Creating New Horizons

 
 

WICT UK’s first event of 2023 saw Sarah Golley our Mentoring co-chair hosting a panel discussion with Julie Fedele, Anne Nguyen and David Boycott about the future of technology in our industry and how it impacts ours careers.

 

Julie Fedele

For over 10 years Julie has worked in the Healthcare industry with multinational corporations and start-ups to create disruptive growth strategies grounded in customer needs. Most recently she worked with Europe’s HealthTech unicorn, Babylon Health. In June, Julie took up the role as Vice President of Emerging Business within Liberty Global – with a focus on activating new revenue across LG as well as introducing a new way working.

In 2012, Julie launched her own start up called ‘Popping Up’, with the vision to connect pureplay online brands to semi-permanent rental spaces. This experience led her to be an active mentor in start-up communities, taking on Venture Partner roles and becoming an angel investor with a laser focus on early-stage FemTech companies.

Julie is passionate about supporting female founders and underrepresented minority groups and works with other Angel networks to raise awareness about the limited amount of venture funding going to these groups.

 
 

Anne Nguyen

Anne brings a wealth of experience, most recently serving as Managing Director and Partner at Boston Consulting Group (BCG). For the past 15 years at BCG she has specialised in digital, direct to customer, advertising and data in the Telecommunications, Media and Technology sector and will be a perfect fit for our future areas of focus. Before that, she was FD at digital pureplay automative marketplace in the US. She has also been a huge advocate for DE&I, and has been a member of BCG’s executive team driving this forward.

 

Key takeaways were:

  • keeping pace in a climate where technology is changing rapidly

  • we need to be life-long learners to take advantage of new opportunities

  • build a network, connect with people you can learn from

  • invest in personalised development with a mentor or coach

  • be prepared to change and stay curious

Feedback on the event was overwhelmingly positive with the majority of members finding the event very useful. Our members are requesting more events with personal development topping the list of types of events you would like us to see. We will be taking this feedback into our programming committee so watch this space for news soon!

 

with thanks to our sponsors

Carmen Chai