Brigitte Baumann joins the EY Entrepreneurial Winning Women Program

Following the success of the programs running in the United States, Asia-Pacific, Russia, Southern Africa and Turkey, EY has launched the « EY Entrepreneurial Winning Women Program program» in Europe with a focus on digital businesses.

In the first cohort, Brigitte Baumann, founder of Go Beyond Investing, is one of 20 women from 11 European countries and 17 companies who have been selected for the 2017 class. The companies of these selected women represent more than Euro 20M in annual revenue and employ more than 300 employees with an average company age of 5 years.

During the course of year, Baumann, together with the selected women will benefit from customized executive leadership program offers including mentoring, year-round activities, executive dialogues about business strategies and practices, access to strategic partners and potential sources of capital.

“We congratulate Brigitte on joining this elite network of outstanding women entrepreneurs”, says Bethann Kassman, Co-founder and CEO Go Beyond Network.

About the EY Entrepreneurial Winning Women Program
The Entrepreneurial Winning Women Program is an international competition and executive educational program designed for high-potential women entrepreneurs whose businesses are ready to scale and become global market leaders. The program is in its 10^th year and has over 400 women alumni.

This year, the focus is on digital businesses because, “Digital has changed how companies build and conduct business every day, and has considerably expanded the market opportunity for entrepreneurs. It’s even more important for women. A European Commission study of women active in the ICT sector published in 2013 found that there would be an annual boost of €9b to the EU’s GDP if more women were enabled to enter the digital job market, as presented on EY.

(ran)