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Sandra Budimir

Sandra’s unusual childhood holidays in the midst of the Balkan wars in Croatia left her with a distinct leaning towards the military. “When I was little I wanted to be a soldier and with hindsight I wish I’d gone to St Cyr [France’s army officer training instituion],” she says. Co-founder of Starburst Accelerator, the world’s leading … entirely dedicated to start-ups in the defence and aerospace sectors and mother of a little girl, she regrets that “my schedule leaves me no time to be in the reserve force….

Béatrice Nicolas-Meunier

I don't fit into any pre-conceived boxes,” laughs this athletic woman (she runs half-marathons) who currently holds a job at France's Naval Group that she invented herself: Managing Director, Collaborative Innovation and R&D Programmes. She started bucking the trend early on. At school Béatrice's teachers pushed her into doing biology rather than the physics and chemistry she loved, probably because it was considered more suitable for a girl. So she dutifully passed her Bac D (science with a biology major) school-leaving exam and started studying biology at university…