Laptop Weekly’s checklist of the Most Influential Women in UK Technology has been working since 2012 to make feminine function fashions within the UK’s know-how sector extra seen and accessible.
In 2015, the Hall of Fame was introduced alongside the highest 50 to recognise girls who’ve made a lifetime contribution to the know-how sector, in addition to their efforts to encourage others to hitch the IT {industry}, additional increasing the variety of superb girls persons are studying about.
Function fashions are vitally vital for encouraging individuals from under-represented teams into the know-how sector – seeing others like them in a selected {industry} or place can assist them to envisage themselves in these roles sooner or later, in addition to see the steps which will get them there.
New girls are added to the Corridor of Fame yearly, not solely to recognise and rejoice girls who’ve spent their profession going above and past to enhance range and inclusion to the tech {industry}, and to make significant contributions to the know-how area normally, however to make sure much more names may be included on the highest 50 checklist of essentially the most influential girls in UK know-how.
The newest entrants to the Corridor of Fame are:
Laptop Weekly’s 2022 most influential girl in UK tech, Flavilla Fongang, is a strategic model specialist aiming to assist know-how firms with model engagement. She is managing director of inventive company 3 Colors Rule, in addition to a branding, neuromarketing and social promoting course teacher for the company.
She is a model adviser on the BBC, a model specialist for Consilience Ventures and an entrepreneurship professional with the Entrepreneurship Centre on the Saïd Enterprise Faculty on the College of Oxford.
She based the Tech London Advocates Black Ladies in Tech group, which goals to assist and speed up range and inclusion within the tech sector. A podcaster, writer and influencer, Fongang goes above and past to make sure the inclusion of black girls within the know-how sector and past.
A serial founder, advisor and angel investor, Clare Sutcliffe first appeared on Laptop Weekly’s radar because the founding father of Code Membership, a nationwide community of free volunteer-led after-school coding golf equipment for youngsters aged 11th of September.
Till early 2018, Sutcliffe was govt director of communities and outreach for Raspberry Pi Basis following its merger with Code Membership, the place Sutcliffe was accountable for introducing and creating a web-based studying platform to present individuals entry to digital “making” tasks utilizing Raspberry Pi know-how.
In 2015, Sutcliffe was awarded an MBE for her providers to know-how, and has been a co-founder of many organisations, together with She Wins and Neighborhood Professionals of London.
She now helps different manufacturers develop companies which can be primarily based round harnessing the ability of neighborhood.
Coyle has held a number of roles at London & Companions, together with principal adviser, director of commerce and progress, main the export and progress technique for the agency, and managing director of progress, earlier than being made managing director of enterprise progress in early 2021.
She has a number of different roles, together with a non-executive director for Rocketseed and appearing co-chair for the Tech London Advocates Scale Up Group.
Up to now, she was managing director of Silicon Valley Involves the UK and an adviser for charity Founders4Schools.
An professional on synthetic intelligence (AI), Tabitha Goldstaub is greatest referred to as the co-founder of CognitionX, a platform and community that helps to construct AI and data-driven methods. She is presently appearing as govt director of Innovate Cambridge to assist the area develop an inclusive and sustainable innovation technique, and she or he can also be the writer of The way to speak to robots – a ladies’ information to a world dominated by AI.
She additionally acts as a choose for Teenagers in AI, and is an advisory board member for the Marketing campaign for Science and Engineering.
Up to now, she has been chair of the federal government’s AI Council, advertising and marketing counsel for Founders4Schools, adviser for The Prince’s Belief and was a co-founder of Future Woman Corp, an organisation that runs free occasions for future feminine CEOs.
Wendy Tan White is vice-president at X, Alphabet’s Moonshot Manufacturing unit, a gaggle of traders and entrepreneurs aiming to make use of know-how to avoid wasting lives.
She additionally has a presence at Imperial Faculty London, the place for the previous eight years she has been on the advisory board for the Dyson Faculty of Design Engineering, and in was awarded an MBE in 2016 for providers to know-how and enterprise.
Tan White co-founded and was CEO of Moonfruit till 2015, a DIY web site and on-line store builder for small companies. She was a common associate at Entrepreneur First, a programme and fund centered on early-stage deep tech firms, and till 2018 was an advisory board member for the Authorities Digital Service.
She is now a member of the UK’s Digital Financial system Council which goals to develop the federal government’s technique for the event of a world-leading digital financial system.
She splits her time between the UK and San Francisco.
