Alicia Shepherd

Head of sales at Entatech

Career history: Head of retail at Entatech; head of retail at CMS Computers; UK channel manager at Acer.

Measure of influence: Responsible for the 22-strong sales division at Entatech, delivering £100m.

Who is your career mentor?

I have been fortunate to have worked for various organisations where different culture exists, this has given me the opportunity to work with very different people all of whom have shaped my career in some way. To name just one person would be unfair but the man that ultimately gave me the chance to work in IT was Mike Sollitt the sales director of Micro-P back in the 90s.