Mrs Lopa Patel MBE FCIM, FIDM, FRSA

Lopa Patel is a digital media entrepreneur and founder of the online South Asian Lifestyle portal Redhotcurry.com and ecommerce website TheRedhotshop.com. She is an experienced marketing consultant who previously set up the direct marketing services company DMS Direct Ltd, where she worked with international companies, charities and not-for-profit organisations, marketing agencies and SMEs in a broad range of industry sectors. She is a Chartered Marketer and Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM), the Institute of Direct Marketing (IDM) and the Royal Society for the Arts (RSA).

Lopa is currently a Non-Executive Director of EMBG (Ethnic Minority Business Group); a Board Member of social enterprise venture TSBC; a Board Member & Trustee of Tamasha Theatre Company and a Trustee of educational charity Raha International. She is also a Technology Ambassador for STEMNET, helping to encourage girls to take up Science careers. She was previously a Non-Executive Director of Becta (British Education Communications and Technology Agency) and a Mentor for Young Enterprise UK, assisting girls on the national entrepreneurship programme.

Her strong record of achievement has been recognised throughout the industry via numerous accolades including being voted 'Asian Woman of the Year' in 2005 (Media category) and she was recognised with an MBE for services to the creative industries in 2009.

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