Amali de Alwis Winner of Computer Weekly’s Most Influential Woman in UK Tech accolade in 2018, De Alwis is presently a board member for a portfolio of companies, together with abrdn Charitable Basis, Ada, the Nationwide Faculty for Digital Expertise, the variety and inclusion board on the Institute of Coding and Cajigo, in addition to appearing as a startup advisor.
She has been a CEO for a number of firms up to now, together with local weather startup accelerator Subak, Founders Discussion board and coding coaching programme Code First: Women, which not solely goals to extend range within the tech sector, however in 2018 was educating more women in the UK to code than the UK’s university system.
She has beforehand additionally been UK managing director of Microsoft for Startups, and De Alwis sits on the board of trustees for the Raspberry Pi Basis in addition to a founding member of the Tech Expertise Constitution.
In 2019, she was awarded an MBE for providers to range and coaching within the tech {industry}.
Andrea Palmer
Palmer has had an extended profession in enterprise change and digital transformation, having held varied roles at power agency BP over 15 years.
She is presently chair of BCS Ladies, sits on the BCS society board and in 2021 volunteered as a programme supervisor for iSAW Worldwide.
In earlier years, she has served as one in every of Laptop Weekly’s professional judges for the Most Influential Ladies in UK Tech checklist, dedicating lots of time, each in and out of doors her work, to furthering the dialog round getting extra girls into the tech sector.
Anne Boden Boden based digital challenger financial institution Starling in 2014 to construct an organisation centered 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 e book, ‘The cash revolution’, was launched in 2019 and goals to assist individuals handle their cash in a digitally pushed world.
Anne-Marie Imafidon
Imafidon was initially named one in every of Computer Weekly’s Rising Stars in 2014, happening to win the title of Most Influential Lady in UK Tech in 2020.
Her e book, ‘She’s in CTRL’, was printed in 2022, geared toward serving to girls to reclaim their place within the period of know-how.
Imafidon is CEO of Stemettes, which she based to encourage younger girls to think about careers in science, know-how, engineering and maths (STEM).
Exterior of her work with Stemettes, she is a commissioner for the Hamilton Fee, an initiative arrange by racing driver Lewis Hamilton to handle the dearth of black individuals each in UK motorsport and within the STEM sectors.
She has appeared as a co-presenter on ITV’s Countdown, and can also be a daily podcast host on the Night Commonplace’s Ladies Tech Cost podcast. Imafidon can also 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.
Anne Marie Neatham
Neatham took on her present function at Ocado Group because the chief working officer of Kindred, the AI robotics agency acquired by the group, in 2022.
She is a real believer that to get younger ladies into know-how careers, encouragement wants to begin early within the schooling system.
Beforehand, Neatham led Ocado Know-how’s groups centered on robotics and automation in her function as business director for the workplace of the CTO at Ocado Know-how. She has been with Ocado since 2001, initially as a software program engineer, then head of Ocado Know-how in Poland in 2012, the place she arrange the agency’s Polish arm.
She turned chief working officer of Ocado Know-how in 2014, and has beforehand been a software program engineer in software program and retail corporations around the globe.
Carrie Anne Philbin
One other alumna of Laptop Weekly’s 2016 Women in Tech Rising Stars, Philbin has a number of duties throughout the Institute of Creativeness (previously referred to as the Raspberry Pi Basis), together with main technique, persevering with skilled growth programmes and studying sources.
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 geared toward making laptop science extra accessible for everybody. She can also be a YouTuber, author and secondary-level computing and ICT instructor.
Chi Onwurah
Onwurah is the MP for Newcastle upon Tyne Central and shadow minister for digital, science and know-how.
She has held many roles centered on know-how, 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 accountable for the agency’s product, service and assist providing throughout the area.
Beforehand, Rose labored in senior roles throughout the know-how 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 know-how, and is presently a non-executive director for communications agency WPP. Debbie Forster
Forster is an award-winning range, tech and schooling 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 acquired an MBE in 2017 for providers to digital know-how and tech growth and was named 2019’s Most Influential Lady in UK IT by Laptop 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 Financial system Council and Cash and Pensions Service Advisory Board.
Eileen Burbidge
Burbidge is a partner at London-based venture capital firm Passion Capital, the place she provides expertise gained from varied tech roles all through her profession.
Her profession in know-how has spanned 15 years and consists of roles at firms corresponding to Yahoo!, Skype, PalmSource, Openwave, Solar Microsystems and Apple.
