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San Francisco, CA, US

San Francisco, California, US

Flourish Labs is a healthcare company on a mission to scale peer support with telehealth, AI and online training to address the youth mental health crisis. We expand the mental health workforce by hiring and training young adults with diverse backgrounds and past experience of mental health challenges to become certified Peer Support Specialists. On.

Berlin, Berlin, DE

Springer Nature is a global publisher of scientific journals including Nature, Scientific American and many Open Access journals. They also own Macmillan Education. www.springernature.com

London, GB

Vitruvian Partners is a growth firm based in Europe, investing globally with a 4B Euro fund. I'm working with the healthcare and tech teams to on deal due diligence and introducing them to US-based founders. Learning a lot about what growth stage investors look for!

London, GB

Serving on the advisory board for Best For You, a new transformative patient-centred model of care in child and adolescent mental health, providing a cohesive, comprehensive and innovative way to care for young people with mental health crises. https://www.cwplus.org.uk/best-for-you/

Arlington, Virginia, US

Selected as inaugural WBL Fellow by the Women Business Leaders of the U.S. Health Care Industry Foundation. The WBL Fellows Program is a yearlong program for 12 female CEOs and founders of healthcare startups to benefit from the expertise and relationship capital of WBL’s powerful community of 1200+ women healthcare executives. www.wblfellows.org.

Selected as a Leaders In Tech Fellow for a year-long founder leadership program based on Stanford GSB's famous 'touchy feely' course. Learning a lot about emotions and relationships to become a better CEO with my t-group tribe! The year is officially over but we are still meeting as a group.

Indianapolis, IN, US

Marathon Health is a leading primary care clinic provider for employers offering onsite and telehealth, leading to better employee health and lower healthcare costs. I served on the board and the compensation committee until the company merged with Everside Health. https://www.marathon-health.com/

The Healthy Brains Global Initiative (HBGI) is a new mental health research initiative initiated by charity OneMind, in partnership with WEF, World Bank and others. The role of the founding interim board was to help set the strategy and governance for the new organisation and appoint a permanent board.

London, UK, GB

Served as advisor to Mental Health team led by Prof Miranda Wolpert. Focus on finding effective, scalable and acceptable ways to prevent, intervene, stop relapse and manage anxiety and depression in young people age 14 to 24.

London, England, GB

Board member of Shift spinout BfB Labs, a social tech startup working on digital therapeutics to improve youth mental health. www.bfb-labs.com

Mountain View, CA, US

X is Alphabet's moonshot factory, inventing and launching moonshot technologies that make the world a radically better place. www.x.companyI joined X (formerly known as Google X) in 2012 when the group was barely 2 years old, as one of its first non-engineering hires. In the past 8 years I've done a range of different roles at X.2021: Special projects for.

New York, US

Served as independent board director of Picasso Labs (now CreativeX), an image analytics startup bringing real, actionable creative insights to marketers and others trying to understand which creative works and why. I was honoured to work with the talented founder Anastasia Leng from starting the company to raising her Series A. https://www.creativex.com/

Mountain View, CA, US

Led consumer marketing team for Europe, Middle East & Africa. Responsible for launching new products and growing usage of Google search, Maps, Chrome, Android, and mobile from 0 to hundreds of millions of users. Led brand initiatives such as privacy and Google Culture.

Mountain View, CA, US

Joined Google shortly after they opened UK office. Responsible for launching and growing Google consumer products and YouTube in the UK.

Akron, Ohio, US

Brought global jewellery retail chain into the ecommerce age. Responsible for UK non-store P&L, channel strategy, online marketing. Hired and led cross-functional team. Drove change in highly risk-adverse culture. Launched H.Samuel ecommerce business in 8 months (ahead of US business). Achieved online sales above plan despite difficult retail climate.

London, GB

Boutique consulting firm specialising in retail. Advised large retailers such as B&Q, BT, Mothercare, Lakeland and market entrants/startups like Bodas on strategy, operations and technology. I focused on on ecommerce/multi-channel retail. Mix of strategy and interim management projects, including a 6 month secondment to British Telecom's direct to consumer.

US

Online retailer of children's products, IdeaLab company, one of the big successes & failures of the dotcom boom of the 1990s. I set up eToys Germany from business plan to full operation, reporting to VP of International, with responsibility for budget, strategy, product and website development, recruiting, property, contracts/legal. Led cross-functional.

Jackson, Wyoming, US

Strategy consulting firm founded by ex-McKinsey partners, later merged into marchFIRST. I focused on Internet strategy projects, e.g. launching the UK's first online bank, online customer acquisition for a European credit card company, venture business plan for a kitchen-based Internet access device for a global technology company. Also led MMG's graduate.

London, GB

Educational marketing agency, then part of Bartle Bogle Hegarty advertising group. I worked on educational projects sponsored by large brands.