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🎉A brilliant start to the week at JD&Co as we celebrate hiring two outstanding leaders - the first ever COO and CFO - onto the C-Suite at TRIP Drinks. We are incredibly proud to partner with TRIP🌿 the UK’s #1 CBD brand and #4 Sunday Times Fastest Growing Company for two years running. Joining the leadership team are:  ✨ Stewart Bray, Chief Operating Officer With 20 years FMCG experience, including 12 years at Britvic, Stewart joins from Fever-Tree, where he played a pivotal leadership role in their phenomenal growth journey as Chief Supply Chain Officer. ✨ James L Simpson, Chief Financial Officer Over his 30-year career, James has worked for leading brands including ASOS, Britvic, and Tesco, and brings recent experience from premium sports nutrition brand, Science in Sport, as well as fashion & sports brand portfolio, Brand Machine Group, where he served as CFO in key business leadership roles. Read more on The Grocer: https://lnkd.in/eazE3xHq #fmcg #softdrinks #drinksindustry #csuite #startup #scaleup #leadership #executivesearch #headhunter #headhunting

Whether it’s finding a co-founder for an early-stage business, building the first professional C-Suite, or finding a CEO to take the reins from a founder, we have the knowledge (and battle scars) from hiring over 600 leaders across the full breadth of leadership disciplines.⁠ ⁠ 👉 Being at the heart of the startup and scaleup ecosystem across both good times and bad, gives us an unparalleled perspective and insight into founder-led businesses.⁠ ⁠ #executivesearch #csuite #startup #scaleup #startuphiring #leadership #talent #boardofdirectors #entrepreneurship #hiring

Health Optimisation Summit #2024 🎉 & what a fabulous event! An absolute highlight of the events calendar and as promised it totally delivered. Over the two day summit this weekend, we’ve enjoyed an 💫 inspirational line-up of brilliant minds and innovative thinkers 💫 including Gary Brecka, Zach Bush, MD, JJ Virgin, Jim Kwik, Ben Greenfield and more.⁠ Spotlighting an incredible lineup of startup finalists bidding to be the 2024 HOS Startup Competition Winner, it was an absolute honour for Jo Dalton to be judging alongside the incredible Martin Tobias and Caleb Applegate 🚀 We had over 50 applicants culminating in an AMAZING lineup of worthy finalists so thanks for all your hard work and stellar pitches Nick Greenhalgh @ Luca Health, Fergus Kerrigan @ Tru Health, Nayol Santos & Ruby Lai @ BodyOwn and Jo Goodall @ luna - it was so tough to make a decision. Also must mention both Matrix Health & Care and speek who sadly couldn’t make the finals but thanks and recognition deserved. A natural choice for the panel, Jo Dalton is a prominent investor in Health, Wellness, and Sustainability and self-confessed ‘health hacker’. As Founder & CEO of JD&Co, Jo has been advising and driving growth for visionary, disruptive brands for over two decades and is fully immersed in the UK entrepreneurial startup and scale-up ecosystem 🚀 Here comes the drum roll 🥁 SO many congratulations to the overall winner Jo Goodall, co-founder of luna. Luna is the world's first digital health companion for teens, a much needed one stop ultimate guide to a healthier teenhood! If you’re fired up and inspired, get in touch with us directly here or via hello@jdandco.uk and work with us to help you to shape and direct your thinking around your health startup and future rocket ship 🚀 Fast forward to #2025, and it could be you bagging you an amazing opportunity and Startup Competition Winner prize 🎉 #healthoptimisation #longevity #biohacking #wellness #health #mentalhealth #healthandwellbeing

💭 We are an independently owned, female founder-led business, made up of tenacious out-of-the-box thinkers who ‘talk startup’.⁠ ⁠ ❌ We’re not a slow, traditional exec search firm with eye-watering fees. Nor are we an out-of-touch strategy firm full of consultants who are experts at PowerPoint but just don’t get it.⁠ ⁠ 💡 We come from different backgrounds and bring different perspectives. We’re driven by a passion for people, and for making an impact to those businesses impacting the world.⁠ #executivesearch #csuite #startup #scaleup #startuphiring #leadership #talent

In our latest ⚡️ Disruption Diaries ⚡️ our Founder & CEO Jo Dalton sat down with Plum Guide CEO & Co-Founder Doron Meyassed to find out how he has supercharged the business into the world’s leading curated homestay collection 🌍 ⁠ With a no-nonsense attitude, creative mentality, and an unorthodox approach to leadership, this is one not to miss 💥⁠ ⁠ In this soundbite he shares hard-earned wisdoms for founders going on their own hiring journey - from seeking out those who can spot the invisible gorilla 🦍 🍌 to why he’s all about ‘I can, over IQ’. ⁠ ⁠ Read all this and more, from one of the travel industry’s most innovative disruptors, at the link in bio ✨ ⁠ #DisruptionDiaries #startup #scaleup #entrepreneur #entrepreneurship #founderstory #travel #traveltech

