Amy Thomson had just returned to London from her annual trip to India, only to find Heathrow Airport nearly empty as all nonessential travel in England was shutting down due to the coronavirus. "I had no idea what was going on until I got home and was just like, 'Oh, my God,'" says Thomson, 45, the founder and, until February, CEO of management firm ATM Artists. "I'm watching all these people panic-buy toilet rolls, and you’re just like, 'My God, do I have enough toilet rolls?
Do I feed my dog before I feed me?'"As reality sank in, Thomson realized she needed to do something to help her peers whose livelihoods would be besieged by the pandemic.