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Judith Caroline Clegg (born 1971) is a British strategy consultant, technology entrepreneur, and angel investor. She is the founder and CEO of Takeout, a strategy consultancy based in London and New York City, and founder of The Glasshouse, a support network for tech entrepreneurs and investors. She was named one of the Fifty Most Influential Britons in Technology by The Daily Telegraph in 2009, and one of the Fifty Most Inspiring Women in European Tech by the Inspiring Fifty organisation in 2015.
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- No 3 how to pitch for investment judith clegg
- Early life and education
- Career
- Other activities
- Honors and awards
- Personal
- Selected articles
- References
Early life and education
Judith Clegg was introduced to entrepreneurship at a young age by her father and grandfather, who were both entrepreneurs. Her father encouraged her and her sister to learn how to code when they were 7 or 8 years old. She attended an all-girls secondary school.
Clegg earned her bachelor of science degree, first class, in management science at Warwick Business School in 1993.
Career
After graduation, she joined Arthur Andersen as a management consultant from 1993 to 1997.
In June 1998 she founded The Glasshouse, a support network for tech entrepreneurs and investors. The Glasshouse began hosting networking conferences, dubbed "Second Chance Tuesday", for 40 to 300 attendees in London; in 2010 it branched into New York City, and since then has staged networking events in San Francisco, Boston, Prague, and Sydney.
From 2004 to 2006, she was associate director of the Egremont Group, a private equity consultancy. From 2006 to 2007, she was an advisor to Ministry of Sound, and from 2008 to 2009 was an interim director of loyalty marketing for Barclaycard. From 2008 to 2012, she was the non-executive director of Onalytica, Ltd.
In February 2006, Clegg founded Venturing Unlimited, later renamed Takeout. Described as a "boutique consultancy", Takeout is a tech cluster that unites large companies with entrepreneurs and startup companies to "find new revenue streams, new markets, new partners, and new lines of business". Takeout's larger clients include Thomson Reuters, Samsung, and Microsoft, and startups such as Ministry of Sound, and YO! Sushi.
Clegg was also co-CEO, with Gill Sinclair, of Ancient Roots, a company focusing on "ancient wisdom" applied to modern health and wellbeing. She is an angel investor in So Far Sounds, Not Safe For Work Corporation, True Office, and Analytica. She is a founding member of the Soho House in London.
Other activities
Clegg is a member of the Tech City Advisory Board which provides strategic consulting for the British Government in the East London technology sector. She is also a member of the advisory board of Silicon Valley Comes to the UK, a program of entrepreneurial meetups.
She is a co-founder of the Battersea Courage Trust charity.
Honors and awards
In 2015 she was named one of the Fifty Most Inspiring Women in European Tech by the Inspiring Fifty organisation.
Wired listed Clegg on The Wired 100: Top Digital Power Brokers in Britain for three years running, ranking her No. 97 in 2010, No. 77 in 2011, and No. 82 in 2012.
In 2009 she was ranked No. 47 of the 50 Most Influential Britons in Technology by The Daily Telegraph.
Personal
Clegg maintains residences in London and New York City. She is an avid sailor who has sailed the Pacific Ocean from Tahiti to Auckland, New Zealand.