It’s a busy month for the JD&Co team, and the Health Optimisation Summit - brainchild of the UK’s leading biohacker Tim Gray ☯ - is an absolute highlight of the calendar.⁠ ⁠ We’re thrilled to announce that our Founder & CEO Jo Dalton will be returning to the summit this Saturday 15th June to give a talk on: ⁠ ⁠ ADVISING, SCALING, RAISING FUNDS & INVESTING IN HEALTH AND LONGEVITY, FOR STARTUPS AND UNICORNS ⁠🦄 ⁠ Jo has been advising and driving growth for visionary, disruptive brands for over two decades and is immersed in the UK entrepreneurial startup and scale-up ecosystem ⁠🚀 ⁠ With a keen eye for early-stage companies, she is a prominent investor in a number of exciting businesses across the Health, Wellness, and Sustainability space ⁠💸 ⁠ A self-confessed health hacker, Jo loves nothing more than trying new and emerging therapies. Jo also understands the power of having the right support, and believes in giving back to the next generation of founders, along with being committed to a lifetime of learning herself.⁠ ⁠ Over the two day summit, she’ll be joined by an 💫 inspirational line-up of brilliant minds and innovative thinkers 💫 including Gary Brecka, Zach Bush, MD, JJ Virgin, Jim Kwik, Ben Greenfield and more.⁠ ⁠ Tickets are available now using the link below and we look to seeing you all there ⁠🎟️ https://lnkd.in/e68GJgTe #healthoptimisation #longevity #biohacking #wellness #health #mentalhealth #healthandwellbeing

The Health Optimisation Summit - brainchild of Tim Gray ☯ - is fast approaching. We’re delighted to announce the brilliant finalists who will stand in front of a panel of industry and investor giants to pitch their health and wellness startups for a chance to 💥 win over £60k worth of investment and expertise 💥 The last finalist hoping to impress Martin Tobias, Caleb Applegate of Ben Greenfield Life, LLC and JD&Co Founder & CEO Jo Dalton at this weekend’s summit, will be: 🌟 Jo Goodall & Jas Schembri-Stothart of luna luna is the world’s first digital health companion for teens; an app that disrupts the way puberty is taught, talked about, and experienced. Wishing the best of luck to all our fantastic finalists! 🏆 #healthoptimisation #health #wellbeing #healthtech #startupsuk #startup #startupinvestor

The Health Optimisation Summit - brainchild of Tim Gray ☯ - is fast approaching. We’re delighted to announce the brilliant finalists who will stand in front of a panel of industry and investor giants to pitch their health and wellness startups for a chance to 💥 win over £60k worth of investment and expertise 💥 In no particular order, the next finalist hoping to impress Martin Tobias, Caleb Applegate of Ben Greenfield Life, LLC and JD&Co Founder & CEO Jo Dalton, at this weekend’s summit will be: 🌟 Kanu Batra & Nessrin Younes of speek Speek Health provides world-class, personalised clinical care and community for parents of children who self-injure, breaking the cycle of teenage self harm. Stay tuned as we reveal more of the inspirational entrepreneurs who have made the shortlist. Wishing the best of luck to all our fantastic finalists! 🏆 #healthoptimisation #health #wellbeing #healthtech #startupsuk #startup #startupinvestor

The Health Optimisation Summit - brainchild of Tim Gray ☯ - is fast approaching. We’re delighted to announce the brilliant finalists who will stand in front of a panel of industry and investor giants to pitch their health and wellness startups for a chance to 💥 win over £60k worth of investment and expertise 💥 In no particular order, the next finalist hoping to impress Martin Tobias, Caleb Applegate of Ben Greenfield Life, LLC and JD&Co Founder & CEO Jo Dalton, at this weekend’s summit will be: 🌟 Fergus Kerrigan, Amy O'Flaherty & Dr Sally Bramley of Tru Health Tru Health is an advanced health clinic for the modern human, specialising in personalised health programmes that combine doctor-led teams with AI. Stay tuned as we reveal more of the inspirational entrepreneurs who have made the shortlist. Wishing the best of luck to all our fantastic finalists! 🏆 #healthoptimisation #health #wellbeing #healthtech #startupsuk #startup #startupinvestor

The Health Optimisation Summit - brainchild of Tim Gray ☯ - is fast approaching. We’re delighted to announce the brilliant finalists who will stand in front of a panel of industry and investor giants to pitch their health and wellness startups for a chance to 💥 win over £60k worth of investment and expertise 💥 In no particular order, the next finalist hoping to impress Martin Tobias, Caleb Applegate of Ben Greenfield Life, LLC and JD&Co Founder & CEO Jo Dalton at this weekend’s summit will be: 🌟 Stiliyana Minkovska of Matrix Health & Care. Matrix Health & Care is transforming gynaecological protocols through women-led design innovation, providing digitally enabled, AI-supported pelvic assessment and diagnosis. Stay tuned as we reveal more of the inspirational entrepreneurs who have made the shortlist. Wishing the best of luck to all our fantastic finalists! 🏆 #healthoptimisation #health #wellbeing #startupsuk #startupinvestor #healthtech