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It is our honor to have gathered together some of the inspiring and enterprising businesswomen in Europe for the inaugural WIE Power 50. We are proud to partner with the london stock Exchange group and cnBc for this event.WIE has always celebrated leadership and innovation in women. By shining a light on the successes of the last year, the goal is not only to celebrate achievement but to inspire a new generation to want to make their mark on the world.

The women assembled here today are the role models, the mentors, the champions and the new generation, amazingly two of the WIE50 honorees are also shortlisted for the Veuve Clicquot Business Woman of The Year Award. Because of these of 50 outstanding women, we hope greater numbers of women will aspire to run corporations and own their businesses. And we’ll get closer to having a more equal balance of power.

We asked each woman to describe “their golden rule for success”. The answers were diverse and illuminating. But all led back to that basic principle of self-belief and authenticity. With true self confidence, success surely follows.

We salute our amazing Power 50 for their tenacity, innovation, strength, talent, expertise, intellect, leadership and creativity.

June sarpong and dee PokuCo-Founders, WIE Women Inspiration and Enterprise

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Nick Clegg, Deputy Prime Minister I have three sons. I put a great deal of effort into teaching them that the world should be a

fair and equal place; that ability and hard work should be what counts not gender (or race or background for that matter); that women are every bit as capable as men. But the thing about children is this: they learn by seeing things for themselves, not just by being told. And what makes the biggest difference for my boys is the fact they are raised by equal parents. They see the two of us sharing responsibility for them and, even more importantly, they see Miriam taking her own decisions about the way she lives her life.

fields from business, to the media, to the arts and beyond. You should be applauded for that: you are helping the country through some extremely difficult times. But your combined legacy will have an even bigger, longer lasting reach: it will be the effect you have on the next generation. More and more young women will try to burst through the glass ceiling

just as important a generation of young men will be inspired by your stories rather than threatened by your success. So it gives me great pleasure to congratulate you on your achievements. But today on

Politicians can and must continue to champion fairness and equality. But your actions speak louder than our words. 8th March 2012

Keynote speaker

It is my honor to support the WIE Power List and to recognise the incredible achievements of these 50 impressive women.

Through their hard work and innovation they have help create hundreds of thousands of jobs. That matters more than ever in these tough times.

Our economy currently faces huge challenges, and our priority must be on job creation. We need ideas and policies that get all our citizens, and especially young people, back to work.

As we look to return our economy to growth we need to understand the crucial role small businesses and risk-taking entrepreneurs have. And government needs to understand its role in giving them the support they need.

And while people’s attention is focused on the economy, we must not forget the part our public services play in families’ lives. We need a strong NHS and school system, supporting working mothers and their families.

With clearer fairer systems that support all our citizens, we can make Britain a better place for all. That’s the way we create a modern thriving economy and a stronger future for our country.

Congratulations to the founders of WIE, Women Inspiration and Enterprise, for creating an initiative that seeks to provide women with the tools to succeed. Initiatives such as the annual empowerment conference and the mentor scheme provide our future leaders with valuable inspiration and guidance.

Ed Miliband

Leader of the Labour Party

“Congratulations to the founders of WIE, Women Inspiration and Enterprise, for creating an initiative that seeks to provide women with the tools to succeed.”

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I want to congratulate each of you for your inspirational leadership and for helping to create a better world for all. no society can progress if half of its population is left behind.

President Barack obama appointed melanne Verveer as ambassador-at-large for global Women’s Issues. the President’s decision to create a position of ambassador-at-large for global Women’s Issues is unprecedented, and reflects the elevated importance of these issues to the President and his entire administration.

By putting gender issues at the core of your work, you are ensuring women are able to more fully contribute their talents, creativity and experiences to the advancement of our society. This honor from Women Inspiration and Enterprise exemplifies what we all already know – that women are powerful agents of change and a fundamental part of the solution to today’s global challenges. Thank you for your leadership and vision, and for showing the world the progress we can make when we invest in women. You’re truly an inspiration to us all!

Melanne S. VerveerAmbassador at Large for Global Women’s Issues, U.S. Department of State

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michelle BachElEton behalf of un Women, I would like to congratulate the honorees of this year’s award as Europe’s fifty most inspirational women in business and leadership. We celebrate their outstanding achievements and pledge to do more to advance women’s leadership in business.While women have an increasing presence in public life, they remain significantly underrepresented in economic decision-making. Progress has been made in enhancing gender equality at work. However, gender wage gaps persist, women still struggle to balance work and family life, and the vast majority of leadership and management positions remain dominated by men. In fact, studies on the situation of women in the workplace show that the gender gap widens with the seniority and prestige of the position. Women still find it difficult to climb the career ladder; the often-quoted “glass ceiling” still exists.

Being honoured as Europe’s 50 most inspirational women in business and leadership, you truly serve as an inspiration to many women around the world. I encourage you to continue building the future generation of inspiring female leaders. By supporting other women to follow their career, by sharing your expertise, and by fostering equality in your companies and businesses, we promote equal opportunities for all.

Allow me to convey again my heartiest congratulations for your outstanding performances. I wish you the very best.

Michelle BacheletUnder-Secretary-General and Executive Director

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dear WIE 50 members,I feel truly honored to be playing a small part in the inaugural WIE event in london on International Women’s day, and just wish I could physically be among such amazing role models and women leaders.

I can imagine the power and grace, the intellect and imagination collecting in the room. I was inspired as well by extraordinary women at the WIE conference in NYC, and know that there has never been a time like today for the role of women in effecting significant change.

At Acumen Fund, we invest patient capital in places where government has failed and markets too often fail to go. Our focus is on the basics --water, affordable housing, clean energy, quality healthcare, agricultural inputs. Over the past 10 years we have invested $75 million in 65 social enterprises that have touched over 86 million lives and created 55,000 jobs, including many for women. And we are just getting started.

My book, The Blue Sweater, which WIE has generously provided for you today, is a sort of memoir about my journey to experimenting with new models that challenge both traditional capitalism as well as government when it comes to the poor. It is a book filled with high hopes, disasters and failures, extraordinary characters I was blessed to meet, and hopefully growing insight on new ways we might organize ourselves with our philanthropy and with change. If I have learned anything it is that dignity is more important to the human spirit than wealth, and hopefully, the book is a story about human dignity and how much more we could do to release human potential if we used the tools of business to build organizations and systems that listen to low-income people as individuals who want to change their own lives. I wish each of you all good things in your own journeys,

Jacqueline Novogratz Founder & CEO Acumen Fund

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non-Executive director, london stock Exchange group

london stock Exchange group (lsEg) is pleased to be partnering with the WIE symposium and is honoured to be hosting the 2012 WIE50 Power Breakfast.

Today’s event brings together many of the most innovative and successful business leaders and entrepreneurs from across the UK and Europe, and the fact that they are all women makes this event all the more inspirational! Sitting at the heart of the world’s business community and playing a pivotal role in funding businesses from across the globe, it is fitting that London Stock Exchange Group is playing host to the inaugural London WIE gathering. We are genuinely delighted to be involved.

LSEG itself is proud to be home to many inspiring women of our own - women who help us shape, develop and drive the success of one of the world’s most iconic and influential international businesses. LSEG women head-up our Group functions in primary markets, communications, legal, company secretariat and strategy, to name but a few. These women are some of the most experienced and respected in their professions.

