Candice Arnold

Marketing director at QuantiQ

Career history: EMEA sales and marketing director at OpenSymmetry, managing director at OpenSymmetry; SE EMEA partner manager at Oracle / Sun Microsystems.

Measure of influence: Implemented a social selling marketing strategy which has seen QuantiQ's online follower base more than double over the last year.

Activities to advance women in tech: Works with Founder for Schools which aims to inspire the next generation of workers to become entrepreneurs. This includes speaking at schools.

How significant an issue do you see the lack of women in the UK IT channel?

I'm a firm believer in building a true meritocracy where we push each other to be the best irrespective of gender or creed. This is only possible if we address sensitive issues like the gender pay gap; lack of diversity and the lack of feminine energy in IT.