Sherry Coutu
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Sherry Coutu CBE |
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| Born | 1964 |
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Harvard Business School, University of British Columbia, London School of Economics |
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Sherry Coutu CBE (born 1964) is a serial entrepreneur, former CEO, Angel investor and Non-executive director based in Cambridge, UK and originally from Canada.
Coutu graduated from University of British Columbia, with a first class honours BA, in 1986, with distinction from the London School of Economics, with an MSc, in Economics, and from Harvard Business School, with an MBA, in 1993.
As an entrepreneur, Sherry founded interactive investor international (http://www.iii.co.uk) in 1994. She ran it until 2000 when it was floated on the London Stock Exchange and she stepped down when it was acquired by AMP in 2001.
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. She has made angel investments in more than 50 companies and holds investments in 5 venture capital firms. She was voted by TechCrunch as the best CEO mentor / advisor in Europe in Nov 2010. In May 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.
Coutu was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2013 New Year Honours for her services to entrepreneurship.
In November 2014 Coutu 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'.
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