With a 300 year history, London Stock Exchange Group women have over the years, helped make our business what it is today. The first ‘Stock Exchange Guides’, were all women -introduced in 1958 to host public tours of the trading floor, they explained how the stock market worked and quickly became the recognised public face of the Exchange; in 1973 the first female members stepped onto the trading floor, challenging the incumbent all-male profession and in doing so created a revolution in how ’business women’ were perceived; and only 28 years later LSEG appointed its first ever female CEO, Dame Clara Furse.

Today, ours is an international and diversified company with professional, skilled and highly experienced women on the Board, in senior management roles, in critical operational roles, in vital support functions and heavily represented each year in our new, and thriving, graduate programme. They, with their male colleagues, continue to make our business what it is and to deliver success. We are privileged to have so much talent within our organisation.

Women are a driving force behind many of the UK’s most innovative, fast growing companies and LSEG is a committed and focused advocate in helping these businesses to prosper. Through the management of diverse, liquid, efficient capital markets, LSEG plays a vital role in helping to fund growth and job creation, promoting financial education and working with government and policy makers to help create a framework for economic strength. At a time when we are seeking to kick-start our economy’s growth, it is a role we take very seriously.

We are privileged to today be playing host to some exceptional business women, role models for the next generation of leaders and true champions of enterprise. Their success, drive and determination is an inspiration to all.

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head of Female client group, Barclays Wealth

through our work at Barclays Wealth, we recognise the growing influence of women and the important role women are playing in economic recovery. across the globe, societies and demographics have undergone huge social changes over the past few decades. this trend is now being reflected in a greater number of women earning wealth directly, and the rise in the number of female board members, business owners and entrepreneurs.

As Head of the Female Client Group, I am deeply passionate about supporting and developing women from all walks of life. I truly believe that connecting women, providing education and fostering female entrepreneurship is part of the lifeblood of economic recovery.

We have developed our Female Client Group programme to support women in managing their personal wealth, as well as their business and lifestyle needs. Whilst we are all individuals, we recognise that men and women engage with both their personal and business finances differently. As an organisation, we have responded to this, offering a more holistic approach that works for the growing number of women who are starting up a business, running their own successful ventures or managing their own finances and those of their family.

Partnering with WIE to celebrate International Women’s Day reflects our aims of creating a platform for women to build links and networks that offer support and mentoring and of fostering inspiration and empowerment of this important group. Together with WIE, we recognise the important voice women carry and look forward to the exciting future it holds.

Barbara-Ann King

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since June 2002, lady lynn Forester de rothschild has been the chief Executive of E.l. rothschild llc, a private investment company with investments in the Economist group (uK), Weather central lP (us) and other companies in information technology, agriculture and real estate.

dame gail rebuck, cBE, is chair and chief Executive of the random house group, one of the largest general book publishers in the uK with subsidiary companies in australia, new zealand, south africa and India.

Lynn Forester de Rothschild worked to spread mobile connectivity and broadband internet access when she founded FirstMark Communications, Inc., in 1995. In 1998, she founded FirstMark Communications of Europe and built a 20,000 klm fiber network connecting 15 countries, one of the earliest and largest networks in the continent.

A philanthropist and dedicated public sector adviser, Lynn Forester de Rothschild has become a leading voice in women’s rights, entrepreneurship, social business and financial reform efforts. Designated a

‘Leader for Tomorrow’ by the Davos Forum, and a visionary thinker by The New York Magazine, she has served on President Clinton’s National Information Infrastructure Advisory Council and US Secretary of Energy’s Advisory Committee.

Lynn Forester de Rothschild is an active member of the Council on Foreign Relations (USA), Chatham House (UK), the Institute for Strategic Studies (UK), the International Advisory Council of Asia House (UK), and the Foreign Policy Association (USA).

The Random House Group comprises 6 publishing companies, over 40 imprints and publishes many of the world’s best known authors amongst them 31 Nobel laureates and 16 Man Booker prize winners.

The Random House Group is part of Random House Inc and Bertelsmann Media Worldwide and Gail is a member of Bertelsmann’s Group Management Committee.

Gail is also a Non-Executive Director of BSkyB, a Trustee of the National Literacy Trust and on the Council of the Royal College of Art. She chairs the Quick Reads adult literacy initiative, part of the World Book Day Charity which she co-launched and in 2010 sat on the Government’s Panel on Fair Access to the Professions. She was voted Veuve Clicquot Business Woman of the Year in April 2009 and awarded a DBE in the 2009 Queen’s Birthday Honours List.

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Barbara stocking joined oxfam gB as chief Executive in may 2001. oxfam gB is a major international non-government organisation whose mission is “to work with others to overcome poverty and suffering”.

Baroness scotland is the former shadow attorney general of England and Wales, following her time as hm attorney general from July 2007 to may 2010. she returned to private practice in January 2012..

Ensuring there is enough food for everyone in the future is Barbara’s current focus as she spear-heads Oxfam’s new global GROW campaign. Leading calls on government, businesses and consumers, she is demanding action to be taken on the gathering pace of climate change, food price rises, land grabs and the hunt for biofuels.

Barbara is a member of the Steering Committee for Humanitarian Response (SCHR), an alliance of nine major international humanitarian organisations, and was Chair from 2008 – 2010. She was also a member of UN Inter Agency Standing Committee for Humanitarian Action (IASC) from 2006-2010.

In December 2010 Barbara was appointed as a non-executive Director of the Cabinet Office Board, and in the same year was appointed a member of the Foreign Secretary’s Advisory Group on Human Rights.

Barbara is married and has two sons. She was awarded a CBE for health services in 2000 and a Dame Commander of the British Empire (DBE) for humanitarian services in the 2008 Queen’s Birthday Honours List.

Baroness Scotland has achieved a number of extraordinary firsts: In 1991 at the age of thirty five, she became the first black and youngest woman ever to be appointed Queen’s Counsel and the youngest person to be so appointed since Pitt the Younger. She was the first black woman to be appointed an Assistant Recorder, Deputy High Court Judge, Recorder, Master of Middle Temple, Member of the House of Lords, and Lord’s Minister, and is the first and only woman ever to have been appointed as Attorney General in the 700 year history of that Office.

She was the first black female government minister when in 1999 she became a Foreign Office minister. In 2001 she became Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor’s Department, and was made a member of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom. In 2003

Baroness Scotland was made Minister of State for the Criminal Justice system and Law Reform at the Home Office and chaired the Inter-Ministerial Group on Domestic Violence from 2003-2007 when she was appointed as HM Attorney General for England Wales and Northern Ireland.

Baroness Scotland is a founding patron of the Corporate Alliance Against Domestic Violence, and is also the joint Patron of Missio and the National Pro Bono Centre. In 2011, she founded the Eliminate Domestic Violence Global Foundation.

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Julie Woods-moss is President of Woods-moss holdings a company that specialises in venture development, strategy formation, market making and change management. Julie also holds the position of chief marketing officer at tata communications.

susan greenfield is Professor of Pharmacology at oxford university and a neuroscientist, writer, and broadcaster. she has been awarded 30 honorary degrees from British and foreign universities and heads a multi-disciplinary research group exploring novel brain mechanisms linked to neurodegenerative diseases such as alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s.

She has more than 20 years’ experience in senior executive roles with leading international corporations including IBM, UPC and BT. At IBM she was Director of Global Sales and Distribution for Mobile Solutions, Global Director of Marketing for SME’s, and Director of Operations for Emerging Markets.

Returning to Europe in 2000, she joined UPC, Europe’s largest cable company as Vice President Marketing responsible for the Broadband business and tripled the European subscriber base in three years. She joined BT in 2004 and became Chief Marketing Office

and President of Strategy with responsibility for BT’s £5 Billion products and services portfolio. Julie also serves on the advisory boards of Ovum, and the X-Prize Foundation, whose mission is to create radical breakthroughs in technology for the benefit of humanity.

