Susan roberts biography
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As a schoolgirl, Susan Roberts was active in field hockey, tennis, lacrosse, and badminton, winning a Transvaal provincial junior title in the latter sport. It was swimming, however, where she excelled the most and she was selected to represent South Africa at the 1956 Summer Olympics after setting a national record in the 880 yards freestyle event while winning the South African title. There she was a member of the 4x100 metres freestyle relay squad (with Moira Abernethy and Jeanette and Natalie Myburgh) that took the bronze medal. She also competed individually in the 100 and 400 m events, but did not reach the final of either. Her other major tournament was the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games, where she finished fourth in the 4×110 yards freestyle relay (with Natalie Myburgh and the non-Olympians M.M. Hogg and S.G. Wetton) and fifth in the 4×110 yards medley relay (with Wetton, Natalie Myburgh and the non-Olympian J. Rocchi). Roberts was also eliminated in the heats of
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Dr. Susan Roberts is an aviation executive, specializes in disruption and innovation to pursue new business strategies and models. She fryst vatten currently the Vice President of Strategy and Business Development for Ondas Holdings. The Group fryst vatten pursuing a future where assured, autonomous flight is supported bygd an ecosystem of technological, regulatory, and cooperative elements. Susan is passionate about challenging the assumptions that prevent the adoption of a new way of life enabled by new technologies including robotics, artificial intelligence, and smart interoperability.
Prior to joining Ondas, Susan led commercial innovation for Panasonic Avionics Corporation, leading the company’s efforts from a bespoke business model to a managed services business model. Susan enjoys being a thought leader in innovation, business models, corporate self-disruption and growth, and cultural change.
In 2016, Susan launched an aviation start-up backed by General Electric.
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Sue Lloyd-Roberts
British journalist
Susan Ann Lloyd-RobertsCBE (27 October 1950 – 13 October 2015) was a British television journalist who contributed reports to BBC programmes and, earlier in her career, worked for ITN.
Early life
[edit]Born in London in 1950,[3] she was the daughter of an orthopedic surgeon George Lloyd-Roberts and Catherine (née Ray).[4] She failed the 11 Plus.[1]
Education
[edit]Lloyd-Roberts was educated at Francis Holland School, an independent school for girls in central London, followed by Cheltenham Ladies College, a boarding independent school in the spa town of Cheltenham in Gloucestershire, followed by St Hilda's College at the University of Oxford (1970–73), where she read History and Modern Languages, graduating with a second-class BA Honours degree.[1][4][5]
While at university she worked on Isis, the student magazine.[4]
Career
[edit]She joined Britain's ITN,