Caroline Plumb

Caroline Plumb OBE
Nationality	British
Alma mater	University of Oxford
Occupation(s)	entrepreneur, business person
Organization	Gravita

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]

Career

Plumb 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. In 2003, she was nominated in Management Today's 35 Women Under 35 list for her outstanding services in the business field. ^[11] 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. ^{[12] [13]}

Plumb was appointed the OBE in the 2016 Birthday Honours "for services to business and charity". ^[14] In February 2020, she co-founded the COVID-19 Volunteer Testing Network. ^{[15] [16]}

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.

References

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13. "Prime Minister's Business Ambassadors". GOV.UK. Retrieved 7 October 2020.
14. "Caroline PLUMB (Mrs. Taylor)". www.thegazette.co.uk. London Gazette. 11 June 2016. Retrieved 3 April 2020.
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16. "Government agrees deal with covid testing network". www.henleystandard.co.uk. Retrieved 13 October 2020.