Dr Glenda Stone, CEO, Aurora
Glenda is founder and CEO of Aurora, a London City based company providing corporate HR software and marketing services to over 100 blue-chip clients globally. Aurora runs the UK's only 'large employer-direct' jobsite (WhereToWork.com) that continues to show excellent growth and profit margins with strong technical IP. In her position as CEO of Aurora, Glenda brings together experience as a manager, entrepreneur, business angel, government policy maker, curriculum developer and teacher. With a background in international trade with the Western Australian Government and working in the Queensland Treasury of Australia, Glenda is experienced in both public and private sectors.

Glenda co-chairs the UK Government's Women's Enterprise Taskforce (2007-09) announced by The Chancellor of the Exchequer that aims to increase the quantity and scalability of women's enterprise, and also chairs the 28,000+ member Aurora Businesswomen’s Network, The Times’ Where Women Want To Work TOP 50, the BlackBerry Women & Technology Awards and sits on a number of Business Start-Ups Award panels and Business/Technology-related committees. Glenda was a board member (2004-07) of the global charity Womankind International that funds sustainable women’s initiatives in developing economies. Glenda won BusinessWeek’s Business Vision Award in 2004, was awarded Pioneer of the Nation by HM the Queen in 2003, and won European Businesswoman of the Year in 2002.

Glenda is regularly quoted in the press regarding various business issues. She first started her career in the late 1980's as a teacher in the Australian outback, and holds a Dip. Teach; a B.Ed; a M.Ed and an honorary doctorate from Leeds Metropolitan University. Glenda is a business angel investor in a number of ventures, with interest in B2B renewable energy and technology opportunities.

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