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Fiona Scott Lazareff - Techpreneurs Awards for Women
Fiona Scott Lazareff is an entrepreneur, publisher, writer, sportswoman and pilot. She is editor-in-chief of divento.com, a website devoted to European culture launched by Vivendi Universal in 2001.
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- Fiona Scott Lazareff Techpreneurs Awards for Women
- Career
- Personal life
- Other activities
- Publications
- References
Career
Fiona Scott Lazareff began her career in the City (1978-1985) where she launched with Peter Scott "International Portfolio Strategy".
At 32 she moved to Paris where she raised €650,000 (3,2MF) from financial institutions to create Mediatime France SA and to launch the lifestyle magazine Boulevard.
In 1992 and 1995 a Japanese and a Chinese version were launched.
Boulevard magazine attracted well-known contributors such as Emmanuel de Brantes, CZ Guest, Yves Pozzo di Borgo, Édouard Carmignac, and talented writers and photographers such as Lucy Yeomans, Diana Geddes, Stephanie Theobald and Lyu Hanabusa.
In September 1991, as editor-in-chief of Boulevard, Scott Lazareff organized the French version of the Barclay dress show at the Hôtel Crillon, turning Boulevard's annual fashion shoot of young eligible girls dressed in Haute Couture into a live event. She was inspired by the Berkeley Dress Show of London, but she added a modern twist by including Alison Grade, the daughter of Michael Grade and Justine Lévy, daughter of Bernard-Henri Lévy, to a list of young French girls from French aristocratic families. Today le Bal des débutantes at the Hôtel Crillon is a major annual international fashion and social event .
Personal life
The mother of five children, Fiona Scott-Lazareff launched the Children's Learning Centre in Paris in September 2000, committed to promoting bilingualism at an early age in children.
She is married to Alexandre Lazareff, and is Champion de France 2010, 2011 and 2012 in side saddle.
She is a Pilot (aircraft), carrying out her first solo flight in Palm beach on 18 December 1982 and gaining her pilot's license on 12 February 1983.
In December 2016 Fiona Scott Lazareff lost her son, Nicolas in Moscow when he was drugged and robbed and dumped in a remote suburb of the city. It was 15° and he died of hypothermia. The Lazareff family were offered no help form the British Embassy in Moscow or in London in their search for Nicolas. As a result Fiona Scott Lazareff started an investigation into the way the FOS reacts to a crisis.
Fiona Scott Lazareff also started a campaign to raise awareness of the importance of the IMEI on mobile devices. Both from the point of view of finding people who go missing and wiping out crime associated with the theft of mobile devices.
Other activities
She is on the Committee of the University Women's Club, and in March 2014 she launched The University Women's Club Techpreneurs Awards to encourage women to found internet or tech-related start ups, as well as to recognise the work of women who have already made a career in technology. The panel of well-known judges of the first edition of the Techpreneur Awards included Mandeep Singh, co-founder of streethub.com, Debbie Wosskow, founder and chief executive of lovehomeswap.com, Elizabeth Varley, co-founder and chief executive of techhub.com, and Bindi Karia, vice-president accelerator for Silicon Valley Bank. The second edition, sponsored by Baron Marks of Henley-on-Thames, took place at the House of Commons on 10 December 2015.