In addition, she has published a neuroscientific theory of consciousness: The Private Life of the Brain (2003) and developed an interest in the impact of 21st Century technologies on how young people think and feel, as discussed in her book ID: The Quest for Identity in the 21st Century (2008).

In 1998 she received the Michael Faraday Medal from the Royal Society, was awarded a CBE in the Millennium New Year’s Honours List, and granted a non-political Life Peerage in 2001. In 2000 she was elected to an Honorary Fellowship of the Royal College of Physicians and in 2007 to an Honorary Fellowship of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. She was appointed Chancellor of Heriot Watt University in 2005.

Further recognition of her work includes L’Ordre National de la Légion d’Honneur from the French Government, and the American Academy of Achievement Golden Plate Award, both received in 2003, as well as the Australian Medical Research Society Medal, which she awarded in 2010. Last year (2011) she joined the Advisory Board of the Kusuma School of Biological Sciences at the Indian Institute for Technology, Delhi.

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rita graduated from cambridge and began her career in advertising. she worked at saatchi & saatchi for 12 years, becoming Vice chairman and Executive Planning director in 1995.

In 1997 she joined Interbrand, the world’s leading brand consultancy, as Chief Executive in London; in January 2002 she became Chairman. She is a speaker and media commentator on all areas of brands, reputation, sustainability, marketing and communications around the world. Her writing has included the book ‘The Future of Brands’, and The Economist book ‘Brands and Branding’.

She is a non-executive director of Bupa and of Dixons Retail plc, and also chairs Populus, the opinion pollster to The Times. She has been a member of the UK

Government’s Sustainable Development Commission and is on the Assurance and Advisory Board for BP’s carbon-offset programme ‘targetneutral’. In 2006, she was appointed Visiting Professor at Henley Business School, and as a trustee of WWF (Worldwide Fund for Nature) in 2007. She was made President of the Market Research Society in 2010, and her latest appointment is as Chairman of BTCV, the leading conservation volunteering and social enterprise group.

Last, but certainly not least, Rita has two daughters.

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lynne Franks, business woman, author, broadcaster and speaker, described by the world’s media as a lifestyle guru and visionary, is an acclaimed international spokesperson and advisor on the changes in today’s and tomorrow’s world both for the individual as well as society at large.

She is the founder of SEED – Sustainable Enterprise and Empowerment Dynamics – a provider of women’s learning and coaching programmes on economicempowerment, sustainable business practices and creative leadership, as well as a global on and off-line women’s support network.

In 2010 Lynne launched B.Hive, a series of unique and stylish women’s business lounges and hub, in collaboration with the Regus Group with itsflagship in London’s Covent Garden.

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carole stone for many years was the producer of BBc radio 4’s flagship current affairs discussion programme any Questions?, inviting the most interesting and influential people in the country to discuss the issues of the day.

Jude Kelly oBE is artistic director of southbank centre, Britain’s largest cultural institution.

Since leaving the BBC Carole has worked as a freelance journalist and broadcaster and as a self-employed media consultant to chairmen and chief executives of major British companies. With more than 40,000 names in her electronic address book she’s been called London’s networking queen – she’s famous for putting people together to their mutual advantage. Carole calls that ‘good networking’. She is an elected governor of the Tavistock & Portman NHS Foundation Trust; patron of the two mental health charities SANE and Triumph over Phobia; a patron of the Facial Surgery Research Foundation, Saving Faces; a partner in the debating forum Intelligence Squared; a Counsellor for One Young World and a member of the Appeals Committee for Combat Stress, The Enemy Within

In April 2007 Carole became Managing Director of YouGovStone Ltd, a joint venture with the online market research agency YouGov plc, where she established the YGS ThinkTank – a global panel of over 4,000 people who are leaders in their field – the ‘influentials’. YouGovStone carries out opinion research surveys both online and face-to-face. Carole sold the company to YouGov in June 2011 and is now its Executive Chairman. In May 2009 Carole formed TheStoneClub – a private members club, part social, part business, where members meet to discuss social issues that concern us all - what she calls a meeting of minds.

In November 2011 Carole was voted Best-Connected Woman in British Business by Director and O2.

She founded Solent People’s Theatre and Battersea Arts Centre, and was the founding director of the West Yorkshire Playhouse. In 1997, she was awarded an OBE for her services to theatre. She has directed over 100 productions from the Royal Shakespeare Company, to the Châtalet in Paris.

In 2002 Jude founded Metal, which provides a platform where artistic hunches can be pursued in community contexts, with bases in Liverpool and Southend-On-Sea.

Jude is Chair of Metal, World Book night, a member of the London Cultural Strategy Group, the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad Board and a Visiting Professor at Shanghai Performing Arts School.

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Julie meyer Founder and cEo, ariadne capital

Julie is the well known founder & CEO of Ariadne Capital, co-founder and Managing Partner of the Ariadne Capital Entrepreneurs (ACE) Fund, founder of Entrepreneur Country and co-founder of First Tuesday. Julie founded Ariadne Capital in 2000; Ariadne backs entrepreneurs in the digital health, mobile money, broadcast media and entertainment, and smart cities ecosystems.

Ariadne pioneered the model of “Entrepreneurs Backing Entrepreneurs” as the new model of the financing of entrepreneurship, and Ariadne’s investment framework is “Ecosystem Economics”. Most recently Julie founded Entrepreneur Country, a community for leading and emerging entrepreneurs, investors, the media and corporate partners who service the start-up industry.

She sits on the Boards of INSEAD, Medikidz, Vestergaard Frandsen and Jellybook.

heather mcgregormanaging director,taylor Bennett

Heather McGregor is the Managing Director and is the principal shareholder of Taylor Bennett, having bought the company from its founders in 2004. In her early career she worked in financial PR and investor relations before doing an MBA at the London Business School and joining ABN Amro as a sellside analyst. She then spent eight years with the bank, working in London, Hong Kong, Singapore and Tokyo, before joining Taylor Bennett in 2000. Heather has a PhD from the University of Hong Kong, and is a visiting professor at City University’s Cass Business School.

She founded the Taylor Bennett Foundation, which works to promote diversity in the communications industry by equipping talented graduates from ethnic minorities with the skills and confidence to pursue successful communications careers. Heather is also the current chair of the charity Career Academies UK which works with 16-19 year olds to raise their aspirations through the provision of a structured programme including a six week paid internship, and was a founding member of the steering committee of the 30% Club, which is working to raise the representation of women at senior levels within the UK’s publicly quoted companies. She is also an experienced writer and columnist in the national media

Kathleen Verslanddirector,deutsche Bank

Kathleen Versland is a Director at Deutsche Bank responsible fordesigning and delivering large scale transformational change globally.

She is currently located in London working with the Private Wealth Management division. Kathleen has more than 17 years financial sector experience, starting her career at Merrill Lynch in New York where she held key leadership positions in strategic business development and sales management. She has been committed to many charities throughout her career by contributing leadership, strategic and fundraising expertise and has worked with United Way and Habitat for Humanity in the US and most recently Teens and Toddlers and Help a Capital Child in the UK. She has recently been elected to serve as the President of Zonta London Southbank, Zonta International being a global organization of over 33,000 professional and executive womenwho focus on advancing the status of women both internationally and locally through service projects, advocacy and fundraising.

sian Westermanmanaging director,global Financial advisory divison of rothshcild

Sian Westerman is a Managing Director in the Global Financial Advisory Division of Rothschild, specialising in complex mergers, acquisitions and disposals, capital raisings, corporate governance, strategic advice and investor communication issues with a focus on the Retail and Luxury Goods sectors. She is also Global Head of Marketing and Corporate Affairs for the Rothschild Group.

