Irish woman Ciara Clancy has been named the European winner of the Cartier Women's Initiative Awards.
The founder and chief executive of Beats Medical was named laureate for Europe at a ceremony in Deauville, France yesterday evening.
The Cartier Women’s Initiative Awards were created in 2006 by Cartier, the Women’s Forum for the Economy and Society, McKinsey & Company and INSEAD business school to identify, support and encourage projects by women entrepreneurs.
More than 1700 applications from over 100 countries applied to the competition, with 20 finalists shortlisted worldwide.
Ms Clancy worked for several years with sufferers of Parkinson’s, both as a physiotherapist and a volunteer. In 2012, at the age of 22, she launched Beats Medical, a sound wave treatment enabling patients to regain mobility.
Every year, six laureates are chosen, one from Europe, one from North America, one from Latin America, one from Asia-Pacific, on from sub-Saharan Africa and one from the Middle East & North Africa.
