Foluke Akinlose MBE

Foluke Akinlose is a trained journalist, writer and editor with a strong background in new and traditional media. Her career has taken in stints at ITN New Media, Moreover.com, a Reuters backed technology start up and ATE Online the digital platform for the gaming industry.

In 1999, she built and launched PRECIOUS, the first digital magazine for women of colour in the UK. (www.precioussuccess.com and www.preciousonline.co.uk) In 2009 she launched the PRECIOUS Girls project, an initiative to encourage girls and young women to be entrepreneurial.

She is founder of The Precious Awards (www.preciousawards.com) a unique annual awards event that celebrates women of colour in business and leadership.

In 2008 Foluke was named in the top 100 in Courvoisier's “The Future 500” a list of the UK's top achievers across ten wide-ranging categories.

She was honoured with an MBE in the 2010 New Year's Honours List and in 2012 she received a Media Pioneer Award at the Specialist Media Show awards.