Women in Tech

As of March 1st, Lotta Ekerbring will take over as Chief Finance Officer (CFO) at XMReality. Lotta will replace the current CFO, Claes Pettersson, who will leave the company for retirement. Lotta will contribute with significant experience in the field and has previous experience as CFO in a high-tech company with subsidiaries in North America.

Florence Kessler's appointment marks her responsibility for accelerating HESUS’s product strategy, coordinating technicalimplementation of the product roadmap and supervising product managers.

A record number of women applying to tech degrees in the UK: 82% increase over the last decade, according to UCAS.

Smartoptics, a provider of optical networking solutions, has announced the appointment of Carina Osmund as Chief Operating Officer.

Infinite Electronics, a supplier of electronic components serving the urgent needs of engineers through a family of highly recognised brands, has announced that the company’s president and CEO, Penny Cotner, is featured in the OC 500.

In this week’s podcast, Charlotte Morgan interviews Dr Sarah Peers from engineering-specialised university NMITE (the New Model Institute for Technology and Engineering) about engineering education.

Data I/O Corporation, global provider of advanced data and security deployment solutions for flash, flash-memory based intelligent devices and microcontrollers, has announced that Dr. Cheemin Bo-Linn will be joining the Board of Directors of Data I/O. 

Mobility is evolving at a rapid rate and needs constant reimagining and discussion. Many of the speakers in attendance of MOVE 2021 at the ExCel, London, inspired new and innovative approaches to understanding mobility, particularly for women. Beatrice O'Flaherty discusses.

A Coventry University Professor has been selected as a member of the Directors’ Board for the Women’s Engineering Society.  

Siemens has continued its drive to increase the number of women in engineering with a recruitment event to spot the STEM talent of the future.