Gill Whitty-Collins

GILL WHITTY-COLLINS spent 26 years with Procter & Gamble, latterly as Vice-President running leading brands such as Olay and Pantene. She was born near Liverpool, to a Scouse Catholic working-class family, as the youngest of three sisters. A love of language and steely determination took Gill to study Modern & Medieval Languages at Selwyn College, Cambridge University. After graduating and with a young son in tow, she joined P&G’s marketing department and quickly progressed through the ranks.

Gill thrived in the highly competitive business environment, until she reached the senior VP level and began to see and experience gender diversity issues as she moved away from the 50:50 split to a 80:20 one (men:women). It was then she began to be affected – and saw others negatively affected and defeated by – gender diversity problems. She now strives to drive gender equality and diversity in business and our society.