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Gemma Godfrey is a leading business expert and SchwarzeneggerтАЩs former advisor, she is also a serial entrepreneur and board director. Warm, insightful and a тАШsafe pair of handsтАЩ, Gemma is a skilful (online) moderator and speaker.
Probably best known as the Boardroom Advisor to Arnold Schwarzenegger on The US Celebrity Apprentice, Gemma Godfrey is a serial entrepreneur and advisor to CEOs and senior executives in the boardrooms of some of the fastest growing companies across the world.
She advises on strategy, growth and innovation. With experience and insights that apply across industries, her track record spans financial services, technology, media, public policy and sustainable agriculture.
A тАШsafe pair of handsтАЩ, Gemma has moderated some of the largest events around the world for the last decade (online and in-person), and was a presenter on ITVтАЩs тАЬEat Shop SaveтАЭ and Channel 4тАЩs тАЬMy Money MakeoverтАЭ. SheтАЩs a go-to business expert for ITVтАЩs Good Morning Britain and Sky News, with the ability to make important issues relatable and engaging to any audience. Named one of the тАЬMost Powerful Women in LondonтАЭ by CityAM, her deep business knowledge makes her a key note speaker of the highest calibre.
Within 3 years, Gemma Godfrey had built and sold an award-winning digital investing service, Moola, while getting divorced and raising two kids! She speaks with first-hand experience about leading through adversity, achieving the тАШunachievableтАЩ, evolving consumer behaviour, future technology trends and how our ways of working are fundamentally changing forever.
Having achieved key corporate milestones, she is able to empathise with other business leaders, articulate key issues and skilfully moderate engaging conversations.
She secured multiple rounds of funding for her business, FCA authorisation, launched new products and integrated the technology post-acquisition into Mercer, the worldтАЩs largest global asset manager with $15 trillion under advisement.
Her company pioneered new technology to onboard customers in record time and made complicated services accessible to the masses.
She went on to launch Times Money Mentor, a new venture for News UK (The Times & The Sunday Times), with hundreds of thousands of unique visitors a month and 6-figure corporate deals secured within the first few weeks post-launch.
Gemma Godfrey is a non-executive director of the national financial advisory business IWP (for which she is also a chair), the advanced technology firm Creativemass and advisor to the CEO of an intelligent carbon labelling solution, Mondra. She is also advising the government on its 10-year strategy to improve UK financial wellbeing.
With a background in quantum physics, Gemma was the Head of Investment Strategy at Brooks Macdonald, Chairman of the Investment Committee at Credo Capital and a Fund Manager at GAM, after starting her career at Goldman Sachs.
Follow Gemma: @GCGodfrey (Instagram)
