Kerrie Hanafin
Entrepreneur, motivational speaker, mentor and educator

Kerrie graduated from Leeds University with a Joint Honours Degree in Business and Spanish.  She joined the JPMorgan Investment Bank’s Graduate Training Scheme, and after a stint in New York, joined the Emerging Markets trading desk.  Four years later in 2001, Kerrie moved to Citigroup as a Relationship Manager.

In 2003, having achieved her goal of reaching Vice President before the age of 30, and with her burning entrepreneurial ambition taking over, Kerrie left the City to launch her first company, A Woman’s Touch*.  Having identified an opportunity in the construction industry, she founded the company to transform expectations in the male-dominated industry.  4 years later, and following a successful strategic partnership with Richard Branson’s Virgin Vie, she launched the Spanish equivalent Un Toque Femenino.**  Further geographical expansion is planned for 2009 to the USA, followed by Canada, Australia and New Zealand by 2012. 

In addition, Kerrie is setting up a Training Academy (with Olympic funding) to offer fast track NVQs to women.  She is also developing a series of downloadable DIY films.

Still in the property field, Kerrie, with business partner Rose Lock, runs a successful investment brokerage company called Vision Board Properties, in Spain.  They source exceptional investment opportunities for investors (in excess of 25%) due to the distressed position of the sellers, and then package up any building / project works needed to bring the property up to specification.  The properties generally start around €1,000,000.  ***

Away from construction, Kerrie is working with prominent business coach Dimple Sthankiya (a colleague from Investment Banking days and star of the BBC’s ‘The Last Millionaire’). They run a successful speaking and educating business, and in addition to meeting the Queen, and working for Gordon Ramsay, have spoken at such events as Capital Women in London, the inaugural WEConnect conference for large corporations, and numerous Spanish events in Andalucía and Alicante, and have been featured in all major media in the UK and Spain****. 

Drawing on their strong beliefs in a positive outlook and giving people a choice, Dimple and Kerrie have also founded Good Vibes © *****– an online TV channel which “flips” news stories to explore the positive angles.  They have applied for £2million funding from Google and hope to launch in 2009 with backing from a host of celebrities including Billy Zane and Jamie Oliver.

Kerrie also mentors several small and medium sized business owners, male and female, and has a wonderful philosophy of sharing and learning from other people’s mistakes!  She is a strong believer in the power of networking and actively connects people at every opportunity.  It’s a rare occasion that you leave a meeting with Kerrie without having been put in touch with someone who can help you in some way!

Kerrie was awarded BT Female Entrepreneur of the Year (2007) and
NatWest Business Woman of the Year (2006) and more recently was named one of Management Today’s “8 women to watch in 2009”.

In addition to her business and entrepreneurial success, Kerrie is a Board Member of Women and Manual Trades, a women’s charity which lobbies government and supports women in non traditional occupations.  She is also an Advisory Board Member of the Construction Skills Council – the body which governs training in the construction industry, and an active Board Member of the Leeds University Business School, where she studied herself in the 90s.

Kerrie is committed to personal development and continual learning and has studied with Anthony Robbins, Keith Cunningham, Christopher Howard and John DiMartini.  However, she is not a glass half full person – she prefers to describe herself as a glass overflowing person! 

Kerrie is a qualified scuba diving instructor and loves to travel the world.  She speaks fluent Spanish and currently lives in Nueva Andalucia on the South Coast of Spain.

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