Sian is a Non-Executive Director of A.S.H.S Limited, the holding company for the business of Anya Hindmarch and a Director of Westside Independent School, a school focussed on getting students back on track with their studies. She qualified as a solicitor with Slaughter and May and holds an LLB (French) from the University of Birmingham. In 2003 she was named Harpers & Queen/Chanel Business Woman of the Year. She is a Steering Committee member of the 30% Club, a neutral organisation aiming to increase gender balance on UK Corporate Boards. She is also a member of the Eton College Campaign Board and a member of the Royal Court Theatre’s Advocates Board. experienced writer and columnist in the national media

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Karima serageldindirector, ariadne capital ltd | Partner, ariadne capital Entrepreneurs (acE) Fund

Karima Serageldin has significant “digital” expertise having spent some 12 years in TMT leading product innovation and development, global commercial partnerships, acquisitive growth and profit improvement projects at Verizon (MCI) and latterly at Pipex Communications before backing digital growth companies in the venture capital sector.Karima is co-founder and a Partner of the Ariadne Capital fund management business, launching the Ariadne Capital Entrepreneurs (ACE) Fund in March 2011. She also is a Director in the corporate advisory business where she has advised digital media and technology companies such as Monitise (AIM listed), Slicethepie, EGS, SpinVox (sold to Nuance), Telecom Luxembourg, and LeanForward Ltd. Karima brings to the Ariadne team combined operational industry experience and end-to-end knowledge, delivering strategic, and product driven innovation and organic growth, as well as venture based expertise in the “digital” and digitally enabled sectors. She has worked with a range of companies from startups to some of the largest and most influential corporations in the US, Europe and Asia delivering fund raising, strategic, product management and partner distribution based opportunities.

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Sally Dewar is a Managing Director and a senior member of J.P. Morgan’s company-wide Risk team.

Based in London, Ms. Dewar helps to develop the firm’s responses and implementation efforts in connection with rulemaking and standards across a broad range of regulatory initiatives in the European Union and United States, including risk and capital requirements, resolution and recovery planning, and legal entity governance.

Prior to joining J.P. Morgan in June 2011, Ms. Dewar spent 10 years at the Financial Services Authority (FSA) in the U.K. She was most recently a member of the Board and its Managing Director of Risk, responsible for the FSA’s policy direction, risk management process, governance and markets oversight including responsibility for the supervision of all regulated markets and related infrastructure, including clearing and settlement and the U.K. Listing Authority. Golden Rule:

lucy marcuscEomarcus Venture consulting

Lucy P. Marcus is a board chair and non-executive director who is challenging conventional wisdom inside and outside the board room. She has emerged as the voice setting the agenda on future proofing boardrooms and companies around the world, and was recently recognised with the Thinkers 50 “Future Thinkers” Award and was ranked 19th on the Reuters & Klout 50 list of “Most Influential Execs on the Web”. The CEO of Marcus Venture Consulting, she is also Professor of Leadership and Governance at IE Business School, focusing on corporate governance, ethics and leadership, and she writes a column for Reuters on the intersection of boards, leadership, and ethics.

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Farmida Bi is a partner at international legal practice Norton Rose LLP in London and is European Head of Islamic Finance. Farmida specialises in Islamic finance and capital markets and has acted on many of the ground

breaking Islamic finance transactions, including most recently the Republic of Indonesia’s US$1bn sukuk issuance.

A recognised expert in the Islamic capital markets field, Farmida is named as a ‘leading individual’ for Islamic finance in the legal industry guide, Chambers UK 2011, which ranks solicitors and barristers in over 60 specialist areas of law.

Farmida is also a debt capital markets expert with a particular focus on securitisations and restructurings. Farmida is a graduate of Downing College, Cambridge and qualified as both a solicitor in England and Wales and a New York attorney.

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natalie massEnEt natalie massenet is the founder and chairman of net-a-porter.com, one of the most popular high-end fashion retailers. Before launching the company, massenet was an editor at tatler, W, and WWd. her site features hard-to-find items that are often featured in style magazines. net-a-porter was sold to the swiss luxury brands group richemont.

jane shEPhErdson mbeDec 2011 Awarded Honorary Doctorate, University of the Arts LondonMay 2008 Appointed Visiting Professor University of the Arts LondonApril 2008 Appointed Creative Advisor OxfamMarch 2007 to date Non Executive Director Peopletree Fair Trade FashionFeb 2006 Awarded MBE for services to fashion retail2006 to date Advisor to Centre for Fashion Excellence

2006 – 2010 Governor, Fashion Retail Academy2005 – 2008 Member of Advisory Board University Westminster1998 – 2006 Member of British Fashion CouncilJan 2008 to date CEO Whistles, Non Exec Director Peopletree Fair Trade Fashion, Creative Advisor for Oxfam

Led a Management buy in of the Whistles Brand in 2008, and have been involved in repositioning it and creating a new brand strategy with a relevance for modern

women.

Continue to work with Oxfam as a member of The Circle, on fashion related projects and fundraising initiatives including International Women’s Day awareness raising. Visit women’s projects around the world, and help to secure funding for their future.

On Peopletree Board to help to promote Fair Trade fashion to a wider audience, and to ensure creative standards are not compromised.

Involved in the promotion and support of young designers in London through the London College of Fashion’s Centre of Fashion Excellence, On/ Off, and Vauxhall Fashion Scout.

2007-2008Various consultancy projects in the UK and Australia including a rebranding exercise with Oxfam ‘Boutiques’ as Creative Advisor, and involved in store design, sourcing product and marketing.

Worked closely with Safia Minney for Peopletree to help to establish a clearer design handwriting.

1999 – 2007 Brand Director TopshopResponsible for creating the vision, and repositioning an average

high st teen brand to one that is a design led global brand through a focused strategy of design authority, exceeding customers service expectations, and creative investment in the store portfolio.

Established extensive sponsorship programme from students to fledgling designers, of which, TS/New Gen was a large part, and encouraged the

industry to support and nurture young designers.

Increased turnover to £500m, and a profit increase from £9m to £110m.

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Jo malone created one of the world’s most sought after luxury fragrance brands eponymous with her name. In 1999, Jo sold her beauty business to Estée lauder companies and remained creative director until her departure in 2006. two years later in 2008, Jo was honoured with an mBE for her services to the beauty industry.

michelle is one of the uK’s most successful female entrepreneurs and founder of international lingerie brand, ultimo.

In 2010, Jo turned her talents to television presenting making her debut on BBC One in May. The four part series ‘High Street Dreams’ conceptualised by Jo herself, saw her back in the tough world of retail using her business experience and entrepreneurial spirit to help small businesses realise their dreams of trading on the great British high street. The show successfully helped to create six new British Brands.

Most recently, November 2011 marked new business beginnings as Jo launched her new fragrance venture JO LOVES. Having not designed scent for five years, Jo’s passion for fragrance had never ceased and it was falling in love with cooking that inspired her to play with food, flavours and colours that she had never used before. Jo soon realised that her instincts were prompting her to create fragrance for a second time and she found herself asking “could I do it again?”

