Theme: Refraction

Just like how the direction of light changes when refracted, we aim to explore how different environments and experiences can change and shape people's perspectives, experiences, and values.

UWC South East Asia (Dover Campus)
1207 Dover Road
Singapore, South West, 139654
Singapore

Hester Spiegel

Founding and Managing Partner of Epic Angels, author

Hester Spiegel is an entrepreneur and investor, author and speaker, and mum of two boys. She is Founding and Managing Partner of Epic Angels, the largest all-female angel investor collective investing in women-led startups and author of ‘Thinking Big and Small: a guide to activating your entrepreneurial mindset’. By moving between countries, industries, professional and private roles in life, Hester has reinvented herself multiple times. Before starting her own companies, she had more than 15 years with PricewaterhouseCoopers and Deutsche Bank in Amsterdam, London and Frankfurt. Hester pivoted her career and brought the modern education system and coding school ‘42’ to Germany, before launching Epic Angels and Ladies who Launch in APAC, creating access for women to become change makers through allocating time and capital. Adding perspectives by changing views regularly has shaped Hester's view on life and work and everything that is possible in it.