Sarabjeet Soar OBE Economic Development and SME Sarabjeet Soar is former Assistant Director, Business and Community Partnerships at the Economic Development Department in Birmingham City Council. He is also the former Chief Executive of the Economic Development Company, Coventry, Solihull and Warwickshire Partnership Ltd (CSWP). Between 1990 and 1992 he led the Home Office Ethnic Minority Business Development Team. His is a Governor of the University of Coventry and is Chair of the Prince's Youth Business Trust Ethnic Minority Advisory Group. He is also a member of the Government's Small Business Investment Taskforce.