Trapezia participates in:

Representing Stargate Capital and the Trapezia Fund, Gita Patel has been invited to the Women's Forum Global Meeting, which will be held in Deauville, France on October 14-16, 2010. She will share the firm's experience in the UK in the session entitled 'Women investing together:is it proving worthwhile?'

SavvyWoman: Finance website(link)

Gita has been invited by The Next Women, business magazine for female internet heroes to give a key note address as part of their Kitchen Dinner Series on 21st April 2010. ( link)

Financial Adviser: Time to rethink the way we do business(link)

FT Featured Trapezia Funds in this article discussing the opportunities provided to women entrepreneurs.

4th March 2010

Cupcake Mum(link)

The Trapezia Investee Company and founder Karen Hastings, win a string of awards:

Cupcake Mum

2010 "Most Desirable Salon in the UK" (Professional Beauty Readers Poll)

2010 "Best Specialist Spa in the UK" (Professional Beauty Awards)

2010 "Good Spa Guide" (4 Bubble Spa)

2009 "Best Pregnancy Spa in the UK (Pregnancy and Birth Magazine)

Karen Hastings, Founder Cupcake Mum

2010 Top 30 entrepreneur in the UK (Young Gun Awards, Growing Buiness Magazine)

2009 Finalist "Business Woman of the Year"(Professional Beauty Magazine) .

Sarah Brown: “Shaping the future of women’s health”

Annual Women’s Lunch Debate supported by PwC

21 January 2010

Gita Patel: participant

"Women Mean Business Conference"
Cherie Blair Foundation for Women (link)
11 December 2009 - Mumbai, India
Gita Patel: speaker

"Women and Money"
Women on Their Way (link)
27 November 2009 - Birmingham
Gita Patel: speaker on women and creating wealth.

Beyond Comfort Zones

Boardroom Ready Project (in association with AWTE)

24 November 2009

Gita Patel: led the session attended by 35 women in senior roles

Gita Patel joins the board of the
British Association of Women Entrepreneurs (BAWE)
to strengthen the association's mission and objectives

18 November 2009

Women Unlimited Event (link)
Extraordinary Entrepreneurs
UK lagging behind US in female entrepreneurship (link)

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Gita Patel: chaired a table at the Extraordinary Entrepreneurs meeting

Live interview with Bloomberg TV (view video clip)
9 November 2009
Gita Patel: interviewed on the significance of having women in the boardroom and access to capital for women-focused businesses

LCCI Economic Panel for the Bank of England
29 October 2009
Gita Patel: participant

Boardroom Dynamics

Boardroom Ready Project (in association with AWTE)

26 October 2009

Gita Patel: led the session attended by 35 women in senior roles

Women for Women International
Joined Deborah Maxwell at luncheon in honour of Founder Zainab Salbi
14 October 2009
Gita Patel: invitee

Roles and Responsibilities of an NED

Association of Women Travel Executives (AWTE), supported by PwC

16 September 2009

Gita Patel: led the session attended by 35 women in senior roles

Trapezia launches "Boardroom Ready" Project with the AWTE

16 July 2009

Project is designed to prepare Boardroom talent using Trapezia’s blueprint; addresses gender-specific issues

 

“Women in Business and Entrepreneurship”

London Business School

29 April 2009

Gita Patel: speaker

PwC’s “Taking Control of Your Destiny”

International Women’s Day

4 March 2009

Gita Patel: keynote speaker

Institute Of Directors - Northern Ireland

IoD Women's Leadership Conference

11 March 2008

Gita Patel: Speaker