A scarcity of seen and accessible feminine position fashions is usually cited as a key motive why the variety of girls within the UK’s expertise sector has stayed steadfast at round 17% for plenty of years.
Younger ladies usually remorse not finding out science, expertise, engineering and maths (STEM) topics, with many getting down the road and considering it’s “too late” to pursue tech, and we all know seeing folks like ourselves in a job can act as encouragement that it’s one thing we may additionally obtain.
Every year, Pc Weekly goals to spotlight feminine position fashions of all ranges by way of its checklist of the Most Influential Girls in UK Tech, its checklist of Rising Stars, and its Corridor of Fame.
Whereas the Rising Stars are girls arising within the {industry}, and probably the most influential checklist contains the 50 prime movers and shakers within the tech and/or variety in tech house, the Corridor of Fame was launched in 2015 to have fun girls who’ve spent their profession going above and past to enhance variety and inclusion to the tech {industry}, and to make significant contributions to the expertise house generally.
This yr, Pc Weekly is proud to recognise the lifetime achievements of 11 new members of the Corridor of Fame:
Poppy Gustafsson, CEO, Darktrace
Final yr’s winner of the title Pc Weekly’s Most Influential Girl in UK Tech, Gustafsson is the present CEO of cyber synthetic intelligence (AI) agency Darktrace. As an organisation, Darktrace has excessive feminine illustration in comparison with the {industry} common, with girls making up 30-40% of workers.
Throughout her winner’s interview, Gustafsson identified that there are a lot of totally different routes into the expertise sector, and that girls shouldn’t be “apologetic” about having non-traditional skillsets whereas making their method into tech roles.
Gustafsson studied arithmetic at Sheffield College, shifting on to grow to be an assistant supervisor at Deloitte, then a fund accountant at Amadeus Capital Companions.
She joined Darktrace as chief monetary officer (CFO) in 2013, then spent a while as chief working officer (COO) earlier than turning into CEO in 2016.
Gustafsson has been featured in lists such because the Administration At the moment 30 underneath 35 and was a winner within the Veuve Clicquot Enterprise Girl Awards in 2019.
Andrea Palmer, principal guide, Infosys Consulting; BCS fellow; chair, BCS Girls
Palmer has had a protracted profession in enterprise change and digital transformation, having held varied roles at vitality agency BP over 15 years.
She is presently chair of BCS Girls, sits on the BCS society board and in 2021 volunteered as a programme supervisor for iSAW Worldwide.
In earlier years, she has served as certainly one of Pc Weekly’s professional judges for the Most Influential Girls in UK Tech checklist, dedicating loads of time, each in and out of doors her work, to furthering the dialog round getting extra girls into the tech sector.
Anne Boden, CEO, Starling Financial institution
Boden based digital challenger financial institution Starling in 2014 to construct an organisation targeted on buyer expertise. She is presently CEO and a member of its board of administrators.
Previous to Starling, Boden was COO at Allied Irish Financial institution and head of EMEA international transaction providers for RBS.
Her guide, The cash revolution, was launched in 2019 and goals to assist folks handle their cash in a digitally pushed world.
Anne Marie Neatham, COO Kindred – powered by Ocado Group, Ocado Group
Neatham has simply began a brand new position at Ocado Group because the chief working officer of Kindred, the AI robotics agency acquired by the group in 2020.
She is a real believer that to get younger ladies into expertise careers, encouragement wants to begin early within the training system.
Beforehand, Neatham led Ocado Expertise’s groups targeted on robotics and automation in her position as business director for the workplace of the CTO at Ocado Expertise. She has been with Ocado since 2001, initially as a software program engineer, then head of Ocado Expertise in Poland in 2012, the place she arrange the agency’s Polish arm.
She turned chief working officer of Ocado Expertise in 2014, and has beforehand been a software program engineer in software program and retail corporations all over the world.
June Angelides, investor, Samos Investments
Angelides based, and till 2017 was CEO of, Mums in Tech when on maternity depart from Silicon Valley Financial institution, the place she held roles as an affiliate for accelerator progress and an affiliate for entrepreneur banking.
