Rowena Ironside

SENIOR ADVISORY COUNCIL

Founder and Chair of Women on Boards UK, Non-Executive Director of the Digital Catapult and former City Fellow of Hughes Hall, Cambridge. Twenty-five years' experience in the ICT industry across Australia and the UK.

Rowena is a founder and Chair of Women on Boards UK, supporting women to leverage their professional skills and experience into non-executive director and other board level roles. She is also a Non-Executive Director of the Digital Catapult and has recently served as a City Fellow of Hughes Hall, University of Cambridge.

Rowena spent 25 years in the ICT industry, writing software in Australia; building and selling an IT services business in London and finally running several multi-national software and hosting businesses.

Since completing the Sloan Masters at London Business School in 2002, Rowena has focused on board and advisory roles. Her governance experience includes six years in the not-for-profit sector and Chair and five years as Non-Executive Director in the services sector. Rowena also brings broad strategic expertise and global operations experience in the digital sector, along with a passion for entrepreneurship and innovation and experience as an angel investor and in microfinance in Africa.