Kim Spalding, Global Product Director, SMB Ads: Kim leads product management for the SMB and Emerging Market Advertising at Google. She was formerly the COO of HomeJoy, a home services startup. Prior to that, she was the vice president of Operations and vice president of Global Coffee Category for Starbucks. She received her MBA from The Wharton School of Management at the University of Pennsylvania and her bachelor’s from Austin College. From 2002 to 2011, Kim co-founded Seia Wine Cellars, a Seattle winery known for their award-winning Washington Syrah. She also served on the Board of Directors for City Year Seattle, an education-focused non-profit.
At the start of 2019, there were 5.8 million small businesses registered in the UK, accounting for 99.9% of the business population, employing 16.6 million people and generating around half of private sector turnover. But these figures don’t tell the whole story of what small businesses bring to the UK. more»
