S3 Episode 10: Dr Rebecca Allam, CEO and Co-founder, PreActiv

In this episode, CMS Senior Associate Caroline Walker speaks to Dr Rebecca Allam, CEO and Co-founder of PreActiv about her journey from being a senior NHS doctor to become a health tech startup co-founder, creating a wider impact on patient pre-surgery optimisation and post-surgery outcomes. They discuss: The motivation behind setting up a tech startup that will create a wider impact on patient outcomes and supporting the NHS How a “never give-up” mindset especially when it comes to fundraising can help you...

In this episode, CMS Senior Associate Caroline Walker speaks to Dr Rebecca Allam, CEO and Co-founder of PreActiv about her journey from being a senior NHS doctor to become a health tech startup co-founder, creating a wider impact on patient pre-surgery optimisation and post-surgery outcomes.

They discuss:

• The motivation behind setting up a tech startup that will create a wider impact on patient outcomes and supporting the NHS
• How a “never give-up” mindset especially when it comes to fundraising can help you find the right “angels” and backers for your business
• The conscious choice of being a mother, a professional and a co-founder of a new tech company.
• Having at least 50% women in the company and continue to support mothers in the workplace.

You can find this episode and all previous episodes here, or on your usual podcast channel.

About the Talking to #LeadHers series

​​​​Talking to #LeadHers is a podcast series featuring inspirational founders from the CMS equIP programme and aims to extend the conversation around female entrepreneurship.

In each episode we focus on the actions that we can each take to drive change and promote diversity.

Each episode is chaired by a member of the CMS equIP accelerator programme and provides an in-depth view of the entrepreneurial journey. ​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

The #LeadHers campaign was established back in April 2019, in response to findings that, compared with male counterparts, female entrepreneurs face additional challenges when founding start-ups.

Find out more about #LeadHers