Simone Ishikawa

Hi 👋🏼 I'm Simone Koo Ishikawa - grew up in 🇰🇷, educated in 🇺🇸 and moved to 🇬🇧 in 2006. I spent my early career in banking 😭 at GS, MS, CS and JPM across trading floor, strategy, CVC, COO and sales 🤬. I then joined OakNorth, a lending platform funded by Softbank 💵, to run Customer Success 🤨 where I learned about start ups, agile, SaaS enterprise sales, etc 😎. I recently joined the Bicester Collection 🛍️ to run Unlock Her Future Prize 🏆 - a women social entrepreneurship celebration prize in the Global South 💪. I work with some amazing women 👭 changing the world. I have worked with early stage start-ups across fintech💸 and impact 💎and love working with founders 💕. I mentor at CodeBase 💥 and Unreasonable Group 🔥 and teach 👩🏻‍🏫 at Oxford SBS and am an Honorary Fellow at Imperial College Business School 🤩.