Sháá Wasmund

Topics:

• Business
• Inspirational
• Leadership
• Women

Sháá Wasmund is a true entrepreneur having set up multiple businesses. An inspiring keynote speaker, Sháá lifts any room and ensures the conference participants leave the event with clear ideas as to how to achieve their goals

Entreprenurial Beginnings

A graduate of The London School of Economics, Sháá’s entrepreneurial career had an unusual start. Having won a competition to write for Cosmopolitan magazine, she interviewed World Champion Boxer, Chris Eubank; by the end of the interview he offered her a job promoting his next fight. At just 22 Sháá became responsible for promoting and organising the biggest fight to ever take place in this country; with a live audience of 48,000 and a further 18 million people watching it from home.

Dyson, Geldof and Sháá's Own Business

In 1994, she set up her first business, a PR and Marketing company. James Dyson was one of her first clients and her role in establishing Dyson as one of the best known brands in the UK won her numerous awards including Cosmopolitan Business Woman of the Year.  5 years later with Dyson now a household name, Sháá was ready for a new challenge.

In late 1999, a chance meeting with Sir Bob Geldof ignited her contagious passion for the internet and all the possibilities that it holds. As one of the founding directors of his soon to be launched travel company, deckchair.com, Sháá found herself at the heart of the internet revolution.

A year later, Sháá decided to pursue her own venture and in 2000, raised substantial funds to launch http://www.mykindaplace.com.  The company was recently sold to BSkyB.

Business Advise & Venture Capital

Shaa has advised many businesses on their internet strategies, from the government to social networking  phenomenon Bebo. Shaa is an intrinsic part of the new wave of UK Entrepreneurs combining real entrepreneurial drive and experience with a genuine desire to encourage and inspire others.

In 2006 Shaa established a formidable partnership with fellow entrepreneur Dan Wagner to launch Bright Station Ventures, a unique investment vehicle with $100 million of capital dedicated to investing in internally generated ideas and seeding young companies that use information technology in innovative ways to create high growth business opportunities.

Shaa is also the founder and brainchild behind Smarta,  a revolutionary social enterprise to transform business support in the UK. The site which launched in November 2008 is supported by Vodafone, RBSG, Microsoft and Make Your Mark.

Awards

In 2007, Shaa was named by Management Today as one of their most successful Women Under 35.

Testimonials

"Engaging, personable, dynamic, responsive to the audience, so well prepared and perfectly suited to our requirements.  Shaa made the subject matter straightforward & engagaing  She used delegates' own websites to illustrate just how easily we coudl all take steps towards change.

Shaa's "can do" attitude spread throughout the room.  92% of delegates rated her session as 'excellent'"
Tourism Skills Network, 2008

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