Silka Patel is a strategic marketing expert with 22 years experience of working within the technology industry and is the Social Value Manager at Leidos UK. Silka set up Scotland Women in Technology which is now in its 15th year, championing women in the technology sector.

Silka has a number of external roles including as a Non-Executive Director at the Glasgow Women’s Library which she has held for 11 years, Non-Executive Director at Technology Scotland and a member of Changing the Chemistry which seeks to improve board effectiveness and quality through the diversity of thought.

She is a keen supporter of women in technology and mentors STEM graduates and apprentices so they can be involved in the life changing opportunities that the sector offers.

Married and a mother of two boys, she enjoys Pilates and cooking whilst juggling life and would have it no other way!