Speakers

Jenny Tooth OBE, Executive Chair, UK Business Angels Association.

Jenny brings over 30 years’ experience of supporting businesses to access finance and investment .

She is a business angel and established the UKBAA trade body for angel and early-stage investment in the UK in 2012 where she was CEO until 2020, before taking on the role of Executive Chair. UKBAA is an ecosystem of over 110 Angel groups, representing more than 20,000 Angels, together with VC Funds, online platforms, accelerators and a wide range of intermediary and stakeholder organisations at national and regional level.

Jenny is a active proponent of increasing diversity in Angel and early stage investment. She was a member of the Rose Review Board between 2019-2023 and supported the establishment of the Investing in Women Code launched in 2019 and established the Women Backing Women campaign in 2021 to enable more women across the UK to become Angel investors. She currently sits on UK Women Angel UK Investment Task Force where she chairs the Angel Investment Sub Committee . She also sits on the London Life Sciences Advisory Board and is a Women In Innovation Ambassador for Innovate UK and is also an Entrepreneurship Ambassador at Oxford Said Business School

At European level, Jenny is a founding Board member for Business Angels Europe where she is VP for Diversity and currently leads the EuropeanWomenInvest EU Network launched in 2024 supported by the European Commission and European Investment Fund. On an international level, she sits on the Investment Board for the UK-India Government Neev II Impact Fund. Jenny is also an experienced speaker both in the UK and internationally.

Jenny has a BA Hons and MSc in Economics from London School of Economics and Political Science. She was awarded an OBE in 2015 for her services to angel investment and small business.