Angela Mulder was born in Driehuis, the Netherlands. After graduating she moved to Rotterdam to study Law at Erasmus University. She then moved to Amsterdam for her first job at Coster Diamonds, where she picked up valuable knowledge in the Diamond Industry. In 2006 Angela started her own company in Diamond Setting. As most of her customers were based in the UK, Angela moved to the UK in 2012, expanding her business in diamond settings, loose diamonds, jewellery and high-end watches.
1) Which place or city or country do you most feel at home in?
Feeling “at home” for me is not connected with a place or country but is based on where the people are who are close to my heart, which currently is Delft in the Netherlands and London, UK.
2) What are your proudest achievements?
My proudest achievement is in a business on a trade level mainly dominated by men having found my place being a woman.
3) What inspires you?
What is always inspirational to me is people achieving their ambitions while coming from an underprivileged background.
4) What has been biggest obstacle in your career?
The obstacle in my career has been jealousy encountered by competitors in the business who don’t carry the same values in life.
5) Who has been the biggest influence on your career to date?
My father, putting me on the path of the diamond trade and gave me a free outlook on life.
6) What is the best aspect about your current role?
Freedom and contact with a very diverse group of people.
7) And the worst?
Risk comes along in dealing with high-value items.
8) What are your long term goals?
Making my new business venture a success is developing an ultra-luxury range of dog accessories diamond-encrusted.
9) If you were Prime Minister, what one aspect would you change?
Being from the Netherlands where there is no private education, and any education is open to anyone in society I would like to think the division of private and public schools sets of a class division early in life which I see as unwanted.
10) If you were marooned on a desert island, which historical figure would you like to spend your time with and why.
Leonardo da Vinci….as a uomo universale, Painter, sculptor, architect, designer, theorist, engineer and scientist he is great inspiration, his achievements in so many different fields are truly exceptional.
