The successful FTSE 100 Cross-Company Mentoring Programme this month (October) morphed into the Mentoring Foundation, a not-for-profit organisation headed up by the programme’s original founder, Peninah Thomson. Thomson said: “The Programme’s success, its recent extension to cover FTSE 350 companies, and the increased demand for female directors following the publication of the Davies report earlier this year, oblige us to step up a gear and establish the Programme on an independent footing.” The Davies report recommended, amongst other things, that chairmen of FTSE 350 companies...