Caroline Plumb

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Caroline Plumb
OBE
NationalityBritish
Alma mater University of Oxford
Occupation(s)entrepreneur, business person
OrganizationFluidly

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]

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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. 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

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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  3. ↑ "Q&A: Starting your own business". 17 November 2006. Retrieved 13 October 2020.
  4. ↑ 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)
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  6. ↑ Macdonald, Susan (14 June 2001). "Summer jobs that boost your career". The Times . No. 67165. p. 2[S1].
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