BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID:-//eluceo/ical//2.0/EN VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VEVENT UID:74685b192a7efc262225f2cb4eb8c275 DTSTAMP:20260715T095540Z SUMMARY:Gender diversification: the journey of successful female entreprene urs DESCRIPTION:Abstract\nMore and more women are deciding to set up their own company. Statistics show that there are currently 8.3 million women-owned businesses in the US\, and it is predicted in the next five years\, over h alf of all small business job creation will come from women-owned business es. In this session\, we speak to successful female entrepreneurs from acr oss the UK\, and discuss the advantages and disadvantages for female entre preneurs\, as well as focusing on the implications for business culture.\n Places for this event are limited. Register your place at this event\nAbo ut the panel\nProfessor Sara Carter\, OBE\, Professor of Entrepreneurship and Head of the Hunter Centre for Entrepreneurship\, University of Strathc lyde\nAs well as Professor of Entrepreneurship\, Sara is also a Visiting P rofessor at Nordland Research Institute\, Norway. Sara’s research focuse s extensively on entrepreneurship policy. Her work includes studies of gen der\; entrepreneurship & finance\; and rewards and lifestyles within the e ntrepreneurial household. She was a member of the UK Government’s Women ’s Enterprise Task Force (2007 – 2009)\; recipient of Prowess “Women ’s Enterprise Researcher of the Year” Prize\, and awarded OBE for serv ices to women entrepreneurs in 2008. Sara is also Associate Director of th e newly established Enterprise Research Centre (ERC)\, a high profile init iative\, which aims to become the pre-eminent UK source for trusted\, robu st and independant commentary on SME research and policy. The ERC is a par tnership between Warwick Business School\, Aston Business School\, Imperia l College Business School and Strathclyde Business School\, and is funded through ESRC\, the UK government department for Business\, Innovation and Skills\, the British Bankers Association and the Technology Strategy Board .\nRowan Gardner\, Founder and Chairmain\, Bio Launcher LimitedRowan is a Biochemistry graduate from Oxford. After graduating\, Rowan joined one of the University’s spin outs – Oxford Molecular Group\, which gave her a taste for high growth\, high tech businesses. She opened up their US oper ations\, participated in LSE main board listing and led the IR strategy as the company became the second best performing share on the London Stock E xchange\, and grew via numerous acquisitions. Following a short period in Sweden\, Rowan returned to the UK\, and co-founded Synomics with recognise d experts from CERN computing lab and the European Bioinformatics Institu te. She helped raise 5.3 million capital to develop a service level archit ecture for life science data integration. Synomics and Oxford Molecular we re brought by Accelrys. Rowan went onto co-found Biolauncher\, to advise b iotechnology and medical device businesses grow and attract capital. She has worked with over 20 university start ups\, several international compa nies and the NHS to find mechanisms to create value and find investment. I n 2007\, Rowan recieved a telephone call from the Astia foundation to help launch their investor readiness programme in the UK. She chairs the life science advisory board in Europe\, and is a member of the global life scie nce cabinet which shares information to understand current investment tren ds in the US\, Europe and India. \nGerlinde Gniewosz\, CEO and Founder\, KO-SU LimitedGerlinde has over 13 years experience across a breadth of in dustries and countries. She was also the founder of Zuztertu\, an innovati ve educational mobile apps and solutions development company\, which origi nally developed the KO-SU prototype and acclaimed Pollock’s Toy Theatre app for the iPad (included on the Sunday Times app list for the past two y ears). Prior to Zuztertu\, Gerlinde also worked for Yahoo!\, forming and r eturning strategic projects. Her love of mobile technology was born during her time working for Orange UK. She has also had experience working as a strategic consultant in Germany and as a structured finance investment ban ker in Australia. Gerlinde holds a MBA from Harvard Business School and a Batchelor of Commerce (first class honors and university medal) from the U niversity of New South Wales\, Australia.\nNathalie Gaveau\, CEO and Found er\, ShopcadeNathalie Gaveau is a serial entrepreneur\, founder and CEO of social shopping platform\, Shopcade. The company has its offices in Londo n and New York\, and is backed by business angels\, including Carrefour’ s – Daniel Bernard\; Eidos’ – Ian Livingstone and the BBC’s Lord B irt. Prior to setting up Shopcade\, Nathalie was co-founder of French eBay competitor\, PriceMinister\, which was subsequently sold to Rakuten for 2 00 million euros in 2010 and was noted as one of the biggest recent exits in consumer web in France. Shopcade’s application allows users to discov er new products\, create lists of items they want\, and recieve deal aler ts. Trends are made in real-time by users and their friends and follower s. Shopcade is partnered with over 60 000 brands ranging from high street to unique designer brands. Since September 2012\, Shopcade’s user base h as grown 200% with downloads growing 40% each week since March. \nRegiste r your place at this eventFor further information\, please contact entrep reneurship@imperial.ac.uk \nThis event is part of the Best Practice 6-par t series. The series is organised by The Entrepreneurship Hub at Imperial College Business School and in supported by the Higher Education Innovatio n Fund (HEIF). URL:https://www.imperial.ac.uk/events/108205/gender-diversification-the-jou rney-of-successful-female-entrepreneurs/ DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20130605T180000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20130605T193000 LOCATION:United Kingdom END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/London BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20130605T180000 TZNAME:BST TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR