Emma Sinclair is CEO of EnterpriseAlumni, a company focusing on corporate alumni networks. Her career highlights include becoming the youngest person to IPO on the London Stock Exchange at 29, and receiving an MBE for services to entrepreneurship. After becoming the youngest individual in the UK to take a company public at 29, Emma Sinclair launched her property investment company, Mission Capital, onto the Alternative Investment Market in 2005. This followed her graduation from The University of Leeds in 1998 with a BA in French, Spanish, and Italian, and subsequently joining the investment banking graduate training program at Rothschild & Co.
Her early career demonstrated a rapid ascent into high-stakes finance and entrepreneurship. Sinclair expanded her professional reach in 2012, commencing her popular ‘Wonder Woman’ column for The Daily Telegraph. She has since contributed extensively to prestigious publications including The Guardian, Financial Times, and The Wall Street Journal, providing expert commentary on business, entrepreneurship, politics, diversity, and innovation across various television channels. In 2014, she co-founded EnterpriseJungle, a venture that evolved and rebranded as EnterpriseAlumni in 2017.
EnterpriseAlumni now delivers market-leading software, powering corporate alumni networks for major global companies, facilitating connections with former employees for crucial recruitment, sales, and advocacy purposes. Her business, Target Parking, which managed 450 sites across the UK, was successfully sold to CP Plus in 2015, allowing her to dedicate full focus to EnterpriseAlumni. In recognition of her significant contributions, Sinclair was awarded an MBE for Services To Entrepreneurship in 2016. Concurrently, she has served as a UNICEF advisor since 2014 and holds the distinction of being UNICEF’s first Business Ambassador.
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