Virgin Mobile

I had a partnership with an Australian company that wanted to run with my creatives.

I had Virgin Mobile at the time.

There was a Virgin Mobile interested in partnering with me.

And then, lo and behold, the iPhone came out and totally disrupted that industry.

Changed

use?

Yes, I'm on Virgin Mobile, which is due.

What are you? Due.

So we're all due.

That was the first shit we got.

Virgin Mobile pay-to-text.

I think our third year of college, something like that.

We would send that text.

They were, they were really good to me and they got me Apple deals.

They even caught me on a Virgin mobile app.

plane where they were like Virgin mobile was like doing like this.

We're doing audio books on planes or not audio books, but print books on planes and had gotten me a deal to have some of my books on there.

They did a pre-order deal with Amazon that allowed, you know, like I had, which is really hard for me mind, mind you to have a book done three months ahead of time.

That was the first shit we got.

Virgin Mobile pay-to-text.

I think our third year of college, something like that.

We would send that text.

That was the first shit we got.

Virgin Mobile pay-to-text.

I think our third year of college, something like that.

We would send that text.

It's not like a new network.

If you remember in South Africa, we used to have the Virgin Mobiles, all these, they call them mobile virtual network operators, which means...

They are not going to set up their own infrastructure.

They're going to use the infrastructure of other companies.

That's for Bombardier.

That's for Virgin Mobile or TELUS or whatever the big companies and that have big departments that can apply for this.

It would cost her so much money just to apply to get this assistance that it's hardly worth it.

And the assistance is a pittance.

I'm passionate about helping everyone find their purpose and be the best leader that they can be.

My own career has taken a non-linear path across sectors, from consulting at McKinsey after studying philosophy, politics and economics at Oxford, to holding 10 roles in 12 years at The Virgin Group, including CEO of Virgin Mobile in South Africa.

I've also worked in the nonprofit space, helping to launch and lead the Carbon War Room with Sir Richard Branson, and have served as a government advisor on both sides of the Atlantic, in the UK government as chair of the Energy Efficiency Deployment Office, and in the USA advising the Loan Programs Office of the US Department of Energy.

I try to volunteer both at the global level, such as with the UN High Level Champions Race to Zero campaign, and locally on the board of the sustainability charity in Westport, my hometown in Connecticut, USA.