Jackie is an expert in the investment community in Scotland across a wide range of sectors who has enabled thousands of women to launch their own businesses. She is founder and chair of AccelerateHER, an organisation that supports female business owners to launch and grow.
She has a wealth of experience in helping innovative female founders to scale up their businesses and reach their full investment potential.
In 2013 she also pioneered Scotland’s first all-female angel investment syndicate, Investing Women Angels (IWA), to boost gender diversity in the thriving angel ecosystem in Scotland. Since 2015, when IWA began investing, the number of female investors has increased six times.
In October 2022, Jackie was appointed as a non-executive director of CPI, a social enterprise and innovation catalyst for the adoption of tech and manufacturing solutions. She is helping CPI build a diverse social enterprise that supports industry, founders, and academia to deliver innovations and advanced manufacturing solutions that make our world a better place.
Jackie 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.