René Carayol (born 10 September 1958) is a business and leadership speaker, broadcaster, broadsheet columnist and author. René’s focus is on inspirational leadership, culture and business transformation, bound together with a compelling philosophy founded on his own board level experience.René has served as an executive main board director for blue-chip companies and also the public sector, where he was a non-executive director of Inland Revenue. Starting with Marks & Spencer in 1982 and rising through the ranks to Senior IT Manager and Executive, he was headhunted by PepsiCo in 1992 and sat on the board of directors for Pizza Hut. He then joined IPC Electric as Managing Director and took the business from the concept stage through to the acquisition by AOL Time Warner. He was the first black person and first IT Director to have ever sat on the IPC board.

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