Cat is Co-Founder and CEO of the Global Equality Collective. She’s a diversity, equality and inclusion expert, an award-winning digital product person and most importantly, a mum of 3.

Cat is a scientist-turned-technologist who’s spent the last 2 decades solving problems using technology, and creating digital products for companies like The Times, The Sunday Times and Timeout London. As a STEM ‘lifer’, Cat had seen the sheer scale of the problem of imbalance and lack of diversity in the workplace, especially in STEM careers, and began mentoring and working with STEM women and girls. When she became a parent, and saw that Equity, Diversity and Inclusion in education hadn’t substantially moved on since the 80s, she realised that she had a personal responsibility to change things. She decided in 2017 to dedicate the rest of her career to bringing about equity and solving imbalance.

As Co-Founder of the GEC, Cat is passionate about mentoring, and always has a number of mentees. In 2016 Cat worked for a year to conquer her phobia of public speaking in order to become as visible as possible and provide representation and inspiration for the next generation of diverse talent. She now speaks at events like Women of Silicon Roundabout on her favourite topics; diversity, equity and inclusion, underrepresented founders, start-ups and of course, working parents.