Samuel Toluwalase, The Up And Coming Superstar Of Advertising Is On A Mission

Navigating career moves with Resham Ahdan, Sky Media’s Transformation & Performance Manager

Get ready for an inspiring episode with Resham Ahdan, the unstoppable English-born Asian Business Process & transformation supremo. From shy to powerhouse, Resham has conquered the corporate world, leading global teams and coaching Leaders. Hear her incredible journey, learn the importance of company culture, and discover how to develop unwavering self-belief. With Resham's wisdom, you'll be inspired to exceed your potential and achieve greatness. Don't miss this uplifting and inspiring conversation. Thank you, Resham!

Navigating Advertising’s Corporate Ladder & New D&I Initiatives

Kianna is a previous guest of the digital hub podcast, some of you may remember her, at the time Kianna was Senior Recruitment Business Partner for Mediabrands, Kianna is now DE&I Manager at Mediabrands leading their strategy for 2023 and is delivering on a plan to land 3 serious  improvements to the overall D&I strategy in 2023.

Kianna is a successful black woman in her own right, her new role is a natural progression for herm as she has already devised and contributed so much to Mediabrands D&I strategy in her previous role its great ear her insights and what she has loaned for 2023 and beyond.

Seun is the Managing Director of Matterkind. Seun leads Matterkind UK and Ireland, IPG’s essentially, IPG’s activation intelligence company.

Seun, super bright & super driven graduated university in Manchester however while at Uni he took a gap year as an intern and that was his first taste of the advertising sector, and BOOM the rest is history! 

Seun has flourished in the sector, and he describes his journey well with a story of how his current role as MD unfolded. 

As a young black MD Seun is also an D&I advocate, acknowledging that working in advertising as a MD is a rare role for a black man, therefore he is working closely with Kianna to ensure the groundwork is laid down for up & coming people of colour can following his footsteps. 

Thank you, Kianna & Seun. 

Recruitment Is NOT Enough with Sergio Panday

Sergio Panday my brother from another mother, we are both super tall, I edge Sergio by an inch or two. Height is just one thing we share, we also share a passion for equality, equal opportunities for all. 

Sergio an Investment Banking professional, he has a glowing CV with experience spanning Amsterdam, Singapore for tier 1 Investment Banks, check out Sergio’s LinkedIn profile its very impressive! 

Sergio is also the founder & CEO of Roots Inspire the mentoring leadership programme that has developed 100+ up & coming leaders of colour, furnishing them with the tools, knowledge to better navigate the corporate world. 

On this episode we talk about the inception of Roots Inspire its mission purpose and the programmes Roots Inspire has planned for the future. Sergio also shares snippets of early life, born in Suriname, raised in Amsterdam by his mother and his rise to significant heights within Investment Banking. 

Data is NOT technology with Ovo Ghararo

Ovo Ghararo, Legal & General’s Chief Data & Analytics Officer.

Within a few minutes it was evident that Ovo is one of the nicest guys you’d ever wish to meet, but also, you’ll realise he really – really knows his stuff, what he doesn’t know about data you can write on a postage stamp.

After graduating rising through the ranks to Deloitte, M&G & finally to his current gig at Legal & general as Chief Data & Analytics Officer, this journey has given Ovo the experience, knowledge & confidence to manage multi-billion-pound projects! & trust me when I say he has a natural knack for understanding & demystifying complex data problems & laying down facts. 

Topics discussed not limited to ….

• Does the CTO always see the difference?
• Why 60% of data lake projects fail
• When will data be defined as its own entity and stop being referred to as technology? 

It’s a great listen, effortlessly articulated in laymen terms.  

Thank you Ovo!

Young, Gifted & Black with Tolu Adebekun

I met Tolu earlier this year at a D&I conference organised by the one & only Andre Spence, thank you Andre!!

Tolu wowed the room, all 50+ attendees were transfixed on how eloquent he was and the messages that came from him, I was one of those attendees & we’ve spoken very week since

Tolu is Head of data visualisation at Sky, he has excelled through the ranks since completing their graduation program. 

Tolu is Nigerian, from the age of 3 years of age Tolu grew up in Hampshire with is parents and siblings from. He didn’t set the world at light at school, he was a rebel at times who waited until he went to college to unleash the focus and superb brain that seen him excel academically and shape his focus that he possesses to this very day, we have a great chat, it was fun as I already kind of knew his values and a tiny bit about Tolu, and he didn’t hold back in sharing with me how his life and career to date has unfolded, articulated in away that is true to the Digital Hub that is full of inspiration.  

As with many of my guests we ran out if time and we were only just getting started. 

Enjoy & thank you Tolu.