Overview
When
Wednesday, March 24, 2021
12:00 p.m. - 13:30 p.m. GMT
Investing in WomenPlease join us for our 'Investing in Women' webinar on Wednesday, 24 March 2021 at 12 pm where we will hear from our amazing female panel on the future of female entrepreneurship in the UK.
Panelists:
Sherry Coutu CBE (serial entrepreneur and angel investor, founder of Founders4Schools, Workfinder, and the Scaleup Institute, a non-executive member of The Royal Society, (Translation and Data Science Committees), Cambridge University (Finance Board), Raspberry Pi and the London Stock Exchange plc. Named most Influential Woman in UK IT 2017, Barclay's Entrepreneur of the Year 2017, Top 50 inspiring women in Europe by the Management Today and Top Entrepreneur contributing to 'Queen and Country' by Sunday Times Magazine))
Yvonne Greeves (Director of Women in Business for NatWest - Yvonne is responsible for the Women in Business Strategy across the UK working with key stakeholders and strategic partnerships both internally and externally across the UK. With over 400 externally trained and accredited WIB Specialists supporting female entrepreneurs to set up and scale their business Yvonne is responsible for the banks WIB targets and monitoring and reporting the data to the banks executives); and
Claire Rowe (Partner at Shoosmiths, Advisor to the Partnership and Shoosmiths’ first female former CEO for over a decade from 2009 to 2018); to be chaired by Alex Bishop (Partner at Shoosmiths, National head of dispute resolution & litigation, first female co-head of Shoosmiths' Birmingham Office, awarded the title 'Inspiring Leader 2019'' at the BYPY Awards and listed in The Lawyer Hot 100 2021).
Chaired by
Alex Bishop (Partner at Shoosmiths, National head of dispute resolution & litigation, first female co-head of Shoosmiths' Birmingham Office, awarded the title 'Inspiring Leader 2019' at the BYPY Awards and listed in The Lawyer Hot 100 2021).
Shoosmiths has consistently sought to promote women in business and support female entrepreneurship. We have done this through supporting various of our initiatives such as Women in Finance (supporting women in the financial services sector), InHerShoos (our women led networking initiative) and spHERe (our initiative supporting female founders and venture capitalists within the VC space) as well as signing up to committing to the social mobility pledge. We look forward to hosting these communities along with our wider clients and partners for this dynamic and thought-provoking event.
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