Business Disability Forum

News & Views

13 June 2013

Business Disability Forum partners with Totally Communications to enhance online tool to help organisations become disability-smart

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24 April 2013

Business Disability Forum welcomes Standard Chartered Bank as the latest signatory to the Accessibility Technology Charter

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18 April 2013

A global partnership between AvePoint and Business Disability Forum underscores AvePoint’s commitment to meet current and future needs of the global accessibility community

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Calendar

27 June 2013

MegaQuiz 2013, sponsored by de Poel and Sainsbury's

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10 July 2013

Disability-smart customer service: customers with non-visible disabilities

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15 July 2013

Legal Telephone Surgeries

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Twitter

14 June 2013

Ernst & Young (E&Y) has launched a new National Equality Standard (NES) developed ‘by business for business’: http://t.co/iWAYcMeLKm

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14 June 2013

Disability rights advocates and book publishers want regulations so higher education technology is accessible: http://t.co/PaAAcXDwzM

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14 June 2013

A focus on well-being could keep employees with arthritis in the workplace: http://t.co/2gyOnONrz7

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Meet the President's Group

President's Group

Business Disability Forum’s President’s Group brings together the leaders of some of our partners to identify and discuss the strategic challenges of becoming disability-smart.

The whole President’s Group meets once a year. Our President, John Varley, formerly Group Chief Executive of Barclays PLC, and CEO, Susan Scott-Parker, also meet members of the Group throughout the year.

You can download the latest President's Group member list here - Word document.

President's Group members

Private sector

  • Olly Benzecry, MD UK & Ireland Accenture.
  • Rosaleen Blair, CEO, Alexander Mann Solutions.
  • Andrew Torrance, CEO, Allianz.
  • Jeremy Darroch, CEO BskyB.
  • Mike Rake, Chairman BT.
  • Phil Smith, CEO UK and Ireland Cisco.
  • Tim Gregory, President UK, CGI.
  • David Sproul, Senior Partner & CEO Deloitte.
  • Matthew Sanders, CEO de Poel Consulting Ltd.
  • Lisa Cameron, General Counsel, UK & I Leader Ernst & Young.
  • Gavin Bounds, COO UK&I Fujitsu.
  • Sir Andrew Witty, CEO GlaxoSmithKline.
  • Ian Cheshire, CEO Kingfisher / B&Q.
  • Richard Reid, London Chairman KPMG.
  • Mark Fisher, Director Group Operations Lloyds Banking Group.
  • Jill McDonald, President & CEO McDonald's Restaurants.
  • Dr Nasser Siabi, Managing Director, Microlink PC (UK) Ltd.
  • Michel van der Bel, MD and VP of MS International Microsoft Ltd.
  • Jonathan Whitmore, UK & Ireland Channel Mgr, Nuance.
  • Mike Betts, CEO Motability Operations.
  • David Callaghan, Senior Vice President EMEA Alliances & Channels, Oracle.
  • Ian Powell, Chairman PricewaterhouseCoopers.
  • Elaine Arden, Group HR Director RBS.
  • Justin King, CEO Sainsbury's.
  • Steve Bertamini, Group Exec. Director & CEO Consumer Banking, Standard Chartered
  • Juan Olaizola, COO, Santander

Public sector 

  • Mark Thompson, Director-General BBC.
  • Paul Leinster, CEO Environment Agency.
  • Lin Homer, CEO HMRC.
  • Trevor Pearce, Director General SOCA.

International Ambassadors 

  • Duncan Mitchell, SVP, Emerging East, Cisco
  • Robin Heath, Coordinating Partner, EMEIA, Ernst & Young
  • David Kogan, MD Global Media, Wasserman Media Group