Darain Faraz

Co-Founder People Like Us

About

Darain is a Co-Founder of People Like Us (plu.org.uk) and is a seasoned Marcomms leader – up until very recently he was a senior executive at LinkedIn where, as International Director of Brand Marketing, he was responsible for devising, and implementing their international comms, social media marketing, and brand strategy. Prior to LinkedIn, Darain led Communications for MySpace in Australia, as well as holding a Global Communications role for WWF’s Earth Hour.

Darain and his brother, Sheeraz Gulsher, set up the Award-winning not-for-profit, People Like Us, in 2020 to address the woeful representation of Black, Asian, and Minority Ethnic people in the Marketing & Communications industries. Since then People Like Us have widened their scope as they lobby the UK government to introduce mandatory ethnic pay gap reporting.


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Voices

How can the industry successfully tackle the ethnicity pay gap?

By Darain Faraz

Darain Faraz, Co-Founder of People Like Us, lays out the practical steps companies can make to measure and challenge the ethnicity pay gap.

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