Lanre Sulola

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Lanre currently works for Accenture as a Risk Management consultant specialising in Fraud and Financial Crime. He qualified as a Chartered Accountant with PricewaterhouseCoopers in 2009. He also sits on the board at Credit Union, NewCred as a Non-executive director.

Lanre holds a Bcom International Business Commerce degree obtained from Birmingham University, part of which also included a year of study at Cornell University, NY.

Lanre has spent many years mentoring young people in his local area. In December 2008 he was appointed a National Reach Role Model, a programme initiated to encourage and motivate young people. This gave him the opportunity to tell his personal story to young people across the country. These talks have often been described as inspirational, purposeful, refreshing and confidence boosting.

Lanre is also a poet and uses his poetry to uplift, inspire and motivate listeners and allow them to understand the importance of life and making the most of it. In 2010, Lanre released a Spoken Word Album, ‘Inner Ambitions’. It has also been used by schools, organisations and top level GB athletes as a source of motivation.

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Leone Martin

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Leone Martin is an accomplished young marketer who specialises in direct and small business marketing. Having started her career as an intern at one of the worlds most recognised business to business brands Intel, where she managed a number of high net worth mobile technology accounts, She went on to obtain strong academic success achieving a Marketing Management degree from Manchester Metropolitan University. Before going on to gain a Chartered Institute of Marketing Professional Diploma in Marketing and an Institute of Direct Marketing Diploma in Direct and Digital Marketing. She is currently working toward chartered marketer status.

Leone has gained varied professional experience having worked across a number of sectors including technology, retail and financial services. She currently works within a FTSE 250 financial services company as a Marketing Manager.

The founder of Marketing Matters Direct, Leone is passionate about providing small & start up business owners with the marketing information they need to be successful. Her marketing education and support company works with small business owners, helping to empower them through knowledge of marketing best practice, and supporting them to implement effective marketing processes in order to enable them to attract and retain profitable customers. Leone has developed a marketing diagnostic tool called the small business marketing health check which helps identify areas businesses can improve in order to achieve marketing success. Health checks are offered complimentary to small business owners and have been well received to date.

Leone works closely with the community and has delivered a number of voluntary talks at the Birmingham Chamber of Commence to unemployed individuals who are starting their own business, including creating a informative video with 10 top marketing tips for successful small business marketing.

Leone is grateful for the opportunities and experiences she has had throughout her career to date and is passionate about ensuring other young people have access to opportunities so they are able to develop and excel in what they love. She is currently working with Play Wright Media CIC to develop a youth employment programme called Development Through Marketing which helps young people between the ages 18-23 who are not in employment, education or training develop the soft skills they need to access employment and training opportunities. The programme uses the basic principles of marketing as a vehicle for young people to set goals, identify their target audience, develop a plan to access available opportunities and implement their plan with confidence.

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Mashkura Begum

“I have actively contributed within my local community by volunteering in and attending youth advancement programs”

Mashkura began her career in 1999 working in Lozells as a Community Development Worker for a youth organisation where she established a number of initiatives that are still successfully being run. She later worked for Black Country Connexions and then for Urban Living (Housing Market Regeneration Programme) as the Community Cohesion and Engagement Manager. She managed a budget of £1.2 million and developed innovative community cohesion programmes working with varied community and voluntary groups.

Since 2011 she has been working for Birmingham Leadership Foundation (BLF), a newly formed not-for-profit organisation. As the Chief Executive, she has commissioned 14 projects and organised a very high profile launch for the organisation at the Council House.

Mashkura volunteers as a trustee for The Bangladeshi Youth Forum (BYF), a grass roots organisation that engages young people, particularly those that are termed ‘as hard to reach’ in areas of personal development, employment and training. She is also a trustee for an organisation called Community Resources Information Services (CRIS) which is based in Northfield but operates citywide. CRIS is nationally recognised as an organisation that successfully works with newly arrived communities. Mashkura has, in the past, been a mentor for Birmingham Mentoring Consortium which has now evolved into an organisation called Pioneers.

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Miles Weaver

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Miles is a Senior Lecturer in Strategic Management, with research interests in supply strategy and performance management; simulation conceptual modelling and greening the supply chain. He has both a doctorate and first class honours degree from Aston Business School in Birmingham. His interests were shaped from practical experience within the supply departments of GM-Fiat Worldwide Purchasing and Jaguar Cars. Miles has a number of community interests, firstly he was a board member for Brook in Birmingham and now he currently sits on the board of the Birmingham Leadership Foundation. As a teacher, Miles received a Vice Chancellor distinguished teaching award upon the recommendation of DMU students in 2009. His efforts in representation were recognised with ‘Full Guild Colours’ while at Aston serving on the University Council and Senate (re-elected to serve two successive terms). In 2011, Miles made a Channel 4thought discussing his views and experience during the August 2011 riots in Birmingham. He displayed his leadership skills by forming the ‘riot clean up group’ during these disturbances working in partnership and supporting other stakeholders within the city. These efforts were noted by readers of the Birmingham Mail, who awarded the clean up group with a ‘local heroes award’ and the West Midland’s Police recognised Miles as an ‘Outstanding Citizen’ in 2011. Empowering and providing opportunity for young people is at the heart of everything Miles does.

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Noreen Mahboob

Noreen is an experienced chartered accountant for a big 4 global accounting firm. Beyond pursing her career goals, Noreen engages in one of her passions; using her strategic business skills to support and empower her local community.