The Ethnicity Pillar at Merkle is focused on three key areas: external influence, internal education and business commitment. We contribute to our community with external activities focused on promoting ethnic equality. This involves playing an active role in improving diversity in our industry by working with recruitment to diversify our intake and celebrating that diversity on the industry stage. We conduct thorough reviews of our partners and suppliers to ensure they meet our high standards of ethical and inclusive practices, make a difference in our communities through fundraising and partnerships that enable younger generations to access our industry. We are educating our internal teams through celebration of historical events, educational workshops and hosting internal panels or guest speakers. We demonstrate our business commitment to this cause by assessing our ethnicity pay gap and looking at our pyramid through the lens of racial diversity. Our executive leadership team have undergone intensive training on this topic and personally lead a host of workstreams designed to address structural barriers to becoming a truly inclusive workplace.