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Kevin A. Carter is a Senior Consultant with MDB Group, Inc. Mr.
Carter has over 15 years of executive experience in the area of
diversity, inclusion and community involvement, most recently
serving as the General Manager of Diversity and Inclusion –
Americas for BP, Plc, one of the world’s largest global companies.
Mr. Carter applies a strategic business perspective to his diversity
and inclusion work, focusing on achieving meaningful business
results. He has led diversity initiatives for organizations with 1,600
to 98,000 employees in various industries and market segments
using a fact-based, data-driven approach coupled with deliberate
relationship building. At BP, his efforts received favorable
recognition as part of an external, third-party D&I assurance review.
In a civic capacity, Mr. Carter has served as the Bureau Chief of the
Rainbow/PUSH Coalition Ninth Street Project promoting diversity and inclusion as a driver of
shareholder value and Chairman of the following organizations: Kaleidoscope Magazine to foster
the recognition and advancement of minority talent; The College Fund Northern Ohio Telethon
to increase scholarships for students at Historically Black Colleges and Universities and the
National Association of Securities Professionals Pension Fund Conference to aid in the growth of
the nation's minority and women brokers, asset managers, public finance consultants,
investment bankers, investors, plan sponsors and other finance professionals.
Prior to working for BP, Plc, Mr. Carter served as the VP, Diversity, Inclusion and Culture for
Safeco Insurance Company. He defined and executed diversity and related culture strategies
enterprise-wide. The team pioneered the Inclusion Index from the employee opinion survey to
identify negative variances in the employee life-cycle. He led the work to create Safeco’s
“Valuing Diversity” universal competency, including D&I behavioral indicators within the
performance management system, and deployed diversity education achieving over 95%
company-wide participation and effectiveness ratings exceeding 87%.
Mr. Carter is a member of the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) and
Leadership Cleveland; was a founding member of the Securities Industry Association’s Diversity
Committee and the Consortium of African American Organizations; has been recognized as one
of Diversity MBA Magazine’s Top 100 Executives Under 50 and the Crain’s Cleveland 40 under
40 Club. He received fellowships from the German Marshall Memorial Fund and Alfred P. Sloan
Foundation. He is also a recipient of the NBMBAA H. Naylor Fitzhugh Award of Excellence.
Mr. Carter holds a BA, Cum Laude in Philosophy and Public Affairs from Vanderbilt University
and an MBA in Finance from the Case Western Reserve University Weatherhead School of
Management. He is a certified administrator of the Intercultural Development Inventory (IDI),
a validated culture-neutral instrument that measures an individual’s level of cultural
competence. Mr. Carter has received a YSC assessment rating at the executive level or above,
completed Six Sigma Green Belt education, obtained Series 6,7 and Health, Life and Annuity
licensing and volunteered as a National Association of Securities Dealers arbitrator.
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