In Conversation with entrepreneur and start-up investor Alison Cork MBE, on Supporting and Encouraging Female Enterprise

Why should anyone want to be an entrepreneur, why are women particularly good at it, and why don’t more women make this a career choice? For these answers and a searingly honest account of what it’s like to call the career shots every day of your life, join us.

Entrepreneur Alison Cork MBE has over the past 20 years built up a home accessories business operating across the UK and USA encompassing publishing, online retail, design, licensing and TV shopping.

Prior to that, she co-founded publishing company Carnell Ltd, which floated on the London Stock Exchange in 1994, and became the youngest ever female founder of a publicly quoted company.

A champion of female entrepreneurs, in 2017 Alison founded The Make It Your Business network, with the aim of supporting and encouraging women throughout the UK to start their own business.

In 2019 she became an Ambassador for the British Library Business & IP Centre network. In 2023 she founded National Women’s Enterprise Week. She was awarded an MBE in the 2023 New Year’s Honours List, for services to female entrepreneurship.

Alison lives in central London with her husband and two sons and is an active investor in early stage businesses. Read more about her here.

TICKETS: book your free ticket here
WHEN: Thursday 8 February 2024
5.30 pm – 6.00 pm: Wine reception and networking in Chetwynd Room
6.00 pm – 7.00 pm: Fireside discussion in Keynes Lecture Theatre
WHERE: King's College, Cambridge