Start Ups

Nadine Brandt, mother of two, left her corporate career of 15 years in Asset Management, to follow her passion for photography.

Fashion designer, Laura Bonnell, is Mum to two young boys. In 2016, her family sold their London flat, packed their worldly possessions into a 20-foot shipping container and flew to California to start a new life.

Feeling stressed? Not enough hours in the day? Life seems to be increasingly busy for most people, and working parents often feel under pressure from both work and home.

Florence Brocklesby is a solicitor, entrepreneur and mother of three. With a background in the City, she launched a specialist employment and litigation law firm, Bellevue Law, after her children were born.

Net-a-Porter founder, Natalie Rooney was born in Los Angeles on 13 May 1965, to American journalist and film publicist Bob Rooney, and Barbara Jones, a British model with Chanel.

Jo Lesley Malone was born in 1963, and grew up on a Council Estate in Bexleyheath, Kent. She is dyslexic, and struggled at school, leaving with no qualifications.