Two of Britain’s most prominent businesswomen have been appointed dames in the Queen’s new year’s honours list.
Natalie Massenet, the founder of Net-a-Porter, and Carolyn McCall, the chief executive of easyJet, will be travelling to Buckingham Palace as will two other new dames — Lin Homer, the chief executive of Revenue & Customs, and Judith Hackitt, a former Exxon and Elementis director, who is chairwoman of the Health and Safety Executive.
Ms Massenet, an American with a British mother, transformed fashion retail with her clothes-selling website set up at the turn of the millennium. She has been chairwoman of the British Fashion Council since 2013.
Since being brought in as easyJet’s boss five years ago, Ms McCall has moved the airline from being simply a