Therese Stowell

After graduating with honours in Computer Science from Brown University, Therese joined Microsoft, working in the operating systems division as a programmer. During that time, Therese worked as part of the first Windows NT team, writing the command line environment singlehandedly. She also worked as a UX designer and Programme Manager as well as founding Hoppers, the women’s group at Microsoft, in 1990.

After being headhunted, Therese ran a software team at Sony Research Labs. Following this role, she later spent time at Hitachi.

Following the birth of her son, Therese combined her long-held programming and design skills by retraining in web development and running her own consultancy for 9 years. Being deeply concerned about the environment, she became involved in a number of local food initiatives - creating a weekly vegetable delivery social enterprise which used a network of farms to supply Londoners with fresh, locally sourced produce.

Therese then moved back into tech, taking product management roles at two startups: one of which, FoodTrade, won the £40K Nesta ODI Food Challenge.

Therese joined Pivotal Labs in March 2016, having been attracted by the culture, the product, and the engineering rigour.