WIE Are

WIE Network

WIE Network is a next generation media company that aims to empower a new generation of women leaders through its annual women’s conferences (New York and London), online magazine and social network. Over the years, the WIE Symposium has attracted an incredible lineup of speakers including Sarah Brown, Donna Karan, Arianna Huffington, Queen Rania, Melinda Gates, Diane von Furstenberg, Nancy Pelosi, Jill Biden, Nancy Meyers, Baroness Valerie Amos, Aerin Lauder, Jennifer Buffet, Ted Turner, Lauren Bush, Christy Turlington, Ashley Judd, Iman, Glenda Bailey and Nora Ephron.

WIE Network’s principals are television host and political commentator June Sarpong, and branding expert and former Hollywood movie executive, Dee Poku. According to Sarpong and Poku, the WIE Symposium was created as way of uniting women from different backgrounds. The event engages women from the world’s wealthiest nations in the quest to give a voice to those less fortunate than themselves: “As New York based British women of Ghanaian heritage, we consider ourselves to be citizens of world. And as such our mandate is to unite and empower women everywhere. We all share common goals of wanting to be happy and successful, to have strong families and dynamic careers. And that’s what the WIE Symposium is about, setting aside our differences and uniting behind our common aspirations.”

About the Principals

June Sarpong (Co-Founder and Chief Strategy Officer) is one of the UK’s most exciting young TV personalities and has become one of the most recognizable faces of British television. She has interviewed and introduced some of the world’s biggest names including Nelson Mandela, HRH Prince of Wales, Bill Clinton, Al Gore, Bono and George Clooney.

Dee Poku (Co-Founder and CEO) is a social entrepreneur, marketing consultant and philanthropic strategist. She has developed and implemented innovative campaigns for a cross section of high profile films, non-profits and consumer brands such as Al Gore’s ‘An Inconvenient Truth’ and beauty brand Creme de la Mer.

The White Ribbon Alliance

(L-R: Brigid McConville, Betsy McCallon & Jo Cox)

Brigid McConville

Brigid McConville is Founder and Director of the White Ribbon Alliance UK, and a former White Ribbon Alliance Global Board member. She is an award winning writer, film maker and activist, and is a mother of three.

Betsy McCallon

Betsy McCallon has experience in domestic and international NGO work, focusing on networks, advocacy and policy, and capacity building with specific attention to HIV/AIDS, reproductive health, safe motherhood and gender-based
violence. Ms. McCallon is currently the Safe Motherhood Advisor for the White Ribbon Alliance (WRA) Global Secretariat based in Washington DC. She serves as the primary point of contact for the WRA’s 14 National Alliances and provides technical assistance in capacity building, partnerships, safe motherhood/newborn health, sustainability and advocacy strategies. Ms. McCallon also coordinates the WRA’s national working group on domestic safe motherhood issues, which is currently focused on emergency preparedness.

Jo Cox

Jo Cox is Director of the global Maternal Mortality Campaign and works with the White Ribbon Alliance for Safe Motherhood, leading clinicians, First Ladies, celebrities and a wide variety of health and development experts from around the world to galvanize action to stop mums and babies dying needlessly in pregnancy and childbirth.

Jo previously worked with Oxfam, the international development and humanitarian agency where she launched their European operations, led their global Policy and Advocacy department for 3 years, and ran Oxfam’s international Humanitarian Campaigning from New York. Before joining Oxfam, Jo spent 5 years working in a variety of roles in politics and political campaigning in the UK and Europe.

Jo was educated at Cambridge University, was named in 2009 by the World Economic Forum as one of their Young Global Leaders, is on the Board of the Burma Campaign, loves mountains and is currently 6 months pregnant with her first baby.

Event Producers 2011

Done and Dusted

Done and Dusted are one of the world’s premiere festival, awards, music and events staging and filming specialists.

The founders have been involved in some of the world’s biggest TV events across the globe for example, The Oscars, Superbowl Halftime Show, The MTV VMA’s and EMA’s, The Brit Awards and The Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show to name a few. They have worked with the crème de la crème of the worlds musical artists – The Rolling Stones, U2, Madonna, Justin Timberlake, Peter Gabriel and Christina Aguilera to name a few.

Done and Dusted also stage festivals including the 50,000 capacity T4 On The Beach (5 years), MTV Ibiza (3 years) and their events team launched the Xbox360 in Europe.
Multiple Grammy nominations, multiple Rose D’Or wins and smashing broadcast world records are some of the spikes in their 12 year history. Done and Dusted have offices in New York, LA and London. www.doneanddusted.com