“When I first entered the world of work, I completely masked. I pretended I wasn’t autistic. I even tried to look and sound like a man: I used to wear strouser suits and basically go all alpha male” recalls Heather Payne. The experienced CTO and engineer has held IT leadership roles at Avon (CTO), Thomas Cook Group (Group Head of IT) and more recently Sky, where she was director of digital technology at the broadcaster. This year however, she made the leap to founder – setting up Toast91, which aims to make it “simple and easy to access support services for adults and children who are being emotionally, physically or sexually abused” – putting all her rich professional and personal experience into building up the online support platform. Having experienced domestic abuse herself, Toast91 is more than a pet project for Payne – who also continues to do fractional CTO work for enterprise clients. “It’s about hope” she tells The Stack , “if you go to any charity website it is really dark right? You see images of a child cowering in a corner and its doom and gloom. “But if you go to the Toast91 site our logo […]
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Invest The Invisible Impact
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Invest The Invisible Impact