She is an investor at Samos Investments, a board adviser for Cajigo App and was a founding ambassador of the FiftyFiftyPledge, amongst many different non-executive positions.
She is an honorary fellow on the Institute of Engineering and Expertise, an Oxford Foundry mentor at Oxford College, an envoy at Huckletree and a board observer for each International App Testing and Everpress.
Angelides was beforehand chosen as a Pc Weekly Rising Star.
Nicola Blackwood, chair, Genomics England
Blackwood is chair of the board of Genomics England, a mentor for the Artistic Destruction Lab, and board trustee for the Alan Turing Institute.
Beforehand, she labored within the public sector, initially as the primary feminine MP for Oxford and extra just lately as minister for innovation within the Division of Well being and Social Care.
She has been a chair of the Human Tissue Authority, a board member for Oxford College Innovation, an advisory board member for Eagle Genomics, sat on the board of administrators for the Marketing campaign for Science and Engineering, and was deputy chair of Public Coverage Tasks.
Priya Guha, enterprise accomplice, Merian Ventures
Guha is a serial adviser and non-executive director, and in 2021 obtained an MBE for providers to worldwide commerce and girls in innovation.
In 2019, she joined Merian Ventures as a enterprise accomplice, having beforehand been ecosystem basic supervisor for the London campus of Silicon Valley-born co-working house RocketSpace.
Guha additionally acts as an adviser for Tech London Advocates and The Youth Group, in addition to being a member of the worldwide committee on the Royal Academy of Engineering and a earlier council member for InnovateUK.
Rav Bumbra, founder, Structur3dpeople; founder, Cajigo
Bumbra based Structur3dpeople in 2015 to assist organisations to recruit a extra numerous workforce for expertise, digital and management roles, and remains to be director there.
Since then, she has based Instagram Stay chat present Girls Discuss Tech to showcase the experiences of girls throughout several types of tech {industry} roles, and can be founding father of cell studying platform Cajigo, which helps girls of all ages acquire the abilities they want for tech roles.
Bumbra was named a girls in tech Rising Star by Pc Weekly in 2018.
Sarah Luxford, accomplice (DDaT), GatenbySanderson; co-founder, TLA Girls in Tech
Luxford is co-lead and co-founder of Tech London Advocates’ girls in tech group and was co-founder of Croydon Tech Metropolis. She is now a accomplice (digital, information and expertise) at advisory agency GatenbySanderson.
Earlier than her present position, Luxford was director at recruitment firm International Resourcing, and as director at Nexec Leaders from 2015 to 2017, she labored with founders, traders and enterprise leaders to search out the expertise they wanted.
She was named as certainly one of Pc Weekly’s Rising Stars in 2015.
Sharon Moore, international technical lead for presidency, IBM Expertise
Moore is presently the worldwide technical lead for presidency at IBM Expertise, the place she goals to make use of expertise to assist the federal government to develop higher outcomes for folks throughout the UK.
Beforehand at IBM, she was chief expertise officer (CTO) for public sector at IBM UK and, previous to that, targeted on designing technical options for IBM’s purchasers within the journey and transportation {industry}, incorporating engagement, web of issues (IoT) and analytics applied sciences, in her position as {industry} technical chief for journey and transportation.
Moore can be chair of the BCS council, deputy chair of BCS Girls and is the BCS Girls Scotland lead, in addition to a justice and emergency providers administration committee member for TechUK.
Vanessa Vallely, CEO and founder, WeAreTheCity
In 2008, Vallely based WeAreTheCity, an organisation that gives working girls with assist and sources to assist their careers. The organisation has developed to incorporate many branches, corresponding to WeAreTechWomen, GenderNetworks, WeAreVirtual and SheTalksTech.
She is CEO of WeAreTheCity, in addition to visiting lecturer on the College of Warwick Enterprise Faculty, a public speaker for Girls Impressed Restricted and a companion of the Chartered Administration Institute.
Vallely has a background in expertise and finance, is writer of Heels of metal, and in 2018 was awarded an OBE for providers to girls and the financial system.
The present members of the Corridor of Fame are:
Amali de Alwis
Winner of Pc Weekly’s Most Influential Girl in UK Tech accolade in 2018, De Alwis is presently CEO of local weather startup accelerator Subak.
