Charly Lester
Co-Founder & CMO
Lumen
Charly Lester is the co-founder and CMO of Lumen, a new dating app especially for over 50s. Lumen is Charly’s third business. Previously she established international awards for the online dating industry, and she is the co-founder of A League of Her Own, a learning platform designed to encourage more women to become entrepreneurs. Charly is the author of two books for entrepreneurs – The Female Entrepreneur and Modern Marketing for Start-Ups – was a guest judge on the final of The Apprentice. She regularly appears on TV, radio and in the press, talking about entrepreneurship, dating and equality. Charly teaches classes in marketing and entrepreneurship for The Guardian newspaper. She is the former Global Head of Dating at Time Out, and began her career in the dating industry as Dating Editor at the Guardian, after her blog ‘30 Dates’ went viral.
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