Charlotte Fors, President and co-Founder

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.

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

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.

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

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

Eight committees. Careers Communications Fundraising Panels & Inspiration. Local & International Chapters Mentoring Networking Philanthropy

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

Objectives for 2012 CommitteeMissionObjectives 2012 CareersIncrease awareness of job opportunities and promote career advancement for women Create a mentoring/careers event/initiative Implement paid job board Communication and outreach Support the organization’s overall efforts through strategic branding and communications Build out blog posts and raise awareness of WiW events Continue “Spotlight On” series New survey to better understand membership base FundraisingEstablish long-term relationships companies to achieve funding Generate $150k in sponsorship Find organizational sponsors (beyond the one of event sponsors) Local and international chapter Enable international and local groups to engage within WiW Launch 3-6 Local Chapters, launch 1- 3 Regional Chapters with supporting processes Annual International, multi-city event with branded title

Objectives for 2012 CommitteeMissionObjectives 2012 MentoringTo empower and develop women through mentoring opportunities Launch mentoring program in London and San Francisco Create a library of mentoring guidelines Networking Arrange quality events and create a forum for engagement and interaction between members and sponsors Host national events on a larger scale than 2011 Create a platform for local events Work closely with fundraising to secure sponsors for each major event Philanthropy and membership Grow an engaged membership base with a connection to charity Continue to support Grameen’s recycle +10,000 members Panels and inspiration To inspire, educate, connect and promote women of all levels Create partnership with conference organizers Increase the number of panels with female speakers Raise awareness of women in leadership roles in digital

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