Jackie Waring
Non-Executive Director
Jackie pioneered Scotland’s first female angel group by founding Investing Women Angels in 2013. Passionate about ‘changing the face of angel investing’ and accelerating investment in female-founded companies she also founded sister company AccelerateHER; helping innovative female entrepreneurs on their journeys to scale, investment and internationalisation.
Jackie is an experienced angel investor; she is leading the development of a fund for female founders in Scotland and is an active NED. She has previously run three companies, been an external policy advisor to government on access to finance for women entrepreneurs and was the first UK Advisory Board Member to the Global Banking Alliance for Women in Washington DC.
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