Caroline Andrew | Caroline Andrew London
Caroline Andrew (London) is emerging as a highly respected bespoke tailor focusing on traditional British suits for both men & women.
We infuse Savile Row cutting and tailoring techniques with our clean and minimalist design to create our signature house style.
Based in the heart of London, we have been recognised for consistently breaking new ground; combining fashion, design, art and architecture into our bespoke garments.
True to her pioneer spirit, Caroline Andrew has created the perfect fit and has worked with some of the most respected professionals from Savile Row teaming up with Master Tailors and Cutters to create her signature style.
Caroline has devoted the past decade of her career to understanding the requirements of the modern individual and addressing their sartorial needs.
Jacynth Bassett | the-Bias-Cut.com
Jacynth Bassett is the founder of the-Bias-Cut.com - the first age inclusive online independent fashion boutique – and the movement Ageism Is Never In Style®.
After studying Law at Cambridge, where she was also President of the Law Society, Jacynth used her minimal savings to found the-Bias-Cut.com, having grown frustrated at seeing women, like her mum, being treated as invisible or irrelevant by the Fashion Industry, largely due to their age. From independently developing, launching and running the-Bias-Cut.com in 2016, today it has over 30 labels, including Jacynth's eponymous label, and a global customer base.
Jacynth herself has swiftly become recognised as one of the leading advocates of style at every age, having been named as an 'Ageism-Fighting Trailblazer' by Global Health Ageing. She regularly writes, speaks and commentates on the topic for various leading national publications, including The Guardian, New Statesman and Business Insider, for several 40+ online platforms, and chaired the “Fashion Fades, Only Style Remains” talk for the (B)old Festival 2018 at the Southbank Centre, London. She also supports and aids charities, organisations and entrepreneurs tackling ageism, and is the founder & chair of 'Advocates For Ageing' - a global collective of professionals changing the conversation around ageing.
Tracey Blake | Student Nannies
I am an accidental entrepreneur!
I began my career as a journalist in contract magazine publishing and then moved to Associated Newspapers where I spent 12 years as a senior editor working on the Daily Mail, Femail, Mail On Sunday, Weekend, London Lite, Mail Plus (the digital editions) and at Metro. I still write a parenting blog called Small Talk on the MailOnline website.
During this time I also became a parenting author! In 2013 I wrote Small Talk: Simple ways to boost your child's speech and language development from birth (Macmillan) with my co-author and friend Nicola Lathey. It was published in the US in 2014. In 2016 we wrote two speech-boosting picture books which were sold in M&S and have recently been published in Spain.
As a working my of two with a stressful job, I experienced the childcare crisis first hand when I couldn’t find any after-school help for my two children on Tuesdays and Wednesdays. Childminders wanted to finish at 6pm but I didn’t get home til 7.30/8pm; professional nannies wanted a full day, not 4 hours. I was stuck and getting increasingly desperate.
Then I heard two students talking in my train station waiting room and I said, “Do you live locally and are either of you interested in some babysitting work?” One of them, Louise, said yes, we swapped numbers and after a chat at our house we hired her. Louise was an art foundation student and did amazing craft projects with the children so there was always something for me to admire when I got home. It was such a good fit for us that when Louise left I wanted to find another student but as a 40-year old woman I couldn’t reach into that network. So https://studentnannies.com/ was born as a side gig in 2016!
I am now working full time on Student Nannies with a vision of making the juggle between being a parent and having a career just a little bit less of a struggle.
Paris Jordan | Sanlam Investments
Paris joined the investment industry in 2012 after graduating university with an upper second-class honours degree in Politics, Philosophy and Economics.
She joined Fidelity Investments as a Broker Service Associate and worked with financial advisors providing them assistance with their client accounts. After working with her team for eight months, she was promoted to work with Fidelity’s key advisor accounts, as the company recognised her strong service skills. During her time in a customer service role, she received three platinum awards for service, a feat which had never been achieved before. After another eight months, her manager recommended her for an internal role as an Analyst in the Business Strategy team, which she was accepted for, and moved over to work with key stakeholders and senior management. In this role she completed her Investment Operations Certificate and her Investment Management Certificate. After working in this team for a year, Paris moved to Sanlam FOUR Investments in 2014 to gain more exposure to investments. Paris initially worked as a Reporting Analyst where she also started studying for the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) qualification. After working in the role for over a year and a half, and passing Level 1 of the CFA Program, she applied for a role in the multi-manager investment team. Paris was successfully selected as the first female investment professional at Sanlam FOUR in 2016. Today, she remains part of the investment team as a fund selector, specialising in Socially Responsible Investing, and aids her team in managing over £2bn. Paris qualified as a CFA Charterholder in 2019, contributes to several Mental Wellbeing Initiatives, and was selected as a member of Sanlam’s Junior Executive Committee in 2018. In her spare time, she has been a Mentor for The Girls’ Network, has taught English abroad with Angloville and currently works for ORCA as a Marine Mammal Surveyor. Paris is enthusiastic about Responsible Investing, has helped to drive the adoption of best practice within the Investment Management Industry and was awarded the CFA ESG Investing Certificate at the end of 2019.
Georgie Hazell | Augmentum Fintech
Georgie has worked in a number of startups across people, strategy and growth positions and now leads engagement at fintech-focused VC fund Augmentum.
Following her MBA and a consultancy project with Crowdcube, Georgie moved into venture capital. Passionate about diversity and inclusion, particularly in VC and entrepreneurship, Georgie founded women in tech network Elevate, led on UK expansion for Her Campus Media, mentors with The Girls Network, is an Investwell Community member, volunteers with Diversity VC and is training to be a coach. She has brought together thousands of women over the years through hosting diversity initiatives, including women in fintech speed mentoring sessions and monthly women in tech breakfasts.
