OREANDA-NEWS. Mr Kenneth Olisa, OBE, who was recently appointed as Her Majesty's Lord-Lieutenant of Greater London, to succeed Sir David Brewer CMG CVO JP, has assumed the role as of 29th May 2015.

Biographical Notes 

Ken Olisa is a businessman and philanthropist, the founder of two technology merchant banks and the first British-born black man to serve as a Director of a FTSE-100 company (Reuters).  An advocate of social inclusion, he is Chair of Thames Reach, a charity working to shelter and resettle the homeless; Chair of the Shaw Trust, supporting the disabled and chronically unemployed to find work; founding Chair of the Powerlist Foundation, supporting future leaders from BME and disadvantaged backgrounds; a former Governor of the Peabody Trust; and a former NED of the West Lambeth NHS Trust.        

Mr Olisa lives in Hampton Wick with his wife, Julia.  They have two grown-up daughters and five grand-children.