Following Her Own Advice; Saturday Interview; Mary Campbell After Years in High Finance, Helping Start-Ups, the Desire to Go It Alone Won Out, Hears Mark Williamson
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Mary Campbell is all energetic good humour when we meet, until a question about the challenges she faced as a female native of the Highlands penetrating the male-dominated world of high finance in Edinburgh provokes some bemusement.
In a life that has taken her from Barra to the upper reaches of the corporate finance community, being a woman has not been an issue for Campbell, to whom nature dealt a much tougher challenge from an early age than any based on sex alone.See the full content of this document
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Following Her Own Advice; Saturday Interview; Mary Campbell After Years in High Finance, Helping Start-Ups, the Desire to Go It Alone Won Out, Hears Mark Williamson
"In an age when kids were generally well I was a very, very severe asthmatic," explains Campbell. Renowned for her love of Barra from where her parents hail, the 45-year-old Gaelic speaker was forced to spend much of her childhood staying close to Glasgow's Southern General hospital as a result.
Besides the bouts of acute discomfort which are a feature of the lung condition, living with asthma requir...See the full content of this document
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