Sherry Coutu Biography

Sherry Coutu CBE is a serial entrepreneur, former CEO, Angel investor and Non-executive director. She became an angel investor in 2000 and since then she has worked with hundreds of entrepreneurs and specialised in consumer internet information services and education. Sherry has made angel investments in more than 50 companies and holds investments in 5 venture capital firms and was voted by TechCrunch as the best CEO mentor / advisor in Europe in 2010. In 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. In 2015 she was voted one of the most inspiring women in Europe and named as one of the most philanthropic entrepreneurs in the UK. In 2014 Sherry authored the Scale-Up Report which was commissioned by the Digital Economy Council which report urged the UK government to support 'scale-ups' and not only 'startups'. In 2015 partnering with Reid Hoffman the co-founder of LinkedIn Sherry launched the Scale Up Institute a non-profit body to support UK businesses to scale up. In 2015 it was reported and later confirmed by Sherry that she would be stopping her angel investing activities and that she intends to put money that she would usually invest in startups towards Founders4Schools.

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