Ibrahim Dogus
Ibrahim Dogus is an active Labour party member and the founder and director of the Centre for Turkey Studies (CEFTUS.ORG), a non-party political forum and think tank focusing on Turkey; and Founder of the British Kebab Awards (www.britishkebabawards.co.uk) and the Centre for Kurdish Progress (www.kurdishprogress.org).Read more
Fatima Kamara
Fatima is a senior management executive within the NHS where she started working as a nurse over a number of years. She has a broad skill base in the health and social sector, having worked both in the private, public, voluntary and third sector. Her areas of speciality within the NHS is Quality Assurance, Clinical Governance, Patient Safety, Risk Management & Commissioning She works on medium to large projects for the NHS across the board and has managed and worked with large teams of colleagues in both Service Redesign and Serious Incident Investigation.Read more
Simon Lydiard
Simon is a former Senior Civil Servant, with nearly 40 years’ of service. He specialised in procurement, and was appointed a Small Business Champion after the 2010 election. He led procurement in the Department for Transport, increasing that department’s procurement spend with small businesses from around 4% to 34%. He helped to develop the public procurement sections of the Small Business Enterprise and Employment Act.Read more
Sir Charles Napier
Charlie has been working for small companies since 1999 when he left the charitable sector to take up a role in a communications company. Since then he has started and managed two small communication companies, been a director of a small property company and recently co-founded Atticus Partners.Read more
Karen Alcock
Karen Alcock is the Managing Director and the Founder of Kanda Consulting. She has worked in the regeneration and planning for over fifteen years and is one of the best known and most experienced communication consultants working in property and planning today.Read more
Mark Glover
Mark Glover is a fellow of the PRCA and sits on its management committee. He is also Executive Chairman of SEC Newgate UK, part of the SEC Newgate Global PR network a top 30 global communications, advocacy and research group.Read more
Shokat Ali
Philanthropist at heart, Shokat Ali is the Chairman of the British Muslim Friends of Labour and the President of the International Peace and Prosperity Forum. Shokat discovered his love for helping people selflessly early on in his life and has tried his best to be there for anyone and everyone whenever they need him ever since.Read more
Julius Nkafu
Julius is a Practising Barrister specialising in Litigation and Alternative Dispute Resolution, practising in City of London. He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and an expert in International Arbitration and Mediation. Julius understands and is qualified in Trust, Diplomacy and Conflict Transformation.Read more
Shahid Nadeem
Shahid Nadeem is Labour East National Policy Forum (NPF) Representative. He is a Lawyer and founder of Pakistanis 4 Labour. He is a CLP Secretary and LCF Secretary. He is a campaigner and actively working with Unite the Union, the Co-Operative party and the Society of Labour Lawyers. He will utilise his experience and analytical skills, developed as human rights lawyer, to make a valuable contribution to diverse SME 4 Labour.Read more
Frank Mckenna
Frank McKenna is the founder member and Chief Executive of Downtown In Business, one of the most influential business organisations in the North West, established to ensure the private sector’s needs are high on the public sector agenda.Read more
Nazia Rehman
Experienced strategic leader across public finance, commercial and charity sectors. Experienced in public reform and transformation, policy development and budget management.Read more
Tarik Khan
Labour Party member for the last 15 years. Current CLP secretary of Bethnal Green & Bow, Have been Secretary of Tower Hamlets Labour party for 6 years. Been a Councillor and Chief whip for Labour Group for 4 years in Tower Hamlets. Won Councillor of the year from SME Labour in 2022.
Laween Atroshi
UK Labour Party Politician, Rotarian, and Chief executive board member of Atrumed Healthcare (NHS) – the secret behind the best performing Urgent Care Centres in England. Former British Central Government Official who worked with the high-profile Clinical Policy, Governance & Strategy Team for UK Department of Health (DH). He stood as a Parliamentary Candidate for the UK Labour Party against Michael Gove.Read more
Amimul Ahsan Tanim
Amimul Tanim is a multifaceted individual who is a small business owner and a working journalist in the United Kingdom. As a journalist, he has reported on various events including the London mayoral elections and national elections from vote counting centers. He is also actively engaged in human rights activism.Read more
Sabri Ozaydin
I am the Chief Whip of Enfield Council and Chair of Housing Gateway Ltd. Spent most of my life in Clothing Manufacturing. Very conscious about supporting local manufacturing to support local economy, sustainable manufacturing and low carbon footprint and recycling and upcycling to harm less to the environment and support to utilise the existing materials rather than produce more to fulfil the market needs.Read more
Matt Hobbs
I am a proactive, result-driven individual with comprehensive experience in areas of strategic planning, operations and commercial management, technical engineering, contract mobilisation, and finance management. Gas compliance is a particular expertise along with extensive experience managing responsive maintenance companies.Read more
Kemi Akinola
Kemi Akinola is Deputy leader of Wandsworth Council and Cabinet member for the voluntary sector, Business and Culture. She is the founder of charity Be Enriched and a Director of Brixton People’s Kitchen which were set up to tackle food insecurity, social exclusion and food waste.Read more
Mehmet Nezir Korkut
Mehmet Nezir Korkut is a businessman and entrepreneur based in the North West of the UK. Mehmet studied International Relations and Politics at the University of Salford alongside opening a range of businesses and refurbishing properties. Mehmet is Kurdish, from Turkey and has brought family and associates to the UK to work with him. He has been involved with the Labour Party in the North West for many years and is a supporter of SME4Labour and its work. Mehmet is promoting SME4Labour amongst his network of contacts and helping to grow Labour Party membership too.Read more
Abdul Hai
I have been at the centre of the fight for social justice all my adult life – for racial equality, for celebration of our diverse communities and economic opportunity for all. BA in Informal & Community Education, Canterbury Christ Church University College. I am currently the Director of Community Relations and Public Affairs at LabTech London Limited – which owns the famous Camden Market – a community hub and place for small businesses and entrepreneurs.Read more
Lawrence Davies LLM
Solicitor “Employment law expert” (Daily Mail) “Leading Employment lawyer” (the Independent) “A champion for whistle-blowers” (Sunday Times) “A lifeline for race victims” (the Observer) “Probably the only UK lawyer to have beaten the USA at cou...Read more
Mike Harris
Mike is the founder and CEO of 89up, Europe’s biggest communications agency for non-profits. In 2022, 89up joined the FT 1000 list of fastest growing companies in Europe after three years of significant year on year growth. 89up has won or been shortlisted for some of the most prestigious awards in the sector. He is also the publisher and owner of Little Atoms, an award-winning magazine distributed globally and a podcast, and The Lead, a new online magazine with a campaigning focus.Read more