Alongside her function at Ardour Capital, Burbidge is the, a non-executive director at Currys plc, and was a co-founder/startup angel and adviser for White Bear Yard.
Till 2020, she was chair of Tech Nation, and was beforehand a member of the prime minister’s enterprise advisory group, and a particular envoy for fintech for HM Treasury. Elizabeth Denham
Till 2021, Denham was the UK’s data commissioner, main the workplace coping with the Information Safety Act 2018 – the UK’s implementation of the EU’s Basic Information Safety Regulation (GDPR).
Earlier than turning into data commissioner, Denham was the knowledge and privateness commissioner for British Columbia, Canada, accountable 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 know-how roles.
Beforehand chair of BCSWomen, she is now president 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 frolicked as chair of the European Ladies in IT taskforce, geared toward creating greatest 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 once a board member at Wise, 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 also 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 Ladies in Tech Cymru summer time convention in 2019.
She has received awards in educating and acquired 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 an extended profession in science and know-how.
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 turn into snug utilizing digital and on-line applied sciences.
Most of her work is targeted on constructing tech inclusion for digitally excluded individuals. 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 Laptop Weekly’s Most Influential Lady UK Tech, De Rojas insists that you simply “can have it all” – she will not be solely president of an organization and non-executive director of a number of extra, however can also be married and has three youngsters and two canine.
De Rojas is president of Digital Leaders, board member and former president 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 know-how.
Jane Moran
Moran was the first winner of Computer Weekly’s Most Influential Woman 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 Ladies’s Community, Ladies in Know-how Worldwide and the Nationwide Centre for Ladies in Know-how.
Now she is the non-executive director of JP Morgan Europe, and CIDO of Mass Basic Brigham within the US, having stepped down as World CIO of Unilever, a place she held for nearly seven years.
Moran can also 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 neighborhood, and is an advocate for management expertise and guaranteeing extra girls think about a know-how profession.
In 2014, Moran was placed first on the annual Computer Weekly UKTech50 list, a showcase of the highest movers and shakers within the UK IT {industry}.
Jo Twist
Twist was CEO of UKIE, the video games {industry} commerce physique that goals to make the UK the chief in video games and interactive leisure, for 11 years, earlier than transferring on to be CEO of the British Phonographic Trade in 2023.
Twist is vice-president of video games charity Particular Impact, and chairs the video games committee at Bafta.
Twist was beforehand commissioning editor for schooling at Channel 4, deputy chair of the British Display screen Discussion board, and was multi-platform commissioner of leisure and Change for the BBC within the early 2000s.
In 2016, she acquired an OBE for her contribution to the inventive industries.
Joanna Shields
The 2013 winner of Computer Weekly’s Most Influential Woman 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 baby 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 growth.
June Angelides
Angelides based, and till 2017 was CEO of, Mums in Tech when on maternity go away from Silicon Valley Financial institution, the place she held roles as an affiliate for accelerator progress and an affiliate for entrepreneur banking.
She’s presently a board observer for a lot of corporations, together with Everpress, Aptitude and Jude, and is an Investor at Samos Investments and Ada Ventures.
She has held many non-executive positions up to now together with board adviser for Cajigo App and World App Testing, 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 Know-how, an Oxford Foundry mentor at Oxford College. Angelides was beforehand chosen as a Laptop Weekly Rising Star, and was awarded an MBE in 2020.
Kate Russell
Russell has been writing about know-how because the mid-Nineties, and is seen as a topic professional in relation to the know-how sector. Earlier than her profession in TV presenting and journalism, she bought CD manufacturing to laptop sport firms.
Russell is a frequent occasions speaker and works with organisations that goal to extend the variety of younger individuals who pursue a job within the tech sector, corresponding to TeenTech.
Till 2021, she was a presenter on BBC know-how programme Click, from which she stepped right down to create a Twitch channel dedicated 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 individuals in companies worldwide in regards to the inside workings of applied sciences corresponding to code, information, AI and cyber safety.
Parsons launched the Decoded Information Academy in 2018 and desires Decoded’s efforts to extend digital literacy in companies and authorities, and fill the data skills gap. 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 Road.
Parsons was awarded an MBE in 2016 for her work in campaigning for code to be introduced 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 geared toward selling range and supporting native communities, amongst different issues.
Previous to this, she was govt 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 connect with the company provide chain.
