Q4: Quarterly Business Report

Jude Jennison

Founder, Leaders by Nature

Jude Jennison is the Founder of Leaders by Nature, a leadership and team development company that helps businesses lead rapid growth and disruptive change by empowering and upskilling their leadership team.

Jude’s unusual approach includes working with her herd of horses to transform nonverbal leadership and team behaviours. Her clients include blue chip companies and fastgrowing entrepreneurial businesses.

Jude is a bestselling author of three leadership books and host of the podcast ‘Leading through uncertainty’. Her leadership experience includes 14 years running a business and 17 years in IBM where she managed a budget of $1 billion and led UK, European and global teams.

David Mellor

Head of Growth & Incubation, Mentor in Residence, STEAMhouse

He has over 35 years’ experience in logistics, technology and strategic consultancy and is an experienced angel investor.

An experienced Board Director, he built, then co-led a private equity backed Management Buy Out of a specialist logistics provider, before successfully exiting to a FTSE 250, and integrating, expanding and diversifying the business within the larger entity.

David has opened new markets in rail, nuclear and government services and has delivered logistics support to some of the UK’s largest infrastructure and build projects.

David has also worked in consultancy and angel investment, working with both corporates and early-stage technology businesses, holding executive and non-executive Board Roles in sectors ranging from, Agritech to Sports Technology.

He has taken early-stage businesses from foundation, through funding to successful exit. David is an MBA graduate of the University of Birmingham Business School, has mentored on the Digital Catapult and SuperTechWM Seeds programmes and chaired the Working Group for the WMCA to help launch a new co-investment fund in the region.