Rene graduated from Loughborough University in 2016 with a BSc in International Business and is currently a Product Manager at American Express, delivering experiences for the award-winning US mobile app.

She was part of the team that launched their first experimental Beta App and more recently has been delivering savings features to their US customers in the app. Prior to this, Rene worked as a digital delivery analyst at a global technology consulting company, working with UK financial services clients to enhance and optimise their user experiences across web, mobile, phone and branch.

Alongside her endeavours in the digital space, Rene is a passionate careers writer. She started blogging on Medium in 2016 and more recently has written for many online publications which include Huff Post, Cosmopolitan, Fortune.com and Stylist.co.uk. She is also the soon to be author of Black and Great: The Essential Workplace toolkit, a careers book for Black students and professionals to be published by Coronet this year, featuring leading Black British voices from a variety of different industries.