JO LOVES captures the things in Jo’s life that inspire her, from ingredients and people to moments in time nestled within bold red packaging; the heartbeat of the brand “When I start out with a fragrance I don’t always know where it will lead. It’s a creative process that often surprises me and I like that.

JO LOVES will be full of excitement and anticipation and I want to discover things that I’ve only ever dreamed about.! Everyday I’m struck by different smells which evoke emotions or memories that inspire me to be creative. The scent of my husband’s cologne, freshly washed linens, hot Moroccan mint tea, the smell of a horse’s saddle and New York in the rain are a few of my favourites but the list continues to go on and on”

The award-winning ‘Bra Queen’ and co-owner of MJM International has built her success on determination, self-belief and hard work which led her to be voted as Britain’s Number One most powerful woman in business by Glamour magazine as well as receiving an OBE from The Queen in 2010 in recognition of her services to UK business.

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alek WEKElle magazine took a risk by featuring dark-skinned, sudanese model, alek Wek, on the cover of their november 1997 issue. however, the result was a monumental number of reader responses and letters-to-the-editor from both women and men who were ecstatic to see different standards of beauty in the fashion industry.

Oprah later commented to Alek on her show, “If you’d been on the cover of a magazine when I was growing up, I would have had a different concept of who I was.”

Alek was born in Southern Sudan and raised as a part of the Dinka tribe. At fourteen, she was forced to flee to London to escape the civil war. Alek was soon discovered at a London street fair. She quickly rose to the top of the modeling industry and was named “Model of the Decade” by i-D magazine; one of People magazine’s “50 Most Beautiful People” and as one of the “50 Most Influential Faces in Fashion”. New York Magazine also named her one of the “50 Most Beautiful New Yorkers”.

Alek’s influence extends far beyond the fashion world and societal concepts of beauty. She spoke at the International Black Caucus Foreign Affairs as a member of a panel, which included Hilary Clinton, Congressman Daniel Payne, Danny Glover and many other distinguished speakers. Alek has also served on the advisory board for the U.S. Committee for Refugees.

Alek has been dedicating the little free time she has to another passion: design. She has designed multiple seasons of handbags for her line, Alek Wek 1933. Alek also enjoys acting, she debuted in the film Four Feathers, along side Kate Hudson and Heath Ledger.

Alek has written and published a memoir. In ALEK: From Sudanese Refugee to International Supermodel .

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Jemima Khan is the associate Editor of the new statesman, the European editor-at-large for Vanity Fair and is executive producer for Intelligence2 versus series of debates with google+

Jemima has been an ambassador for unIcEF since 2001 Jemima runs her own charitable foundation.

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martina milburn, cBE chief Executive, The Prince’s trust

Martina joined The Trust in May 2004, having been Chief Executive of the BBC Children in Need Appeal since 2000. The Prince’s Trust seeks to offer practical and financial support to develop key skills, confidence and motivation of young people to enable them to move into work, education or training.

Martina trained and began her career as a journalist, established the Press and Communications function for the Catholic Fund for Overseas Development (CAFOD) and worked on a freelance basis for a range of charities. She then held the post of Chief Executive of the Association of Spinal Injury Research, Rehabilitation and Reintegration (ASPIRE) - a service delivery charity - for seven years, growing the staff from five to 100. In this role Martina was responsible for the development of Europe’s first integrated arts, sports and rehabilitation centre.

In the 2012 New Year honours list, Martina received a CBE for services to charity.

Baroness Warsi co-chairman of the conservative Party and minister without Portfolio.

Born in Dewsbury in 1971, she was educated at Birkdale High School and read law at the University of Leeds, qualifying as a solicitor and setting up her own specialist practice in Dewsbury.

After serving as Vice Chairman of the Conservative Party and being appointed a Conservative Peer in 2007, Sayeeda became the first Muslim to serve in full Cabinet after the 2010 General Election.

Sayeeda has spoken out on the importance of faith as a force for good in society, most recently in a landmark speech at the Vatican. Sayeeda is also proud to be a trustee of the Savayra Foundation, a woman’s empowerment charity.

Sayeeda lives in Wakefield with her husband Iftikhar and their five children.

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Margaret McDonagh is arguably one of the most influential women in British politics, with twenty five years in political life Baroness McDonagh has achieved many milestones including:

Youngest and first woman General Secretary of Labour Party.

Organised both landslide General victories for Labour 1997 and 2001.

Business consultant on strategic communications and executive coach for senior women executives.

Non executive director of Standard Life Plc a FTSE 100 and TBI a global airports business.

Appointed Peer in the House of Lords in 2004.

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Sasha Havlicek is a social entrepreneur and founding CEO of the Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD), a London-based ‘think and action’ tank working with governments and captains of industry to develop innovative responses to some of the world’s

critical divides and challenges. In this capacity, Sasha has developed ISD’s research, educational and policy programmes in fields ranging from counter-extremism and counter-terrorism to integration, intercultural relations and Europe’s strategic engagement with Turkey, Russia and China. Her partners in these programmes include the European Commission, Google Ideas, the US State Department, the UK Home Office, the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge and the German Chancellery. Sasha previously served as Senior Programme Director at the US think-tank, the EastWest Institute (EWI) and advised the Stability Pact for Southeastern Europe on cross-border conflict mitigation in the aftermath of the Balkan wars. She sits on the Women Without Borders SAVE board and is Chairman of the charity Next Generation Nepal (NGN). She also serves on the Advisory Boards of the European Forum for Mediation and Dialogue and the Weidenfeld Scholarships and Leadership scheme run at Oxford University. Foundation, a woman’s empowerment charity.

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Vivian is the most senior black woman among leading strategy consultancies and boasts a 20 year career serving clients and health systems across major markets in the uK, Europe and the us.

Judith is an award-winning entrepreneur, a Fortune 500, board level innovation and strategy consultant and an angel investor.

She leads McKinsey’s Pharmaceutical and Medical Products Practice covering all strategy, commercial research and other areas for Europe, Middle East and Africa which means that she is one of the most important and influential people in the world in that area of expertise.

She has supported the commercial strategy and developed the operational plans for more than 20 major ethical and over the counter drugs in areas such as hypertension, diabetes, asthma, smoking cessation, thrombosis and depression.

Previously Vivian has also worked as a midwife and a volunteer in the US Peace Corps (Senegal). Vivian has an MBA from Harvard University and now sits on its alumni interview board. Holding both British and American citizenship, Vivian has lived in the United Kingdom for 12 years and is married with 2 children.

She is thefounder and CEO of London and New York based innovation and strategy consultancy Takeout. Clients include, Thomson Reuters, Samsung, NBC, GSK, UKTI, Barclaycard, Microsoft, the British Government, Communications Network, Ikea and entrepreneurial clients including Jetsetter and the Ministry of Sound.

Judith is founder of the Glasshouse an organisation that provides support, inspiration and networks for entrepreneurs, investors and digital innovators. Glasshouse was founded in London in 1998 and has held events all over the world including London, New York and San Francisco.

Judith has been listed as one of the Top Digital Powerbrokers in the UK by Wired Magazine, as well as one of the Top 50 Most Influential Britons in Technology by the Daily Telegraph, Global Top 50 women to watch in Technology by Femmeonomics.

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Kirsty Wark is one of Britain’s most experienced television journalists. she has presented a wide range of programmes over the past twenty six years - from the ground breaking late show to Election specials, live stadium events, and for the past seventeen years, the BBc’s flagship nightly current affairs show newsnight.

nicola is the Executive chairman and partner at the advertising agency Karmarama which she joined in april 2008. she is also the current president of the IPa (the advertising industry trade body)

For the past decade she has hosted the weekly Arts and Cultural review and comment show, The Review Show (formerly Newsnight Review). She has conducted long form half hour interviews with everyone from Margaret Thatcher to Madonna, Harold Pinter to Pete Doherty, Damian Hirst to Toni Morrison, George Clooney and Donna Tartt. Kirsty has made cameo appearances in a range of television dramas, radio programmes and films.

