Kathryn Parsons
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| Born | Kathryn Parsons London, United Kingdom |
| Alma mater | Downing College, Cambridge |
| Occupation | Co-CEO of Decoded |
| Years active | 2011—present |
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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]
Early life and education
[edit | edit source]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
[edit | edit source]Parsons successfully campaigned for coding to be included to the UK national curriculum[6] making Britain 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]
References
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- ^ a b Jamie Johnson. (8 May 2018).Kathryn Parsons: 'Women can't opt out of big money tech jobs' The Telegraph. Retrieved 19 November 2022.
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External links
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