Ms Niamh Bushnell:

It is a great story. Women are great leaders and scalers of companies. When they are given enough support in terms of funding and when they have a sense that something is going well, they are the best operators to bring it to fruition. That is probably one of the reasons. They are multi-taskers. There are very good with people and operationally. That is probably one of the reasons as well.

We talk about the exits in investment. By the time a company has exited, these women have led the company through. They have been measured, deliberate and strategic about what they have brought. Let us consider the heads of the multinational companies here. They are not all females but many of them are females. These companies include Microsoft, LinkedIn, Facebook and Vodafone. I am missing some but these are all headed by women. These are women who operate at a very high level operationally. They operate tight and successful ships and they are great leaders. If we give women the necessary support at the early stage in order that they stay with it and can build their vision over time, then it is likely they will be more successful than men at bringing it to fruition.