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Anna Jones (born March 1975) [1] is a British entrepreneur. She is the co-founder of AllBright, a community that connects women at work. She was CEO of Hearst Magazines, UK between 2014 and 2017. [2] [3] Jones was a member of the board of directors for the Creative Industries Federation.
As of 2021, she has been the highest paid chief executive in Britain for several years, [3] and is one of the wealthiest women in Britain, according to the Sunday Times Rich list. [4] As of December 2024, Coates' estimated net worth is £9.5 billion. [5]
This is a list of entrepreneurs by century. An entrepreneur is an owner or manager of a business enterprise who makes money through risk and initiative. [ 1 ] This list includes notable entrepreneurs.
Women inventors have been historically rare in some geographic regions. For example, in the UK, only 33 of 4090 patents (less than 1%) issued between 1617 and 1816 named a female inventor. [1] In the US, in 1954, only 1.5% of patents named a woman, compared with 10.9% in 2002. [1]
Since setting up L.K.Bennett, she has won several awards, including: Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award (Consumer Product category) in 2002; Best Women’s Footwear Retailer (UK Footwear Award) in 2003; Veuve Clicquot Businesswoman of the Year in 2004; Entrepreneurs’ Entrepreneur award in 2009.
There are still miles to go for women in the business world, but the strides made in recent years have been nothing less than empowering. As of 2016, women held about 24 percent of all senior ...
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An Internet entrepreneur is an owner, founder or manager of an Internet-based business. This list includes Internet company founders and people brought on to companies for their general business or accounting acumen, as is the case with some CEOs hired by companies started by entrepreneurs.