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Debbie Wosskow OBE is a multi-exit British entrepreneur and co-founder of AllBright, the women’s careers network. She is the former founder CEO of Love Home Swap, a subscription-based home exchange business, sold to Wyndham Worldwide in 2017. She founded and built her marketing and communications agency Mantra, through to exit in 2007.

Debbie is a Senior Advisor to McKinsey and Company. She is a Member of the Mayor of London’s Business Advisory Board and sits on the Board of the Women’s Fiction Prize. Debbie won the Evening Standard’s ‘Entrepreneur of the Year’ in 2018 and was awarded the Freedom of the City of London in 2019. She is the author of the independent UK government review on the sharing economy ‘The Wosskow Report’ (2015) and is the former Chair of Sharing Economy UK. She is the co-author of ‘Believe Build Become – How to Supercharge your Career’ (Virgin Books, 2019).

She is recognised as one of the most prominent serial entrepreneurs in the UK, known for successfully launching and scaling businesses in the areas of digital disruption, the sharing economy and female empowerment. In 2016 she was awarded an OBE for her services to business. She graduated with an MA in Philosophy and Theology from New College, Oxford.