger Carr, Chairman, BAE Sysytems
34. Rob Mukherjee, North West Regional Chair, Vodafone
35. Tom Casteleyn, Managing Director, Global Head of Custody Product Management, BNY Mellon
36. David Hynam, CEO, Bupa UK
37. Matt Hammerstein, Head of Barclaycard UK & Retail Lending
38. Daniel Kramer, Executive Vice President, Chief Client Experience Officer, Asset Servicing, BNY Mellon
39. Matthew Krentz, Senior Partner and Managing Director, Global People Chair, The Boston Consulting Group
40. Osman Faiz, Chief Information Officer, Singapore, Standard Chartered Bank
41. Jörg Ambrosius, Executive Vice President. State Street Bank
42. Omar Ali, UK Financial Services Managing Partner, EY
43. Colin Passmore, Senior Partner, Simmons & Simmons
44. Karl Edge, Midlands Regional Chair, KPMG
45. Matthew Norris, Global Head, Standard Chartered Global Business Services, Standard Chartered Bank
46. Alex Atzberger, President, SAP Customer Experience
47. Seamus Smith, Executive Vice President, Global Payments & Banking, Sage plc
48. Mark Burgess, Deputy Global Chief Investment Officer, Columbia Threadneedle Investments
49. Simon Linares, Group Human Resources Director, Direct Line Group
50. Mark Heighton, Head of UK Real Estate Team, CMS

How to enter BusinessCloud’s 101 Female Entrepreneurs in Tech list:

• If you would like to nominate someone else please email  [email protected]  with contact information for the nominee if possible
• If you are a female entrepreneur wishing to nominate yourself simply complete the following questionnaire so we can find out a bit more about you and your business, making sure to include contact details
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