International Women’s Day – Awareness of Ourselves with Cathryn Riley
Please do join us for a special roundtable with Cathryn Riley taking on the roles of COO and CIO in the heavily male-dominated world of insurance and tech.
Cathryn Riley is a Non Executive Director at FSCS, Liberty Managing Agency and AA Insurance Services Ltd. She is also a chair of Risk Committee at Liberty, advisor to Iprosurv Ltd and Pikl Ltd. Previous NEDs held at AA plc, Chubb, IPF Plc, Reassure and ELAS. Significant executive and external Board experience during a career at Aviva Plc where she was latterly the Group Chief Operations Officer with worldwide responsibilities for Digital, IT and shared service Operations.
Over 20 years experience in insurance and financial services together with a background in consultancy, health, airline and mining sectors both in UK and international roles.
Voted as No.13 in CIO's "Most Influential CIOs" and No.12 in Computer Weekly's "Most Influential Women in UK IT".
In addition to being an effective director on boards, in 2021, she released the book, ‘Cooking Up Connections – Big Quiz Book’ in memory of her partner, Judith, who passed away from cervical cancer in 2020. Proceeds of the book all go to the Eve Appeal, the UK's Gynaecological Cancer Research Charity raising awareness and funding research into five gynae-cancers: womb, ovarian, cervical, vulval and vaginal. Through Cathryn’s work, she making a difference in many people’s lives.
Why joining:
Another belated celebration of the International Women’s day through the recognition of our progress to date and by creating much-needed awareness on the topic of gynaecology. Developments, like online apps now exist, but is enough being done to help women understand their bodies?
Our Entrepreneur-in-Residence will lead an informal chat with Cathryn Riley on her contributions to the business world and beyond. Cathryn will welcome questions from the floor.
A champagne reception will be offered.
WHEN:
6.00 – 6.15 PM champagne reception
6.15 – 7.15 PM talk
7.15 – 7.30 pm mingle and wine
WHERE: King’s College Cambridge, Audit Room
TICKETS: Tickets available to book HERE. Limited to 30.