Berry beforehand ran on-line job board for recruitment and networking womenintechnology.co.uk, and is an advocate for range within the tech {industry}. She was awarded an OBE in 2019 for her providers to girls in know-how and enterprise. She can also be a committee member of the Walsworth Neighborhood Centre and, till early 2021, was a range advisory committee member for Founders4Schools.
Maggie Philbin
The 2016 winner of Laptop Weekly’s Most Influential Lady 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 goal of serving to younger individuals be impressed by – and search a future profession in – know-how by fixing real-world issues with know-how. An enormous advocate of range within the tech sector, Philbin has acquired eight honorary levels and an OBE to recognise her providers on this space – though she insists these honours belong to her “superb and devoted” staff.
Margaret Ross
Initially on observe to turn into a secretary, Ross, a professor at Southampton Solent College, went on to realize levels in arithmetic, which ultimately 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 schooling.
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 expertise parity and believes extra ought to be carried out to ensure the 12 million adults who cannot use the internet can achieve even the most basic tasks involved in a digital future.
Lane Fox intends her Doteveryone project – which she launched during her speech at the 2015 Dimbleby Lecture – to behave as a platform to gasoline the dialogue round startups, governments, gender and expertise. A agency believer that the web ought to 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 range and digital enablement.
She is now president of the British Chambers of Commerce, a cross-bench peer, 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 neighborhood for ladies throughout the UK and supply a community, assist and sources for ladies wanting to begin their very own companies.
The community ultimately 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 women in the technology sector, and Benson and Gill launched the Everywoman in Know-how Awards to showcase the sector’s function fashions and shine a light-weight 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 present girls within the tech sector entry to sources and connections that may assist them additional develop management expertise and advance their careers.
Benson and Gill have been awarded MBEs in 2009 for providers to girls’s enterprise.
Nicola Blackwood Blackwood is chair of the board of Genomics England, a mentor for the Inventive 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 not too long ago 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 Initiatives.
Nicola Mendelsohn
Mendelsohn is head of the World 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 centered on progress areas within the area.
In addition to her function 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 Inventive Industries Council and a director of the Ladies’s Prize for Fiction.
Mendelsohn has had an extended profession in know-how, in addition to promoting and advertising and marketing in roles corresponding to govt chairman and associate on the Karmarama promoting company.
In 2015, she was awarded a CBE for providers to the inventive {industry}. Poppy Gustafsson
The 2021 winner of the title Laptop Weekly’s Most Influential Lady 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 lots of completely different routes into the know-how sector, and that ladies shouldn’t be “apologetic” about having non-traditional skillsets whereas making their approach into tech roles.
Gustafsson studied arithmetic at Sheffield College, transferring on to turn into 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 Right now 30 underneath 35 and was a winner within the Veuve Clicquot Enterprise Lady Awards in 2019.
Priya Guha
Guha is a serial adviser and non-executive director, and in 2021 acquired an MBE for providers to worldwide commerce and ladies in innovation.
In 2019, she joined Merian Ventures as a enterprise associate, having beforehand been ecosystem common supervisor for the London campus of Silicon Valley-born co-working area 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
Bumbra based Structur3dpeople in 2015 to assist organisations to recruit a extra numerous workforce for know-how, digital and management roles, and remains to be director there.
Since then, she has based Instagram Reside chat present Ladies Speak Tech to showcase the experiences of ladies throughout several types of tech {industry} roles, and can also be founding father of cellular studying platform Cajigo, which helps girls of all ages achieve the abilities they want for tech roles.
Bumbra was named a girls in tech Rising Star by Laptop Weekly in 2018.
Rebecca George
Till spring 2021, George was the managing associate for presidency and public providers at Deloitte, main the agency’s public sector practices throughout Europe.
Beforehand, she was lead public sector associate at Deloitte, the place she was accountable for tasks corresponding to serving to the general public sector enhance effectivity and develop greatest observe, 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 Training, and in 2006 she was awarded an OBE for her work on sustainable communities. Sarah Burnett
Till 2022, Burnett was a founding associate and non-executive director at administration advisor agency Emergence Companions, the place she was head of know-how immersion and insights.
Earlier than this, she was an govt vice-president and distinguished analyst at Everest Group, the place she used her expertise to steer the group on international service supply automation analysis and European observe 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 know-how evangelist for KYP.ai.
Sarah Luxford
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 associate (digital, information and know-how) at advisory agency GatenbySanderson.
