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Next Event 17th June
17th June 2010 Girl Geeks Event kindly sponsored by Dickinson Dees and Sunderland Software City.
Date & Time: Thursday, 17th June 2010, 6pm arrival for refreshments and buffet for 6.30pm start – 9pm ish finish
Venue: Dickinson Dees offices at St Ann's Wharf, 112 Quayside, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 3DX.
Suggested Parking: Free parking for the event is available in the St Ann's car park, which is behind the Dickinson Dees office on Sandgate (please click PDF for directions).
Please present your car park entry ticket to reception and will you be provided with an exit pass.
Refreshments: Complimentary finger buffet, wine and soft drinks will be provided. Please inform us of any dietary requirements.
Format: Warm welcome, introduction to the evening and update, buffet dinner, talks from guest speakers, shared experiences from a few Girl Geeks members, conversations, networking.
Event Host: Kim Inglis www.kiminglistv.com will be our host for the evening.
Speakers:
Kavita Oberoi
Kavita Oberoi is one of the UK's most successful female entrepreneurs.
http://www.kavitaoberoi.com/
Kavita is the founder and Managing Director of an extremely successful IT and Business Healthcare Consultancy, Oberoi Consulting, which she started from scratch in 2001. Already well known in Derbyshire, where her business is based, Kavita came to receive wider public attention in August 2008 when she appeared on Channel 4's hit show The Secret Millionaire.
Kavita left university with a First Class Degree in Applied Chemistry, and embarked on a highly successful career with Bayer Pharmaceuticals where she quickly established herself as one of their leading medical representatives. Missing out on a promotion with Bayer led Kavita to make the decision to go it alone, which she now says is the best thing that ever happened to her in career terms. She spotted a gap in the market for clinical audit and IT training and business consulting for GP Practices She quickly won a contract with International Blue Chip Pharmaceutical company, Pfizer. By August 2001, demand for her services had become so great that she established Oberoi Consulting.
Raised in a traditional Indian family, Kavita credits her mother with giving her the determination to seek out an education for herself, and her father for giving her the entrepreneurial spirit which has made her such a success in business. She says, 'My father died when I was only 15, but I will always remember how his entrepreneurial spirit inspired me. He came to England in the 1960's with nothing, and built up a really successful business through sheer hard work and determination.' As a result, Kavita was the first woman in her family to get a University degree and be allowed to work.
In 2009 Kavita was named in the HBOS report as one of ‘Britain’s 100 Most Entrepreneurial Women’. She was also short-listed for the business and commerce award in the Lloyds Bank Jewel Awards and was a judge and mentor for the HBOS Social Entrepreneur Awards.
The Secret Millionaire has inspired Kavita to become more involved with charity work - Kavita says; " I want to be able to share my success and inspire and help people. My father was well known for his philanthropy, and I want to follow in his footsteps"
Kavita is now a Director of one of the charities, Martha's Oasis, that she supported on Channel 4's Secret Millionaire.
In April 2010 Kavita was appointed Chair of the Global Girls’ Fund Board. The Global Girls Fund seeks to raise £10million to support international Girl Guiding and Girl Scouting and is dedicated to empowering all girls and young women to reach their full potential and take action to change the world for the better.
Region speaker showcase:
Sunderland Software City
Software sector specialist Mary Garside will be sharing her career experiences and having previously lived in California’s Silicon Valley, before relocating to the region in 2000, she now works on the Sunderland Software City project, to assist North East pre-starts and established software businesses in exploiting opportunities and growing their enterprise.
Mary will also introduce a young female software entrepreneur who she has been working with called Kat Patterson and her business Sonodrome, who Mary has helped expand her business through Sunderland Software City to showcase the support available.
Dickinson Dees
Victoria Hewson is an IT specialist lawyer at Dickinson Dees and will be sharing useful top tips, advice surrounding IT law and contracts and case studies – an opportunity to ask questions should you have any pressing issues. Please let us know if you would like to speak to Victoria on a one to one basis at the event.
Victoria Browning, Managing Director of scientific manufacturing start up 2 Pure Products Ltd.
Mum, entrepreneur, MBA graduate...
Victoria is currently Commercial Director at her family business Probe Industries Limited, graduate from the MBA at Newcastle University Business School and is also Managing Director of 2 Pure Products Ltd a manufacturing start up company. 2 Pure Products Ltd is a North East based which intends to launch a new odour control product into the market. Unlike other products in the market, 2Pure’s product is based on a patented sophisticated science in which the odour control additives combines physically with the odour molecules and destroys them completely.
Victoria is also a mum of two young boys so come and find out how she manages juggle it all!
Cost: £20.00 per attendee
Booking: Please reserve your place by calling Mia
Places for this event are limited, please book early to avoid disappointment and please let us know as soon as possible if you are no longer able to attend.
Please contact us if you have any queries.
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