Women of Westminster

Westminster Business Council in partnership with the National Black Women's Network

are delighted to invite you to attend

Women of Westminster

http://wowestminster.eventbrite.co.uk/

An evening of speakers and networking at

Old Marylebone Town Hall

Wednesday 21^st November 06.30 PM – 08.30PM

Speakers will include:

Charlotte Hogg

Founder and CEO of

The Change Gang

www.thechangegang.co.uk

Charlotte Hogg is an established entrepreneur, mentor and business journalist. She has co-founded three Global technology businesses and developed and executed the launch strategy for over 30 others. Charlotte teaches and mentors at Doug Richard's School 4 Start ups and Peter Jones Enterprise Academy. She is author of 'The Handbook of Entrepreneurial Marketing' and created The Rainmaker Foundation to help charities raise funds using digital media. She will be sharing her inspirational story which stems from a fatal and tragic coach crash she was involved in as a teenager, includes supporting her best friend when he returned from Afghanistan after stepping on an IED and changing her life as she evolved from an overweight sofa slob to a 30k runner in three months to raise funds for charities close to her heart. 

Karen Darby

Founder of

Crowd Mission

www.crowdmission.com

Karen Darby is a successful social entrepreneur with a classic 'rags to riches' story. One of five children, Karen grew up on a council estate in Mitcham and left school at 16 with one GCSE. She has since gone on to set up a number of companies including Decisions Group, Call Britannia and SimplySwitch. The latter was sold to the Daily Mail & General Trust for £22m. Regarded as one of the top female entrepreneurs in the UK, Karen was inspired to set up CrowdMission following a number of negative experiences with venture capitalists. Her goal is to offer social entrepreneurs an attractive alternative to VC funding and the inflexible, controlling conditions that often come with it.

Beverley Hodson

Supervisory Board of

Randstad

www.randstad.com

Beverley Hodson is a non-executive Director for Randstad, a market leading international Recruitment business. Previously she was on the Boards of Legal & General, Robert Wiseman, M&G Investments, WHSmith where she was also Managing Director. With a background in Retail Marketing she started her career with Boots the Chemists, rising to be their first female MD.