Previous to that, she was CEO of the Founders Discussion board, earlier than which she was UK managing director of Microsoft for Startups, and was beforehand CEO of coding coaching programme Code First: Women, which not solely goals to extend variety within the tech sector, however in 2018 was instructing extra girls within the UK to code than the UK’s college system.
De Alwis sits on the board of trustees for the Raspberry Pi Basis and is a board member at Ada, the Nationwide School for Digital Expertise.
She is a member of the variety and inclusion board on the Institute of Coding, and a founding member at Tech Expertise Constitution.
In 2019, she was awarded an MBE for providers to variety and coaching within the tech {industry}.
Anne-Marie Imafidon
Imafidon was initially named certainly one of Pc Weekly’s Rising Stars in 2014, happening to win the title of Most Influential Girl in UK Tech in 2020.
Imafidon is CEO of Stemettes, which she based to encourage younger girls to contemplate careers in science, expertise, engineering and maths (STEM).
Outdoors of her work with Stemettes, she is a commissioner for the Hamilton Fee, an initiative arrange by racing driver Lewis Hamilton to handle the shortage of black folks each in UK motorsport and within the STEM sectors.
She has appeared as a co-presenter on ITV’s Countdown, and can be an everyday podcast host on the Night Commonplace’s Girls Tech Cost podcast.
Imafidon can be a fellow of the RSA, a council member of Analysis England, a visiting professor on the College of Sunderland, and a member of the Division for Digital, Tradition, Media and Sport’s (DCMS) Digital Expertise Partnership Board.
Carrie Anne Philbin
One other alumna of Pc Weekly’s 2016 Girls in Tech Rising Stars, Philbin has a number of tasks throughout the Raspberry Pi Basis, together with main technique, persevering with skilled improvement programmes and studying sources.
In addition to her work at Raspberry Pi, she is a fellow of the Python Software program Basis, and her varied experiences in board member and chair roles – together with her time as a board member for Computing at Faculty and her stint as chair of CAS #embody – have all been aimed toward making laptop science extra accessible for everybody.
She can be a YouTuber, author and secondary-level computing and ICT trainer.
Chi Onwurah
Onwurah is the MP for Newcastle upon Tyne Central and shadow minister for digital, science and expertise.
She has held many roles targeted on expertise, together with shadow minister for tradition and the digital financial system, shadow Cupboard Workplace minister main on cyber safety, social entrepreneurship, civil contingency, open authorities and transparency, and shadow minister for innovation, science and digital infrastructure.
Beforehand, Onwurah labored in a number of connectivity and telecoms-based companies, together with Ofcom, Teligent, and Cable & Wi-fi.
Cindy Rose
In 2020, Rose was appointed president of Western Europe for Microsoft, having served as CEO of Microsoft UK since 2016, the place she was chargeable for the agency’s product, service and assist providing throughout the area.
Beforehand, Rose labored in senior roles throughout the expertise and digital sectors at corporations corresponding to Vodafone, Virgin Media and Disney’s Interactive Media Group.
In early 2019, she was awarded an OBE for providers to UK expertise, and is presently a non-executive director for communications agency WPP.
Debbie Forster
Forster is an award-winning variety, tech and training advocate and CEO of the Tech Expertise Constitution, an industry-led membership group of 700-plus signatories working to enhance D&I within the tech ecosystem.
She obtained an MBE in 2017 for providers to digital expertise and tech improvement and was named 2019’s Most Influential Girl in UK IT by Pc Weekly.
Forster additionally chairs the Institute of Coding’s Range Board and sits on the steering group of #TechSheCan, in addition to the federal government’s Digital Economic system Council and Cash and Pensions Service Advisory Board.
Eileen Burbidge
Burbidge is a accomplice at London-based enterprise capital agency Ardour Capital, the place she affords expertise gained from varied tech roles all through her profession.
Her profession in expertise has spanned 15 years and contains roles at corporations corresponding to Yahoo!, Skype, PalmSource, Openwave, Solar Microsystems and Apple.
