As Chair of Investing Women Angels, Lucy brings 25+ years’ experience shaping and scaling Fast Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) brands, including for AG Barr and Heineken. In her professional roles she has an impressive track record of setting strategic direction, delivering results, and securing sustainable growth. Lucy has also held a Non-Executive Director role for national social care charity, Cornerstone.
Elizabeth Pirrie is CEO and Owner of AccelerateHER, working to amplify the growth, backing and visibility of ambitious female founders across the UK. A former Finance Director, she brings more than a decade of hands-on experience working with founders and now works across both sides of the investment table, with founders, investors, government and business leaders. Elizabeth believes it isn’t the founder who needs fixing. Backing female founders is not a social obligation. It is an economic opportunity.
Nicki has over 15 years of experience in senior operations and IT leadership roles across industries like aviation, facilities management, and healthcare. For the past decade, she’s focused on the start-up and scale-up space, starting off with working in several start-ups, then transitioning to helping founders get investment-ready, plan and build software products, and set up solid operational and financial foundations for growth. She’s supported founders through everything from refining business plans and financial models to pitching for funding and navigating investor conversations.
Now an angel investor and Chief Operating Officer of Investing Women Angels, Nicki is passionate about helping founders feel confident and prepared for the investment process. She loves making the right introductions, sharing practical advice, and supporting ambitious businesses as they scale and achieve their goals.
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.
