Fabrice Houdart is the Executive Director of the newly created Association of LGBTQ+ Corporate Directors. He also advises Fortune 500 firms on human rights issues. Fabrice is a member of L'Oreal Global Diversity and Inclusion Advisory Board. He is an advisor of the National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD) Center for Inclusive Governance and serves on the Editorial Board of the Women's Forum.

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Jon Miller founded Open For Business in 2015 and is Chair of the Board. He is a partner at Brunswick Group, where he co-leads the global Business & Society practice, which he co-founded in 2011. Today, the practice works with many of the world’s leading companies on their critical societal issues – from climate change and biodiversity to human rights and inclusion and diversity. He has written two books on the role of business in society – Everybody’s Business and most recently, The Activist Leader, published in January 2023.

Lori Dobeus is a global inclusion & diversity professional with a broad professional background and change management experience. She is currently the Principal of Advancing Inclusion, a boutique consulting firm helping companies advance their inclusion and diversity strategies. Prior to this role, she was the global co-lead for inclusion and diversity at McKinsey & Company.

Ken has diverse and broad leadership experiences in the public, private and non-profit sectors. Prior to becoming the Bursar and Chief Administrative Officer at Victoria University in Toronto, his prior roles include: Vice President of Administration at Brock University, Assistant Deputy Minister with the Ontario Government, Public Affairs Director at Vertex Pharmaceuticals, Vice President of Advocacy, Research and Healthcare at Cystic Fibrosis Canada, Assistant Director with the UK Department for Business, and Senior Advisor in the Mayor’s Office at London City Hall. In addition to Open For Business, Ken currently serves on the boards of ALS Canada, Alterna Savings and Alterna Bank, and holds the ICD.D designation from the Institute of Corporate Directors. He is also working towards an Executive Ph.D. at ESCP Business School where his area of research is corporate political activity.

Linda is a seasoned fractional COO and senior operations consultant, specialising in helping growing businesses and non-profits scale effectively. A dedicated advocate for LGBTQ+ rights, she has a long history of activism and fundraising, serving as a board director for organisations such as OutRight International and the Human Rights Campaign. Originally from San Francisco, Linda has worked internationally for several years and is now based in London.

Robert Glick, OBE, has held various senior positions in corporate communications and public health – in New York, Paris, New Delhi and London. He currently serves as Vice President of International Government Affairs & Corporate Communications at American Express.

Dinah is a social and environmental sustainability professional with over 20 years of policy, business and international development experience. Most recently, she served as CEO of the GCCA, a trade association for the cement industry, where she led efforts to achieve sector-wide commitment to net-zero carbon emissions. Dinah’s previous roles include senior appointments with the Business and Sustainable Development Commission, the Overseas Development Institute, The B Team, Novartis, BT, the UK Prime Minister’s Strategy Unit and the World Bank.

Liam is Assistant Director for Global Sustainability Brand & Marketing at EY. Prior to joining EY, Liam was Senior Marketing Communications Manager for EMEIA at Hyatt where he also worked as an Open For Business Fellow, focused on our research in the Caribbean. Originally from Trinidad and Tobago but based in London, Liam has over ten years' experience in the hospitality and tourism industry and is a champion of LGBT+ inclusivity.

Ken has 25 years experience as a tech & data executive at JPMorgan Chase. In that time, he worked and lived in Tokyo, São Paulo, New York and London. He is the founder of JPMorgan Chase’s LGBTQ+ Executive Council and a former Board Chair at Out & Equal. More recently he co-founded Windō, a platform that aims to connect talent with companies that share their values. He lives in London with husband Thierry and their two dogs. 

Danni is a senior real estate lawyer with elite US law firm, Latham & Watkins. Danni advises their clients on operational real estate matters, with a focus on hospitality, sports, leisure, and retail assets. In their role on the global DEI committee for Latham & Watkins, Danni has been a vocal advocate for the recruitment, retention, and promotion of LGBTQ+ and other minority lawyers. Danni has overseen significant policy changes supporting LGBTQ+ colleagues, including surrogacy and adoption benefits, private medical care for transitioning individuals, pronouns in email signatures, formal gender transition guidelines, and inclusive parental leave policies. Danni is a champion of causes that support the LGBTQ+ community, and has provided hundreds of hours of free legal support to charities such as Mermaids (launching the UK’s first name change clinic for trans people); GiveOut; and National AIDS Trust. Danni is proud to be a visible role model for non-binary and queer people in business, regularly speaking on panels, providing training, and advising businesses on building successful diversity networks. Danni’s sits on Chelsea FC’s ED&I Advisory Group and recently worked on the club’s Rainbow Laces campaign, striving to promote LGBTQ+ inclusion and eradicate homophobia from football.

Born to Panjabi Sikh work-class migrant parents in the UK, Gurchaten (he/they) is a widely respected LGBTI changemaker and community leader, joining ILGA World to further strengthen and build on the organisation’s programmatic work and manage its growing Programmes team. Before their time at ILGA World, Gurchaten was the Non-Discrimination Programme Officer at the International Labour Organisation’s (ILO) Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work Brance, where they built their expertise and knowledge on promoting social justice through decent and inclusive work for all, in particular to enhance LGBTIQ+ rights and work and economic inclusion. They were also the President for UN-GLOBE, the group representing LGBTIQ+ personnel in the United Nations system.Gurchaten serves as a steering committee member of International Family Equality Day NGO, a fellow of the Salzburg Global LGBT forum, a Sarabat LGBT Sikhs volunteer and a trustee for We Create Space. Gurchaten has been listed as the OUTStanding LGBT Role Model from 2018 to 2021. They are also an Honouree of the Out & Equal’s 2021 Global LGBTQ Corporate Advocate Outie Award, and the winner of the British LGBT Award for Exceptional Inclusion 2021.

Geffrye (he/him; “Geff”) is the Founder and CEO of The Inclusion Imperative, an independent consultancy practice which provides consulting, training and keynote speaking services oriented around inclusion, psychological safety and change agency, to create workplaces, leaders and cultures which are more effective, productive and robust. His approach to this work is informed by his previous 35-year client-facing executive career as a Chartered Accountant and a corporate banker, with global financial and professional services organisations.

Geff has been designated as a ‘Top Voice’ on LinkedIn for each of Leadership, Culture Change and Executive Management, and his LGBTQ+ inclusion work has been recognised by accolades from the Pride Power List, the British LGBT Awards, the PinkNews Awards, and Stonewall. Geff holds several fractional Board-level roles with not-for-profit organisations working to advance LGBTQ+ rights and inclusion. In addition to Open for Business, these include being a Director of the LGBTQ+ Corporate Directors Canada Association (which works to increase LGBTQ+ representation at Board level across Canada), a Trustee of GiveOut (a UK based entity facilitating charitable giving to LGBTQ+ activist causes globally), and a Board Advisor to Voda, a mental health and wellbeing app specifically for and by the LGBTQ+ community.