Earlier than her present function, Luxford was director at recruitment firm World 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 one in every of Laptop Weekly’s Rising Stars in 2015. 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 Faculty London.
Wooden is writer of Stepping up: The 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 know-how and innovation.
Sharon Moore
Moore is presently the worldwide technical lead for presidency at IBM Know-how, the place she goals to make use of know-how to assist the federal government to develop higher outcomes for individuals throughout the UK.
Beforehand at IBM, she was chief know-how officer (CTO) for public sector at IBM UK and, previous to that, centered on designing technical options for IBM’s shoppers within the journey and transportation {industry}, incorporating engagement, web of issues (IoT) and analytics applied sciences, in her function as {industry} technical chief for journey and transportation.
Moore has been closely concerned within the BCS over time, and till not too long ago was a justice and emergency providers administration committee member for TechUK. In 2018 she was awarded an MBE for providers to girls in technology-based industries.
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 govt board director of the agency the place she spearheads FDM’s World Ladies in Tech marketing campaign and FDM’s Getting Again to Enterprise programme, geared toward offering alternatives for returners to work.
She is present president of TechUK, a council member for the Digital Expertise Council, and is continuously referred to as to advise authorities committees on varied points, particularly across the digital expertise hole.
She received Chief of the 12 months on the Everywoman in Know-how 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 Computer Weekly’s Most Influential Woman in UK Tech title, Coutu is a serial entrepreneur, having based or co-founded firms corresponding to Founders4Schools, Workfinder, the Scaleup Institute and Silicon Valley Involves the UK.
She remains to be concerned with many of those firms, is an angel investor, and sits on the boards of a number of firms, charities and universities.
Coutu is an impartial non-executive director of Pearson and Raspberry Pi, in addition to a chairperson at Superpower. In 2013, she was awarded an OBE for providers to entrepreneurship.
Stephanie Shirley
In 1962, Shirley developed a “software house” for female freelance programmers, which ultimately employed greater than 8,000 individuals and paved the way in which 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 e book Saving Bletchley Park, which particulars her campaign to stop the historic Bletchley Park from falling into disrepair.
In 2015, she was awarded an OBE for her providers to know-how, and is an outspoken advocate for ensuring more women and girls take an interest in technology.
Black presently acts because the founder and chief evangelist of the TechMums initiative, which goals to encourage extra youngsters into know-how by guaranteeing moms achieve confidence and expertise in utilizing IT, and an adviser for the UK’s Authorities Digital Service. Sue Daley
Daley leads TechUK’s work on cloud, data, analytics and AI, in addition to the organisation’s director of tech and innovation, and has been recognised within the UK Large Information 100 as a key influencer in driving ahead the large information agenda.
She is co-chair of the Nationwide Information 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 accountable 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 centered on know-how and digital transformation throughout corporations corresponding to BT, Solar Microsystems, Oracle and Eastman Kodak, the place she held senior govt posts.
She now splits her time between the US and the UK and is chair of Clever (Ladies in Science, Engineering and Know-how), in addition to chair of the UCAS board of trustees.
Till 2019, Norris-Gray was international managing director of native regional authorities, sensible cities and related infrastructure for Microsoft in Seattle, US, adopted by a job as deputy CEO of enterprise and international partnerships at AXA. Vanessa Vallely
In 2008, Vallely based WeAreTheCity, an organisation that gives working girls with assist and sources to assist their careers. The organisation has advanced 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 Ladies Impressed Restricted and a companion of the Chartered Administration Institute.
Vallely has a background in know-how and finance, is writer of Heels of metal, and in 2018 was awarded an OBE for providers to girls and the financial system.
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 govt director of the college’s Internet Science Institute.
Corridor was named a Dame CBE in 2009, and is a fellow of the Royal Society.
She has held a number of outstanding 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 Know-how, Corridor was co-chair of the UK authorities’s 2017 AI evaluate, and was introduced by the federal government as the primary expertise champion for AI within the UK
Flavilla Fongang, managing director, 3 Colors Rule; founder, TLA Black Ladies in Tech
Clare Sutcliffe, co-founder, Code Membership; neighborhood technique advisor
Janet Coyle, managing director enterprise progress, London & Companions
Tabitha Goldstaub, co-founder, CognitionX; govt director, Innovate Cambridge
Wendy Tan White, CEO, Intrinsic – an Alphabet firm; board trustee, Alan Turing Institute; member, Digital Financial system Council
The prevailing members of the Corridor of Fame are:
