Menopause in the City

Kate Muir is a documentary producer and author of the new book Everything You Need to Know About the Menopause (but were too afraid to ask). She recently made Davina McCall Sex, Lies and the Menopause for Channel 4, and is filming a second menopause documentary now. She is also an activist for The Menopause Charity. Previously, she was Chief Film Critic of The Times. 

COO of the femtech start-up Balance-app.com, Gaele is also a Non-executive Director for the National Paralympic Heritage Trust and was previously a board member at Panasonic.

​ After her successful corporate career stretching 20 years, Gaele jumped to run the balance app - founded by Dr Louise Newson - offering free support for perimenopausal and menopausal women globally. With a mission to make menopause support accessible and inclusive, the balance app empowers women with unbiased, evidence-based information to instigate a faster diagnosis and demand themselves access to the appropriate treatment and thrive in their lives.

Eric is a driven senior manager who has a successful track record of bringing together diverse people and business units to bring ideas to fruition that have innovated our industry. He is an active ally and participant in Bloomberg Women's Community events, and a vocal advocate for supporting and elevating diverse talent, leadership, and thought in the workplace.

Geeta has worked in the Financial Services sector for over 14 years, primarily in Consulting and Banking across a number of FTSE 100 companies. She has a strong interest in the Inclusion network (in addition to her normal day job as Head of System and Data Risk Management for Mizuho International).

Geeta feels strongly about Inclusion as it is a state of being valued, respected and supported. She feels that there are a number of systemic barriers to diversity and tackling unconscious biases that limit an individual’s ability to build an inclusive workplace and she is keen to continue to make a difference; to change thinking.

Geeta feels that it is important for everyone, not just individuals participating in the inclusion network to take personal responsibility to be more open minded. In her current capacity as Mizuho International's (London branch) Gender Network Co-Champion (Steering Committee) and Education Stream Lead for Mizuho Cultural Network she has been involved in large event organisation around taboo topics such as mental wellbeing, health topics (such as, menopause, prostate cancer, mental illness) and the race at work awareness campaign.

She is now trying to make some big differences in the organisation including helping to support women at work and those going transition who are going through the menopause.

Karen is a woman with a powerful message to send. A former teacher, she’s a fashion creative, private sewing tutor, stylist, model, content creator and speaker who has been honing her craft for over 40 years.

She lifts the veil on the inevitable and fundamental changes that every woman will go through. She sheds light on coping with the realities of the transition for young women and reminds mature women to own their value and to buck convention, stereotypes and the world’s attempts at erasure. All this with wit and uncompromising truth. Karen is the Founder of Menopause Whilst Black.

Andrea Mosconi is Global Head of Equity,Research and Listed Services Product at Bloomberg LP — the world's most trusted source for connecting decision-makers to a dynamic network of real-time and historical financial data, news, research and analytics. Based in London, Mr. Mosconi oversees business development of the Bloomberg Terminal and key client relationships across the EMEA region. His expertise covers equity derivatives, structured products and convertible bonds.

Mr. Mosconi joined Bloomberg in 2009 as an Equity Derivatives and Structured Products Specialist, and was responsible for its derivatives product development. In 2012, he became Head of Sales for Southern Europe — covering Spain, France, Italy and Portugal. From 2015 he ran the sales group for ASEAN out of Singapore, before taking up his current role in 2018, as head of Sales for EMEA.

Prior to joining Bloomberg, Mr. Mosconi was the Head of Structured and Equity Exotic Options desk at Abaxbank. He started his career as an Equity Derivatives Trader with Unicredit.

Mr. Mosconi graduated from the Università Commerciale 'Luigi Bocconi' with a Bachelor of Arts in Mathematical and Financial Economics.