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Lucy Marcus
Lucy Marcus is the Founder and CEO of a venture consulting company. Committed to fostering sustainable success for funding organisations, she works specifically with venture capital and private equity funds, institutions, corporations, and individual investors to help them create and implement strong foundations for their funding efforts and a successful course for investing, and to ensure that they are recognised as smart and good money in what is a competitive and challenging funding environment. She is also Founder and CEO of HighTech Women, an on-line and off-line mentoring and meeting place for women in technology and technology-related sectors.
Bringing a 360 degree perspective, Lucy has worked in both the new and old economies of software and the internet, government and industry. Prior to her current organisations, Lucy was co-founder and Vice President of Marketing and Sales of an enterprise management software company, she was in charge of Marketing and Business Development for Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) at Infinity Financial Technologies, ran the EMEA operations of a communications consulting company, and worked at Price Waterhouse in the East European Services Division and at the US Treasury’s Economic Policy Division.
Selected as a World Economic Forum Global Leader for Tomorrow and listed as a “face to watch” in Management Today Magazine’s list of Britain’s 50 Most Powerful Women and in Business Age Magazine’s “10 Women Changing the Direction of British Business”, Lucy also sits on a number of boards, including the advisory board of University of Cambridge’s Business School the Judge Institute of Management Studies, the international advisory board of the Instituto de Empresa in Madrid, the UK advisory board of the Asian University for Women, is a member of the Wellesley College Business Leadership Council, and sits on the steering group of “Digital Democracy” for the John Smith Memorial Trust.
Keynote Speaker
A regular speaker on global economic trends and best practices for investment, private equity, venture capital, entrepreneurship, and technology in Europe, Israel and the US, Lucy is frequently quoted in the press, including the Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, Newsweek, Reuters, Investment Dealers’ Digest, Les Echos, the Guardian, Globes, Financial News, and InfoEconomy, and she has been profiled in The Financial Times, Tornado-Insider Magazine, and Lynne Franks’ Seedfusion, and appeared on CNBC, Sky Business Report, and BBC World Service. Her articles have been published in Management Today Magazine, Tornado-Insider Magazine, netimperative, and Business 2.0. She was also featured in the book “Powerful Women: Dancing on the Glass Ceiling,” and contributed to “Women in the New Economy: A Regional Perspective”
Lucy holds a B.A. from Wellesley College (Wellesley, Massachusetts), and an M.Phil. from the University of Cambridge (Cambridge, England).
