Louisa Currie and Heidi Riley, founders of online business Belly Beyond, have won the 2010 Most Inspirational Role Model award - one of the most highly regarded and respected categories of the Bloom Her Businesses Awards.
Many years ago the precursor to my career was a short stint working for the ANZ Bank. That was in the days of ‘exchanges’, which I fear, are little known in our modern technological world.
While today’s banking systems may seem beyond the pale for some, in this case the system was simple – a manual exchange of cheques between the various banks. No couriers, certainly no computerised transactions and no security guards.
A Christchurch woman whose business has helped Kiwis receive about $75million of unclaimed tax was recently named the HER Businesswoman Of The Year.
The founder and chief executive of NZ Tax Refunds, Cilla Hegarty, won the prestigious title and two other category awards (Best Innovative Idea and Best Use of Technology) at the HER Business awards evening in Wellington.
Mrs Hegarty says she is driven by a desire to help people get their money back.
Au Pair Link's founder, Cecilia Robinson, has been named the 2012 Her Businesswoman of the Year.
Since Cecilia started Au Pair Link in 2006 the company has gone from strength to strength. Au Pair Link is now Australasia’s largest Au Pair agency and was the first Au Pair agency in the world to become licensed through the Ministry of Education as a home-based Early Childhood Education service.
