President and Founder, Savvitas

Twitter @HeleneMartinGee / @SavvitasGlobal / @EB4Women

www.savvitas.com

https://uk.linkedin.com/in/helene-martin-gee-49498656

2020 White Paper: https://www.savvitas.com/economic-blueprint

A serial entrepreneur with businesses from technology to healthy snacks, Helene is Founder of award-winning businesswomen’s network Savvitas, with Patrons The Rt Hon Theresa May MP and Tessa Sanderson CBE.

Member of the G7 Gender Working Group, adviser on entrepreneurship to W20, and UK Parliamentary adviser on entrepreneurship and international relations. Helene has worked at the centre of UK Government for over 20 years; engaging all political parties on Government think-tanks for female enterprise and entrepreneurship.

A Board member of three All-Party Parliamentary groups, she established the All-Party Group for Entrepreneurship, chairing its inaugural Advisory Board.

In October 2020 she created the first ‘World Business Women’s Day’ and from 2021 the bi-monthly WBW Caucus, bringing together global business leaders to share best practice and empowering women to ‘Build Back Better’ from the pandemic. Having initiated the UK Economic Blueprint for Women and national roadshow supported by NatWest, Helene led on its 2020 Government White Paper: Leveraging Opportunity for Female Entrepreneurship.

A non-executive director, investor and media commentator; RSA Fellow; board adviser to the Institute for Creative & Cultural Enterprise at Goldsmiths, London; Scale-Up Institute Ambassador, and previously adviser to Innovate UK and Hays plc.

Her USA NED roles include Quantum Leaps; WishKnish; VeeSee Inc.