Media, Tech & Health
Stephanie Koczela is the co-founder of Penda Health, a startup providing high-quality, affordable, outpatient healthcare through a chain of clinics in Kenya.
Penda Health launched its first clinic in February 2012 and since then has had over 3,000 patient visits with an average spend of $5-$6. By 2020, Penda will operate over 100 clinics across Kenya with millions of patients.
Penda Health aims to be affordable to everyone in Kenya, including the low- and middle-income population, which is currently served by overburdened public-sector solutions (government clinics) and a fragmented pool of “stand-alone hospitals” (typically setup by a lone doctor, nurse or “quack”).
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Celeste North is the Founder of Nuflick, a platform of digital distribution for independent content and art-house films focused on the Latin American market. Combining three of Celeste’s passions (film, technology and entrepreneurship), Nuflick’s main objective is to bring visibility to Latin American cinema.
Prior to Nuflick, in 2008 Celeste and two partners funded Don't Panic Films, a film production company that produced two feature films and several short films, besides collaborating in other national productions for film and television.
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Kelsey Meyer is the Co-Founder and President of Influence & Co., a company which assists experts in growing their influence and showcasing their expertise online by getting bylined articles published in top tier publications.
Influence & Co. has grown from 2 to 50 employees in the last two years and is still growing fast. Influence & Co. is now one of the leading providers of expert content to the world's top publications.
Kelsey, who co-founded two other startups before founding Influence & Co., is a member of The Young Entrepreneurship Council and was recognized at the White House as part of the Empact showcase of top entrepreneurs under the age of 30.
Influence & Co. was born when Kelsey and her co-founder John Hall decided that the entrepreneurs they knew were not gaining value from their PR efforts. Kelsey and John along with an investor set out to enable entrepreneurs to grow their influence through a different means - contributed expert full length articles.
Kelsey is a keen mentor to other young entrepreneurs and organized Columbia Missouri's first Startup Weekend.
Griselda Kumordzie Togobo reviews Sue Stockdale's new book about business and growth strategies, The Growth Story: Successful Business Growth Strategies used by Women Entrepreneurs.
It’s the aspiration of many female entrepreneurs to build successful businesses. How you plan to achieve such growth is one of the challenges that most small business grapple with.
Sue Stockdale’s The Growth Story charts the journeys of women entrepreneurs and the strategies they adapted to turn their ideas into multi-million businesses.
Sue Stockdale is an inspirational speaker and coach and the first British woman to ski to the North Pole, having represented Scotland in track and field athletics. She is also currently the London Chapter Chair of Women Presidents Organisation.
Sue gives some sound advice that resonated with me such as:
“Growing organically made us a lean company and gave us the opportunity to become experts in all growth stages.
"We did all the work in-house and this allowed us to save money and have the cash available for growth” Brenda VanDuinkerken
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Kathryn Parsons, our Featured Female Hero for this month's theme, founded Decoded in 2011 to help people become digitally literate and learn how to code in just one day.
With offices in London, New York and Singapore, Decoded's offerings have expanded to include Data Visualisation In a Day, Social Data in a Day, Digital Production in a Day and Mobile in a Day, in additon to Code in a Day.
Sheila Flavell, COO of international IT services
provider FDM Group and a Cranfield School of Management '100 Women to
Watch 2013', looks at why there aren't more women in tech; why a career in this field is so rewarding; and at some of the women at the top of the industry. Part of The NextWomen Technology Theme.
This is my first contribution to The NextWomen. I have been vigilantly reading it for a number of months so hopefully I won’t disappoint. Let me start by telling you a little about myself; I am a mother of five, a wife and the COO of the UK’s leading IT graduate employer.
I am a firm believer in equal opportunities in the workplace and I lead FDM Group’s global Women in IT campaign dedicated to encouraging more women to pursue a career in information technology.
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Tech Insights is a new series where we speak to experts in the DWEN community about hot technology topics.
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“There is a baseline opposition to any technological advancement – tune it out.”
Jim Chabin, Chairman of the International 3D Society, quote from the 3D Creative Summit in London, March 27th 2013.
Our first contact with 3D was through the delivery of the evaluation trials for an EU project called Saracen. This has designed and developed a peer-to-peer 3D video streaming platform. Our role was to deliver trials of the platform with participants aged between 15-25 years. This group generally adopts new technology more quickly than other age groups.
In order to encourage engagement in the trials we offered free video production training in 2D and 3D. This is what we do, and we know that it is a great hook as these skills provide an ‘edge’ in any tight labour market.
This work resulted in our invitation to speak at the first 3D Creative Summit in London at the British Film Institute. Other panellists included Ang Lee, Richard Attenborough and 3D creators from the Life of Pi and The Hobbit.
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Sarah Wood is Co-Founder and COO of Unruly Media, a company that delivers social videos. Since launch in 2006, the company has delivered, tracked and audited 1.65 billion video views across 2,000+ successful social video campaigns for over 400 brands since 2007 and has a turnover of £17.5 million.
Milestone campaigns include T-Mobile’s Life’s for Sharing series, Evian’s global Roller Babies hit, Old Spice’s Man Your Man Could Smell Like campaign and Coca-Cola’s Happiness series.
After beginning as a three-person operation with zero turnover just a few years ago, Unruly has become the world’s leading social video platform. In three years, the number of staff has grown by 400% and sales have increased five-fold in the last two years.
Having graduated from Cambridge with first class honours, Sarah stayed on at the university to complete an MPhil in American Literature; later receiving a PhD from University College London. She applied this love of the arts to a role at The Old Vic Theatre in London, before developing her leadership skills as a university lecturer.
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