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Charlotte Fors, President and co-Founder

Charlotte Fors, President and co-Founder. Women in Wireless Mission. To empower and develop female leaders in mobile and digital media.

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Charlotte Fors, President and co-Founder

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  1. Charlotte Fors, President and co-Founder

  2. Women in Wireless Mission To empower and develop female leaders in mobile and digital media. We do this through leadership development, mentoring, inspirational series of panels and webinars, job boards, philanthropic support for relevant charities and networking events.

  3. Goals THE leading community of female influencers and decision makers in the mobile industry THE organization that trains and develops both current and future mobile industry leaders THE place to learn about what is going on within the mobile industry THE must join group for women in mobile and digital media

  4. Main Accomplishment for 2011 Incorporated the company and grew to +3,000 members (from 700) Website, News Letter and Twitter launch - 1,062 followers and one active voice Developed speaker database and placed industry leaders on panels at multiple conferences, CTIA, DPAC, Digiday Social, etc Successfully launched the NYC Mentoring Pilot which got extended into a 12 month program Launched the Women Innovate Mobile (WIM) Accelerator with Kelly Hoey and Deborah Jackson Successful networking events at all key industry industry events such as Adtech, CTIA, MMA, etc with +100 attendees as each event First International event, six-city Women in Wireless Event: London, SF, NYC, Calgary, Toronto, Edmonton Successfully launched the WiW Educational series in NY covering Negotiation and Presentation Year-long support of Grameen’s Recycle to Eradicate Poverty Program.

  5. The WiW advisory board • Kimberly Bassett, Executive Director of The Wireless Foundation CTIA • Darcy Frisch, Vice President of Strategic Investments Hearst Interactive Media • Deborah Jackson, Founder and CEO JumpThru and My Tech Letter • Jennifer Hill, Senior Associate at Gunderson • Heidi Lehman, Founder and CEO MoxieQ • Laura Marriott, CEO & Board Chairperson at NeoMedia Technologies • Nihal Mehta, CEO and co-Founder of LocalResponse

  6. 3000+ members • 47% directors or above • 40% have a graduate degree • 53% work for startups • Brands • Agencies • Mobile carriers/aggregators • Publishers/media companies • Want to develop their skills within • Building professional relationship • Negotiation • Manage your personal brand

  7. Eight committees

  8. Women Innovate Mobile • The first start up accelerator and mentorship-driven program • Designed for women-founded companies in mobile technology • 100 applications • $18,000 in funding, free office space, product development and design support, mobile-marketing promotions, and access to an incredible network of mentors, funders and advisors

  9. Objectives for 2012

  10. Objectives for 2012

  11. More Information & Latest News

  12. Thank you

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