The 50 most influential women in UK IT 2016

Sheila Flavell was appointed chief operating officer of IT service firm FDM Group in 2008. She played an integral role in the group’s flotation on AIM in 2005 and was a key instigator of the management buy-out of the group in 2010 and its subsequent float on the main FTSE market in June 2014. Flavell campaigns for promoting women in IT and spearheads FDM’s global women in IT campaign. She won the corporate leader of the year award at the Cisco Everywoman in Technology Awards 2012 and is the driving force behind FDM’s Global Women in IT initiative.