Jo Gambi: Seven Summit World Record Holder
Tuesday, February 7, 2012

Life brings challenges to everyone. Join us at the next AWBS meeting to hear one woman's triumphant story.

Jo was born in the UK in 1969 and grew up with her two brothers in Droitwich in the West Midlands and later in Penn, Buckinghamshire.

From an early age, Jo was involved in various physical pursuits from ballet to skiing to climbing and her family holidays always had an outdoors focus and were often spent sailing on the south coast and hiking in the Lake District.

In addition to the usual school studies, Jo regularly represented her school and competed successfully over many years in both short and long distance running at county and district level.

After 'A' levels, Jo went on to complete a 4 year degree course in Business Management and Clothing at the Metropolitan University of Manchester.

While studying, she used her summer vacations to work and travel abroad, paying for it with her part time jobs she had in term time. During this time, Jo worked for Camp America as a sailing and lifeguard, Operation Raleigh In Kenya on community projects and various community/ church based projects in Bolivia, Greece and Malaysia.

In 1992, Jo joined Marks and Spencer's on their Graduate Management Training Programme and continued on to work for several years in various buying departments throughout both Menswear and Womenswear as a Product Technologist.

In 1997, Jo retrained to be a Physiotherapist, and, in 2000, started working at University College London Hospitals (UCLH), one of the country's leading NHS trusts.

Jo not only brings fascinating and entertaining insights from her experiences as a world class athlete, but her reflections both as a female and a wife are also unique.

We are pleased to present Jo Gambi to the AWBS membership this February.