Caroline Bayantai Plumb OBE (born 23 November 1978)[1] 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.[2][3] 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.[4]
Caroline Plumb | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | British |
| Alma mater | University of Oxford |
| Occupation(s) | entrepreneur, business person |
| Organization | Fluidly |
Career
editPlumb was born in Manchester on 23 November 1978, the daughter of Stephen and Eleanor. She went to Bolton School Girls' Division.[1] She then studied at St John's College, Oxford and gained a first class degree in Engineering, Economics and Management.[5] After graduating she began her career as an entrepreneur and initiated FreshMinds as a research consultancy in 2000 with colleague Charlie Osmond.[6][7][8] She left Freshminds and co-founded Fluidly, a cash flow management software business company and served as its chief executive officer until 2021.[9] In February 2022, she became CEO at Gravita,[10] a tech-enabled accounting firm and leading provider of audit, tax, payroll and accountancy services to small and medium-sized businesses. As of September 2024, Gravita Group Limited's annual statutory accounts remain overdue at Companies House,[11] and the 2023 annual statutory accounts filed at Companies House show a loss of £30,492,515.[12] In 2003, she was nominated in Management Today's 35 Women Under 35 list for her outstanding services in the business field.[13] 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.[14][15]
Plumb was appointed the OBE in the 2016 Birthday Honours "for services to business and charity".[16] In February 2020, she co-founded the COVID-19 Volunteer Testing Network.[17][18]
Personal life
editPlumb 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.
References
edit- ^ a b "Plumb, Caroline Bayantai, (born 23 Nov. 1978), Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Fluidly, since 2016". WHO'S WHO & WHO WAS WHO. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.u287703. ISBN 978-0-19-954088-4. Retrieved 7 October 2020.
- ^ "What makes a successful serial entrepreneur? - Caroline Plumb OBE". Hiscox Business Blog. 27 March 2018. Retrieved 14 October 2019.
- ^ "Q&A: Starting your own business". 17 November 2006. Retrieved 13 October 2020.
- ^ Wood, Mary Hanbury, Isobel Asher Hamilton, Charlie. "UK Tech 100: The 30 most important, interesting, and impactful women shaping British technology in 2019". Business Insider. Retrieved 14 October 2019.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ "Caroline Plumb". St John's College. Retrieved 14 October 2019.
- ^ Macdonald, Susan (14 June 2001). "Summer jobs that boost your career". The Times. No. 67165. p. 2[S1].
- ^ Burkeman, Oliver (2 September 2003). "Future's bright". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 13 October 2020.
- ^ "The faces of the future". The Guardian. 26 June 2005. Retrieved 13 October 2020.
- ^ "About". Fluidly. Retrieved 3 April 2020.
- ^ "Caroline Plumb". Gravita.
- ^ "Companies House". Companies Houes.
- ^ "Companies House". Companies Houes.
- ^ Hoar, Rebecca (May 2003). "Leading ladies". Management Today. pp. 46–53.
- ^ "PM announces new Business Ambassadors". GOV.UK. 9 November 2010. Retrieved 7 October 2020.
- ^ "Prime Minister's Business Ambassadors". GOV.UK. Retrieved 7 October 2020.
- ^ "Caroline PLUMB (Mrs. Taylor)". www.thegazette.co.uk. London Gazette. 11 June 2016. Retrieved 3 April 2020.
- ^ Christopher, Maddy (27 July 2020). "Women in fintech: Caroline Plumb – Fluidly". AccountingWEB. Retrieved 13 October 2020.
- ^ "Government agrees deal with covid testing network". www.henleystandard.co.uk. Retrieved 13 October 2020.
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