Each year, Computer Weekly publishes the longlist of notable women in UK tech.

We are delighted to announce that our founder and director, Faye Holland has been included in the list for the 5th consecutive year running.

And with good reason.

Faye wears many hats within Cambridge’s famed technology sector, influencing, inspiring and connecting on many different levels, always driving Cambridge’s global reputation as the UK’s centre for Technology, Innovation and Science.

Not only is cofinitive listed in PR Week’s150 Top Agencies rankings but it has also been named No1 PR & communications agency in East Anglia in Business Weekly’s prestigious New Year Honours “Image-Makers” rankings for three consecutive years (2021, 2022,2023). 

Faye is widely known as the creator and organiser of the influential #21toWatch Technology Innovation Awards, which celebrates and promotes the ever-outstanding talent within our region’s booming Science and Technology industries.

She is also a committed and passionate mentor for future technology entrepreneurs on both the Impulse Programme, which is run out of the University of Cambridge’s Maxwell Centre, and the IGNITE programme, run out of Cambridge Judge Business School. Beyond Cambridge, she also speaks at international events based on her legacy global connections, to inspire the next generation of tech women.

When Computer Weekly launched the first list of UK tech’s most influential women in 2012, it featured only 25 women. However, the list has grown exponentially to include more women each year, as well as a list of Rising Stars and a Hall of Fame designed to showcase both those who are on their way up in the sector, and those who have made a lifetime contribution to tech.

This year’s list has reached the heady heights of 650 women with the Top 50 to be announced at Computer Weekly’s annual diversity in tech event run in partnership with Nash Squared in London on the 11 October 2023.

Typically, Faye said of this list “I am delighted once again to be on this list. I have spent my entire career in the tech sector so the external recognition is wonderful and I am proud to know many of the women on the list from across the UK.”

Congratulations and good luck to all the inspirational tech ladies on the list, and especially to our fellow Cantabrigians:  

Adelina Chalmers, founder and CTO, The Geek Whisperer.

Catherine Breslin, founder, Kingfisher Labs.

Clare Sutcliffe, serial founder, angel investor and community strategist

Heba Bevan, CEO and founder of Cambridge University spinout, Utterberry.

Dr Kanta Dihal, senior research fellow, Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence, University of Cambridge.

Katherine Calleja, founder, Cambridge Women in Tech.

Lauren Kisser, director, living room AI, science and tech, Prime Video and Amazon Studios

Maria Axente, AI and AI for good lead, PwC UK; advisory board member, APPG for AI

Michelle Seng Ah Lee, AI ethics lead, Deloitte UK

Nicole Eagan, chief strategy and AI officer, Darktrace

Nova Baines, vice-president cloud DevOps, AVEVA.

Rebecca Mister, co-founder and director, RedTech Recruitment.

Samantha Smith, director, Socitm Inspire

Susie Hargreaves, CEO, Internet Watch Foundation.

Sylvia Lu, head of cellular technology strategy, u-blox; board director, Cambridge Wireless; board member, UK5G.

and Ting Zhang, CEO and founder, Crayfish.io.

The full longlist of Computer Weekly’s 650 Most Influential Women in Tech 2023 can be found here by following this link.