Syreeta Brown

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Syreeta Brown is the first black female Chief People Officer of a FTSE250 UK tier-one bank.

Appointed to the Virgin Money UK role in 2021, she is accountable for the People and Communications strategy for the bank, which is the UK’s sixth largest. She is also the Virgin Money lead for the Women in Finance initiative.

In 2023, Brown was appointed a board trustee of the social mobility charity the Aleto Foundation. She also became a mentor for the Solaris Program, an executive leadership development scheme for black professional women at middle and senior management levels. This year, Brown was appointed vice chair of the Change the Race Ratio campaign chaired by Sir Trevor Phillips and also became a mentor on the Moving Ahead/30% Club’s Executive Accelerator Programme.

Previously, as the managing director at  Citi, Brown led the HR function for the Global Functions and Operations and Technology  business in Europe, the Middle East and Africa region. She also led Citi’s Diversity Talent Acquisition team, which looked at the processes, practices, behaviours and culture around talent attraction and acquisition to add ress increasing representation in ethnic minority hiring.

Brown is a working parent of a child with autism. She plans to start a foundation to ensure parents can have legal advice to help with issues  experienced around the educational rights of  children impacted by special needs.

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