MERIDYTH PARK


HEAD OF MARKETING, CMC INVEST UK


MAKE CAREER PROGRESSION PERSONAL


Fintech is a male-dominated sector. Just 5.6% of CEOs in the industry are women, only 11% of total board members are women, and 19% are company executives, according to the Fintech Diversity Radar 2021, the world’s first global platform gathering progressive data on women in fintech to understand their impact and contribution to the digital economy.


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s head of marketing at CMC Invest UK, Meridyth Park is immersed in the fintech sector. Her mission now is to uplift other women and give them as many opportunities


as possible to progress their careers in the tech and fintech space too. “It's really important that as managers we take care


to champion our team,” she says. “It is not necessarily a male or female trait


to have, it's just that any


manager needs to understand that we're all people and we're all human. We have families and lives outside of work, and it is important to respect and understand that. We spend 40 hours minimum a week in the office or hybrid working together and that is a huge time commitment.” She believes that building a team that works together and keeping morale high is good for everyone.


“It is about enjoying each other and bringing joy into


what we all do. In so many cases, especially in fintech, it's all about the work, but it is also important to take some time and actually think about the health of our teammates and our peers.” Meridyth has had a global career, having worked


at BBDO, Grey, and DMB&B (now Publicis) before entering the financial services world at UBS and Bank of America. In the latter, she led brand strategy for the global corporate and investment bank, as well as Merrill Lynch Wealth Management. “I started off in university in the US thinking I was


going to be a doctor, living my parents’ dream,” she explains. “But I realised it wasn't my passion and being exposed to such a large group of people with more perspectives and even more diversity opened my mind to other possibilities.”


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