She has featured in Dr Who, Absolutely Fabulous, The

IT Crowd, Spooks, The Amazing Mrs Pritchard, The Acid House, Beyond the Pole, Party Animals and With Great Pleasure. She reached the final in Celebrity Masterchef last year and hosts the culinary quiz A Question of Taste for BBC2. Kirsty has won several major awards for her work including BAFTA’s for Journalist of the Year and Best Television Presenter. Kirsty was born in Dumfries and educated in Kilmarnock. She is married to Alan Clements and has two children.

In May 2011, Nicola was named an International Woman to watch by Advertising Age.

Prior to Karmarama Nicola was the Deputy Chairman of Grey London and a Board Director at BBH.In 2005 she featured in Management Today’s list of the ‘Top 35 Women Under 35. She is a past president of WACL.

Nicola’s other responsibilities include sitting on The Creative Industries Council, being the Chair of the Corporate Board of Women’s Aid, Trustee of The White Ribbon Alliance and a Director of The Fragrance Foundation.

Her greatest joy in life comes from her husband Jon and four children Gabi, Danny, Sam and Zac.

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91-94 Magdalen College, BA Oxford Ancient and Modern History

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96-98 Head of Business Development for Carlton TV Digital Channels

98-04 Co-founder of Lastminute.com

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06 Co-founder and Chair of Lucky Voice

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07 Founded Antigone.org.uk

07 Joined board of Marks and Spencer

07 Joined board of Mydeco.com

09 Appointed UK Digital Champion and established Race Online 2012 campaign

sarah joined Vogue, post leaving st martins, on the same day as anna Wintour and rose to become the youngest editor in the fashion department before leaving to be Fashion editor at Bazaar and then Fashion director at marie claire.

In 2002 Sarah left journalism behind to work in retail joining New Look as Communications Director, where she created and ran Campaigns with Luella, Giles Deacon with Drew Barrymore, Katie Hillier, Kelly Brook and Lily Allen. She joined River Island in 2007 where she directed the Marketing department running initiatives with Graduate Fashion week and also implementing the blogsite, style insider.co.ukShe left in July 2010 to set up style passport.com

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MT is also an investor in and Chairman of the fast growing digital agency Th_nk(www.think.eu) which recently topped Marketing Week’s Reputation Survey and has launched Pottermore for JK Rowling. MT has recently been appointed to the Board of Channel 4 as a Non Executive Director.

In a voluntary capacity MT is Vice Chair of Skillset, the Sector Skills Council for the Creative Industries, sits on the National Skills Commission and on The Advisory Board of NCVO.

She is a former Chairman of the Marketing Group of Great Britain, Chairman elect of The Thirty Club, and is a regular speaker on communications, media and digitalindustry issues

She helped set up deckchair.com with Sir Bob Geldof and founded mykindaplace.com which was sold to BSkyB. Sháá is an intrinsic part of the new wave of UK Entrepreneurs combining real entrepreneurial drive and experience with a genuine desire to encourage and inspire others.

Her latest venture is living proof. Smarta.com launched in January 2009 and is an innovative business platform providing free advice, networking and tools for entrepreneurs and business owners. Bringing business people together for support and inspiration, Smarta has hundreds of entrepreneur videos and bite-size guides on overcoming business challenges. Users can

access free advice from business experts and find unique tools designed to take the pain out of everyday business tasks. Smarta has the support of leading UK entrepreneurs Theo Paphitis and Deborah Meaden. On April 4th 2011, Smarta’s launched the long awaited Business Builder, a new business toolkit for start-ups and growing businesses. It’s a one-stop shop for companies in every sector at every stage of the business lifestyle, bringing together all the key components that one needs to launch a new venture and become more streamlined and effective in the day to day running of their business.

India has held a number of CIO and roles both regionally and globally and has significant expertise around mergers having worked on components of the Deutsche Bank – Bankers Trust and RBS – ABN AMRO integrations.

In her current role at JPMorgan, India is a Managing Director and is responsible for managing the strategic agenda for the 13,000 person Technology & Operations division of the Investment Bank. In this COO role, she is also responsible for managing the day to day business.

India has been awarded numerous awards including; Outstanding Contribution to Diversity (Women in Banking and Finance) , Best Female Technologist (European Banking Technology Magazine), and has also been named to the Powerlist 100 for multiple years. She is the Chair of the Board of Trustees of LEAP Charity , the President of the City Women’s Network and is a member of the British Red Cross’ Tiffany Circle.

mt raInEy was founder and cEo of top uK advertising agency rainey Kelly campbell roalfe/y&r. she resigned from her role as chair of the company in 2005 to start a social enterprise in the digital arena called horsesmouth.co.uk, inspired by the potential of new media to create significant public value. horsesmouth.co.uk is an online social network for informal mentoring and now has over 45,000 active members.

shåå Wasmund is the author of the number 1 Bestselling Business Book; “stop talking, start doing” and has built her career by the same motto. an lsE graduate, sháá has had an eclectic entrepreneurial career ranging from promoting boxer chris Eubank’s fight against nigel Benn to working with sir James dyson to establish his vacuum cleaners as one of the uK’s biggest brands

india gary-martIn India gary-martin’s career in Financial services spans more than twenty years and three continents; north america, Europe and asia. she has worked at some of the world’s leading financial services firms including, deutsche Bank, lehman Brothers, rBs and JPmorgan.

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Kelly hoppen mBE is a world-renowned British designer best known for her calm and elegant aesthetic which has achieved iconic status. having started her business at just 16 years old, Kelly has created stunning interiors for houses, apartments, yachts, private jets, ski chalets, a sports centre, hotels and numer-ous corporate spaces, for an ever expanding, international, high-profile client base from the world of business, sports, film and fashion.

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Amanda was appointed Director of Development and Events of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) in October 1998 and in December 2000 became its Chief Ex-ecutive. In 2009, Amanda was awarded an OBE for services to the film industry.

Amanda has been instrumental in the major changes BAFTA has undergone in recent years, successfully positioning it as the pre-eminent charitable body that educates, promotes and rewards excellence in the art forms of the moving image. She is publicly credited with instigating the changes that define the modern, forward-looking Academy as one of the most influen-tial institutions in the arts today. She has successfully placed BAFTA’s annual Film Awards ceremony on the international stage, raising its television audience from six million in 2001 to a potential worldwide audience of over one billion.

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Caroline rush was appointed CEO of the British Fashion Council in April 2009. Charged with strengthening London Fashion Week, engaging the industry and creating a legacy for the organisation’s 25th anniversary in 2009 she has played a key role in attracting brands such as Burberry and Pringle and British designers such as Antonio Berardi and Jonathan Saunders back to London. Her focus is to maintain and enhance the UK’s repuation as being global innovators in fashion design, promote the industry to a global audience and assist designer businesses to develop and grow. 25th Anniversary legacy projects include BFC/Vogue Designer Fashion Fund, BFC/Bazaar Fashion Arts Foundation, BFC/ELLE Talent Launch Pad. She has 18 years’ experience in Marketing and PR across both consumer and corporate communications in fashion, music and lifestyle sectors, managed her own business for five years, during which time she delivered stragic communications and full press office function for the British Fashion Council.

