Mandy is an innovation consultant who has built various acceleration and incubation programmes across the UK. She has coached and helped raise investment for over 200 startups in various sectors such as FMCG, Fintech, Cleantech, biotech and more. Her core skills are strategic growth, investment readiness, investment execution, and operational management. Startups that she has supported have raised over 15M in pre-series A investment and turned over 20 million-plus.

She is a venture scout at Ada ventures, a 30M seed-stage fund investing in underrepresented founders.  Mandy also sits on the UK Department of Business and Industrial Strategy’s SME Engagement Group.

This group regularly meets with Ministers and has provided strategic support to the Government in formulating business support policy during Covid-19 and beyond.