Award success for alumni business founders

Published: 11 June 2019

Corien Staels and Carla Brown are commended for their key leadership roles

Corien Staels (MSc 2016) was one of three females to achieve top honours in the 2019 AccelerateHER Awards.  Out of 68 applicants, Corien secured a free place on trade missions to Dubai and Berlin, where she will have the opportunity to showcase her business and meet key industry contacts and investors.

Jackie Waring, chief executive of Investing Women, which runs the AccelerateHER Awards programme, said “Our winners are dynamic females who play a key leadership role in innovative companies with huge global growth investment potential.”

The programme also honoured Carla Brown (PhD 2015), the founder and director of Game Doctor, with its “rising star” accolade.

 


First published: 11 June 2019