Sherry Coutu CBE

As a serial entrepreneur and investor, Sherry has founded and floated  several B2B SaaS companies and made direct angel investments in over 70 technology firms. She is also an LP in five venture capital firms which operate globally.

Sherry serves as the Chairman of Workfinder a technology startup specializing in AI-based upskilling services. She is also a Non-exec Director of the FTSE 100 Company, Pearson plc and the Scaleup Raspberry Pi and a Trustee at the charities Founders4Schools, National Numeracy, and Digital Boost.

Sherry’s previous non-executive director experience encompasses serving on the London Stock Exchange Group boards, the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, Zoopla plc, and RM plc. She has also served on the Advisory Boards of LinkedIn, the National Gallery, the Royal Society, and the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts.

She was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) for services to entrepreneurship in the New Year’s Honours List 2013 and the UK Government commissioned her in 2014 to author the Scaleup Report on UK Economic Growth.