UK's first black CEO

**DimPrawn** · 20 March 2009, 16:06

What's his skin colour got to do with anything?

**PM-Junkie** · 20 March 2009, 16:23

...and CUK descends to new depths.

**Cyberman** · 20 March 2009, 16:25

'The stark reality is that 33 years since the passing of the landmark Race Relations Act there is still a colour bar to jobs in the UK. '

This is politically correct cobblers and it does not surprise me at all to see this on the BBC website. Anybody can start a business in the UK and colour has no bearing whatsoever, no more than age or which part of the country you come from, or with which accent that you speak with. If somebody is good enough they will always rise to the top in the UK more than anywhere else in the world.

**sasguru** · 20 March 2009, 16:26

Why? I'm merely observing that the education system here does not seem to be working for ethnic minorities since it took someone educated outside to make it to the top.

HTH.

**sasguru** · 20 March 2009, 16:28

Originally posted by Cyberman View Post

This is politically correct cobblers and it does not surprise me at all to see this on the BBC website. Anybody can start a business in the UK and colour has no bearing whatsoever, no more than age or which part of the country you come from, or with which accent that you speak with. If somebody is good enough they will always rise to the top in the UK more than anywhere else in the world.

You really think we could have a black (or even half-black) Prime Minister?
You really do live in cloud cuckoo land.

**Ravello** · 20 March 2009, 16:39

Originally posted by sasguru View Post

Why? I'm merely observing that the education system here does not seem to be working for ethnic minorities since it took someone educated outside to make it to the top.

HTH.

Tosh. I've no idea what the exact average age of a company CEO is, but my guess is it's probably 40+, which means that they would have been in secondary school 30-odd years ago. At that point there were a lot less black kids in UK schools, it's simply a numbers game.

No-one in my year at school is a CEO of a FTSE100 company ergo schooling didn't work for my year... I'm sure you could pick much larger demographies for which the same is true (whole school, village, town, probably even cities).

**denver2k** · 20 March 2009, 16:39

I wonder if one of the recently redundant Executives would come up and say ... immigrants are taking our jobs.....

**TykeMerc** · 20 March 2009, 16:46

I can't believe that this guy is the first black CEO in the UK, maybe they mean the first black person to become CEO of one of the older large British companies.

There are plenty of black people in this country who own or run successful large businesses, some are British born and bred and some immigrated here.

**denver2k** · 20 March 2009, 16:56

Originally posted by TykeMerc View Post

I can't believe that this guy is the first black CEO in the UK, maybe they mean the first black person to become CEO of one of the older large British companies.

There are plenty of black people in this country who own or run successful large businesses, some are British born and bred and some immigrated here.

It clearly states.....First Black CEO of any "FTSE 100" .....

UK's first black CEO