Episode 10: Mary McKenna, Tech entrepreneur and angel investor

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Strategy Sheroes

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16 episodes

2 months ago

Podcast presented by strategist Breda Doherty promoting the voices of women leading strategy across different sectors and companies. Learn how they have made the move into strategic roles, their biggest learning experiences and advice they have for other women wanting to make the move into strategy or venture out on their own as business leaders, and consultants.

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Episode 10: Mary McKenna, Tech entrepreneur and angel investor

Strategy Sheroes

31 minutes 19 seconds

5 years ago

Episode 10: Mary McKenna, Tech entrepreneur and angel investor

On this episode of Strategy Sheroes I’m joined by Mary McKenna.

Mary is a tech entrepreneur, angel investor and was co-founder of the hugely successful e-learning company Learning Pool, where she was also my boss. She is one of the entrepreneurs in residence at the University of Oxford and is currently kickstarting new female founder network AwakenHub. Mary was awarded an MBE in 2014 for her services to Digital Technology, Innovation and Learning.

We chat about:

Mary's move from accountancy to becoming a tech entrepreneur and investor
Her investment criteria
The skills needed to be successful in business
Mary's advice for female founders, and why she feels it's so important to pay it forward

Links to some of the stuff we chatted about

AwakenHub female founder network
Mary shares more business, and networking advice on her Kicking Assets blog

Follow Mary on Twitter @MMaryMcKenna

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