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First name

Judith

Last name

Clegg

Short profile

I founded the Glasshouse, a group for entrepreneurs with events in London, San Francisco and New York. Also the founder of Venturing Unlimited a London based firm that provides advisory and fundraising services to entrepreneurial companies.

Longer profile

Judith founded Venturing Unlimited with the aim of creating a tight knit, global team of investors, entrepreneurs and professional advisors to participate in rapid growth ventures in Europe the US and the Far East. She and her team provide market intelligence and advisory services for global investment firms and hands on practical growth capability for high calibre entrepreneurial ventures. As an Associate Director of the Egremont Group, a sector leading management consultancy founded by the ex-heads of Retail and Leisure at Gemini consulting, she advised some of the UK’s best known retailers, leisure companies and private equity firms, including, Dixons Group, BAA NCP and Cinven. Judith is the founder of the Glasshouse a networking group that has held high profile events with leading entrepreneurs and investors in London, New York San Francisco, Prague and Sydney. Previous speakers in include Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia, Craig Newmark & Jim Buckmaster, founder and CEO of Craigslist, anSabeer Bhatia, founder of hotmail, Charles Handy, author and management guru and Luke Johnson Chairman of Channel 4 and Signature Restaurants. Judith has also worked as an advisor to Lord Philip Gould, the political strategist and pollster to Tony Blair the Labour party and world leaders including Bill Clinton, Nelson Mandela and Gerhard Schroeder. Her work centred on Philip’s corporate practice which has advised global corporations including, Goldman Sachs, British Airways, Coca-cola and Mars. Earlier in her career Judith was a Founding Director and COO of Moonfruit.com the award winning online website builder which was backed by substantial European and US venture funding. She started her career as a management consultant at Arthur Andersen.

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Film, sailing, travel.