Caroline Plumb Obe

Non-Executive Director at Mercia Asset Management

Caroline is a serial entrepreneur who previously co-founded recruitment and innovation consultancy FreshMinds, with clients including Jaguar Land Rover, Vodafone and Google. She remains involved with FreshMinds as non-executive chair and is CEO of Fluidly which she founded in 2016, a venture-backed SaaS business in the fintech space. Caroline was previously an independent panel member of the £2.7billion Regional Growth Fund and served as one of Prime Minister David Cameron’s Business Ambassadors representing the Professional and Business Services sectors.

Caroline was awarded an OBE in the 2016 Birthday Honours’ list for services to business and charity. She has an MEng in engineering, economics and management from Oxford University. Caroline is a serial start-up entrepreneur and is highly effective in bringing her current venture capital investee insights to Mercia’s Board and Strategy meetings.

Timeline

  • Non-Executive Director

    Current role