Liam Rezende

Liam launched the UK Chapter of HyPride, Hyatt Hotels’ global LGBT employee resource network – the first and only chapter to be launched outside of North America. As co-chair he has liaised with the Regional Human Resource team and championed the review of the company’s on-boarding experience, employee training and HR policies that pertain to diversity and LGBT inclusion to all staff. He currently manages all relationships with LGBT charities and organisations, signed Hyatt Hotels up to Stonewall’s Global Diversity Champions programme and has initiated the work for Hyatt’s inclusion in their Workplace Equality Index. More recently, he organised the first fundraising charity dinner for the London Gay Men’s Chorus to support their development and outreach programme and was featured in Attitude Magazine talking about growing up gay in Trinidad and Tobago, a country that still criminalises homosexuality.