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and the implementation of the London West judiciary and a
Fayola Jack future strategies in complex published writer on commercial
Commercial Expert, Cabinet Offi ce markets. best practice.
Prior to this Fayola She was recently identified
Fayola is one of the country’s top spent a decade heading as one of The Sunday Times’
commercial experts supporting Brexit, up legal teams for 35 Women Under 35 and has
having joined the Cabinet Office’s Enterprise Rent-A-Car, judged at the IACCM Global
complex transactions team in early ManpowerGroup Innovation Awards. She was
2017. A specialist on business law, and Rockwell also a 2016 winner of the
her job is to lead innovative, efficient Collins, where she Women of the Future
and effective arrangements to help regularly drafted Award.
the Government achieve the right and negotiating ‘I’m a young, black,
outcomes on their most challenging multimillion pound working mother,’ she
deals and complex and novel contracts. says. ‘Stereotypically,
programmes and projects. The mum of everything is meant
Her role also includes advising three and Law to be against me. I’m
departmental stakeholders, Ministers and Economics proof that if you work
and Permanent Secretaries on graduate is also extremely hard, you
strategic matters across Whitehall a magistrate for can make it.’

Lopè Ariyo
Award-winning chef and author
She has been hailed as the woman
that will take African cooking
into the mainstream, having been
awarded the coveted title of The
Observer’s Rising Star in Food for
2017. And it is her contemporary
approach of combining African
flavours with cosmopolitan-style
cooking practices which has gained
Lorraine Wright the acclaim of food critics and food Gloria Monfrini
Director, UBS; Co-Founder, UV lovers alike. Operations Manager, Uber
Booking Agency; Founder,
University Gospel Choir of the Year A Maths graduate from Gloria is an Operations Manager
UK and Ghana Loughborough University, while at Uber, the global technology
studying and running her food blog company. She has been with Uber
A first-class graduate from the on the side, Croydon-born Lope for four years, growing the UK
University of Brunel, Lorraine took part in a cookery competition market. She joined the company
became a director at UBS just four organised by Red Magazine and when it had fewer than 400
years after leaving university and Harper Collins where she blew employees globally; it now has
while still under the age of 25. away the judges with her take more than 15,000.
Previously working at Accenture, on Nigerian food. She won the Gloria reports directly to Uber’s
Lorraine is another Future Leaders competition, landing herself a book UK country head. Her previous
magazine alumni. deal with Harper Collins and a five- work experience was as an
In her role as a director, she has page spread with Red Magazine. investment analyst at Cheyne
spent a year working in the US and Her debut cookbook, Hibiscus, Capital, a London-based hedge
three years in Switzerland. Outside came out in June 2017 and shot fund. Prior to her MBA, she worked
of her day job, she is founder of the to number one in Amazon UK’s at Commerzbank in Hamburg
University Gospel Choir of the Year African Cookery chart. providing financing for renewable
UK (UGCY) and Ghana and turned energy projects across Europe.
the annual event into a nationwide, Gloria began her career as an
televised event within one year investment banking analyst at
and made it international within Morgan Stanley in New York, where
six years. she advised power and utilities
Over the past seven years, UGCY companies on mergers, acquisitions
has worked with more than 5,500 and capital markets transactions.
students from over 40 UK and 20 A Swiss, UK and US national,
Ghanaian universities. Gloria has lived in Switzerland,
Lorraine is a currently on track the UK, France, Germany and the
to complete her Executive MBA at USA and speaks English, French,
Oxford University. German and Italian.

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