Damini is currently the Head of Total Reward and Recognition at Virgin Atlantic, having joined 6 months ago from Channel 4 where he occupied a similar role and was also co-chair the Channel’s internal network for BAME employees. After gaining his BSc from the LSE, he has built up 10 years experience as a reward leader and consultant, having worked in various permanent and interim positions across the Public, Higher Education, Financial Services, Tech, Media and Aviation sectors and was recently shortlisted for an award at the Reward 300 2022 industry leader ceremony. Damini has developed a niche in addressing the intersection between diversity and pay and has supported some of the UK’s biggest brands and largest organisations in conducting equal pay audits and pay gap analyses, formulating and implementing actions to address issues arising. Outside of his 9-5, Damini has always kept himself busy working on digital content creation and various ventures and businesses, ranging from organising social events and parties, building and developing separate alcohol and clothing brands, podcasting the journeys of successful BME role models including the NBA legend Shaq, David Lammy MP & the C4 CMO Zaid Al-Qassab, as well as travel vlogging, reaching millions of viewers around the world. In the last year, he has featured alongside his wife in the Daily Telegraph for their work in creating the #DingaStepChallenge and was also part of the team that won the YouTube Black Voices Fund Creators Choice of the Year Award 2022.