Fiona Hathorn
Managing Director
Women on Boards
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 launch Women on Boards UK. Women on Boards UK’s (WOB) 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. Today over 30 global companies (including PwC, Google, Cisco and RBS) are corporate members of WOB and there are over 16,000 individual members within the network. 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. 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 600 of WOB’s members have been supported onto boards since WOB launched in the UK.
