Sporting Equals - Promoting Ethnic Diversity Across Sport and Physical Activity, BME

Meet key individuals from Sporting Equals

Arun Kang BA (Hons), MA
Chief Executive

Arun is an equality and diversity expert, working in the field for many years and has gained two academic degrees in the subject area. Arun's career has spanned both public and private sectors.

He has vast experience and knowledge in engaging diverse communities, ranging from his time as a youth worker to becoming a director of a race equality council. Arun's career includes working for a Local Authority as Head of Race Equality. After several years in the public sector Arun re-entered The Third Sector and in his role as Chief Executive of Sporting Equals brings together his "two major passions in life", diversity and sport. Arun enjoys participating in sport particularly team and racket sports.

David Mbaziira
Head of Marketing and Communications

David is a senior marketing professional with over 14 years commercial experience covering both public and the private sector. He has considerable brand management experience ranging from leisure and health to fast moving consumer goods, financial services and charities.

A graduate in design management, David started his career in the advertising industry, rising to Senior Account Director level in roles in London, Birmingham and Manchester. More recently David has held overall responsibility for strategic commercial business development through roles as Client Services Director and Head of Marketing.

David has a passion for all sport. He enjoyed a longstanding amateur rugby career which has now evolved into a coaching role. A qualified rugby coach and referee, he fulfills the dual roles of coaching club coordinator and U17 head coach at his local rugby club.

Rae Arnold
Head of Administration

Rae joined Sporting Equals in November 2009, having worked in a variety of administration roles for the past 13 years. Ten of those years were in the public and voluntary sectors, including St John Ambulance, Southend-on-Sea Borough Council, Southend Excellence Cluster (part of the DfES Excellence in Cities Programme) and Warwick Business School.

Rae brings previous experience of race equality to the role, having worked for three years at Warwickshire Race Equality Partnership as Support Manager and Company Secretary before joining the Sporting Equals team. Rae completed the Certificate in Social Sciences with the Open University in 2006 and the Diploma in Social Policy in 2008 and in July 2011 completed her Honours degree in Social Sciences with Social Policy, being awarded a First Class Honours.

Nik Trivedi
Head of Consultancy

Nik Trivedi joined the Sporting Equals team in July 2007. Previously, Nik was Acting Chief Executive of Voice East Midlands, a regional organisation that worked to ensure that black and minority ethnic (BME) third sector organisations were engaged in the economic, social and cultural development of the East Midlands.

Whilst a Regional BME Sports Manager in the East Midlands, Nik authored the report ?Meeting the Need? that helped to inform and influence the Regional Sports Plan. He has also worked strategically and as a practitioner in the fields of community safety, regeneration and mediation.

Nik enjoys most sports and is a Qualified Community Sports Leader, an accredited Equality Standard Advisor (in Sport) and has a BA (Honours) Degree in Public Administration.

Shaheen Bi
Research and Information Manager

Shaheen graduated from Sunderland University in 2000 with a Business Studies Degree, and began her career in the housing sector. She has considerable experience of carrying out feasibility studies on projects and putting together detailed bid submissions to secure funding. She later took up a role with Mercian Housing to manage their affordable housing programme.

In 2007/08 Shaheen took up a senior partnership with the Birmingham Social Housing Partnership (BSHP) which involved project management and supporting the Executive Board to develop strategic housing delivery within the City of Birmingham. Whilst with BSHP, Shaheen was seconded to the National Housing Federation to progress housing policy in the Midlands region.

Shaheen was appointed as Research Manager with Sporting Equals in June 2008 and has been a key figure in moving the organisation forward and developing its research expertise on behalf of black and minority ethnic communities.

Helen Roebuck
Finance Manager

Helen Roebuck is a qualified accountant with over 20 years of accounting and auditing experience. She has worked with a range of commercial organisations and has spent the last 9 years working in the Not for Profit sector.

Helen has an active family life with 2 young children. She enjoys swimming and keeping fit.