Elizabeth Varley is the Founder and CEO of TechHub, the global tech startup community. TechHub works with over 750 tech companies all around the world to help them scale. Headquartered in the UK, there are TechHubs in seven cities around the world: London, Madrid, Warsaw, Bangalore, Riga, Bucharest and Swansea. Elizabeth has been selected for Computer Weekly’s UKtech50 top influencers, the Evening Standard’s Silicon 60, the Debrett's 500, Vogue UK’s Generation Tech and Cosmopolitan’s Fierce 40 Under 40, among others. She has been a judge for many technology and business awards and is a sought-after conference speaker around the world.
Previously, she worked with small business advice site Smarta, with Germination on the SHINE unconference for social entrepreneurs, and headed the team for international charity festival Twestival London in 2009-2010. After copywriting, editing and senior content strategy and management roles in her earlier career, she ran editorial and content agency Online Content UK and the community for online content professionals, plus programmed and produced digital and tech-focused events for Chinwag and NMK.
She is committed to supporting the wider technology industry and was one of the founding steering committee members of the DigitalEve women in technology organisation in the UK and was a consultant with e-skills UK on a project to encourage girls to get involved in IT and new media.