Rebecca has over 15 years of experience in the luxury sector as an entrepreneur in online retail and is a contributor for the Financial Times How to Spend It. She is a regular speaker at industry events and e-commerce conferences, and was a judge at the 2015 Online Retail Awards in London.

Since 2015 Rebecca has been involved with UK charity Smart Works, volunteering as a one-to-one career coach. Smart Works exists to give women the confidence they need to reach their full potential, secure employment and change the trajectory of their lives. This involves dressing and training unemployed women for success at their job interview. All the clothes in the Smart Works wardrobe are donated from individuals or retailers – to find out how to donate office-appropriate clothing to this excellent charity, please click here.

‘Over the years I have interviewed many candidates for positions either within my own company, or on behalf of another brand or organisation looking to fulfil a specialist role. I wanted to put this experience to good use and when I met Smart Works CEO Kate Stephens in 2015, she invited me to join their volunteer coaching team. It has been a real privilege to work with such fantastic women and see the community expand – last year Smart Works helped over 8,000 marginalised women break the cycle of rejection and deprivation that results from unemployment’ – Rebecca