Emma Sinclair

Emma Sinclair grew up in London, where she still resides. She was always interested in business, reading her father the share prices from the age of 4 to 18 on her way to school. She credits that with her love of stock markets, business and entrepreneurial life. She studied French, Spanish and Italian at Leeds University, graduating with a BA in Modern Languages.

Her first job was working in McDonald's where she gained five stars during school. She subsequently worked in bars and restaurants through university. She also completed two City internships in companies subsequently acquired by Merrill Lynch, unusually in her first year not final year of University, which gave her a taste of finance and City life. On leaving university she joined a graduate training programme in Investment Banking.

She is currently co-founder of EnterpriseAlumni. Their software, EnterpriseAlumni,[3] powers the corporate alumni networks of some of the world's largest companies. One of the last areas of HR to be technologised, the corporate alumni market they lead is growing rapidly, with corporates recognising that alumni are a vast pool of talent and business development opportunity.

An in demand speaker and regular media commentator, she launched The Wonder Woman column [4] in 2012 for the Daily Telegraph, regularly writes for newspapers and comments on television on business,[5] entrepreneurship, politics, diversity and innovation. A former investment banker, she is the youngest person to take a business public, having floated her business on the London Stock Exchange at the age of 29.[6][7]

She regularly comments about international politics[8] and represents the UK overseas. In 2016 she visited the Mayors of New York and Chicago with the London Mayor and closed the New York Stock Exchange, Silicon Valley to meet with Sheryl Sandberg and other luminaries .... and Delhi[9] on a trade mission with the British and Indian Prime Minister with other British entrepreneurs such as James Dyson.

A big believer in the importance of having other interests,[10] she has been a UNICEF advisor since 2014 [11] and in 2017 she launched UNICEFs first crowd fund[12] to roll out innovation labs in refugee camps.

In 2016, she was awarded an MBE [13] for services to entrepreneurship at Buckingham Palace.