Louise Pasterfield
The award-winning founder of Plymouth’s Sponge UK, which is one of the largest female-owned technology companies in the UK now with offices including in London, Bristol and Nottingham also, she is a passionate advocate of educating people in technology in ways that promote their creativity as well as skills in maths and science. She is also a passionate believer in promoting the opportunities that technological and digital businesses offer to women, as well as noting that digital working, as recent events have underlined, promote work styles and modes that suit women and their wider responsibilities, including parenting and other care duties. This can help in achieving a better work-life balance, she insists, and values the opportunity to work with the community in promoting her ideas.