Kate brings extensive strategic and operational management experience to the role of Director, IMAGINE
She builds businesses at the intersection of the private, public and not-for-profit sectors and has held executive and non-executive roles within corporations, start-ups and higher education institutions. She was Director of Operations at Freeserve UK (latterly Wanadoo/Orange UK) and Chief Operating Officer, University of Cambridge Development and Alumni Relations. Most recently, Kate was CEO of RegGenome, a public and private impact research spin-out of the Cambridge Judge Business School.
Kate excels at empowering teams and is passionate about fostering affinity and engagement around purpose and impact.
Kate is Canadian and has lived in the UK since 1996. She is a Fellow and trustee of St. Edmund’s College at the University of Cambridge and a trustee of Wedu, an international charity which invests in next generation women leaders.
She holds an MBA from the Harvard Business School.
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I left Pakistan at the age of 18. After studying Engineering, Business Management and Technopreneurship in Singapore, and Computer Science in Canada, I started my career with Unilever in 2009. I have worked both in developing markets such as Malaysia, Indonesia, Argentina, Mexico and in developed markets such as Singapore and now in the Netherlands. I have deep expertise in partnership ecosystems development and value chain transformations in a wide variety of multi-billion Euro portfolios.