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KAMILA HANKIEWICZ: CREATING A SPACE FOR WOMEN IN TECH Name: Kamila Hankiewicz
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Job Title: CEO/Co-Founder
Company: Untrite/Oishya
ounder and CEO of her own It was a boutique branding company, company, Untrite, Kamila but I always felt a connection and Hankiewicz is passionate I always felt good working with about improving the world through technology. I wanted to utilise demystifying data insights. Her this, do something greater and do software company, which focuses something bigger,” Hankiewicz adds. on AI and dealing with unstructured Similar to many other women data, helps companies find the right navigating their careers, Hankiewicz information for the right purpose. explains that, in the early years of her “I’m the CEO but as it’s still a career, she was often given certain startup, I wear lots of different tasks or encouraged to take part hats, though I’m mainly focused on in recreational activities that are strategic partnerships and business typically considered ‘female’ and, development,” says Hankiewicz. moving through her education, very Hankiewicz’s journey to becoming little changed: “I've now been lucky CEO and Founder of Untrite has been to meet lots of amazing women who filled with a number of work in technology - but it different roles in different wasn't always like that.” sectors - mirroring her “When I was growing current hat-swapping up, I never had a female situation: “I was trying role model in technology. I to find myself, and now didn’t see maths or physics Oishya was founded after Hankiewicz wanted I know the technology as something I could to buy her partner a space is where I want to move into as a potential Japanese knife, but be,” she explains. career, but then I moved to wanted to find something “I've always felt like I London from Poland and beautifully authentic and want to do something on it opened my eyes - I saw affordable - something my own. So when I was at more women in these fields she struggled to find. University, I already had and my curiosity led me to my own small company. explore what was possible.”
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April 2022
