Kathryn Parsons | |
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Born | Kathryn Parsons London, United Kingdom |
Nationality | British |
Alma mater | Downing College, Cambridge |
Occupation | Co-CEO of Decoded |
Years active | 2011—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]
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]
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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Kathryn Parsons | |
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Born | Kathryn Parsons London, United Kingdom |
Nationality | British |
Alma mater | Downing College, Cambridge |
Occupation | Co-CEO of Decoded |
Years active | 2011—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]
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]
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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