Alongside her position at Ardour Capital, Burbidge is the particular envoy for fintech for HM Treasury, a non-executive director at Currys plc, and was a co-founder/startup angel and adviser for White Bear Yard, and is a non-executive director for a lot of small and rising companies, corresponding to Monzo.
Till 2020, she was chair of Tech Nation, and was beforehand a member of the prime minister’s enterprise advisory group.
Elizabeth Denham
Till final yr, Denham was the UK’s data commissioner, main the workplace coping with the Knowledge Safety Act 2018 – the UK’s implementation of the EU’s Common Knowledge Safety Regulation (GDPR).
Earlier than turning into data commissioner, Denham was the knowledge and privateness commissioner for British Columbia, Canada, chargeable for compliance with private and non-private sector privateness laws and entry to data legislation.
In 2018, she was awarded a CBE for providers to data safety.
Gillian Arnold
Arnold is managing director of IT recruitment agency Tectre, which is aimed particularly at supporting girls in expertise roles.
Beforehand chair of BCSWomen, she is now a non-executive director of the BCS, and a board member for the Industrial Advisory Board for the Faculty of Computing and Communications on the Open College.
In her 30-plus-year tech profession, Arnold has hung out as chair of the European Girls in IT taskforce, aimed toward creating finest practices and Europe-wide actions to extend the variety of girls within the tech {industry}.
In addition to having chaired a discussion board for IT commerce physique Mind (now TechUK), Arnold was a board member at Smart, which helps girls in STEM.
Hannah Dee
Dee is an data safety and databases lecturer at Aberystwyth College, the place she researches laptop imaginative and prescient, and can be a founding member of on-line STEM journal Scientists Are People.
She based the BCSWomen Lovelace Colloquium in 2008 as a convention for feminine undergraduates. Now deputy chair of the colloquium, Dee helped run the primary Girls in Tech Cymru summer season convention in 2019.
She has gained awards in instructing and obtained a Suffrage Science award in 2018.
Dee sits on the committee of BCSWomen, and till 2020 was secretary of BCS Mid-Wales. She has had a protracted profession in science and expertise.
Helen Milner
Milner is founder and CEO of not-for-profit the Good Issues Basis (previously the Tinder Basis), having based the charity in 2011 to assist the digitally excluded grow to be snug utilizing digital and on-line applied sciences.
Most of her work is concentrated on constructing tech inclusion for digitally excluded folks. She is a board member of each FutureDotNow and the DCMS Digital Expertise Partnership Board, and is on the Advisory Group for the UK’s Cash and Pension Service.
Milner was beforehand a specialist authorities adviser of digital engagement for the Public Accounts Committee, was named Digital Chief of the 12 months in 2017, and was awarded an OBE in 2015 for providers to digital inclusion.
Jacqueline De Rojas
The 2015 winner of Pc Weekly’s Most Influential Girl UK Tech, De Rojas insists that you simply “can have all of it” – she will not be solely president of an organization and board member of one other, in addition to non-executive director of a number of extra, however can be married and has three kids and two canines.
De Rojas is president of Digital Leaders, board member of TechUK, co-chair of the governance board for the Institute of Coding, and non-executive director of Rightmove, IFS, Costain Group and FDM Group.
She acts as a enterprise adviser and mentor and was awarded a CBE in 2018 for providers to worldwide commerce in expertise.
Jane Moran
Moran was the primary winner of Pc Weekly’s Most Influential Girl in UK IT when it was launched in 2012.
On the time, Moran was CIO at Thomson Reuters, the place she took half within the Thomson Reuters Girls’s Community, Girls in Expertise Worldwide and the Nationwide Centre for Girls in Expertise.
Now she is the non-executive director of JP Morgan Europe, having stepped down as International CIO of Unilever, a place she held for nearly seven years.
Moran can be a non-executive director for JP Morgan Securities and was beforehand a non-executive director for Institutional Money Distributors.
She actively participates within the IT group, and is an advocate for management abilities and making certain extra girls contemplate a expertise profession.
In 2014, Moran was positioned first on the annual Pc Weekly UKTech50 checklist, a showcase of the highest movers and shakers within the UK IT {industry}.
