Hollie Whittles is an award winning TEDx speaker, author and Director of two digital companies – Purple Frog Systems and FraggleWorks. She is also the National Policy Skills champion for the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB). Spending more than 7000 hours speaking to audiences across the UK and internationally, she has helped hundreds of businesses to digitally transform.   In 2023, Hollie was nominated as a finalist in 2 categories of the Digital Women awards being held in October. In 2021, she was a finalist in the CompTIA UK Spotlight Awards for her work in the UK Business Technology Community by CompTIA. In 2020, she was named as one of the top 40 Women in Tech by Digital Women and won the national WomanWho awards in the business networking category. She was presented with a certificate from the British Computer Society for her work in the UK digital industry in 2018. In 2014, Hollie was voted one of the Top 50 Women in Tech by PCR Online and was Woman of the Year finalist.