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Charlotte's story is very inspirational, she has had a very interesting and varied career. She's also a very humble leader who at the time of the recording had been awarded an OBE just days before. Something we found out after recording.

Charlotte has been involved in capital markets and technology throughout her career - as CEO, Board Advisor and Non-Executive Director - including management positions at Nasdaq and London Stock Exchange. She is the Former CEO of Innovate Finance, the Fintech industry body, where she worked closely with Fintech entrepreneurs, government and regulators.

She currently sits on the boards of UK Finance and Freemarket, as well as the Department for International Trade's Financial Services Trade Advisory Group. She also has a boutique consultancy company, Exadin Ltd.

She believes firmly in a diverse and innovation-first approach and has promoted diversity in financial services throughout her career. She has been included in the list of top 100 Women in Finance over many years.

Andrea Dunlop is amazing. Not only is Andrea a leader in the payments industry but she strives to help others.

Andreas story is inspirational. She is an amazing woman who has done so much and achieved so much.

She's authentic, she knows she's not got it sorted yet but she'll carry on until she gets it done.

Hear Andrea's story.

To round up this episode Shán puts it perfectly: "My heart is full listening to you."

There are very few people that will talk as candidly about their own feelings and experiences so personal and it's something to admire and recognise. But it's important to remember that you don't feel pressurised to tell your story in the same way.

This #HerStory is about a woman who looks so sorted again from the outside, you'd worry about connecting with her on Linkedin.

But she's a real woman doing amazing things, coping with real-life, motherhood, illness, failure and success. But still curious, still looking forward and looking for a place to have self-expression and get on with it.

Kate has given us a recipe about how you can support other women.

She also left us with some brilliant takeaways and advice around setting boundaries.

About Kate:

Kate Bohn has had the "epitome of a 'squiggley career".
Having pursued a career in art and academia, Kate then moved into software houses, tech and financial services, finding her place in a digital world "that is not overly populated with individuals who are creative, lateral thinking and female!"
Kate is a regular speaker and advocates for diversity in all its forms, and a mentor across the talent pipeline. She is a founding member of the market's 'Balance' network and has been actively involved in ensuring gender equality and opportunities for women in the fintech industry. She is passionate about driving positive challenge and transparency, supporting robust, human-centred outcomes, be that through co-founding a ground-breaking industry utility 20 years ago or engaging with start-ups looking to solve the problems faced within the financial services industry as a whole. Kate is currently contributing as a Co-Editor for a project around fintech leadership and has completed a
human-centered design course with Central St Martins for a femtech idea that she has had "bumping around in my brain for the last decade". In 2020, she co-created a community of multi-industry senior women in technology and FS practitioners, organising get-togethers that offer a psychologically safe and supportive environment in which to share common challenges and feel a little less lonely. The longer-term vision for Kate is to bring the communities collective experience together, understand common pain points and create powerful advocacy for change around the barriers.