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Tunji Akintokun

Tunji is a Senior Director at LinkedIn leading the UK and Ireland Marketing Solutions team. He has previously held senior leadership positions at tech giant Cisco and global professional services firm PwC.

He currently serves as a Non-Executive Director at England Athletics, a patron of the autism charity CASPA and a BTEC Ambassador for Pearson.

Passionate about Diversity, the Arts, Science & Technology, Sport and Social Mobility, Tunji has previously resided on the councils of Grant Thornton, techUK and Teach First.

He mainly supports his passions through his Ilesha Charitable Trust, making impact and long-term donations to these causes.

Tunji was awarded an MBE in the Queen's 2018 New Year's Honours List for services to young people from ethnic minorities in Science & Technology.