BUSINESS WOMAN OF THE YEAR

KARREN BRADY

 TO VISIT COUNTY GROUND

Business Woman of the Year, Karren Brady has been 'hired' by Northants Cricket . . . to host a business networking event in the spring.

The former Chief Executive of Birmingham City Football Club, who becomes Sir Alan Sugar's right hand woman in the next series of 'The Apprentice', will address business leaders at a County Ground luncheon on April 9th.

Brady is a highly-acclaimed motivational speaker and has won many accolades for a remarkable success story which transformed the Blues from a club in administration to one which has a stock market value of £60 million today.

Northants Cricket's Commercial Director Perry Deakin said: "Karren Brady is passionate, straight-talking and delivers a personal account of how she built up her company and became such a big influence upon others.

"She gives a deep insight into how she has succeeded in a man's world and shares funny anecdotes while also offering practical and inspirational advice to companies and individuals on how to prosper in a competitive world."

After confirming that she will visit the County Ground, Brady commented: "I am thrilled to be invited to the County Ground and I am really looking forward to meeting some old friends and making lots of new ones too."

Among her many accolades, Brady was the youngest Chief Executive of a Premier League Football Club and the youngest Chief Executive of a UK Plc.  Voted one of the 100 most powerful businesswomen in the world by Cosmopolitan, while she was also named Business Woman of the Year in October 2007 and was presented with the coveted Everywoman Award at the NatWest Everywoman Awards in 2008.

Although she has recently stepped down from her post at Birmingham City, Karren  holds many other influential roles in both the business and sporting worlds and is a non-Executive Board Director of Mothercare PLC, Channel Four and Sport England, Chairman of Kerrang, and leads the Advisory panel of England's 2018 World Cup bid. 

Brady has attracted much media attention throughout her career from being the topic of documentaries to presenting Loose Women and Live Talk on ITV.

She also writes hard-hitting columns in The Sun, Guardian, Birmingham Evening Mail newspapers as well as four books.

It was following her appearance as an interrogator on the popular BBC show The Apprentice that Sir Alan Sugar said 'you're hired' to work as his right hand woman in the sixth BBC series which will be screened in the New Year.