HEC Women UK and Yale Alumni - "Exceptional Women Entrepreneurs" - 12th April
Dear Alumni, dear friends
HEC Women UK is very pleased to Invite You to our next event in partnership with Yale Alumni "Exceptional Women Entrepreneurs - Daring to be successful"
Join us on Tuesday 12th April at The Lansdowne Club (Mayfair) for an intimate evening of storytelling, discussion and drinks and meet with exceptional women entrepreneurs in media, consumer and tech. Hear them talk openly about their different paths to success and get a chance to meet one another in an inspirational setting...
Our speakers include Margaret Milan, Pip Jamieson and Laetitia Puyfaucher. Ludovic Blanc will moderate the debate.
The registration fee is 25£. The debate will be followed by canapés and drinks.
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(extended network)
Date: 12 April 2016
Time: 7PM – 9.30PM, Registration starts at 6.40PM.
Venue: Shelbourne Room, The Lansdowne Club, 9 Fitzmaurice Place Mayfair, London W1J 5JD
Dress code: Club rules follow for dressing, please see details here http://www.digi-products.com/dg/wn/dld/tlc/a7861544/digi-pdf1.pdf. The Lansdowne Club was the first club in London to accept both women and men as members since 1935!
Margaret Milan is an entrepreneur who grew up in the UK and has lived in France for over 30 years. She began her career at Procter & Gamble, before founding Eveil & Jeux (nowOxybul), the leading French e-commerce site and retailer of educational toys. She and her partner sold the company to Fnac in 2001, returned in 2006 to lead the digital and omnichannel transformation, then sold to ID Group end 2010. Today she is on the board of two mid-sized firms and accompanies several start-ups in the consumer arena.
Margaret is a co-founder and former president of PWN Global, a leading network for professional women in Europe with 4000 members in 20 countries. She has worked to promote entrepreneurship and gender balance over the past fifteen years, and is co-director of the book “Gender Balance, When Men Step Up” published in March 2016. She has degrees from Warwick university (Engineering) and Harvard business school.
Pip Jamieson is the Founder and CEO of The Dots - www.the-dots.co.uk, think LinkedIn for the creative industries. Named as one of Australia's top female entrepreneurs Pip has spent the last 13 years immersed in the creative industries, including executive roles at MTV Australia and New Zealand. Pip lives on a houseboat with her husband in Kings Cross, London. She can be found on Twitter @pip_jamieson and on The Dots https://the-dots.co.uk/pipjamieson
Laetitia Puyfaucher founded Pelham Media Ltd, an editorial communication group, in 2000. Today one of the leaders of the field, it gathers three agencies, WordAppeal, L’Éclaireur and KCO. Laetitia was awarded the 1999 Nico Cochelster Prize by The Economist and the Financial Times, the Trajectoires HEC au Féminin 2011 Prize. In 2013, she was also named one of the World Economic Forum’s Young Global Leaders. A HEC Paris, LSE, Sciences Po Paris and Sorbonne graduate, Laetitia co-wrote “Le média humain”, a book about the dangers and opportunities of social media for corporations. She takes part in the Montaigne Institute’s research. Laetitia is also a member of the board of Compagnie Lebon.
Ludovic Blanc is the Founder and CEO of BLANC. BLANC (www.blancclean.com) helps you live better, healthier and cleaner by offering people-and-planet friendly services and products for your home, including natural drycleaning & laundry, sustainable home furnishing cleaning services and natural & ethically-sourced household products.
Ludovic graduated from HEC in 2003 and worked in the investment banking at JPMorgan before setting up BLANC in 2012. Ludovic co-founded the entrepreneurs network Start Me Up in 2012, and is currently leading the effort to create HEC’s own Entrepreneurship Hub in the UK. He regularly advises businesses on growth and funding.