Jo Twist
Twist is CEO of UKIE, the video games {industry} commerce physique that goals to make the UK the chief in video games and interactive leisure.
In addition to being deputy chair of the British Display Discussion board, Twist is vice-president of video games charity Particular Impact, and chairs the video games committee at Bafta.
Twist was beforehand commissioning editor for training at Channel 4, and was multi-platform commissioner of leisure and Swap for the BBC within the early 2000s.
In 2016, she obtained an OBE for her contribution to the inventive industries.
Joanna Shields
The 2013 winner of Pc Weekly’s Most Influential Girl in UK Tech, Shields is now CEO of synthetic intelligence firm BenevolentAI, which goals to coach computer systems to vary how medication is developed.
She was beforehand parliamentary under-secretary of state on the DCMS, and till early 2018 was UK minister for web security and safety.
From December 2016, Shields acted because the prime minister’s particular consultant on web crime and harms, driving a extra worldwide method to web security and safety.
Previously CEO of accelerator programme Tech Metropolis, Shields based not-for-profit WeProtect.org in 2013 to struggle on-line little one abuse and exploitation.
Previously European chief of Fb, Shields has had a number of roles as an adviser on digital. She believes the UK should handle digital transformation correctly whether it is to stay a pacesetter in digital improvement.
Kate Russell
Russell has been writing about expertise for the reason that mid-Nineteen Nineties, and is seen as a subject professional on the subject of the expertise sector. Earlier than her profession in TV presenting and journalism, she bought CD manufacturing to laptop sport corporations.
Russell is a frequent occasions speaker and works with organisations that purpose to extend the variety of younger individuals who pursue a job within the tech sector, corresponding to TeenTech.
Till final yr, she was a presenter on BBC expertise programme Click on, from which she stepped all the way down to create a Twitch channel devoted to rescued ferrets.
She has printed many books, together with Working the cloud, Elite: largely innocent and A bookkeeper’s information to sensible sorcery.
Kathryn Parsons
Parsons based Decoded in East London in 2011 “with a bank card and a mission to show code in a day”. The coding faculty has taught folks in companies worldwide concerning the internal workings of applied sciences corresponding to code, information, AI and cyber safety.
Parsons launched the Decoded Knowledge Academy in 2018 and desires Decoded’s efforts to extend digital literacy in companies and authorities, and fill the information abilities hole.
Till early 2021, she was a non-executive board member for the Division for Enterprise, Power and Industrial Technique, and till 2020 sat on the enterprise advisory boards for the London mayor and 10 Downing Avenue.
Parsons was awarded an MBE in 2016 for her work in campaigning for code to be launched into the UK’s curriculum.
Maggie Berry
Berry is the director of Coronary heart of the Metropolis, which works with small companies to assist them develop enterprise programmes aimed toward selling variety and supporting native communities, amongst different issues.
Previous to this, she was government director for Europe at WEConnect Worldwide, the place she helped the agency to develop its company and public sector assist, and develop its community of greater than 1,500 women-led companies to hook up with the company provide chain.
Berry beforehand ran on-line job board for recruitment and networking womenintechnology.co.uk, and is an advocate for variety within the tech {industry}. She was awarded an OBE in 2019 for her providers to girls in expertise and enterprise. She can be a committee member of the Walsworth Neighborhood Centre and, till early 2021, was a variety advisory committee member for Founders4Schools.
Maggie Philbin
The 2016 winner of Pc Weekly’s Most Influential Girl in UK Tech, Philbin is founding father of TeenTech and has spent greater than 30 years reporting on STEM topics for tv and radio.
She co-founded TeenTech with the purpose of serving to younger folks be impressed by – and search a future profession in – expertise by fixing real-world issues with expertise.
An enormous advocate of variety within the tech sector, Philbin has obtained eight honorary levels and an OBE to recognise her providers on this space – though she insists these honours belong to her “wonderful and devoted” group.
Margaret Ross
Initially on monitor to grow to be a secretary, Ross, a professor at Southampton Solent College, went on to realize levels in arithmetic, which finally led her to programming and computing.
Though semi-retired, alongside her work at Southampton Solent, Ross is concerned in BCS and BCSWomen.
In 2009, she was awarded an MBE for providers to training.
