Pippa Bartolotti

Pippa Bartolotti (13 August 1953, Cornwall) has been principal spokesperson ('leader') for the Wales Green Party since January 2012, after standing as the Green Party's parliamentary candidate for Newport West in the 2010 general election.
Career
Bartolotti started in the London fashion business, with a company Hayward Fashions set up by her husband (Mark Hayward) from 1975-86.
Bartolotti wrote ) to supply security equipment (*); Bartolotti joined as director/manager in .
In her time as manager until 1997, Encrypta failed to file annual reports. She and her husband also became directors of Toucan Systems until their sudden departure in 2002. Encrypta went bankrupt in 2002, when Mark Hayward joined UNISTO, heading a section Unisto Encrypta Products supplying electronic seals. Bartolotti remained as director of Toucan Systems Ltd till May 2003. She continued with a further company, L'Aviva - nominally in mobility equipment - which turned over only £5,000 in two years trading in its ten years, until dissolved in 2008. She also made a foray into entertainment, appearing in a TV series of 'Come Dine with Me'[http://www.channel4.com/programmes/come-dine-with-me/episode-guide/series-25/ (Episodes 46-50)].
Politics
Pippa Bartolotti entered UK politics in 2009 joining the Wales Green Party, part of the Green Party of England and Wales and was coopted as deputy leader in 2011. She stood for the party at Newport West in the 2010 UK General Election getting 1.1% of the vote, in the 2011 National Assembly of Wales Election in South Wales East where the Green Party got 3% and in the 2012 Welsh Local Government Elections when she got 4.33% of the vote.
She was a candidate for the 2012 Green Party leadership election in September 2012 for which she came last out of 4 candidates with 389 first preference votes equating to 12.62% of the first preference votes.

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