Dee Poku

Activist, Entrepreneur

Named one of Marie Claire Magazine’s 50 Women Changing the World, Dee Poku is the founder of The WIE Suite, is a knowledge platform and community for leading women, designed to help them strengthen their careers and leverage and monetize their expertise. Having formerly held senior roles at Paramount Pictures and Focus Features, Dee pivoted to entrepreneurship when she realized there weren’t enough safe spaces and resources for women to accelerate their careers and learn from each other in a way that was constructive. With The WIE Suite, Dee envisions a bold new network where women can explore, connect, learn, and most importantly, push themselves—and each other—to reach further and redefine what’s possible for women everywhere. Over the years, Dee has attracted numerous business and cultural leaders to her global gatherings, including Queen Rania, Melinda Gates, Mellody Hobson, Aileen Lee, Naomi Campbell, Arianna Huffington, Thasunda Duckett, Diane von Furstenberg, Nancy Pelosi, Katia Beauchamp, Jill Biden, Jennifer Hyman, Alek Wek, Lauren Bush, Iman, Rosario Dawson and Christy Turlington. As a Hollywood studio executive, she worked with the likes of Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt, Samuel L Jackson, Reese Witherspoon, Scarlett Johansson, Bill Murray, Emily Blunt and Taraji P Henson on numerous award-winning films including Al Gore’s ‘An Inconvenient Truth’; the Coen brothers’ ‘No Country For Old Men’ & ‘O Brother Where Art Thou’; Sofia Coppola’s 'Lost in Translation', Alejandro González Iñárritu’s ‘Babel’ & ’21 Grams’ and Ang Lee’s 'Brokeback Mountain'. Dee serves on the Board of Directors of the British Academy of Film & Television (BAFTA) and the Brooklyn Bridge Conservancy, and was previously on the Credit Suisse New Markets Women’s Advisory Board. She is also an advisor to Girl Gaze, Paint Box, The Female Founders Collective and The Wonder. She also serves as a contributor to Forbes Women.

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