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On Board for Success

Our members share their success stories of developing their board careers - and the real tips and tricks that helped along the way.

LEADERSHIP PROGRAMME ALUMNA: Priyanka Singh

Priyanka Singh Senior Product Manager for Fraud Risk at HSBC Last year, I was navigating various internal and external opportunities to identify my next career challenge and vertical progression. This […]

ON BOARD FOR SUCCESS: Brigid Whoriskey

Brigid Whoriskey Board member, Scottish Legal Aid Board; Vice Chair, Causeway: Ireland-Scotland Business Exchange; Trustee at Tong-Len UK You can listen to Brigid’s story in full on podcast here or […]

ON BOARD FOR SUCCESS: Malado Kaba

Malado Kaba Board Trustee at International Budget Partnership; Board Chair, Authority for the Regulation of Electricity and Water Utilities (Guinea); Board Member African Women’s Leadership Fund You can listen to […]

LEADERSHIP PROGRAMME ALUMNA: Phillippa Prongué

Phillippa Prongué Formerly: Group Strategy and Corporate Development Director and Chief Transformation Officer at Kier Group PLC Currently: Chief Executive Officer at Apex Airspace I wasn’t a member of Women […]

LEADERSHIP PROGRAMME ALUMNA: Annie Coleman

Annie Coleman Formerly: Managing Director, Global Head of Culture and Client Marketing, UBS Currently: Group People & Culture Officer, Unicredit UBS is a corporate member of Women on Boards UK […]

ON BOARD FOR SUCCESS: Karen Furlong

Karen Furlong Chair at AirPOS and non-executive director of Vhi Healthcare, Tridos Bank, Personal Injuries Assessment Board and Progressive Building Society. You can listen to Karen’s story in full on podcast here or […]

ON BOARD FOR SUCCESS: Anna Hegarty

Anna Hegarty Trustee at Tenterden Mindfulness Group, mentor and financial consultant Anna is a chartered accountant whose last role was as CFO for HSBC Global Insurance, where she was the youngest […]

ON BOARD FOR SUCCESS: Neelu Agarwal

Neelu Agarwal Non-Executive Trustee at Second Step 2021 Getting in to the right mindset to get your first board role (on or off maternity leave) Whilst happy working in financial […]

ON BOARD FOR SUCCESS: Laura Dabbs

Laura Dabbs Customer Services lead at Women on Boards and Board member at Hillingdon Healthwatch 2021 Leveraging your transferable skills for a board role Laura may have only joined the […]

ON BOARD FOR SUCCESS: Sarah Pinch

Sarah Pinch NED at Manx Care; Independent Adviser to the Welsh National Assembly; Trustee, Bristol Students’ Union; and MD at PinchPoint Communications. What a communications background brings to the boardroom […]

ON BOARD FOR SUCCESS: Anne Spackman

Anne Spackman Independent member on the Standards and Regulation board of the Royal Institution for Chartered Surveyors; non-executive director of Profusion, a data science business.  She is also a trustee of three […]