Motivating Females with her Entrepreneurial Skills, Andrea Sommer

Andrea Sommer is the Founder and Business Lead of UvvaLabs, a female-founded technology firm that employs artificial intelligence to assist businesses to make better decisions that result in more diverse and accessible workforces.

Andrea is a global expert in technology, operations, strategic growth initiatives, and marketing who has worked as an entrepreneur, general manager, and strategist. She graduated from Reed College with a bachelor’s degree and an MBA from London Business School.

She established Hiver in 2015, a women-founded, majority-women technology firm that helped event marketers analyze and enhance participation at their events by allowing networkers to recall the names of every contact they met, prior to starting UvvaLabs. She was Director of Strategic Initiatives Europe at Avanade, a joint venture between Accenture and IBM, before joining Hiver. She also worked as a consultant for Microsoft in the United States, South America, and Europe.

She is enthusiastic about technology and entrepreneurship, as well as increasing the number of women in both fields, from entry-level to board-level positions. Andrea has given talks on technology, the mobile sector, entrepreneurship, raising start-up capital, investing, being a female founder, and women in technology at a number of conferences.
Due to her outstanding achievements, Andrea has been featured in many global publications such as Financial Times, Forbes, Medium, and Thrive Global, as well as the books The MBA Entrepreneur and The Start-Up Mum.