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Our team

Diverse teams ask better questions and inclusive teams find better answers

We are a team of multicultural changemakers and EDI coaches who advocate the value of inclusion and diversity and help drive strategic, sustainable change.

Gender identity

  • Women50
  • Men50
  • Prefer not to say
  • Other

Ethnicity

  • White (British)40
  • White (Other)40
  • Black/African20
  • Asian
  • Prefer not to say
  • Other
10%

of our staff are neurodivergent

10%

identify as LGBTQ+

Data collected in February 2023

Hephzi Pemberton

CEO & Founder

Hephzi is the CEO and Founder of Equality Group.

15 years experience in Corporate Finance, management, strategy and entrepreneurship including Lehman Brothers analyst, Kea Consultants co-founder and partner. She is the author of the Amazon bestseller "The Diversity Playbook" and several research papers including "2021 Inclusive Index" (published in Dow Jones). BA Literature and Language (Oxford University).

Mother of two boys, avid runner and amateur poet.

Hephzi Pemberton

CEO & Founder

Eva Lauerbach

Head of EDI Consultancy

Eva is a Founding Member and Senior Leader at Equality Group. She heads up Equality Group’s EDI Consultancy business.

With more than 15 years of experience in strategy consulting and executive search she advises clients in investment and technology sectors on de-biasing processes and building more inclusive work cultures.

Mother of a girl, certified sommelier, PADI advanced water diver and fitness lover. Eva passionately enjoys organising events to bring people together around music, art and wellness.

Eva Lauerbach

Head of EDI Consultancy

Sasha Graham

Head of Education Services

Sasha is a Founding Member and Senior Leader at Equality Group.

She leads the firm’s Learning and Development offering and has worked with numerous leading European PE and Technology firms on training and upskilling their teams on Diversity and Inclusion.

She is committed to Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, the martial arts and combat sport.

Sasha Graham

Head of Education Services

Simon Norris

Head of Executive Search

Simon leads Equality Group’s Executive Search Practice. He has 15 years experience in the Executive Search industry and has spent the past 10 years advising Private Equity and Venture Capital funds, making Board-level appointments in portfolio companies as well as delivering investment team hires. He started his career at PwC where he spent four years in their Business Recovery Services.

Simon is an avid sportsman and can be found with a hockey stick, golf club, cricket bat or squash racket in hand most weekends.

Simon Norris

Head of Executive Search

Keon West

Head of Academic Research

Keon the Head of Research for Equality Group and a Professor of Psychology at Goldsmith University.

Keon - who’s research focuses on prejudice, sexual orientation, and sexual health - has received numerous international awards for his research, teaching, media engagement, and social activism.

He has appeared over 100 times as a psychological expert on media outlets including the BBC World Service, Radio 4, Channel 4 and the Guardian.

Keon West

Head of Academic Research

Gareth Long

Head of Development

Gareth Long

Head of Development

Cézanne Tobin

Executive Assistant

Cézanne is PA to Hephzi and Executive Assistant to the Equality Team. She has been with Hephzi prior to the launch of Equality Group after previously working in Finance for over 10 years with experience as an Office Manager/PA.

She provides vital support to Hephzi and the company in an extensive variety of areas including HR and bookkeeping.

Cézanne is a mum to two teenage boys, is a qualified hypnotherapist, and also enjoys the gym and boxing.

Cézanne Tobin

Executive Assistant

Pedro Capitani

Analyst

Pedro Capitani

Analyst

Fernando Neme

Marketing & Analytics Manager

Fernando has 10+ years of experience working in the financial industry in a broad array of areas from risk management, and investment product valuations to marketing strategies. He has developed marketing strategies for banks, credit firms and telecom companies.

Fernando holds a B.Sc in Economics and an M.Sc in Digital Marketing.

Fernando Neme

Marketing & Analytics Manager

Matthew Joseph

Advisor

Matthew Joseph

Advisor

Lisa Shu

Advisor

Lisa Shu

Advisor

Nicola Horlick

Advisor

Nicola Horlick

Advisor

Sam Patel

Advisor

Sam Patel

Advisor

Henry Obi

Advisor

Henry Obi

Advisor

Hephzi Pemberton (CEO & Co-Founder):

At Equality Group we are always seeking to lead by example in areas of equality, diversity and inclusion. Despite being a small company, we fully understand the importance of measuring pay equity amongst all our employees. I am delighted that we have released our first pay gap report this year, with no significant pay gap on gender or ethnicity.

Download 2023 Pay Gap Report

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