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natasha Faith is co-founder & cEo of la diosa (the goddess), the multi-award winning brand that specialises in creating elegant yet striking pieces of jewellery.

Before becoming a mum to molly-rose and Founder of mama Jeanius - the designer maternity Jeans company - Katie spent over a decade as a successful corporate executive. at the age of 23 she became the youngest ever director at cable & Wireless, where she completed a number of acquisitions and new business development.

It was whilst traveling around the world with her business partner, Semhal Zemikael, and living in Mexico that the inspiration for La Diosa was found. Natasha and Semhal trained to make jewellery with a small group of female artisans and then went on to travel Asia and South America to find unique stones and build on their new found passion. La Diosa launched in 2007 with the support of the Princes Trust and has been worn by some of the world’s most inspirational women, including Sarah Brown, Naomi Campbell, Michelle Obama and Kate Middleton.

In 2004 she joined Thomson Financial as Head of Strategy, Europe before becoming Head of Marketing, Europe and Asia in 2005. Katie joined Reuters in 2006 as Global Head of Marketing Communications. Katie played a key role in the merger of Thomson and Reuters in 2007/8 and as Global Head of Brand and Marketing, she orchestrated the launch of the new brand which is now ranked 35th in the world by Business Week, Katie left Thomson Reuters at the end 2010 and launched Mama Jeanius in mid 2011. Katie is also MD for an Interior Design Consultancy. Katie has a degree in Economics and a diploma in Interior Design.

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after graduating from newcastle university in 1999 with a degree in Politics, claire began her careerin the motorsport industry when she joined silverstone circuit as a press officer in 2000.

Karren Brady began her career at saatchi & saatchi when she was 18 years old and swiftly moved onto london Broadcasting company as a sales executive. she joined sport newspapers ltd in 1988 and became director within a year.

Growing up in the sport, it is perhaps unsurprising that Claire would eventually enter the family business. Working in the Race Office during school holidays, Claire was a regular behind the scenes at Williams from an early age before joining the team full time in 2002 in the role of Communications Officer.

She was promoted to the role of Head of Communications in 2010, and was duly responsible for all internal and external communications surrounding Williams Grand Prix Holdings PLC.

After Williams floated on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange in March 2011, Claire took on the position ofHead of Investor Relations to supplement her role in the communications team.

As of 1st April 2012 Claire will assume the role of Director of Marketing and Communications, and take a place on the company board. In her new role Claire will take the lead on partner acquisitions, marketing and communications in what promises to be an exciting new period for the team.

Karren is now known as the first woman in football. She was Managing Director of Birmingham City Football Club from 1993 to 2009 and during that time turned the Club’s fortunes around. She took over Birmingham City FC when it was in administration, and in her first year at the helm, the Club recorded a financial trading profit. In 1996 the Club made an overall profit for the first time in modern history and in February 1997 she launched the Club on the Stock market; she was the youngest Managing Director of a PLC in the UK.

In October 2009 her business was valued at over £82million and she sold it. In January 2010, Karren was appointed Vice Chairman of West Ham United FC. In January 2011, under her leadership campaign, WHU was awarded as preferred

bidder for the Olympic Stadium. As a result her club hope to be moving there post games in 2014. Following her first 12 months at West Ham, the club made a trading profit for the first time in many years.

In 2010 following appearances as one of Lord Sugar’s interrogators on the popular BBC show ‘The Apprentice’, Karren replaced Margaret Mountford as Lord Sugar’s right-hand woman.

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sung-Joo Kim is the founder, the chairperson and chief Visionary officer of sungjoo group and mcm holding ag, the mother company of mcm; german luxury brand crafts leather goods and apparel which is based on European artisanship with a refined mastery of skills, handcrafting elegant products with flawless quality materials.As one of the most celebrated businesswomen worldwide, she has been featured in many publications and media broadcasts, including Forbes, Asiaweek, BBC, CNN, CNBC and the Financial Times. In addition, she was selected as one of the Global Leaders of Tomorrow by the World Economic Forum in Switzerland (Davos, 1997) and was chosen as one of The 20 Most Powerful International Businesswomen by Working Woman (New York, 1999). Asiaweek also named her as one of the 7 Most Powerful Women in Asia (Hong Kong, 2001), while CNN nominated her as one of the New Century Leaders for its The Best of Asia news feature (2003). Ms Kim was also noted in The Wall Street Journal’s Top 50 Women to Watch (2004). In 2009,

she received the Ethics in Business Award from the International Association of Human Values.

Ms Kim passionately believes in the power of women to improve our global society and is a member of the Global Summit of Women’s International Planning Committee, which supports the advancement of women worldwide and as a successful businesswoman with a strong sense of corporate social responsibility.

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dr. linda Papadopoulos is one of the most well-known and respected psychologists working in the uK today.

Her 14 year career as a research scientist and practicing psychologist has led to her work being published in some of the most well regarded academic journals and given rise to a high profile media-career. Her books and research articles in the field of Psychodermatology and Body Image exploring the link between the skin and the psyche are considered seminal in the field.

In 2008 Dr Linda was awarded the Madame Figaro Women of the Year Award in the field of academia and she was also recently included in the Top 20 therapists in London by the Evening Standard newspaper.

In addition to her academic research she was recently asked by the British Government to conduct a review on the sexualisation of young people and its link to domestic violence which

was published in 2010.

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Kanya King mBE is an internationally recognised entrepreneur and innovator in the British music industry.

As CEO and founder of MOBO, Kanya King is the dynamic force behind the MOBO Awards and has played an instrumental role in elevating black music and culture to mainstream popular status in the U.K. Recent accolades include being listed in The 2011 Guardian Music Power 100 and being honoured as a patron of Music at City of Westminster College.

She has been listed in Real Business Britain’s 100 Most Entrepreneurial Women and the Evening Standard’s 1000 London Most Influential People for a number of years. In addition to this she has received numerous

honours for her business and community achievements including an Honorary Fellowship at Goldsmith University and a Doctorate of Business at both London and Leeds Metropolitan Universities. Kanya is also a board member for the National Skills Academy for Creative and Culture as well as the London Entrepreneurial Exchange.

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Kathleen harris is a london-based partner with arnold & Porter’s White collar criminal defense practice group where she represents companies in a wide range of industries, and individuals in criminal investigations and compliance matters involving allegations of complex economic fraud, bribery, money laundering, and tax and investment fraud.

Kathleen is currently assisting Lord Grabiner overseeing the enquiry in to the News of the World phone hacking case and all related criminal matters. Before joining Arnold & Porter (UK) LLP, Kathleen served as Head of Fraud Business Group and Head of Policy at the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) (2008-2011) and Senior Strategic Policy Adviser in the Attorney General’s Office (2007-2008). Kathleen has led the prosecution of organisations involved in high-profile bribery investigations, complex financial crime, and tax evasion. At the SFO, she supervised and provided strategic oversight to a number of high-level investigations and prosecutions.

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shana is 29 and works as a community worker with Women in Prison, helping serving prisoners and ex-offenders settle back into the community.

As a former prisoner herself, Shana understands well the challenges people face on being released from custody. Whilst in Holloway Prison Shana came across the charity Dress for Success London which ran courses in motivation and self-esteem at the prison.

After leaving Holloway, Dress for Success helped Shana get back on track and take control of her life. As well as her community worker role, Shana is training to be a counsellor at Lambeth College. Shana recently gave birth to her first baby.

