Meet The Team
Meet Our Fabulous Athena Team
Focusing exclusively on female executives and entrepreneurs, The Athena Network® team provide a platform for members to share knowledge and experience across a diverse range of industry sectors and to connect and collaborate for mutual success.
Jacqueline Rogers
CEO & Founder
Jacqueline Rogers, launched The Athena Network in December 2005 and now, heading up an operation that’s just ‘grown and grown’ rather wryly admits it wasn’t so much a question of… Read full profile here
Patrick Fox
Managing Director
Patrick joined The Athena Network in November 2012. In his role as Managing Director he works with the Regional Directors to support them in growing their business through a combination of mentoring and coaching.
Anna Atkins-Carter
Regional Director
After spending 20 years in various corporate roles, I found myself in the enviable position of voluntary redundancy with a generous exit.. Read full profile here
AnYes van Rhijn
Regional Director
AnYes van Rhijn is a true connector and networker. She also firmly believes in the power of collaboration, which is why she founded her… Read full profile here
Caroline Snowdon
Regional Director
Caroline Snowdon is Regional Director for West Berkshire , and currently manages several groups in the area encompassing, Hungerford, Newbury and… Read full profile here
Charlotte Emery
Regional Director
Charlotte is able to combine real experience and a passion for business, to support others in business ownership and networking skills… Read full profile here
Charmaine Mace
Regional Director
Charmaine has lived in 4 countries, South Africa, Zimbabwe, America and is now settled in England. Charmaine enjoys having fun and has… Read full profile here
Claire Newell
Regional Director
With a background in health, fitness and wellbeing Claire began her career as a Fitness Instructor and Sports Therapist working within… Read full profile here
Debbie Atkins
Regional Director
Debbie Atkins of DA Fitness is a holistic outdoor fitness and well-being expert and the soul of Berkshire women’s networking. A natural connector… Read full profile here
Debbie Diggle
Regional Director
Debbie was born and raised in Harrow and has not strayed far from her roots – she has only ever moved 8 miles north to Hertfordshire! After… Read full profile here
Doris Holleufer
Regional Director
With a background in Marketing in Financial Services, I made the break from full-time employment to contracting, specialising in Internal Communications… Read full profile here
Emma Rundle
Regional Director
I spent over 20 years working in a corporate environment before deciding to ‘make the break’ and go freelance nearly three years ago. My family was… Read full profile here
Jenny Yung
Regional Director
Jenny Yung is the Regional Director for the Windsor region… Read full profile here
Julie Eltham
Regional Director
Julie Eltham is a highly successful businesswoman and entrepreneur with over 25 year’s experience across a range of service-related… Read full profile here
Karen Fowler
Regional Director
With a Marketing, Management Sciences BSc degree from Lancaster University under her belt, Karen’s career in marketing and product development… Read full profile here
Kate Cherry
Regional Director
Kate Cherry has a true passion for networking, connecting fellow business owners and seeing others flourish. Formerly “scared” of networking… Read full profile here
Lindsay McLoughlin
Regional Director
Lindsay McLoughlin has been an Athena member for several years. A natural communicator with a love of social media and networking…. Read full profile here
Lisa Moore
Regional Director
Lisa Moore is an experienced Health and Wellbeing Coach, Personal Trainer and Professional Speaker. Her passion is to help women… Read full profile here
Lisa Woodward
Regional Director
Lisa has been a member of the Barnes Athena group for the past year. She runs a business consultancy, Number78, and currently also works… Read full profile here
Maggie Sarfo
Regional Director
Maggie Sarfo is a passionate author, speaker, advisor and mentor on business growth, purpose development and peak performance. She’s been… Read full profile here
Marilena Narbona
Regional Director
Marilena Narbona is a people connector and networking strategist. She is a spontaneous and emotional communicator, multilingual and cosmopolitan… Read full profile here
Michal Baghlani
Ambassador
Michal Baghlani is a Registered Psychologist and Wellbeing / Resilience Coach. She is passionate about helping individuals self-manage their wellbeing… Read full profile here
Natalia DaCosta
Regional Director
Natalia DaCosta was always a determined career woman who enjoyed the “work hard, play hard” ethos that came with life in the recruitment industry… Read full profile here
Nicola Powell
Regional Director
Nicola started her career as a solicitor in London, where I trained, qualified and worked for two Legal500 firms. Read full profile here
Pernille Thulin
Denmark Ambassador
Pernille is a personal stylist and creative consultant. Her passion is to help people be the best version of themselves. By showing what a difference… Read full profile here
Rosy Holt
Regional Director
Entrepreneur, business owner, mentor and public speaker, Rosy Holt’s career was forged in the heat and heart of the travel and tourism… Read full profile here
Sophie Fleming
Regional Director
Sophie Fleming loves learning about health and wellness especially cooking and eating healthily. Her interest in the environment started at… Read full profile here
Vicky Stanton
Regional Director
After just over 25 years in Human Resources in the Public and Private sector and a Chartered Fellow of the CIPD, Vicky set up Inspiring People… Read full profile here
Zoe Adnitt
Regional Director
Zoë has spent the last 20+ years in the corporate world, in the Construction Industry… Read full profile here