Jayne-Anne Gadhia

"People have certainly joked that I have a way with bearded billionaires"

"But I think Branson and Benioff have a lot in common: neither take no for an answer, both are clear on their vision, and both are extremely passionate about creating business with purpose. That’s something that really resonates with me"

"I always thought I’d much rather run a business than criticise one"

"I honestly didn’t know that much about Salesforce. I hadn’t actively applied for the job and I wouldn’t have taken it had I not felt fully aligned with Marc’s vision and values"

"My 17-year-old daughter would tell you that I can’t even sort out my social media accounts and here I am trying to run a tech company,"

"I found it very difficult actually"

"Virgin Money was my baby. I devoted 25 years of my life to it. I’d set it up from scratch, stayed with it and made lots of personal sacrifices. When it came time to sell the business, that was definitely the right thing to do."

"But as the CEO, you are right in the thick of getting the deal closed to the very, very end. Then you sort of fall out of the business and think gosh, now I need to think about myself."

"There’s an awful lot of headhunters that give people career advice as they move into professional life. There’s not very many that give people advice on the way out."

"There’s a small bunch of us that are my sort of age, who’ve held senior jobs in the City and we’ve all headed to a change of job or retirement and experienced a sudden feeling of ‘gosh, life went really quickly, what do I do next and how do I do it?"