We Connect with Ms. Helen McGuire

Helen, launched Hopsotch.work whilst seven months pregnant with a mission to enable professional women to play a part in the workplace, no matter what their personal commitments. The company now has a global reach with a focus on the MENA and APAC regions have grown a community of over 80k working with multinationals to SMEs.

Having moved to the Middle East in 2012 to join Impact Proximity, Helen became Head of Digital Content, successfully growing a team to encompass key client work across the Impact Group regionally and globally. On taking a maternity break to have her first child in 2015, she began to understand the pressures felt by women who wished to work, but were unable to find flexible options to suit their commitments. And so the idea of Hopscotch was born and grew with the help of her husband, Justin McGuire, CEO of MCG & Co Recruitment Group. In 2018, she moved to Singapore to grow their brands throughout Asia.

Helen spent 12 years in London, working in the digital content and broadcast industry, primarily as Radio and Online Producer for many BBC and international programmes. She successfully piloted and presented her own music radio show in 11 countries globally (Join The Dots Radio) from 2009 and DJ’d internationally as a hobby. On moving to Dubai, she was the first female resident DJ at 360 (Jumeirah Beach Hotel).