A BARBADOS GOLDEN JUBILEE AWARD winner has been named as Britain’s most influential black person.
Karen Blackett, OBE, was promoted from chief executive officer to chairwoman of Britain’s biggest media agency, MediaCom, at the beginning of 2016, in recognition of her dynamic 22 years in propelling the company forward.
Blackett was born in Reading, Berkshire. Her late father came over from Barbados to work as a bus conductor but later retrained as an electrician.
He married her mother Eileen and they had two children, Sue and Karen. (TR)
(Taken from this week’s BARBADOS NATION
UK Edition.)
