In the twenty-sixth episode of Grit & Grace, entrepreneur and host Melissa Kiguwa talks to Anna Jones and Debbie Wosskow, the founders of Allbright which connects smart-minded women through digital and physical spaces all over the world.
Anna Jones is the former CEO of Hearst Magazine and Debbie Wosskow (OBE) is a serial entrepreneur with multiple exits. Debbie is also a Member of the Mayor of London's Business Advisory Board. In this episode, they discuss the power of working as cofounders and how female founders can tap into their dark.
Anna Jones is a British businesswoman and entrepreneur who lives in London, UK. Jones is the Co-Founder of AllBright, a Members Club and community that celebrates and connects women at work. She served as CEO of Hearst Magazines, UK between 2014 and 2017.
Debbie Wosskow (OBE) is the former CEO of Love Home Swap, a subscription-based home exchange business, which she sold for $53m to Wyndham Destination Networks in July 2017. Wosskow is also an influential advocate of the sharing economy and is the former Chair of Sharing Economy UK. In 2015 she led the independent government review ‘Unlocking the Sharing Economy’ - also known as the Wosskow Report. She is a Member of the Mayor of London's Business Advisory Board and sits on the Board of the Women’s Fiction Prize. In 2016, she was awarded an OBE for services to business.
In the twenty-fifth episode of Grit & Grace, entrepreneur and host Melissa Kiguwa talks to Ti Chang, award-winning industrial designer and co-founder of CRAVE which makes luxury sensual products that look as good as they feel. Ti shares why it's so important to design products that push pleasure products out of the dark shadows of stigma and into mainstream conversations.
Ti Chang
Ti Chang has been elevating the category of pleasure products since 2008. She is an award-winning industrial designer passionate about designing beautiful products for women. As the co-founder and VP of Design at CRAVE, she leads the design vision of the company’s products and has been the leading voice in bringing modern sex toys to the mainstream. Ti’s designs have won numerous awards, including Red Dots, IDEA, Core77, and Good Design and her work have helped pioneer the category of sex jewelry, leading CRAVE to outlets such as the Standard Hotel, MoMA Design Store, Goop, and Saint Laurent. Ti holds an M.A. in Design Products from the Royal College of Art in London and a B.S. in Industrial Design from the Georgia Institute of Technology.