On February 8th Shana met Samantha Cameron at No.10 Downing Street which is where the photograph of her was taken.

shana campbell is the recipient of the dress for success london program

about dFs londonDFS London is a Charity that helps women on low incomes to get back to work. When a woman comes to Dress

for Success London, trained stylists will dress her in a smart profesional outfit to wear on her job interview. She will then receive personal interview training from a senior executive. Looking fantastic and with her confidence restored, a Dress for Success client now has a far better chance of success. DFS London dresses more than

1000 women a year in high quality clothes donated by retailers and professionals. To support DFS London visit: www.dressforsuccess.org/london

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Dear WIE50,

Re: Veuve Clicquot 2012 Business Woman Award Finalists Announcement

In 1972, for the bicentennial of the House, Veuve Clicquot created the Veuve Clicquot Business Woman Award to pay tribute to Madame Clicquot: Her enterprising spirit, her courage and the determination necessary to accomplish her aims. In 2012, we will celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Award’s creation. Veuve Clicquot announces the shortlist for its Business Woman of the Year Award, bringing together shining examples of female entrepreneurship and business success across sectors ranging from fund management to fashion and hospitality. The finalists are:

Anya Hindmarch, Founder, Anya Hindmarch

Helena Morrissey, CEO, Newton Investment Management

Ruthie Rogers, Co-Founder, Chef and Author, River Cafe

Considering 2012 is such a significant year, we wanted to ensure our shortlisted finalists were announced to the public in a manner befitting of their extraordinary achievements. The WIE Power Breakfast lead by the Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg MP at The London Stock Exchange was a natural and fitting partnership for the Veuve Clicquot Business Woman Award. The WIE Network is itself an organisation dedicated to promoting the success and empowerment of inspirational women today and we are delighted to be involved with an event of this stature.

It seems appropriate that in our 40th Anniversary year our shortlist is one of the strongest in the Awards history. Our three finalists, each exemplify the ideals of Madame Clicquot and represent phenomenal female business success in the UK and beyond. Each convey an entrepreneurial spirit either within a business they have built themselves or are currently leading.

Consistent with the company’s international scope, the Veuve Clicquot Business Woman Award is now awarded in 27 countries. In the United Kingdom, the award celebrates the best of British female talent in business. Previous winners include Michelle McDowell OBE, Laura Tenison MBE, Carolyn McCall OBE, Patricia Vaz OBE, Anita Roddick DBE and Linda Bennett OBE.

We look forward to celebrating the 40th anniversary of the Award with you…40 years of championing the success of business women worldwide.

With best wishes,Yours sincerely,

Marketing Director ChampagnesMoet Hennessy UK

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thE nomInEEsThe nomineeshelena morrissey cBE is chief Executive officer of newton Investment management ltd.

ruth rogers mBE is the co-founder of the critically acclaimed restaurant the river café.

Mrs. Morrissey joined Newton in 1994 and was appointed Chief Executive Officer in July 2001. Prior to her appointment as CEO, Mrs. Morrissey was head of Fixed Income, managing a number of global bond funds. She was twice-winner of Investment Week’s Global Bond Fund Manager of the Year. In 2007 she was recognized by Global Investor as ‘CEO of the Year’.

Mrs. Morrissey is a Director of the United Kingdom’s Investment Management Association and represents the industry on the FSA’s Practitioner Panel. She was named the Financial News’ ‘Most Influential Woman in European Asset Management in 2010. Helena is spearheading a cross-business initiative in the UK to have 30% women on company boards by 2015 (the ‘30% Club’). She is a regular speaker at conferences on topics ranging from the future of the fund management industry to developing female talent. She is also a member of the Royal Academy’s Corporate Board.

A Cambridge philosophy graduate, she began her career as a global bond analyst with Schroders in New York. In 2012 she was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the Queen’s New Year’s honours list.

Helena is married with nine children.

River Café brought to London the flavours of Italian home cooking with an emphasis on the finest ingredients, and an all-Italian wine list. The restaurant also brought to London a modern, open-plan kitchen and dining room with a buzzy atmosphere. “Sourcing, sourcing, sourcing” is the mantra of Rogers and her late business partner Rose Gray. Menus are tweaked twice a day to respond to the seasons and what is best in the market, with simplicity the key. Signature dishes include: wild mushroom risotto; Dover sole and John Dory smoked in the restaurant’s own wood stove; and rich Italian desserts including lemon almond cake or the chocolate “Nemesis” cake.

The restaurant earned a Michelin star in 1997, Rogers have written six highly successful cookbooks, including Italian Easy and The London River Café Cook Book. Their first book, Italian Country Cookbook won both the Glenfiddich Award for Food Book of the Year and the BCA Illustrated Book of the Year

Awards. Rogers and Gray have since presented a 12-part series for Channel 4, The Italian Kitchen.

The River Café is also notable for the number of successful chefs that have trained in its kitchens. These include Sam and Sam Clark of Moro, Ed Baines of Randall & Aubin, April Bloomfield of the Spotted Pig (in New York) and celebrity chefs Jamie Oliver, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall and Tobie Puttock.

Rogers and Gray each were named in the 2010 New Year’s Honours List as Members of the British Empire (MBE) “for services to the Hospitality Industry.”

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anya hindmarch, in following her passion for fashion accessories and design, started her internationally acclaimed business at the age of 19. the business has grown from anya’s first shop, an intimate first floor store on london’s Walton street, to forty seven stores worldwide. Fifteen more will be added throughout 2008 with a new shop fit, including moscow, dubai, Kuwait and saudi arabia.

Her collection can be found in the world’s leading department stores and boutiques, including Dover Street Market in London, Colette in Paris, Net-a-Porter.com, Isetan in Japan, On Pedder in Hong Kong, Lane Crawford in Beijing, and Saks and Scoop in the U.S. Anya’s designs are worn by many of the world’s most glamorous celebrities, including Angelina Jolie, Scarlett Johansson, Sienna Miller, Madonna, Claudia Schiffer and Reese Witherspoon.

In 2007 Anya designed the global sell-out tote I’m Not A Plastic Bag, using her influence in a positive way to make it fashionable not to use plastic bags. Anya Hindmarch was awarded Designer Brand of the Year in 2007 at the prestigious British Fashion Awards and in both 2006 and 2007, was awarded Designer of the Year by Glamour magazine. In 2008, Elle magazine presented Anya with an award for outstanding achievement. Anya has designed the highly coveted Vanity Fair Oscar goodie bags for the last three years.

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SATYA JEWELRY salutes the women of the WIE Symposium.

Your spirit, dedication, and wisdom continue to

INSPIRE US.

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SATYA JEWELRY donates a percentage of sales to children’s organizations through

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the WIE symposium, is a dynamic conference for women. , which stands for Women: Inspiration and Enterprise”,

first launched in new york in 2010 and is designed to empower the next generation of women leaders.

The WIE Symposium (www.wienetwork.org) is an extraordinary gathering of women leaders sharing their stories and working together to achieve social change. Over the years, the event has attracted an incredible lineup of speakers and award honorees

including Sarah Brown, wife of former Prime Minister Gordon Brown; renowned journalist Arianna Huffington of the Huffington Post, Donna Karan, HM Queen Rania of Jordan, Melinda Gates, Diane von Furstenberg, Nancy Pelosi, Dr Jill Biden, Nancy Meyers,

Baroness Valerie Amos, Aerin Lauder, Tamara Mellon, Ambassador Melanne Verveer, Jennifer Buffet, Lauren Bush, Christy Turlington, Ashley Judd, Iman, Glenda Bailey

and Nora Ephron.

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