In the third of our profiles of our amazing investors, Adzuna is delighted to announce a new investor and partner – and one we are pretty delighted to have on board, at that – none other than Sherry Coutu CBE.
Introducing Sherry Coutu CBE
Sherry Coutu is a former CEO and angel investor with a wealth of experience across a range of companies, charities and universities. She chairs Founders4Schools and is a Non-Executive Director of Zoopla and the London Stock Exchange Group amongst others, and has served on the Advisory Board of LinkedIn.
As an angel investor, she works with entrepreneurs to solve problems that matter and specialises in consumer internet, information services and education. For this she has been referred to as a corporate Sherlock Holmes of the startup world. As a result of her sleuthing, she has now made angel investments in more than 50 companies and currently holds investments in 4 venture capital firms.
Amongst her wealth of accolades, she was voted by TechCrunch as the best CEO mentor / advisor in Europe in Nov 2010. In May 2011, she was voted by Wired magazine as one of the top 25 ‘most influential people in the wired world’, and one of the top ten most influential investors and women.
Philanthropically, she supports the Prince’s Trust, the Crick Institute and serves on the Harvard Business School European Advisory Council. Sherry has an MBA from Harvard, and degrees from the London School of Economics and University of British Columbia. She was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) for services to entrepreneurship in the New Year’s Honours List 2013.
Doug Monro, co-founder of Adzuna, commented: “Dubbed ‘one of this country’s most active and respected entrepreneurs and investors’ by the Sunday Times, Sherry is an amazing role model to have involved at Adzuna as we drive our business to the next level. It’s pretty exciting to be supported by one of the top 25 ‘most influential people in the wired world’, The whole team are thrilled at the opportunity to benefit from her wisdom, advice and ideas.”
Interested in investing alongside Sherry? Find out how here: http://bit.ly/1AJZKei
Tune into the Adzuna blog all this week to hear some more insights from our current investors.
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