This time we meet up with GeekGirl Lauren Ingram, a senior marketer specialising in PR, events and social media, with experience in agencies and tech startups.
In early 2017 she launched Power Suit Social, a creative community which aims to keep creativity commercially viable. As if all this was not enough, Lauren is also a mentor mentor for SheSays, as well as an active member of the DevelopHer community for women in tech, and a member of and mentor for ONE!
She’s a winner of awards such as: “2017 The Drum 50 Under 30 women in digital” and “2018 Pitch 100 Superwomen in the creative industries”.
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This time we meet up with GeekGirl Lauren Ingram, a senior marketer specialising in PR, events and social media, with experience in agencies and tech startups.
In early 2017 she launched Power Suit Social, a creative community which aims to keep creativity commercially viable. As if all this was not enough, Lauren is also a mentor mentor for SheSays, as well as an active member of the DevelopHer community for women in tech, and a member of and mentor for ONE!
She’s a winner of awards such as: “2017 The Drum 50 Under 30 women in digital” and “2018 Pitch 100 Superwomen in the creative industries”.
LIVE GeekGirl Meets Eileen Burbidge, Partner at Passion Capital
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LIVE GeekGirl Meets Eileen Burbidge, Partner at Passion Capital
GeekGirl Loves Eileen. We just HAD to interview her, and we just HAD to make it a live recording. Thanks to our pals at Stripe's London HQ we hosted a live GeekGirlMeets for the first time ever - and Eileen Burbidge, a woman of many titles and talents, was our wonderful woman in tech for the occasion. Amazing advice and insight in this podcast. From Eileen's views on work-life balance, her career moving from engineering side to VC and her work with the UK government, we cover a lot in this interview, with loads of advice to you! Enjoy!
Eileen Burbidge (@eileentso) is a Partner at Passion Capital, the pre-eminent early-stage VC fund based in London. She brings extensive operational experience to her investment activities gleaned from business and product roles at Yahoo!, Skype, Apple and elsewhere.
In addition to Passion Capital, Eileen is also Chair of Tech City UK, the government-backed organisation supporting digital business across Britain. She also serves on the Prime Minister David Cameron’s Business Advisory Group; as HM Treasury’s Special Envoy for FinTech, appointed by the Chancellor George Osborne; and Tech Ambassador for the Mayor of London Boris Johnson.
She was made an MBE for services to Business in June 2015 and holds a BSc Engineering degree in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
GeekGirlMeets
This time we meet up with GeekGirl Lauren Ingram, a senior marketer specialising in PR, events and social media, with experience in agencies and tech startups.
In early 2017 she launched Power Suit Social, a creative community which aims to keep creativity commercially viable. As if all this was not enough, Lauren is also a mentor mentor for SheSays, as well as an active member of the DevelopHer community for women in tech, and a member of and mentor for ONE!
She’s a winner of awards such as: “2017 The Drum 50 Under 30 women in digital” and “2018 Pitch 100 Superwomen in the creative industries”.
