Contestant profiles
- the women
Adele
Age: 29 Qualifications: 7 O-levels;
1 A-level.
Career: General manager in a retail company selling
kitchens and bathrooms
Fact: She worked until 8.00pm the night before giving
birth and even managed to sell a kitchen to her midwife whilst in labour.
She says: "Some people call me a workaholic, but I
just enjoy work with a passion."
Adenike
Age: 30 Qualifications: BA in Business
Studies, MA in International Business and MBA from PACE University,
New York.
Career: Owns and manages a top-end restaurant and
runs large events for demanding corporate clients.
She says: "I am a entrepreneur by nature and it's
all I know."
Lindsay
Age: 35 Qualifications: BA, Postgraduate
Diploma in Broadcast Journalism, Postgraduate Diploma in Internal Communications
Management.
Career: Communications manager for an international
oil company, founder of the UK's first national car-sharing agency.
Claim to fame: Finalist for Cosmopolitan Woman of
Achievement Awards.
She says: "You must be honest about where you're
aiming to go and how you are competing with others to get there."
Miranda
Age: 26 Qualifications: BTEC National
Diploma, GNVQ in Leisure and Tourism.
Career: Managing director of an estate agency. Previously
owned a successful mail order company and funded her own exhibitions
company.
Claim to fame: Completed a fire walk over 25 feet
of red hot embers burning at temperatures in excess of 1,200 degrees
- oh and being a contestant on Wheel Of Fortune.
She says: "I've got huge life experience for my age,
which is better than anything written on a piece of paper."
Miriam
Age: 26 Qualifications: BA in French
and Spanish.
Career: Manager of an exclusive hotel in the French
West Indies. Previously a wedding consultant who then founded an events
company.
Hobbies: Diving with sharks.
She says: "I don't know all the classic business
theories or have the 'pat' answers - my experience comes from what I've
directly learnt in the field. I bring a unique experience as I've lived
in four different countries and am bilingual."
Rachel
Age: 32 Qualifications: BA in German,
Chartered Institute of Management Advanced Certificate.
Career: Charity fundraiser and former advertising
sales executive.
Claim to fame: Spacehopping down Oxford Street dressed
as a baby (for charity).
She says: "I have incredible presence and am one
of those people who fills a room even when alone. I have an infectious
desire to live life to the full."
Saira
Age: 34 Qualifications: BA in Humanities,
MA in Environmental Planning.
Career: Sales manager for an online recruitment company
Facts: She runs marathons, loves diving and speaks
four Asian languages: Urdu, Bahri, Punjabi and Hindi.
She says: "I hope that as an Asian woman I will give
other Asian women the inspiration to go out there and do well in business."
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