Lilac Watt

Investment Associate

2023 - Current

Analyst

2020 - 2023

Intern

2019 - 2019

Completed a second internship at the VC Investment firm, working alongside the founders to review current and potential investments including: Charlotte Tilbury, Bella Freud, The Vampire's Wife, Cefinn, Get the Gloss.

Intern

2019 - 2019

Intern as part of the planning team in the Barcelona offices. Responsibilities included market research, putting together presentations for clients, translations and putting together documents for specific brand focus groups.

Intern

2019 - 2019

Intern for the Marketing and Communications department of the Burberry Paris offices. Responsibilities included drafting press releases, document translation, communicating with European agencies for magazine shoot coordinations and brand promotion.

Intern

2018 - 2018

Marketing and Social Media intern as part of my year abroad from university. Responsibilities included helping to promote the brand on large social media platforms, translating documents from Spanish into English and vice versa, writing press releases and completing research on similar fashion competitors.

Waitress

2018 - 2018

Waitress at the Electric House in London.

Summer Camp Counselor/Groom

2011 - 2018

Successfully worked as a pony camp counsellor for 7 years. Working 4-8 weeks over the summer holidays, 6 days a week and often 12 hours a day. Responsibilities include managing a group of 5 - 20 children, ranging from 4 to 16 years old and teaching them how to be around and ride horses. Also worked as a full time groom around the barn and away at horse shows.

Intern

2017 - 2017

Interning in Marketing, Finance and HR. Responsibilities included writing blog posts, researching competitor brands and consumer prospectives, using Excel for organising company documents and other HR related data.

Bartender

2016 - 2017

Regular bartender at events throughout the country: serving drinks and processing payments.

Intern

2016 - 2016

Work experience after finishing university. Responsibilities included researching potential and current investment brands, and writing and researching blog posts for Get the Gloss.