In Conversation with Hetti Barkworth-Nanton - Innovation and Technology for Gender Equality

As part of our month of activities championing women and gender activities, we are delighted to invite you to join an event and networking reception. We are honoured to be joined by Hetti Barkworth Nanton,  the CEO of Ploughshare and of Refuge, who will share her reflections and experience on the opportunities and challenges around innovation and technology as forces for good in Gender Equality.

Hetti has a career leading financial, commercial and transformational change across large blue-chip organisations, and is now the CEO at Ploughshare and Chair of the Board at Refuge, the largest provider of specialist domestic abuse services in England.

Her experience covers the airline, utilities and telecoms industries, and in the last 10 years of her private sector career she brought her expertise and collaborative leadership skills into the telecommunications industry, being responsible for delivering the commercial model for Openreach on its establishment, and the transformation of the Vodafone UK Enterprise business, which works with many of the large UK businesses including public sector such as MOD.

She joined Ploughshare as CEO in 2020, and under her leadership Ploughshare’s impact and presence across the public sector has been elevated as the focus on innovation has increased. Ploughshare was relaunched in September last year and is now focused on maximising the impact for society as a whole from government-owned intellectual property.