Ms Julie Sinnamon:

In our leadership for growth programmes and in all our leadership programmes it was important to introduce people to peers who are a couple of steps along the journey, but people to whom they could relate. If we bring our companies to Silicon Valley and they are introduced to Bill Gates, he is so far beyond where they are that it is impossible. The beauty of programmes going for growth is that it is people who are working and continuing to be female entrepreneurs who are unknown to most people in the community but are working every day at the problems the people around the table are facing and they are just given the benefit of that kind of exposure. The question of making sure that role models are relevant applies across the board.