Maggie Berry

Managing Director, womenintechnology.co.uk

Maggie is the Managing Director of womenintechnology.co.uk, a leading online job board and networking forum for women working in the technology profession in the UK. She has been involved since the organisation’s inception in the autumn of 2004 and manages all aspects of the website and their networking activities. The network now has over 7,000 members and the job board helps a wide range of firms to recruit more women into their IT divisions. Her background is in technology recruitment and she previously worked for NatWest as a Graduate Banking Manager. Maggie is a graduate of the University of East Anglia.

Dr Sue Black

Senior Research Associate, UCL

Sue is an inspiring and passionate leader who excels at bringing people together to solve complex issues. She is also an accomplished academic manager and researcher with more than 40 publications and a PhD in software engineering. Sue is well known for her online and offline activism around women in tech and saving Bletchley Park, she is a frequent public speaker, media savvy and a social media-holic.

Eileen Brown

CEO, Amastra

Eileen Brown is CEO of Amastra which specialises in social media strategy to engage customers and gain advocates for companies. After 10 years as Shell Tankers first female Deck Officer, Eileen managed containerships, IT support, training, consultancy, and technology management at Microsoft. She is an international speaker on Social Media and technology and an advocate for the advancement of women in technology. She is part of BCSWomen, BCS Essex, fellow of the RSA and Chairs Intellect’s Women in Technology committee.

Simone Brummelhuis

Founder of The Next Women and VP, Astia.org

Simone Brummelhuis is founder of The NextWomen, the First Women’s Internet Business Magazine and Community, with online magazine thenextwomen.com and thenextwomen.nl and behind concepts as Kitchen Dinners, Funding & Pitching events and The NextWomen Mentoring programme. Simone is currently VP Europe of Astia.org, the premier entrepreneur & funding programme for high-growth women-led companies. She worked for 10 years as an international corporate lawyer (Skadden, New York & Loeff Claeys Verbeke, Amsterdam, New York) before joining VC backed IENS.nl as co-owner and managing director; she developed this start-up into the no. 1 user generated content database publisher of restaurant guides in The Netherlands; currently she is on the Board of Supervisory Directors (RVC) of IENS.

Jacqueline de Rojas

Vice President & General Manager UKI & Ireland, CA Technologies

Jacqueline has over 20 years of experience in the technology industry. She has business experience spanning the globe, with previous roles involving running successful operations in both Europe and Asia. Having joined McAfee from Novell, where she was managing director for the UK and Ireland, Jacqueline has a reputation for building businesses through sales excellence and channel leverage, driving considerable success for the organisations she has worked for.

Rebecca George OBE

Vice Chair, BCS Policy and Public Affairs Board and Partner, Deloitte

Rebeccahas been involved in a variety of activities to increase the participation of Women in the IT industry for over 10 years.  She chaired the Women in IT Forum, the Intellect Shared Services working group and is currently Vice Chair, Policy and Public Affairs Board for the BCS, the Chartered Institute for IT, where she is a Fellow. Rebecca joined Deloitte as a Partner in September 2006 and leads the Firm’s Public Sector Health practice in the UK.  Before joining Deloitte, Rebecca spent nearly 20 years at IBM in a variety of sales, HR and business process re-engineering roles.

Elizabeth Gooch

Chief Executive Officer, eg

Elizabeth started her career in the 1980s as an in-house consultant at Forward Trust, a subsidiary of Midland Bank. She then moved to Birmingham Midshires before establishing eg in 1988. After working for some Manufacturers, Elizabeth introduced their proactive management of processing and operations into the back offices of financial services businesses. Based on this experience, Elizabeth designed and launched the eg operational intelligence® software suite. Today, having successfully implemented eg’s Operational Management solutions in large financial services companies such as HBOS, Aviva and Scottish Equitable, Elizabeth stands out as one of Staffordshire’s rare IT entrepreneurs and was recognised as the seventh leading female entrepreneur in Management Today’s top 100 entrepreneurs 2006 and 2007.

Stephanie Liston

Senior Counsel, Charles Russell LLP

Stephanie is Senior Counsel at Charles Russell LLP. A qualified lawyer in the US and UK, she was a Non-Executive Director of the Office of Communications (Ofcom) from 2005 to 2008, a Director of the European Competitive Telecommunications Association (ECTA) from 2000 to 2005, co-chairman of the Communications Committee of the International Bar Association from 2004-2006 and the co-founder and Chair of Women in Telecoms and Technology (founded in 2000 with current membership of over 500).

Audrey Mandela

Co-Founder, Multimap / Chair, Locus Association / Independent Consultant

Audrey runs Mandela Associates, providing market research and consulting services for select clients in the telecom, internet and geographical information sectors. She chairs the Locus Association, an organization that works to encourage the public sector to maintain a fair and equitable trading environment in relation to licensing and re-use of public sector information. Audrey is a director and company secretary for Women in Telecoms & Technology (WiTT).Previously she was Co-Founder of Multimap, has been a frequent speaker at telecom industry events around the world and the author of numerous reports and studies on global telecom trends.

Lee Readman

Global Talent Acquisition Operational Excellence Director, eBay Inc

Lee Readman is an accomplished HR professional with an extensive successful career in retail, financial services and currently within e-commerce at eBay Inc.  He thrives at leading cross functional, geographically and culturally diverse teams to develop and expand horizons and encourage fulfilling and elongated careers within the world's largest online marketplace and global payments engine with more than 97 million active eBay users and over 100 million active PayPal accounts. Responsible for acquiring the best talent across eBay's portfolio of businesses, Lee is passionately focused on advancing all aspects of the diversity agenda and a strong advocate of advancing talented women in technology.

Tim Skinner

Operations Director – Enterprise, Cisco UK & Ireland

Tim leads Cisco’s Enterprise sales and technical teams across the UK, helping customers from the Retail, Manufacturing, Utility, Industrial and Financial Services space enhance productivity, profitability and lower costs through better use of network based services and solutions. After joining Cisco in 1999 Tim has held various roles including sales management, vertical business development and account management. Tim has been in the networking and data communications industry for 20 Years and has a wealth of IT experience gained from Newbridge Networks and case Communications where he held various engineering, sales and management roles.