Debbie Wosskow

Debbie Wosskow OBE is a multi exit entrepreneur, Chair, Non Executive Director and Business Advisor from Sheffield, UK. She is the former CEO of Love Home Swap, a subscription-based home exchange business, which she sold for $53m to Wyndham Destination Networks in July 2017. Debbie co-founded AllBright, a club and community that celebrates and connects women at work. Wosskow is also an influential advocate of the sharing economy and is the former Chair of Sharing Economy UK.In 2015 she led the independent government review ‘Unlocking the Sharing Economy’ - also known as the Wosskow Report. She is a Member of the Mayor of London's Business Advisory Board and sits on the Board of the Women’s Fiction Prize. In 2016, she was awarded an OBE for services to business. Quotes There’s a huge question for entrepreneurs when they’re raising funds as to whether they take ‘strategic money’ – that is money from a corporate that has an interest in your business, either because of what your business does or doesn’t do, or whether it takes them into a new area. But I had that decision very much baked into the growth journey.” It isn’t signed until the day it’s signed. There’s technical stuff that can really trip you up and the devil is in the detail. I’ve made mistakes when I’ve been in a rush – and I make a lot fewer now. You need someone at your elbow saying ‘don’t sign that, it’s not right This wasn’t my first rodeo; I’d had other exits.” Previously, she’d co-founded and sold PR group Mantra for several million in 2007, and went on to co-found and exit Maidthorn Partners before starting Love Home Swap in 2011. There might be all sorts of obstacles, there might be legal documents you’re not aware of. That’s why having good advisors around who’ve been through this a number of times is invaluable.” External links Category:Living people Category:entrepreneurs Category:Businesswomen from the United Kingdom