Trailblazing Women Entrepreneurs

Reshma Shetty: Co-founder of Ginkgo Bioworks — a unicorn you should know!

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“I’d never try to encourage someone to become an entrepreneur. Instead I would encourage them to figure out what they are passionate about, what they want to change about the world and what they want to achieve with their life. Then figure out the best way of making that happen.”

Trailblazing Women: Sarah Wood OBE, Co-founder and COO of Unruly

Sarah Wood OBE is Co-founder and CEO of video ad tech company, Unruly, where she ensures that the company delivers the most awesome social video campaigns on the planet.

Trailblazing Women: Tiffany Pham, Founder and CEO of Mogul

Tiffany Pham is the Founder & CEO of Mogul, an award-winning worldwide platform connecting women to trending content, including stories, products, and jobs that are personalized to their interests.

Trailblazing Women: Thuy Truong, Founder Salt Cancer Initiative & Serial Entrepreneur

Thuy Truong is a Vietnamese serial entrepreneur who is currently the founder of the non-profit organization Salt Cancer Initiative, and she is leading mobile app development for the CancerBase research project with the Kuhn Laboratory.

Trailblazing Women: Heidi S. Messer, Co-Founder & Chairman of Collective[I]

Heidi Messer has been an active entrepreneur and investor in the digital economy since the commercialization of the Internet. She currently serves as co-Founder and Chairman of Collective[i]™.

Trailblazing Women: Johanna Mukoki, Group CEO, Travel With Flair

Johanna Mukoki is an accountant and B.Comm graduate from Rhodes University. She is the co-founder of Travel with Flair, a company she started 18 years ago with her two partners.

Trailblazing Women: Elizabeth A. Vazquez, CEO & Co-founder, WEConnect International

Elizabeth A. Vazquez is a serial social entrepreneur and world leader in global supplier diversity and inclusion. As the CEO of WEConnect International, a global non-profit that helps women-owned businesses succeed in global markets, she is responsible for mission delivery and impact.

Trailblazing Women: Gabriela Hersham, Founder & CEO — Huckletree

Gabriela Hersham founded Huckletree in May 2014 to cater for an emerging group of entrepreneurs in London. Today Huckletree operates three spaces in London and one in Dublin with a community of over 2000 members.

Trailblazing Women: Rachel Delacour, General Manager and Co-Founder of BIME Analytics at Zendesk

Rachel Delacour is the General Manager and co-founder of BIME Analytics, a pioneer in SaaS Cloud Business Intelligence (BI) startup originally located in Montpellier, France. BIME Analytics was recently acquired by Zendesk in October 2015.

Trailblazing Women: Dolly Singh, Founder & CEO of Thesis Couture

Dolly Singh is the Founder and CEO of Thesis Couture; a fashion-tech company bringing together a remarkable team of technologists and experts from fashion, architecture, medicine and engineering to reinvent the iconic stiletto.

Trailblazing Women: Laura Urquizu, CEO Red Points

With over twenty years of experience, Laura Urquizu is the Chief Executive Officer at Red Points, a company dedicated to bring innovation to IP protection in the internet. She joined the entrepreneur team in 2014. Red Points is changing the game in brand protection, copyright protection, and preventing the distribution of illegal content online.

Trailblazing Founder: Florence His, Founder of Business4People

Florence spent the first part of her professional life in the Investment, Risk and Project Management spaces; leading teams of experts on behalf of large global corporate players. After a successful 17+years, she began exploring new opportunities available in the Sustainability, Impact Investment, and Emerging spaces.

Trailblazing Founder : Julia Hartz, Co-founder and CEO of Eventbrite

Julia Hartz hopes to inspire people to live more by building the world’s largest marketplace of live experiences. Since founding Eventbrite in 2006 with Kevin Hartz and Renaud Visage, the company has generated over $3 billion in gross ticket sales, with more than 200 million tickets processed to events and experiences around the globe.