The Lone Voice in the Executive Team
Speakers
Mary Mosope Adeyemi
Executive Director – Credit Risk Management, Goldman Sachs
Mary Mosope Adeyemi is an award-winning investment professional with a 15 year tenure working with global investment banks. Mary currently serves as an Executive Director at Goldman Sachs where she leads the deployment of the banks balance sheet into European credit investments.
Alongside her career, Mary has spent thousands of hours executing junior talent recruitment, training and development programs. This grew a passion that led to founding viSHEbility, a social-first organisation working to improve outcomes for black women in the marketplace through inspiration, coaching, and community. Inspired by her own turbulent transition from academia into the workplace, Mary wrote Visible Strengths, a book to help young professionals accelerate their career by learning how to capitalise on their strengths, contribute their value and communicate their results.
When she is not head deep in spreadsheets, client calls and social work, she enjoys weightlifting, watching cooking shows and K-Dramas, and booking trips to a city near you.
Nusheen Hussain
Executive Director of Business Development, Home Group
Home Group is one of UK’s largest housing associations and Nusheen is responsible for the Group’s corporate strategy, product development and communications. She has held several senior roles in marketing over the last 20 years, across various industry sectors including publishing, broadcasting, energy, financial services, construction and housing.
Nusheen is an active member of Home Group’s women’s colleague network and also the Executive sponsor for the BAME colleague network – championing equality diversity and inclusion across the organisation. Nusheen represents Home Group externally on a wide range of diversity matters.
Specialisms: Corporate Strategy, Marketing and Communications, Net Zero and Sustainability, equality diversity and inclusion.
Lara Oyedele
Vice President, Chartered Institute of Housing
Lara Oyedele, the current Vice President of the Chartered Insititute of Housing, is a social entrepreneur, property developer and campaigner for affordable housing.
She is passionate about eliminating homelessness and promoting diversity in leadership. Originally trained as a journalist, she has over 30 years’ experience working in housing associations, local authorities, private sector housing management companies and homelessness charities. A former Housing Association CEO, Lara was founding Chair of, and creative force behind, BMENational, the coalition promoting ethnic minority housing associations in the England.
Lara is chair of homelessness charity, Hope Housing (Bradford Ltd) and a Non- Exec Director of Housing 21. Lara runs the training company Black on Board whose aim is to increase diverse representation on boards, and is also developing an affordable housing company.
Yinka Bolaji
Executive Director, Property and Development, Wandle Housing Association
Currently Executive Director for Property and Development at Wandle HA, a housing association with 7000 properties in South London. Yinka leads teams that create and develop new homes and maintains or improves existing homes to required standard and optimises value of £3 billion property portfolio.
Yinka was previously Portfolio Management Director at Genesis Housing Association and Head of Portfolio and Business Planning at Anchor Trust. He also worked on various development roles at Anchor Trust. Yinka has a degree in Quantity Surveying and a MBA. He is a Leadership 2025 alumni and Non-Executive Director at First Gardens Cities Homes, a registered provider with 2000 homes in Hertfordshire and Bedfordshire.
Date: 26th April 2022
Time: 13:00 – 15:30
Venue: Central London
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