Founders

Bobbi Pickard

Bobbi is the first openly transgender person in bp and as co-chair of bp Pride’s Transgender Group has transformed trans awareness within the company. She is the founder of “Trans in the City” - a corporate collaboration of over 250 organisations to further transgender awareness globally - she has been a trustee of Mermaids, the gender diverse children’s charity, #1 Yahoo Finance OUTstanding LGBT+ Future Leader, Rainbow Honours LGBTQ Champion, won the 2020 British LGBT awards Nestle Diversity Champion Award and is #14 in the Pride Power List.
She plays guitar and bass, has two children and lives in Brighton.

Freddie Cormack

Freddie was born in France and emigrated to the UK when she was 18. She is a Senior Personal Assistant to the Chief Information Security Officer at BP and a staunch LGBT+ Ally. Freddie plays a pivotal role in BP’s LGBT+ organisation, BP Pride; she is on the BP Pride Steering Committee and co-chair of the Transgender Working Group organising BP’s transgender awareness campaign, internally and externally. She plays a key role in BP’s Allies programme, she is pivotal in BP’s WEI submissions, London Pride activities and has organised the global adoption and roll out of BP Pride’s Rainbow Lanyard scheme.
Freddie is a keen badminton player and shares her time between Vendée, south of Brittany, where her family and partner live, and Hampshire with her teenage son.

Brian Ashmead-Siers

Brian joined PwC three years ago as a Partner and leads a team of Global Mobility tax specialists in The Midlands.
He devotes a significant amount of time, both professionally and personally, to be the Lead Partner Sponsor for SHINE, PwC’s LGBT+ network, which has over 1,000+ LGBT+ members and allies in the UK. He uses his influence to ensure that diversity and inclusion is a strategic business priority enabling individuals, of any background, gender or gender fluidity, or sexuality to be themselves in the workplace.
Brian helps set the tone as to how PwC LGBT+ employees are represented within the business and in the wider community. He is a proud and openly gay role model in the partnership and mentor to many in SHINE and outside of PwC.

Charlie Wheeler

Charlie joined bp in 2017 and has been part of bp Pride UK and the transgender working group since he started with the company, leading communications for both. Charlie has a huge passion for trans rights and has been involved with many internal and external initiatives. Notable activities include running Trans in the City social media and communications, running bp’s social channels for London Pride, initiating an interview between bp’s CEO and Jake Graf, a transgender actor and activist, and producing a series of internal podcasts about LGBT+ families.