Theresa Gattung was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2018 Women of Influence Awards. On the eve of the day marking 125 years since women won the right to vote, Gattung celebrated the finalists and remembered the nation's "foremothers" involved in the suffrage movement.

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Going behind the scenes on a project that brought life to the powerful words of Kate Sheppard.

Theresa Gattung was the first female CEO of a major public company in New Zealand.

The future of finance is female — and its generosity is radical. Last month, New Zealand became the first country outside North America to launch SheEO. Gattung, the country's most prominent businesswoman and former chief executive of Telecom, describes it as a "disruptive economic model".

SheEO is a global scheme which seeks 500 women to contribute $1000 each to create a funding pool of half a million dollars. The money is then distributed among five female-led ventures as an interest-free loan.

Gattung, who bought a luxury Wellington waterfront apartment in 2003, said it made sense to put it on the market now, as she shifted to Auckland in 2014 and found herself spending less time in her old abode.

A new incentive aimed at supporting new business ventures by female entrepreneurs, is halfway to its goal by signing up 500 backers. “It’s about signing on to give women a leg up, because its so much harder for women at that stage of their business to get funding.”

Theresa Gattung talks with Corin Dann about SheEO and paying it forward.

She's helped launch an investment vehicle called SheEO, which will offer interest free loans to female-owned companies.

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Visiting San Franscisco in 2015, ex-Telecom CEO and entreprenuer Theresa Gattung was intrigued about an idea promoted by fellow entrepreneur and mentorship expert, Canadian Vicki Saunders, who had created SheEO, described as a "disruptive economic model". Gattung decided to bring the model to New Zealand - the first creation of a SheEO model outside North America - and launched SheEO here in October.