Kathryn Parsons

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Kathryn Parsons
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Kathryn Parsons

London, United Kingdom
NationalityBritish
Alma mater Downing College, Cambridge
OccupationCo-CEO of Decoded
Years active2011—present

Kathryn Parsons MBE is a British tech entrepreneur. She is the co-founder and co-CEO of Decoded, a London-based "code and data education and digital transformation company". [1] Decoded launched in 2011 with its signature one-day course which claimed to train participants without any background in computers to "code in a day". [2] Today Decoded's Digital and Data Academies are delivered to thousands of executives and policymakers across the world. [3]

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Early life and education

Kathryn Parsons grew up in Highgate and attended Channing School. [2] She studied Classical Studies at Downing College, Cambridge. [4] "A linguist by training, she has mastered Japanese, Latin, Ancient Greek and Mandarin. For Parsons, programming is just another language that anyone can learn." [5]

Honours and awards

Kathryn successfully campaigned for code to be introduced to the UK national curriculum [6] making it one of the first countries in the world to do so.

She was awarded an MBE for Services to Education in the Queen’s New Year Honours. [7]

Parsons sat on the Business Advisory Boards to Number Ten Downing Street and the London Mayors. [8]

She joined the non-executive board of The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy from 2017-2020. [9]

Kathryn currently sits on the board of HM Treasury’s Rose Review into Female Entrepreneurship which seeks to address the problem that women "receive less than 1 per cent of venture capital funding". [10]

Parsons has won many awards for her contributions to technology and entrepreneurship, including the inaugural Veuve Clicquot New Generation Business Woman of the Year Award. [11]

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References

  1. ↑ "Guardian Media Group takes strategic stake in Decoded". the Guardian. 14 February 2014. Retrieved 19 December 2022.
  2. 1 2 Jamie Johnson. (8 May 2018).Kathryn Parsons: 'Women can't opt out of big money tech jobs' The Telegraph. Retrieved 19 November 2022.
  3. ↑ "M&S aims to turn staff into data scientists". Financial Times. 30 July 2018. Retrieved 19 December 2022.
  4. ↑ "Downing alumnus changing the face of technology". Downing College Cambridge. 29 November 2017. Retrieved 19 November 2022.
  5. ↑ "FT Masterclass: Coding with Kathryn Parsons". Financial Times. 17 April 2015. Retrieved 19 November 2022.
  6. ↑ Parsons, Kathryn (26 February 2016). "The future is in code and I want women to write it". The Guardian . Retrieved 19 November 2022.
  7. ↑ James Cook (December 2016). "Here are all the UK tech figures named in the Queen's New Year's Honours list". Business Insider . Retrieved 19 November 2022.
  8. ↑ "Mayor announces Business Advisory Board | LGOV". www.london.gov.uk. Retrieved 19 November 2022.
  9. ↑ "Kathryn Parsons". GOV.UK. Retrieved 19 November 2022.
  10. ↑ Female entrepreneurs may cope better in harsh investing climate. 12 July 2022. Retrieved 19 November 2022.{{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
  11. ↑ "My Big Idea by Kathryn Parsons". Harper's Bazaar . 22 April 2013. Retrieved 19 November 2022.
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