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Promotion of British Telecom finance director will bring an ethnic flavour.

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, December, 2004

Daily Mail, London Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Dec. 11--Hanif Lalani's promotion to finance director of BT guarantees him membership of a small but growing band of executives from ethnic backgrounds working at the top of some of Britain's biggest companies.

His elevation comes just over a year after chairman Sir Christopher Bland said BT needed some "black and brown faces on the board."

Most major boardrooms are still "hideously white" -- a phrase used by former BBC director general Greg Dyke to describe the broadcaster's staff -- but that is starting to change.

Investment banker Naguib Kheraj succeeded John Varley as Barclays' finance director at the start of the year. Indian-American Arun Sarin followed in the...

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