Jenny’s background is as an executive in the technology and digital sector.  She was Commercial Head at Google for 7 years, with responsibility for client growth and strategy, led the digital business globally for GSK for 8 years and has built and sold several Digital Technology, Software and Consulting firms.   

Jenny holds executive, non-executive and advisory positions for a range of businesses, including Climate ER (climate-er.com), Gallagher (ajg.com/uk), Equiteq (equiteq.co) and runs growth consultancy (cowderoyconsulting.com) where she specialises in driving ethical, scalable growth, leadership effectiveness and customer success 

Jen is involved with several charities, including as Chair of Trustees at trauma charity Breakthrough (traumabreakthrough.org). 

Mark’s commercial background is in financial services. For 30 years he was with Lloyds Banking Group holding a range of executive roles including CEO of the UK private bank, sitting on the UK retail bank board. He had responsibility for the UK branch network and, reporting to the main board, ran the global group-wide integration programme merging Lloyds Bank and TSB.

He had 2 years on secondment at the Bank of England working on banking supervision during the post BCCI crisis. He has designed and delivered a range of leadership development programmes. On leaving Lloyds in 2009, Mark joined Syndicate Asset Management plc becoming Group CEO.

Mark is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Bankers and a member of the European Mentoring and Coaching Council. He has a BA (Hons) degree in geography, and is a past delegate of the Cabinet Office Top Management Programme.

David started his career with Travis & Arnold Plc on the fast track management development programme. He then entered the commodity trading market as sales director of a global organisation. After which he joined his family business to develop one of the largest catering, hospitaliy, and event management businesses in the UK.

David joined Staples as Sales & Marketing Director, later joining Wace Group Plc, a global pre-press, print and packaging business, where he was responsible for business development. It was here that David  established the marketing services, data and document management BPO genre in the UK. He was involved in selling a large part of Wace Group to private equity.

David saw an opportunity, and in conjunction with a small team , he purchased the remaining Wace Group print divisions. As well as looking for further acquisitions, they formed a joint venture with the Virgin Group. This created an outsourced provider of marketing, print, document and logistical management services – which was then grown and developed prior to sale.

David was part of an entrepreneurial team that purchased Brann Direct Communications and Great Western Computing. The combined business was eventually sold to TripleArc Plc.