Kara Thurkettle
Subcommittee Leader - Diversity
Kara Thurkettle is an in-house Senior Marketing Consultant at Coderus, an app and software development company based in Ipswich, Suffolk in the United Kingdom. At Coderus, Kara is in charge of managing the company’s SEO, PR and content marketing strategies and leading the development team on website improvements. As a neurodivergent bilingual woman at Coderus, she is also working alongside Coderus’ HR team and local organisations to improve diversity and inclusion in the workplace and the tech industry overall.
She is also the CEO of Stress Buddy Limited, a mental health technology start-up she began in 2019 after winning Innovate Suffolk’s Mental Health Hackathon. Kara is also the Innovation Award Winner for the 2020 DevelopHER Awards and a Girlguiding Leader. Besides this, she’s leading Coderus’ Marketing Partnership with Adastral Women in Tech at Adastral Park and was a mentor in the Women in Tech SEO 2020 Mentor Programme.
Specialities:
SEO Strategy/Consulting | Mentorship & Motivational Coaching | Culture Transformation | CSR Strategy