Octopus Investments, part of the Octopus Group, is an investment company investing in the people, ideas and industries that will change the world. We manage investments for retail and institutional investors, investing the £12.9 billion they have entrusted to us into the areas where we believe we can have the greatest impact. More than 85% of the money we manage is invested in line with one or more of our three investment themes: empowering people, revitalising healthcare and building a sustainable planet.

The UK's first venture fund powering sustainable food systems

An inclusive community of angel investors (women and men) who are passionate about actively investing in and supporting ambitious female founders building companies with global scale.

• Provided strategic oversight and responsibility for design, implementation and review of initiatives, running cross functional teams, drawing on skills sets across the business.• Launched new products, incentivisation schemes, redesigned KPI reporting, fundraising materials and financial modelling.

• Interim lead role with oversight of business operations (finance, legal), commercial operations (invoicing, contracts), supply side (counsellor hiring, availability) and product operations (internal counsellor tools, counsellor user interactions).

• Deep understanding of the VC investment process – sourced, led and executed Series A & B transactions in Europe across health tech, fintech and consumer• Rigorous evaluation of new opportunities, from thesis development, market research, competition review, customer interviews, risk assessment, financial modelling, trend analysis and forecasting, culminating in formal recommendation and presentation to investment committee• Strategic thinking, collaboration, learning and mentoring, KPI monitoring and Board level representation at portfolio companies• Problem solving, defining and executing on systems and processes to enhance scalability and add value to our portfolio• Dependable and organised – take ownership and balance priorities on simultaneous projects with tight timeframes• Active participant in the London start-up community, including on the IC panel at Antler, Diversity VC & Women in AI conference

• Education social enterprise delivering innovative life-skills programmes to young people from low-income and BAME backgrounds, with an emphasis on youth leadership and the performing arts

• Analysis of large scale investment opportunities using a wide variety of research and data analytics and financial modelling• Complex process management - led transaction workstreams including detailed and in-depth due diligence and debt financings• Collaborated with senior management teams, co-ordinated multi-disciplinary advisors and managed junior resources• Experience driving value creation within portfolio companies including monitoring KPIs, operational improvement plans and M&A• Transaction experience included £935m acquisition of Vue in 2013, and subsequent lead role on €130m Cinestar acquisition in 2018 and £813m debt refinancing in 2019; and the €670m acquisition of Trescal in 2017

Retail and consumer sector team. Responsible for a range of tasks across the transaction process including production of presentations; financial modeling; co-ordination of other advisors and general process management.Transactions included: - Acquisitions of Phase Eight, Liberty, Acorn Care & Education, Titan Outdoor UK’s large format Roadside estate, and LK Bennett- Disposals of Office, 1st / The Exchange, Shoe Studio, Principles, and Kurt Geiger- Debt advisory for DFS- Debenture issue for the All England Lawn Tennis Ground- Restructuring of Hobbs and Jane Norman

• Advised design teams regarding manufacturing issues; lean six sigma; designed and documented new product implementation processes; trained production teams; validated new equipment and processes and coordinated trial builds• Design and development of products for manufacture; testing, verification and validation; liaising with internal customers and suppliers in relation to design issues. Listed as an inventor on seven patents