Law & Banking
Susan Cooney
is Co-Founder and Head of Marketing & Sales at MahiFX, a new
proprietary-built foreign exchange trading platform which launched earlier
this year and gives retail FX customers access to same tight spreads and cutting
edge technology as institutional FX traders.
Prior to founding MahiFX, Susan worked in forex trading at investment banks. In mid 2004, whilst she was working at Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein selling e-FX technology to UK banks, Susan was asked by colleagues David Cooney and Tim Cartledge to join the team moving across to Barclays Capital. David was later to become her husband and co-founder.
In 2005 Susan was asked to recruit and head up a new team to expand Barclays’ institutional e-FX sales efforts in Europe, where she took the controversial approach of hiring people based on their character, rather than experience. In what was probably an Investment Banking industry first, Barclays backed this initiative and what was jokingly referred to as ‘Barbie’s army’ was born. 8 people were hired from all walks of life. The initiative was a success, which contributed to tremendous growth in Barclay’s eFX market share.
Susan went on to hire teams in Singapore, Hong Kong and the US. Susan’s e-FX career has taken her to many countries of the world, meeting many people and has given her valuable insight into the requirements of an FX trader. Insight that has helped her to contribute to much of the MahiFX functionality.
Nellie Akalp is a passionate entrepreneur, small business
advocate and mother of four.
As CEO of CorpNet.com, an online legal document filing service, Nellie helps small US business owners form an LLC or incorporate a business to start their ventures off the right way.
Nellie has been in the industry since 1997 and throughout her career has created over 100,000 business formations. Nellie and her husband (who is also her business partner) founded MyCorporation.com, which they sold to Intuit in 2005. They started CorpNet.com in 2009.
You can find Nellie on Twitter, Facebook and Google+.
We spoke to Nellie about why she's passionate about helping entrepreneurs; about why small business owners should form a business structure; and why as CEO she still loves answering the phone.
The Best Global Law Firms for Top Female Lawyers have been announced.
The top 50 Law firms have the best practices when it comes to supporting and advancing talented female lawyers. At these firms, women get top assignments, learn to become rainmakers and fill senior leadership positions.
Every Top 50 law firm offers:
In 1996 Jacki Zehner was the youngest woman, and
the first female trader, to be made partner at Goldman Sachs. After leaving the
firm in 2002, Jacki became a founding partner of Circle Financial Group, a
private wealth management operation, consisting of a small group of women
committed to effectively managing their families’ assets and philanthropic
activities.
Throughout her life, Jacki’s main focus has been the social and economic empowerment of women: she’s a philanthropist, serving as co-chair of Women Moving Millions, vice-chair of Women’s Funding Network, and she is the president of the Jacquelyn and Gregory Zehner Foundation. Jacki also serves as advisor for various other organizations, working to advance gender equality for women and girls. Here is her story.
Serial entrepreneur and founder of Web 2.0 Summit Tim O’Reilly says the biggest negative trend in the technology industry is ‘patent trolls‘ who are having a huge impact on preventing innovation. He says companies are spending their time suing each other for the monetry worth for technology they are not deploying themselves.
Video interview with Naomi Fine, author of "Positively
Confidential" and president & CEO of Pro-Tec Data, which she founded in
1985 to help companies manage and protect confidential information, privacy, and
intellectual property.
Since Pro-Tec Data’s inception, Ms. Fine has served as its principal consultant, incorporating legal, digital security, corporate security, human resource, and audit disciplines. Her depth of knowledge comes from working with hundreds of world-class companies to identify sensitive information, assess needs for protecting it, develop tailored information protection strategies, establish policies and procedures, and provide training and tools that secure competitive advantage.
We are giving away three copies of "Positively Confidential" to women entrepreneurs. All you need to do to enter is create a video pitch, no longer than 1 minute in length, showcasing your startup & explaining why you would benefit from a complementary copy of the book.
After 23 years in Financial Services, Vanessa Vallely has
recently won the 'Champion for Women' award at the 'Women in Banking
& Finance Awards 2011' and has also been recognised as one of
Financial News’ 'Top 100
Rising Stars in Financial Services' across Europe, The Middle East &
Africa
By day Vanessa works as Head of Business Management for Aviva Investors; by night she runs leading women's website WeAreTheCity.com, as well as her own coaching company.
Vanessa created WeAreTheCity three years ago to provide City and female centric information to women in the Square Mile and Canary Wharf. The purpose of the site is to aid its members' development through the promotion of learning events and professional and lifestyle advice.
We are asked Vanessa why she created WeAreTheCity and about the value the site brings to today’s City Women.
More than two thirds of British successful entrepreneurs plan to raise capital from
external sources over the next 12 months for their UK businesses.
And many are more optimistic about the chances to succeed than last year.
A quarter of the entrepreneurs are even planning to raise £10 million or more.
On the eve of last month's announcement that New York-based startup LearnVest had just raised an additional round of financing, Women 2.0 published the following article and video conversation with founder Alexa von Tobel.
This conversation was shot at TED Women after von Tobel had taken funding from Accel Partners, and she describes her idea for providing personal finance guidance that can be more personalized than one-size-fits-all books for people without the resources for financial advisors. Among her goals? Keeping people in their 20s and 30s from ever getting into debt and educating more than 10 million women over the next few years.
New research by Coutts & Co, in
conjunction with Rupert Merson from London Business School and INSEAD, reveals
the specific assets of family businesses that give them a competitive advantage
in the market place. The report: Family Businesses:
Competitive Strengths and Qualities examines the strengths and qualities
that characterise a family business, drawing upon the experiences and insights
of over 300 of Britain’s most successful family businesses.
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