Celebrating Bisexual Visibility

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  Devin Ibañez

  Customer Success Manager and Public Speaker
  myGwork

  Devin Ibañez is the first openly gay Major League Rugby player and is dedicated to LGBTQ+ advocacy in sport. He hopes to inspire the next generation of LGBTQ+ athletes and make sport an inclusive space for them. Raised in Boston, MA, Devin played for Major League Rugby team, the New England Free Jacks, in their 2019 exhibition season. He won a gold medal while representing Team USA at the 2017 World Maccabiah Games in Israel. He also won the 2018 D1 National Championship with his club team, Mystic River Rugby Club. When not playing, Devin has coached rugby at Westlake Boys High School in New Zealand, his alma mater Brookline High School and most recently with the Northeast Academy. He holds a degree in sport management and education from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. Devin was announced Global Ambassador for International Gay Rugby (IGR) in May 2021. He is now looking towards a career in Public Speaking and Community Engagement. As of December 2023, Devin joined myGwork as a Customer Success Manager, the largest global business community for LGBTQ+ professionals and inclusive employers.

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  Jennifer Williams

  Senior Diversity & Inclusion Specialist
  Marsh McLennan

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  Ali Reed

  PHD UK CEO
  PHD UK

  As CEO of media and marketing agency PHD UK, Ali Reed is sponsor of OMG UK’s LGBTQ+ Advisory Group and has championed LGBTQ+ inclusion at Board level - supporting the team’s growth and assisting in the creation of the company’s guide to Bisexuality, an online resource available to all employees. Ali has also taken part in IPA speed mentoring events for queer people in Advertising. For the past two years, PHD UK has been awarded IPA CPD Gold Accreditation for demonstrating a genuine culture of learning, bettering professionalism, development and reputation of the industry. In 2022, PHD UK was ranked the No. 3 media agency in the world in the Warc Media 100 Rankings, making it the highest ranked media agency in both the UK and Europe.

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  Josh Buehling

  Marketing Specialist
  Enterprise Rent-A-Car

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  Nabeela Butt

  Development Systems Training Lead
  GSK

  Nabeela was born in Kenya and came to live in London at the age of 6 months.  She currently lives in the suburbs outside of West London and keenly enjoys any sport but mostly playing football, going road or mountain biking and running.  Nabeela has been employed in the wider pharmaceutical industry for 25 years holding a variety of roles and has been with GSK for nearly 8 years. She utilises project management and operational effectiveness capabilities in the tasks and roles that she takes on and has found this framework to be a fantastic backbone in her career to date. Nabeela is committed to influence a positive change to organisational attitudes towards equity whether that be in race, gender sexuality etc.  She works to ensure our generation, and those following us, have a fair and equitable opportunity. This led to her volunteering for EMBRACE ERG and is now the co-lead having held the ERG Operations Lead role for 18 months. The intersectional experiences Nabeela has provides a personal insight to the challenges under-represented groups face and by leveraging her co-lead role Nabeela intends to bring about a lasting and systemic change within GSK Nabeela strives to amplify and maximise the voice of EMBRACE members and hold GSK accountable for accelerating a change in its cultural environment to bring about workplace racial equity. Ensuring our ethnically diverse employees have support in their development and by partnering with GSK to ensure we have an environment in our company that allows each employee to thrive is part of her personal mission.

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