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Sherry Coutu CBE is a serial entrepreneur, former CEO, Angel investor and Non-executive director based in Cambridge, UK and originally from Canada. ==Career== As an entrepreneur, Sherry founded interactive investor international (http://www.iii.co.uk) in 1994. She ran it until 2000 when it was floated on the London Stock Exchange and she stepped down when it was acquired by AMP in 2001. She became an angel investor in 2000 and since then,〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05zld8l )〕 she has worked with hundreds of entrepreneurs and specialised in consumer internet, information services and education. She has made angel investments in more than 50 companies and holds investments in 5 venture capital firms. She was voted by (TechCrunch ) as the best CEO mentor / advisor in Europe in Nov 2010. In May 2011, she was voted by (Wired magazine ) as one of the top 25 'most influential people in the wired world', and one of the top ten most influential investors and women. In 2015 she was voted one of the most inspiring women in Europe and named as one of the most philanthropic entrepreneurs 〔http://www.themaserati100.co.uk〕 in the UK. Coutu was bestowed the CBE in the ''The New Year Honours Lists 2013 for her services to entrepreneurship''.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=https://www.gov.uk/government/news/the-new-year-honours-list-2013 )〕 In November 2014 Coutu authored the Scale-Up Report〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.scaleupreport.org/ )〕 which was commissioned by the Digital Economy Council〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=https://www.techuk.org/about/digital-economy-council )〕 which report urged the UK government to support 'scale-ups' and not only 'startups'. In June 2015 partnering with Reid Hoffman, the co-founder of LinkedIn, Coutu launched the Scale Up Institute a non-profit body to support UK businesses to scale up. The support for businesses will include help in improving leadership skills, accessing network of advisers and raising finance. In early July 2015 it was reported and later confirmed by Coutu,〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/why-i-am-hanging-up-my-angel-wings-while-sherry-coutu%20Coutu )〕 that she would be stopping her angel investing activities and that she intends to put money, that she would usually invest in startups, towards (Founders4Schools ).〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=https://www.founders4schools.org.uk/about/leadership/sherry-coutu )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Sherry Coutu」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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