The chief executive officer of Mediacom stated: “I still think it is odd that I’m the only senior black woman in the advertising industry” in November 2014. Karen Blackett controls a company with 1,000 employees that places £1.2 billion in advertising each year and is a single mother. She was ridiculously told that her only career choice would be to become a nurse or a teacher when she was young. Surprisingly she had just 2,000 followers on Twitter.
Two stories to keep beside you
Michelle Mone OBE
When her husband left her, she could of ‘moaned’ but instead she got on with it and paid her now ex-husband some £24 million for his share of her lingerie business. Glasgow born, Mone “”grew up a Scottish, Labour voting Protestant and is now a Conservative voting Catholic” but it is for her patented Ultimo […]
Robert Bourne and Sally Greene OBE
Well-known for their numberplates “2 BE” and “NOT 2B,” this power couple live on Cheyne Walk and are a little bit like Marmite. In Chelsea, Bourne has aroused controversy by attempting to gain planning permission to turn George Best’s favourite boozer, The Phene, into a house and in Soho, Greene’s makeover of Ronnie Scott’s caused […]
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It is horrible, I made an application to beome a SKY newsroom anchorman, my application received no attention and was rejected. I guess, they must hate Jews………
I would support your application particularly as Murdock has just announced that Egyptians are white and had black slaves. This shows he doesn’t know much about racial differences so you stand a good chance Chaim
I am not sure she is the best example of a woman in business but nonetheless good for her.
I think that peerages should be handed out as National Lottery prizes
I thought they were Peter.