You are invited to help drive the charge and ensure the voice of a new era of female entrepreneur is heard.
Companies run by women are entering the middle market at rates 8 times higher than businesses in general, and with 40 million self-employed female online merchants operating across APAC, LATAM and Sub-Saharan Africa, and these are numbers that the world can not ignore. And with the life span of a business on the S&P 500 now less than 18 years, drastically lower than the average 25 years, are companies poised for success in this new digital economy and taking advantage of the rising influx generation of entrepreneurs? Digital convergence and an emerging generation of entrepreneurs are changing not just business, but the shape of traditional roles and responsibilities for women.
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Join us at SXSW this year as we address why we need to work together on empowering the new female voice. Â
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Primary Access: Platinum Badge, Interactive Badge, Film Badge, Music Badge, Artist Wristband
Event Type: Sessions
Track: Startup Village
Level: Intermediate
As President, Ruth is responsible for the global iProspect proposition, business growth strategy and the development of focused initiatives and workstreams supported by the Dentsu Aegis operating model with over 3,800 people in 52 markets and 83 offices around the world. Ruth has over 25 years’ experience in Media and Digital Marketing. She joined iProspect Asia Pacific to oversee the search and performance marketing services and accelerate the digital media capabilities across the group in 2011. Prior to this, Ruth held leadership roles with Mediabrands and GroupM Interaction Asia Pacific in the capacity of founding CEO, and spent 10 years with Euro RSCG Worldwide heading its digital media operations in New York, Hong Kong and Sydney.
Joanna, a experienced sales and marketing professional, has 15+ years managing sales and marketing teams, building trusted advisor relationships with multinational companies, and managing high impact change initiatives. She’s led both direct and consultative sales teams, is a driver of data and insights-led sales and marketing solutions, and has a capacity to balance big picture thinking with impactful results.
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To further her commitment to diversity and entrepreneurship, Joanna joined the board of Female Founders, a non-profit that seeks to increase VC funding of women-founded and led businesses.Â
Kamakshi Sivaramakrishnan is the founder and CEO of Drawbridge, the leading technology company that is fundamentally changing the way in which brands and enterprises connect with people. Under Kamakshi’s leadership, Drawbridge has built the first technology-aided solution that addresses a problem central to all digital media: consumer-trusted cross-device identity.
She received the 2015 Women of Vision ABIE Award for Technology Entrepreneurship from the Anita Borg Institute. Kamakshi also has the unique distinction of her work being onboard NASA’s New Horizons mission to Pluto and the outer planetary system.
Among other honors, Drawbridge was recognised as the fastest-growing private company in the marketing and advertising space on the 2015 Inc. 5000, as well as the fastest-growing woman-led company, and sixth-fastest-growing overall.