Exige International's Leadership Series

Today's episode features the amazing Debbie Watkins, co-founder and CEO of Lucy, a mobile banking and money management solution for women in Singapore. Lucy provides a mobile application designed to provide entrepreneurial women with the tools to make life easier. Debbie spoke about the challenges she has seen with female entrepreneurs in this space and what we can learn from developing countries.Debbie Watkins https://www.linkedin.com/in/debbie-watkins/Lucy https://www.welucy.com/ Samantha Smart https://www.linkedin.com/in/samanthasmart1/Exige International https://www.exigeinternational.com/Exige International LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/exige-international/Jugaad Innovation by Jaideep Prabhu, Navi Radjou, and Simone Ahuja

We are joined today by the amazing Virginia Klausmeier, founder and CEO of Sylvatex, a company whose technology replaces costly and carbon intensive practices with efficient and climate friendly manufacturing techniques. Virginia shared some great insights into the transition to clean energy, investment and her own founding story. Virginia Klausmeier https://www.linkedin.com/in/virginia-klausmeier-2a34ab9/Sylvatex https://sylvatex.com/Samantha Smart https://www.linkedin.com/in/samanthasmart1/Exige International https://www.exigeinternational.com/Exige International LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/exige-international/

It is our pleasure to welcome Elsie Amoako, CEO and Founder of Mommy Monitor, a social enterprise which offers customized maternal health support and education in a culturally sensitive way. Elsie founded this business to help combat issues in pre-natal and post-natal care - designing a solution to help mothers and people who give birth to access culturally aware and sensitive health care professional and resources. This was an amazing discussion where Elsie shared her journey from academic research to founding her business and the challenges and opportunities she has faced since then.Elsie Amoako https://www.linkedin.com/in/elsieamoako/Mommy Monitor https://www.mommymonitor.ca/Samantha Smart https://www.linkedin.com/in/samanthasmart1/Exige International https://www.exigeinternational.com/Exige International LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/exige-international/

This week, we welcome the amazing Laura-Marie Töpfer who is a Partner at Extantia Capital. Extantia Capital is a Venture Capital firm which specifically invests in the decarbonisation space and climate tech. There has been so much research and articles published in the past couple of years talking about how female-led companies have very limited investment from the VC community, and Laura-Marie shares her insights into what this means and her thoughts about the lack of female talent in the VC area.Laure Marie Töpfer https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-laura-marie-toepfer/Extantia Capital https://extantia.com/Samantha Smart https://www.linkedin.com/in/samanthasmart1/Exige International https://www.exigeinternational.com/Exige International LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/exige-international/

Today's episode features the Co-Founder and CEO of Sav, Purvi Munot. Sav is a fintech company which aims to making saving more fun and less stressful - the application they have developed helps to make saving convenient and lucrative through gamified rewards, in order to help change the perception of saving. Purvi was an awesome guest and shared her experiences of founding Sav and the hiring the right talent in the tech space.Purvi Munot https://www.linkedin.com/in/purvi-munot/Sav https://sav.money/Samantha Smart https://www.linkedin.com/in/samanthasmart1/Exige International https://www.exigeinternational.com/Exige International LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/exige-international/

Welcoming the amazing entrepreneur Danika Kelly to today's episode. Danika is a Co-founder and CEO of My Normative, the only health tracking app available in North America which incorporates female-specific metrics. In this discussion, we speak about why her and her co-founder Renee started this business, how they work together, and life as a female entrepreneur.Danika Kelly https://www.linkedin.com/in/danika-kelly-wellness/My Normative https://mynormative.ca/Samantha Smart https://www.linkedin.com/in/samanthasmart1/Exige International https://www.exigeinternational.com/Exige International LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/exige-international/

In this episode we welcome the amazing Caroline Bedford, who is the Co-Founder and CEO of EDII, an innovation, education and development company helping talent within the FS and insurance markets. Caroline not only shares her insights into building a business and founding EDII, but also speaks about the power of generalists, innovation across the industry and what makes a great leader.Caroline Bedford https://www.linkedin.com/in/caroline-bedford-a0225212/EDII https://edii.group/The Rise of the Generalist https://youtu.be/ftAmGzKmj3sSamantha Smart https://www.linkedin.com/in/samanthasmart1/Exige International https://www.exigeinternational.com/Exige International LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/exige-international/

For this episode, we welcome the amazing Annalee Bloomfield, who is the Co-Founder and CEO of Sustain.Life. Founded along with 2 former Walmart executives and an ESG expert, Sustain.Life provides comprehensive sustainability software that can be used across a business to embed sustainability into the day-to-day working of the company. Annalee gave some real insight into co-founding the business, building talent in the business and leadership.Annalee Bloomfield https://www.linkedin.com/in/annalee-bloomfield-37aa009/Sustain.Life https://www.sustain.life/Samantha Smart https://www.linkedin.com/in/samanthasmart1/Exige International https://www.exigeinternational.com/Exige International LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/exige-international/