Valentina is the Director of Growth & Communications at OakNorth, where she has been working directly with its co-founders, Rishi Khosla and Joel Perlman, since June 2015, helping build the brand and community. Prior to this, she spent a handful of years at Lansons where she was an Account Director and where she was awarded the Outstanding Young Communicator Award at the CIPR Excellence Awards. Valentina is a Founding Editorial Board member of the Chartered Institute of Public Relations’ multi award-winning member magazine, INFLUENCE, and a member of Tech London Advocates’ Fintech leadership team.