At 29 years old, she now heads up engagement at Augmentum Fintech, the UK’s only publicly listed fintech venture capital fund. This involves supporting portfolio company growth, engaging with investors and the wider fintech ecosystem (including marketing, partnerships and diversity initiatives), and supporting the team internally. Georgie has worked hard to put Augmentum 'on the map' and the fund has won numerous awards, including AIC Shareholder Communications Awards for 'Best use of social media', AltFi Awards 'VC Investor of the Year' Finalists, Growth Investor Awards 'Growth Investor of the Year, One to Watch' and Investor Allstars 'Venture Capital Fund of the Year' Finalist. Georgie puts innovation and supporting individuals to fulfil their potential at the heart of her work.
Alexandra Jorden | Octopus Investments
I started my career in 2009 as an audit trainee at Nyman Libson Paul in London, working across a range of clients including theatres, film production companies, charities and other small to medium sized business.
After obtaining my ACA qualification in 2012, I spent four months travelling in South America, before joining St George Plc (a division of Berkeley Group), initially as a Management Accountant and later as a Senior Management Accountant.
I joined Octopus Investments in March 2016 as the Finance Manager on the Octopus Inheritance Tax Service. My role expanded along with the underlying portfolio, and I became involved in a number of projects, including acquisitions of renewable energy assets and a start-up fibre business, raising additional debt financing and preparation for a listing on the NEX exchange.
I moved into my current role as Financial Controller for the institutional care home and retirement living funds managed by Octopus Real Estate in August 2019. Since joining the Real Estate team I’ve established financial procedures and policies for the new retirement living fund and led my team through the merger of the two largest care home funds.
Marina Gordon | J.P. Morgan
Originally born and raised in Moscow Marina moved to the UK to complete International Baccalaureate Program at Sevenoaks.
Upon graduating from the University of Edinburgh with a First Class Masters of Arts in Economics, Marina started her career in the Private Banking business in 2011 at Morgan Stanley Private Wealth Management. From there Marina moved to UBS London in 2014 working as an Investment Advisor covering CEE clients.
Marina joined JPM Private Bank in the autumn of 2015 as an Investor on the Emerging Markets team in London. While at JPM Private Bank Marina was promoted to Vice President in January 2018.
Marina is a mother to a highly energetic and highly entertaining baby girl. Having taken a full year for maternity leave she returned back to work in March 2019 and has been an active working parents champion upon her return.
Marina is fluent in Russian and speaks intermediate French.
Her interests include fashion, fashion history and period buildings.
Justine Colley | Sanlam Wealth
Justine joined Sanlam in 2017, after being head hunted by Sanlam’s CEO, Jonathan Polin, and was brought into Sanlam to transition Advisory Client’s into a Discretionary mandate and to build additional AUM for the Group.
Justine is a qualified and experienced Portfolio Manager and has worked in financial services for 10+ years. She started her career at HSBC securities and prior to joining Sanlam UK, she was a Wealth Manager at Tilney and later European Wealth where she managed the South African desk as well as solutions for international and UK discretionary and advisory clients.
In 2018, she was prestigiously included in Wealth Manager’s Top 100 leading fund selectors in private client investment management in the UK by Citywire and has won high achievement awards at Sanlam, the most recent being the ‘High Achievers Award’, given to the Top 2 business generators in the UK.
Justine has continued to develop herself professionally in her career to date. She holds a Bachelor of Business Science (with Honours) in Finance and Economics and is a CFA Level 3 candidate. She is a chartered Associate of the Institute for Securities and Investments and a CF30.
Her role at Sanlam, in the capacity of a Portfolio Manager, is to create and manage a bespoke book of discretionary portfolios across multiple asset classes, develop and maintain new and existing relationships across the UK and South Africa and provide sound advice and a high level of service to their respective clients. Justine has not only and continues to meet these primary objectives, but does this in a way showing positive and entrepreneurial ability and the passion for knowing her clients can expect the highest level of service. She is a passionate individual that naturally takes on new opportunities with enthusiasm and illustrates a willingness to mentor younger generations – which she is currently doing.
Gemma Wall | The Contemporary PA
For almost 10 years, I had worked for a Law firm in Dorset, beginning her journey with them as an Office Junior, working her way up to Office Manager and doing everything in between.
After an opportunity arose in Birmingham, I began working for a co-working space in the city centre, managing the front of house, keeping members happy and promoting the space using social media and other digital means. This opened my eyes to a a whole new way of working.
On returning to Dorset, I decided she wanted more. After seeing a gap in the Dorset market for small business support, I wanted to bring a bit of the city to the country and introduce the world of Virtual to the community, so decided to launch as a Virtual Assistant. After only 6 months I was at full capacity and couldn't take on any more clients.
In January 2019 I took the decision to launch a Licence (similar to a franchise) to help other individuals who wanted to set out as a self-employed Virtual Assistant do just that using The Contemporary PA branding, and the tried and tested model that I used to grow my business. I am proud to say we are now a national brand with 8 licensees in Dorset, Hampshire and Newcastle.
Also, big believers in small businesses and how important they are for our communities, The Contemporary PA launched a networking event #TakeoverTuesday in Dorchester where start-ups and freelancers can work alongside each other one day a month and learn from one another, as let’s face it, being a solo-preneur can be lonely at times.
The Contemporary PA supports small businesses and start-ups with administration and digital tasks, allowing them to spend their time on growing their businesses. Our ad-hoc and flexible approach makes us truly accessible for businesses at all stages throughout a business’s life.
Since launching in 2017, The Contemporary PA have assisted with businesses of all shapes and sizes from sole traders to established companies, and even have some well-known celebrities on our books.
