2019.04.07杰奎琳-德-罗哈斯 数字领袖委员会的主席

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Lauren Laverne’s castaway this week is Jacqueline de Rojas, the President of techUK, the body that represents 900 companies in the technology sector. She is Chair of the Board of Digital Leaders, co-Chair of the Institute of Coding and sits on the government’s Digital Economy Council.

She was born Jacqueline Yu in Kent to a Chinese father and British mother, and moved to Swindon when her mother left the marriage. Jacqueline did well at school, particularly in languages, and went on to take a degree in European Business Studies, spending the first year of her course in Southern Germany. She is fluent in German and French.

She married after university and, despite dreams of becoming a BBC newsreader, she went to work for a tech recruitment company. After two years she moved to work for her largest client, the software company, Synon, using her German to manage the company’s distribution in Germany. She has stayed in the tech industry ever since, primarily working for blue chip software companies. She became Managing Director of Informix in 1999, and her last managing director role was a seven month stint at Sage in 2016.

In 2013 Jacqueline joined the board of techUK, , becoming its President in 2015. A key focus of her tenure has been to make the case for greater diversity in an industry struggling fill the roles that it is creating, particularly in appointing women. She also works as a mentor for a number of organisations and has been an advisor to the Girl Guides since 2016, assisting them in helping to attract girls into STEM subjects.

She was appointed a CBE in 2018 for services to international trade in the technology industry.

BOOK CHOICE: Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
LUXURY: Saxophone
CASTAWAY'S FAVOURITE: Girl on Fire by Alicia Keys



劳伦-拉弗恩本周的弃儿是杰奎琳-德-罗哈斯，她是代表技术部门900家公司的techUK主席。她是数字领袖委员会的主席，编码研究所的联合主席，并且是政府数字经济委员会的成员。

她出生在肯特郡，父亲是中国人，母亲是英国人，当她的母亲离开婚姻后，她搬到了斯温顿。杰奎琳在学校表现良好，特别是在语言方面，并继续攻读欧洲商业研究学位，在课程的第一年在德国南部度过。她能说流利的德语和法语。

她在大学毕业后结婚，尽管梦想成为一名BBC新闻播报员，但她还是去了一家科技招聘公司工作。两年后，她转而为她最大的客户--软件公司Synon工作，用她的德语来管理该公司在德国的销售。此后，她一直在科技行业工作，主要为蓝筹软件公司工作。她在1999年成为Informix的董事总经理，她的最后一个董事总经理职位是在2016年在Sage工作了七个月。

2013年，杰奎琳加入了techUK的董事会，并在2015年成为其主席。她在任期内的一个关键重点是，在一个正在努力填补其创造的角色的行业，特别是在任命女性方面，提出了更大的多样性。她还为一些组织担任导师，并从2016年起担任女童子军的顾问，协助他们帮助吸引女孩进入STEM学科。

她于2018年被任命为CBE，以表彰她对技术行业国际贸易的贡献。

书籍选择。达芙妮-杜穆里埃的《丽贝卡》。
奢侈品：萨克斯风
CASTAWAY的最爱：Alicia Keys的《Girl on Fire》。