006. Finding Your Path with Sir Kenneth Olisa OBE

A Nottingham native, Ken is an IT businessman and philanthropist with a 40 year international career at IBM, Wang and Interregnum (which he founded and floated in 2000).A Past Master of the Information Technologists’ Livery Company, he is known in the Square Mile as an outspoken proponent of good corporate governance. He chairs leading governance advisors, Independent Audit, and his expression - “More Soviet than City” - describing his treatment as a director of ENRC is rarely out of the business pages.Ken has advised or invested in some of the UK’s more interesting computer technology entrepreneurs. A diversity pioneer and enthusiastic mentor, he became the first British born black FTSE100 Director when he joined Reuters (now Thomson Reuters) in 2004 and regularly appears in the Powerlist most influential black people in the UK.Hermans LinkedIN: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hermanstewart/This show was brought to you by Progressive Media Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.