Entrepreneur
Coco Chanel
Fashion designer and a global brand owner | FranceGabrielle Bonheur Chanel, globally known as Coco, is credited as a fashion liberator for women, who set them free from the constraints of the "corseted silhouette" and popularized the feminine standard of style.
Annie Mutamba
EU-Africa PR & Strategic Comms Consultant, co-founder of Meridia Partners | BelgiumCo-founder of Meridia Partners, the first Brussels-based strategic communications consultancy specializing in Europe-Africa relations, Annie advises businesses and organisations in their interactions with European and international institutions.
Carol Pepper
Founder & CEO of Pepper International LLC, New York City | USA
I have chosen the path of the Entrepreneur in Life.
There is nothing more delightful, empowering or joyful than seeing an inspiration come to life, make the world a better place and inspire even greater heights of achievement. As a Visionary Entrepreneur, I am optimistic about humanity’s potential to reinvent and overcome adversity, and about business as a wonderful means of self-expression.
Ann Shriver Sargent
CEO & co-founder of Porte-cochère | USAPresident of a membership-based service that connects premium and luxury furnishing manufacturers and pre-qualified interior designers, Ann has led four successful design firms in the residential, retail and hospitality sector. Her design commissions span from Canada to Florida and include the outposts of Nevis and Alaska.
Doris Hangartner
Founder & CEO of DORIS HANGARTNER AG | SwitzerlandA graduate gemologist (GIA) with more than 25 years of experience, Doris is the founder of a high-end jewelry company, based in the heart of Zurich. Each gem is individually selected by her, according to the quality, color, cut, size and provenance.
Marie-Christine Oghly
World President of Femmes Chefs d’Entreprises (FCEM), Chevalier of Legion d’Honneur and Officer of National Order of Mérite | France
Natalia Smirnova
Owner & CEO at Emquarta. Personal Advisor. Ltd., Moscow | RussiaA financial expert for over 15 years, Natalia founded Personal Advisor Ltd. in 2008, at the age of 24, with only 400 USD as initial investments. Within less than 10 years the company gained over 300 HNWI and mass-affluent clients and in excess of 100 m USD assets under management (in Russia and abroad). She has won the Global Financial Planning Award in 2015 as the best financial advisor in European region.
Anusha Ravi
CEO of Park Group of Institutions, Coimbatore/Chennai | IndiaDr. Anusha Ravi is a pioneer in education run by park trust, a charitable trust providing education to nearly 20,000 students. Launched in 1970 as a primary school in Tirupur, today her organization has nearly 20 institutions in Chennai, Coimbatore and Tirupur, with 20 000 students and a 1500-experts staff.
Aparna Pujar
Founder and CEO of Enfavr, a peer-to-peer market to share services reciprocally | USAShe has diversified experience in Product Strategy, Product Management, Technology and General management. A well-timed sabbatical from eBay, where she previously worked as a Product Head and lead several strategic initiatives for Big Data, led her to take up entrepreneurship as her next adventure.
Giselle Rufer
President and CEO DELANCE Swiss Watches for WomenFemininity is magic. Believe in yourself. Build your self-esteem. Be all that you can be. It is wonderful to be a woman. My admiration for women comes from knowing my mother. She was my role model, a beautiful, intelligent and courageous woman. She was also a singer and a true entrepreneur.
Gouzel Moussina
Business Developer & PhilosopherMy main task is to create socially responsible businesses, focused on the preservation of nature, improvement of the living environment for us, our children and the generations to come. Looking back, when my children grew, I became increasingly aware of how important it was, and is, to responsibly mould all the aspects of sustainability for the future of my children and the life on our planet Earth.
Sukruti Narayanan
WCF Organizing Team Member, Founder & CEO of The Spark Icon | AustraliaI Chose ENTREPRENEUR, as I feel this has been a dominant character in my blood. I almost never worked in a normal Office Environment. I was always leading Projects that eventually made me lead my own Organisation/s and this is when I realized: I am an Entrepreneur, a Proud Entrepreneur who has touched the lives of over a half a Million Students and Made both boys and girls work toward Technology and None to Shy away from it.
Krista Finstad-Milion
First Woman Mayor at Voge Region in France, Professor of HRM & Change Management, Speaker on Change, Women & Leadership, Diversity & Organisational Performance | FranceOnly 16% of mayors in France are women, an increase of 4% since the 2014 municipal elections. Two months before the 2014 elections I decided to head a list of 15 members for the municipal council of my village in the Vosges, a rural county in Eastern France. We won the election and it was the first time our village (pop. 519) elected a village council half female/half male, and the newly elected council in turn elected a woman as mayor.
Rogerline Hopley
Entrepreneur, Klerksdorp“Optimism doesn't make you more persistent. Persistence makes you more optimistic.” - Richie Norton. I have always believed in pushing boundaries, beyond my capabilities and in repeating good habits. If I had to describe myself in one word, it would be “driven”. I stop at nothing to achieve what I set out to do. This drive has allowed me to leave the corporate environment and pursue my dream of a business owner.
Marina Bogomyagkova
Owner of Media Workshop in Saint-PetersburgAn entrepreneur is not just a businessman. This is a person who takes responsibility for his life, for his environment and for all whom he involves in joint activities and joint projects. Who is an entrepreneur? This is a person who has a mission, usually associated with a change in existing reality for the better life. The path of the entrepreneur is closest to me, because for a long time I’ve been seeing my mission as creating a new sustainable business reality.
Olga Sorokina
Managing Partner O2Consulting | RussiaI am unsure as to which category it would be better to put myself. I am a Mother and I have 8 fantastic children aged from 7 to 27. I am incredibly proud of my kids and extremely happy to be their mom and to be inspired by them. I can also select the role of a Professional because I have been practicing law for more than 20 years.
Adriana Vieira
Owner of the PR Boutique Agency InterMídia Comunicação Integrada | BrazilI do believe in the power of Words and Dreams! I am by nature a big Dreamer! Impossible for me is just something I haven´t done yet! And I believe the words / communication is the way to connect and make dreams come true! As a journalist, I ´ve first worked as a TV reporter and TV anchor news. Since 1985 I run my own PR Boutique Agency InterMídia Comunicação Integrada in the Northeast of Brazil. In my professional practice I do both daily – Dream and Communicate to connect people / brands and to change things as well as to achieve social / personal goals.