Martha Lane Fox
Co-founder of Lastminute.com, serial entrepreneur Martha Lane Fox continues to advertise the reason for girls and variety within the IT {industry}.
She additionally works for digital abilities parity and believes extra must be completed to make sure the 12 million adults who can’t use the web can obtain even probably the most primary duties concerned in a digital future.
Lane Fox intends her Doteveryone venture – which she launched throughout her speech on the 2015 Dimbleby Lecture – to behave as a platform to gas the dialogue round startups, governments, gender and abilities.
A agency believer that the web must be used as an enabler for change, Lane Fox has used her place as chancellor for the Open College, a member of the board of advisers for the Authorities Digital Service, and crossbench peer within the Home of Lords, to talk out about the necessity for variety and digital enablement.
She is now a director at Twitter, having joined the agency’s board in 2016, and was appointed a distinguished fellow by the BCS, the Chartered Institute for IT, alongside Wendy Corridor.
Max Benson and Karen Gill
Benson and Gill launched Everywoman in 1999 to behave as a web-based group for ladies throughout the UK and supply a community, assist and sources for ladies wanting to begin their very own companies.
The community finally grew to assist not solely feminine entrepreneurs, but in addition girls in sectors corresponding to retail, journey, transport and logistics, and insurance coverage and threat.
In 2010, it expanded additional to cater to girls within the expertise sector, and Benson and Gill launched the Everywoman in Expertise Awards to showcase the sector’s position fashions and shine a lightweight on the several types of roles and careers within the sector.
As a part of Everywoman, the pair additionally launched the Tech Hub, which goals to offer girls within the tech sector entry to sources and connections that can assist them additional develop management abilities and advance their careers.
Benson and Gill had been awarded MBEs in 2009 for providers to girls’s enterprise.
Nicola Mendelsohn
Mendelsohn is vice-president of the International Enterprise Group for Fb guardian firm Meta, and was beforehand vice-president of Europe, Center East and Africa (EMEA) operations at Fb, the place she targeted on progress areas within the area.
In addition to her position at Meta, Mendelsohn is a chairperson for the Follicular Lymphoma Basis, non-executive director of shopper items agency Diageo and co-president of charity Norwood.
Beforehand, she was {industry} chair of the Artistic Industries Council and a director of the Girls’s Prize for Fiction.
Mendelsohn has had a protracted profession in expertise, in addition to promoting and advertising in roles corresponding to government chairman and accomplice on the Karmarama promoting company.
In 2015, she was awarded a CBE for providers to the inventive {industry}.
Rebecca George
Till spring 2021, George was the managing accomplice for presidency and public providers at Deloitte, main the agency’s public sector practices throughout Europe.
Beforehand, she was lead public sector accomplice at Deloitte, the place she was chargeable for tasks corresponding to serving to the general public sector enhance effectivity and develop finest follow, and was a board member of the Metropolis Psychological Well being Alliance till final yr.
George is an impartial chair for the Expertise Reform Board on the Division for Schooling, and in 2006 she was awarded an OBE for her work on sustainable communities.
Sarah Burnett
Burnett is a founding accomplice and non-executive director at administration guide agency Emergence Companions, the place she is head of expertise immersion and insights.
Earlier than this, she was an government vice-president and distinguished analyst at Everest Group, the place she used her abilities to guide the group on international service supply automation analysis and European follow throughout its international providers analysis areas.
Earlier than becoming a member of Everest Group, Burnett was vice-president of analysis at Nelson Corridor, overlaying areas corresponding to infrastructure, IT outsourcing, cloud and authorities enterprise course of outsourcing. Till final yr, she was chair of BCSWomen, and in 2017 launched the BCSWomen AI Accelerator.
Burnett is an industrial advisory board member for the Open College Faculty of Computing and Communications, and chief expertise evangelist for KYP.ai.
Sarah Wooden
Wooden based international promoting market Unruly, the place she was CEO till 2015 when it was acquired by Information Corp.
She is the non-executive director of Sign AI, senior impartial director of Tech Nation, and is a enterprise mentor for The Hatchery at College School London.
