Judith Clegg

Judith Clegg was introduced to entrepreneurship at a young age by the examples of her father and grandfather, who were both technologists and entrepreneurs.{{cite web |url= http://simpleweb.co.uk/building-technology-to-make-the-world-a-better-place-interview-with-judith-clegg-part-2/|title= Building technology to make the world a better place: Interview with Judith Clegg – Part 2|date=18 May 2015|accessdate=23 September 2015|publisher=Simple Web}} Her father encouraged her and her sister to learn how to code when they were 7 or 8 years old.{{cite web |url= http://simpleweb.co.uk/boards-with-more-diverse-people-have-better-financial-results-interview-with-judith-clegg-part-1/|title= Boards With More Diverse People Have Better Financial Results: Interview With Judith Clegg – Part 1|date=11 May 2015|accessdate=23 September 2015|publisher=Simple Web}} Judith attended an all-girls secondary school, and earned her bachelor of science degree, first class, in management science at Warwick Business School in 1993.Everywoman Profile. [https://www.everywoman.com/my-development/learning-areas/articles/big-balance-judith-clegg], Everywoman, June 2019. Clegg was previously an avid sailor who has sailed the Pacific Ocean from Tahiti to Auckland, New Zealand, and is also a co-founder of the Battersea Courage Trust charity.

After graduation, she joined Arthur Andersen as a management consultant from 1993 to 1997.Welcome To Takeout. [http://welcometotakeout.com/brainiacs.html], Takeout, June 2019.

In June 1998 she founded The Glasshouse, a support network for tech entrepreneurs and investors.Business Stories. [https://www.southampton.ac.uk/wsi/news/events/2017/04/business-stories-judith-clegg], Southampton.Ac.Uk, June 2019. 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,{{cite web |url= https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/8151450/Watch-out-New-York-here-come-Londons-tech-stars.html|title=Watch out New York, here come London's tech stars|first= Milo |last=Yiannopoulos|date=22 November 2010|accessdate=23 September 2015|work=The Daily Telegraph}} Glasshouse networking events have also been held in San Francisco, Prague, and Sydney.Judith Clegg Start Up 100. [https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/8266769/Judith-Clegg-Start-Up-100-judge.html], The Telegraph, June 2019.{{cite web |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/5414112.stm|title= Second Tuesday turns back dotcom clock|first=Nigel|last=Cassidy|date=23 October 2006|accessdate=23 September 2015|publisher=BBC News}}

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".{{cite web |url=http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/public/article1237328.ece|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150925101112/http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/public/article1237328.ece|url-status=dead|archive-date=25 September 2015|title=Act Like a Start-up To Grow|first=Carly |last=Chynoweth|date=31 March 2013|accessdate=23 September 2015|work=The Sunday Times}}

Clegg was also co-CEO, with Gill Sinclair, of Ancient Roots, a company focusing on "ancient wisdom" applied to modern health and wellbeing.{{cite web |url= https://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/private/person.asp?personId=712566&privcapId=7622972&previousCapId=7622972&previousTitle=Glasshouse%2520Entrepreneurs%2520Limited|title=Executive Profile: Judith Clegg|year=2015|accessdate=23 September 2015|work=Bloomberg Businessweek}} She has been an advisor or angel investor in So Far Sounds, Not Safe For Work Corporation, True Office, and Onalytica.

In 2018 Judith and Cher Chevalier co-created PAWS – The Policy for Animal Welfare Scheme – launched in the House of Commons, co-hosted by Henry Smith MP. Judith and Cher also co-created The Compassion in Commerce Training Program, co-authored the book Compassion in Commerce – The Power of Good Business,{{cite web | url=http://www.welcometotakeout.com/ | title=Welcome To Takeout | accessdate=28 November 2018 | pages=1}} and co-created The #HANDSOFF Campaign – launched in the House of Commons, co-hosted by Jess Phillips MP.

In 2015 she was named one of the Fifty Most Inspiring Women in European Tech by the Inspiring Fifty organisation. As well as this, Wired has listed Clegg on their Wired 100: Top Digital Power Brokers in Britain for three years running, ranking her No. 97 in 2010,{{cite magazine |url= https://www.wired.co.uk/magazine/archive/2010/05/features/the-wired-100-positions-51-to-100|title= The Wired 100: Positions 51 to 100|date=1 April 2010|accessdate=23 September 2015|magazine=Wired}} No. 77 in 2011,{{cite magazine |date=6 May 2011 |title=2nd annual Wired 100: Positions 79-50 |url=https://www.wired.co.uk/magazine/archive/2011/06/the-wired-100/wired-100-2011-79-50 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170528001214/http://www.wired.co.uk/article/wired-100-2011-79-50 |archive-date=2017-05-28 |access-date= |magazine=Wired |accessdate=23 September 2015}} and No. 82 in 2012. In 2009 Clegg was ranked No. 47 of the 50 Most Influential Britons in Technology by The Daily Telegraph.{{cite web |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/6221732/The-50-most-influential-Britons-in-technology-part-one.html |title= The 50 most influential Britons in technology: part one|date=23 September 2009|accessdate=23 September 2015|work=The Daily Telegraph}}

• {{cite web |url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/judith-clegg/startup-culture_b_2048683.html |title=How Start-Up Culture Can Change the World|work=The Huffington Post}}

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• [https://twitter.com/judithclegg Judith Clegg on Twitter]
• [http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02k0wc6 Judith on BBC World Service – Tech Tent]
• [http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0196rpr Judith on BBC Radio 4]

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