Caroline Plumb
{{Short description|British internet entrepreneur (born 1978)}}
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Caroline Bayantai Plumb OBE (born 23 November 1978){{Cite web|title=Plumb, Caroline Bayantai, (born 23 Nov. 1978), Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Fluidly, since 2016|url=https://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540884.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-287703|access-date=2020-10-07|website=WHO'S WHO & WHO WAS WHO|language=en|doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.u287703|isbn=978-0-19-954088-4}} is a British internet entrepreneur and businesswoman. She is the current CEO and co-founder of Fluidly and previously served as a CEO of FreshMinds.{{Cite web|url=https://www.hiscox.co.uk/business-blog/what-makes-a-successful-serial-entrepreneur-caroline-plumb-obe/|title=What makes a successful serial entrepreneur? - Caroline Plumb OBE|date=2018-03-27|website=Hiscox Business Blog|language=en-US|access-date=2019-10-14}}{{Cite news|date=2006-11-17|title=Q&A: Starting your own business|language=en-GB|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/working_lunch/6159324.stm|access-date=2020-10-13}} She also currently serves as a non executive director of AIM-listed Mercia Technologies. In 2019, she was named as one of the most important women personalities in UK Tech 100 list.{{Cite web|url=https://www.businessinsider.com/most-important-interesting-and-impactful-women-uk-tech-2019-10|title=UK Tech 100: The 30 most important, interesting, and impactful women shaping British technology in 2019|last=Wood|first=Mary Hanbury, Isobel Asher Hamilton, Charlie|website=Business Insider|access-date=2019-10-14}}
Career
Plumb was born in Manchester on 23 November 1978, the daughter of Stephen and Eleanor. She went to Bolton School Girls' Division. She then studied at St John's College, Oxford and gained a first class degree in Engineering, Economics and Management.{{Cite web|url=https://www.sjc.ox.ac.uk/alumni/alumni-spotlight/caroline-plumb/|title=Caroline Plumb|website=St John's College|access-date=2019-10-14}} After graduating she began her career as an entrepreneur and initiated FreshMinds as a research consultancy in 2000 with colleague Charlie Osmond.{{Cite news|last=Macdonald|first=Susan|date=14 June 2001|title=Summer jobs that boost your career|page=2[S1]|work=The Times|issue=67165}}{{Cite news|last=Burkeman|first=Oliver|date=2003-09-02|title=Future's bright|language=en-GB|work=The Guardian|url=https://www.theguardian.com/money/2003/sep/02/columnists.g2|access-date=2020-10-13|issn=0261-3077}}{{Cite web|date=2005-06-26|title=The faces of the future|url=http://www.theguardian.com/business/2005/jun/27/g2.theguardianwomenspages|access-date=2020-10-13|website=The Guardian|language=en}} She left Freshminds and co-founded Fluidly, a cash flow management software business company and served as its chief executive officer until 2021.{{cite web |title=About |url=https://fluidly.com/about/ |website=Fluidly |accessdate=3 April 2020}} In February 2022, she became CEO at Gravita,{{cite web |url=https://www.gravita.com/team_members/caroline-plumb/ |website=Gravita |title=Caroline Plumb }} a tech-enabled accounting firm and leading provider of audit, tax, payroll and accountancy services to small and medium-sized businesses. In 2003, she was nominated in Management Today's 35 Women Under 35 list for her outstanding services in the business field.{{Cite news|last=Hoar|first=Rebecca|date=May 2003|title=Leading ladies|pages=46–53|work=Management Today}} In 2010, she was appointed by the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom as a UK Business Ambassador in the "Professional and Business Services" sector, a position she held until the Business Ambassador Network was closed in 2019.{{cite web |title=PM announces new Business Ambassadors |url=https://www.gov.uk/government/news/pm-announces-new-business-ambassadors |website=GOV.UK |accessdate=7 October 2020 |language=en |date=9 November 2010}}{{cite web |title=Prime Minister's Business Ambassadors |url=https://www.gov.uk/government/groups/business-ambassadors |website=GOV.UK |accessdate=7 October 2020 |language=en}}
Plumb was appointed the OBE in the 2016 Birthday Honours "for services to business and charity".{{cite web |title=Caroline PLUMB (Mrs. Taylor) |url=https://www.thegazette.co.uk/notice/2552035 |website=www.thegazette.co.uk |publisher=London Gazette |accessdate=3 April 2020 |date=11 June 2016}} In February 2020, she co-founded the COVID-19 Volunteer Testing Network.{{Cite web|last=Christopher|first=Maddy|date=2020-07-27|title=Women in fintech: Caroline Plumb – Fluidly|url=https://www.accountingweb.co.uk/tech/tech-pulse/women-in-fintech-caroline-plumb-fluidly|access-date=2020-10-13|website=AccountingWEB|language=en}}{{Cite web|title=Government agrees deal with covid testing network|url=http://www.henleystandard.co.uk/news/healthcare/151962/government-agrees-deal-with-covid-testing-network.html|access-date=2020-10-13|website=www.henleystandard.co.uk}}
Personal life
Plumb is the granddaughter of renowned Daur Mongol scholar Urgunge Onon, who co-founded the Mongolian and Inner Asian Studies Unit at the University of Cambridge.
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