Wooden is writer of Stepping up: The best way to speed up your management potential, which she describes as a profession handbook for the millennial technology.
In 2016, she was awarded an OBE for providers to expertise and innovation.
Sheila Flavell
A member of the tech sector for 30 years, Flavell was appointed chief working officer of IT providers agency FDM Group in 2008, and is an government board director of the agency the place she spearheads FDM’s International Girls in Tech marketing campaign and FDM’s Getting Again to Enterprise programme, aimed toward offering alternatives for returners to work.
She is present president of TechUK, a council member for the Digital Expertise Council, and is continuously known as to advise authorities committees on varied points, particularly across the digital abilities hole.
She gained Chief of the 12 months on the Everywoman in Expertise Awards in 2012, and in 2019 was awarded a CBE for providers to gender equality in IT and the employment of graduates and returners.
Sherry Coutu
The 2017 winner of Pc Weekly’s Most Influential Girl in UK Tech title, Coutu is a serial entrepreneur, having based or co-founded corporations corresponding to Founders4Schools, Workfinder, the Scaleup Institute and Silicon Valley Involves the UK.
She remains to be concerned with many of those corporations, is an angel investor, and sits on the boards of a number of corporations, charities and universities.
Coutu is an impartial non-executive director of Pearson and Raspberry Pi.
In 2013, she was awarded an OBE for providers to entrepreneurship.
Stephanie Shirley
In 1962, Shirley developed a “software program home” for feminine freelance programmers, which finally employed greater than 8,000 folks and paved the best way for versatile working.
When she launched the agency, she started signing her title as “Steve” to beat male preconceptions about girls in enterprise.
Shirley seems in each the Bletchley Park and California computing museums, was the primary feminine president of the BCS, a grasp of the Worshipful Firm of Data Technologists, and co-founded the Oxford Web Institute in 2001.
Sue Black
In 2016, Black launched her guide Saving Bletchley Park, which particulars her marketing campaign to cease the historic Bletchley Park from falling into disrepair.
In 2015, she was awarded an OBE for her providers to expertise, and is an outspoken advocate for making certain extra girls and ladies take an curiosity in expertise.
Black presently acts because the founder and chief evangelist of the TechMums initiative, which goals to encourage extra kids into expertise by making certain moms acquire confidence and abilities in utilizing IT.
She additionally acts as a mentor for startups at Google Campus for Mums and an adviser for the UK’s Authorities Digital Service.
Sue Daley
Daley leads TechUK’s work on cloud, information, analytics and AI and has been recognised within the UK Large Knowledge 100 as a key influencer in driving ahead the massive information agenda.
She is co-chair of the Nationwide Knowledge Technique Discussion board, which goals to put the UK on the forefront in information, and has acted as a choose for a number of awards, such because the Loebner Prize in AI, UKtech50 and the Annual UK Cloud Awards.
Earlier than becoming a member of TechUK in January 2015, she was chargeable for Symantec’s authorities relations within the UK and Eire.
In 2016, Daley swam the English Channel.
Trudy Norris-Gray
Norris-Gray’s profession has been targeted on expertise and digital transformation throughout corporations corresponding to BT, Solar Microsystems, Oracle and Eastman Kodak, the place she held senior government posts.
She now splits her time between the US and the UK and is chair of Smart (Girls in Science, Engineering and Expertise), in addition to chair of the UCAS board of trustees.
Till 2019, Norris-Gray was international managing director of native regional authorities, good cities and related infrastructure for Microsoft in Seattle, US, adopted by a job as deputy CEO of enterprise and international partnerships at AXA.
Wendy Corridor
Corridor holds a number of positions on the College of Southampton, together with professor of laptop science and affiliate vice-president (worldwide engagement), and is an government director of the college’s Net Science Institute.
Corridor was named a Dame CBE in 2009, and is a fellow of the Royal Society.
She has held a number of distinguished positions within the STEM sector, together with president of the ACM and senior vice-president of the Royal Academy of Engineering.
In addition to having been a member of the UK prime minister’s Council for Science and Expertise, Corridor was co-chair of the UK authorities’s 2017 AI assessment, and was introduced by the federal government as the primary abilities champion for AI within the UK.