Biography of Fiona Hathorn

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1 Biography of Fiona is Managing Director of Women on Boards in the UK, and is a Trustee of the Charity Fight for Sight. She is a passionate angel investor and helped to found one of the first female angel investment clubs, Incito Ventures. Formerly Fiona a director for Old Mutual Asset Management and Hill Samuel Asset Management, running the Global Equities and Emerging Markets Desks respectively. She has advised the board of the Thai Euro Fund and been the Director responsible for Pension Fund asset allocation for Old Mutual Asset Management's Employee Pension Fund. In 2012 Fiona decided to join forces with Women on Boards Australia and launch Women on Boards UK. Women on Boards UK s aims are simply - to encourage and support women applying for board roles across the Public, Private and Not for Profit Sectors. Women on Boards launched in October 2012 as a social enterprise and have over 16,000 individual members. They are supported by four foundation sponsors (PwC, Standard Bank, Thomson Reuters and Berwin Leighton & Paisner) and have a growing list of corporate members including UBS, RBS, JP Morgan, Cisco Systems, HSBC, Google, Oracle and Aberdeen Asset Management. Women on Boards (WOB) exists to help women make the right connections and career choices to get to board level within their own company, or to take on a non-executive board role. Since launch in September 2012, over 4,000 women have attended Women on Boards popular Getting Started workshops or Boardroom Conversations and over 6000 NED/Trustee roles have been advertised. The unique value of being part of the WOB network is the ongoing personal support that WOB provides to subscribers. This includes individual help with your board strategy, board profile and interview preparation combined with personal introductions to experienced directors who can provide advice and encouragement in specific interview situations. Over 500 of WOB s members have been supported onto boards since WOB launched in the UK. WOB UK Ltd (No: ) Registered office: 21 Parklands, Cholmeley Park, Highgate, London, N6 5FE Website:

2 Details of Speaking Experience Old Mutual PLC s International Investor Roadshow Cape Town, Johannesburg, Bloemfontein & Port Elizabeth, June 2001 Women on Boards UK Launch Events London, Bristol, Manchester, Birmingham & Edinburgh, September 2012 City Women s Club & Deloitte London, December 2012 City Asset Management Women on Boards Event London, December 2012 Mayer and Brown Client Employment Conference Public Sector Boardroom Conversation with the UK Cabinet Office Women in Mining Conference PwC Investment Trust Boardroom Conversation, Aberdeen Asset Management Insolvency Boardroom Conversation, Goodman Derrick London, February 2013 Influence and Power Do you care? Sodexo Conference April 2013 Qantas Women of the Year, Keynote speaker May 2013 PwC Financial Awareness June 2013 UBS Networking and Influence talk and workshop (Men and Women) July % Club Global Launch July 2013 Fidelity Women s Network -Why Networking Matters July

3 Confidence in the Boardroom Eversheds Manchester Conservative Party Conference Fringe Speaker Waste Management Conference NEC Labour Party Conference Fringe Speaker PwC Bristol Client Boardroom Conversation Manchester Transport Networking and Influence Coco Cola Networking and Influence PwC Bristol Charity Boards PwC & Pro-Manchester - The Value of Networking October 2013 Towers Watson Diversity & Data October 2013 Boardroom Conversations Building Societies October 2013 Boardroom Conversations Lawyers in the Boardroom November 2013 Boardroom Conversation Sports Boards, JP Morgan December 2013 Forte Foundation UK Summit Women on Boards January

4 Boardroom Conversations All Boards, Morgan Stanley February 2014 Deloitte Women in Tax Can Women Have it All February 2014 Gender Bias in the UK, History & Current Canford School, Sixth Form Girls February 2014 Ashurst International Women s Day Seven Reasons why being on a Board is good for your career March 2014 HSBC Women s Conference Can Women Have it All March 2014 Women in Manchester Can Women Have it All April 2014 Business Innovations & Skills (BIS) Women on Boards Conference The Duties of a Director April 2014 Google Ireland Tips and Tricks May 2014 BNY Mellon Ireland & Manchester Tips and Tricks May 2014 CFA Women s Network Why become NED or Trustee and how to go about it May 2014 Women in Business Talk with the Home Secretary, Theresa May Maidenhead for the Maidenhead Twenties Club June 2014 Shell Senior Women, alongside the Chairman of Shell UK Do we need more women talk June 2014 Women in Facilities Management Do we need more Women Leaders? September 2014 City Mothers & MacFarlanes LLP 7 Reasons why being a NED is good for your career? September

5 Scottish Water Senior Management Team Diversity does it Matter and how does it affect you? Wealth Management Conference Do women need support in WA Industry & why so few women apply PwC Going for Gold in Sport Carillion Senior Leaders Conference Do we need more Women Leaders Alliance Bernstein Gender Balance Network Diversity & Innovation, do you care? November 2014 BNP Paribas Women s Network Launch, why do we need more women leaders? November 2014 Veredus Women on Boards, Diversity and Performance November 2014 Cazenove/Schroders Charity Investment Conference December 2014 DLA Piper 7 Reasons Talk on Boards, Client Event February 2015 St Pauls Boys School Integrated Leadership and the benefit of Diversity February 2015 Pinsent Mason Manchester Women s Leader Dinner After Dinner Speaker March 2015 Financial Women s Association of New Your 30 th Annual International Business Conference March 2015 Veredus Women Housing Network Seven Reasons talk May 2015 BNY Mellon Hong Kong Career Development Talk to staff and clients May

6 Mercer, Women in Reward Network Integrated Leadership and Board Value Add Credit Suisse Women s Leadership Network Seven Reasons talk Oracle Women in Leadership Dinner, Key Note Speaker ESRC Funded University Research Seminar Series Women in the Media Talk PwC Manchester Integrated Leadership Talk Women in PR Board / CV morning December 2015 RedLine Shareholder Voting Panel with Vince Cable December 2015 ACCA Women s Networks Annual Dinner, After dinner speaker December 2015 FutureBoard HR -7 Reasons Why being on a board is good for your career January 2016 Women in Tech Conference Gender Gap Panel January 2016 FTI Consultancy - 7 Reasons why being on a Board is good for your career January 2016 Eversheds, City Mothers - & Reasons why being on a Board is good for your career February 2016 La Salle AM Diversity Matters, Do you care? March 2016 International Women Day Quotas V Targets Debate March

7 HM Treasury Women in Finance & the Gender Pay Gap 39%! April 2016 Pinsent Mason Client Dinner Does Diversity Matter April 2016 Morgan McKinley Diversity and Inclusion, is anyone getting it right? April