Sarah Wood

Sarah Wood OBE – award winning tech entrepreneur, author, digital advertising authority and Veuve Clicquot Business Woman of the Year.

In 2016 she was declared ‘Best CEO’ at the Europas Awards and City AM’s Entrepreneur of the Year. And she was awarded the OBE in 2015. As CEO of Unruly, the Ad tech company she founded in 2006. Unruly works to get videos seen and shared across the web, ‘working for brands that want to move people, not just reach them, bringing emotional intelligence to digital advertising’. Sarah led the business to its acquisition by News Corporation in 2015 for £114 million.

Sarah studied at the University of Cambridge and the University of Sussex, where she lectured in American Studies. She is currently an associate lecturer at the University of Cambridge, teaching a course in Online Video Culture and the Screen Media Revolution.

Sarah speaks on advertising, digital, business, women in technology, and on her own story of success.

Her book Stepping Up: A leadership handbook for the generation that wants to rip up the rule book is published in the Autumn.