Kathryn Parsons

Kathryn Parsons MBE is a British tech entrepreneur. She is the co-founder and co-CEO of Decoded, a London-based "code and data education and digital transformation company".[1] Decoded launched in 2011 with its signature one-day course which claimed to train participants without any background in computers to "code in a day".[2] Today Decoded's Digital and Data Academies are delivered to thousands of executives and policymakers across the world.[3]

Kathryn Parsons
Born
Kathryn Parsons

London, United Kingdom
NationalityBritish
Alma materDowning College, Cambridge
OccupationCo-CEO of Decoded
Years active2011—present

Early life and education

Kathryn Parsons grew up in Highgate and attended Channing School.[2] She studied Classical Studies at Downing College, Cambridge.[4] "A linguist by training, she has mastered Japanese, Latin, Ancient Greek and Mandarin. For Parsons, programming is just another language that anyone can learn."[5]

Honours and awards

Kathryn successfully campaigned for code to be introduced to the UK national curriculum[6] making it one of the first countries in the world to do so.

She was awarded an MBE for Services to Education in the Queen’s New Year Honours.[7]

Parsons sat on the Business Advisory Boards to Number Ten Downing Street and the London Mayors.[8]

She joined the non-executive board of The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy from 2017-2020.[9]

Kathryn currently sits on the board of HM Treasury’s Rose Review into Female Entrepreneurship which seeks to address the problem that women "receive less than 1 per cent of venture capital funding".[10]

Parsons has won many awards for her contributions to technology and entrepreneurship, including the inaugural Veuve Clicquot New Generation Business Woman of the Year Award.[11]

References
  1. "Guardian Media Group takes strategic stake in Decoded". the Guardian. 14 February 2014. Retrieved 19 December 2022.
  2. Jamie Johnson. (8 May 2018).Kathryn Parsons: 'Women can't opt out of big money tech jobs' The Telegraph. Retrieved 19 November 2022.
  3. "M&S aims to turn staff into data scientists". Financial Times. 30 July 2018. Retrieved 19 December 2022.
  4. "Downing alumnus changing the face of technology". Downing College Cambridge. 29 November 2017. Retrieved 19 November 2022.
  5. "FT Masterclass: Coding with Kathryn Parsons". Financial Times. 17 April 2015. Retrieved 19 November 2022.
  6. Parsons, Kathryn (26 February 2016). "The future is in code and I want women to write it". The Guardian. Retrieved 19 November 2022.
  7. James Cook (December 2016). "Here are all the UK tech figures named in the Queen's New Year's Honours list". Business Insider. Retrieved 19 November 2022.
  8. "Mayor announces Business Advisory Board | LGOV". www.london.gov.uk. Retrieved 19 November 2022.
  9. "Kathryn Parsons". GOV.UK. Retrieved 19 November 2022.
  10. Female entrepreneurs may cope better in harsh investing climate. 12 July 2022. Retrieved 19 November 2022. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
  11. "My Big Idea by Kathryn Parsons". Harper's Bazaar. 22 April 2013. Retrieved 19 November 2022.
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