Jo is the Chief Business Officer at NCC. In this role, she leads NCC strategy development and implementation alongside the business’s public affairs and marketing functions and its portfolio of strategic industrial and place-based partnerships. Jo is also a Business Advisor to the Metro Mayor for the West of England and co-Chair of the region’s Business Board.

Before joining NCC, Jo held senior leadership roles across the public and private sector, all with innovation and partnership working at their core. This included as Director of the Western Gateway (a pan-regional economic partnership), in bp’s Future Mobility and Solutions business, at the Royal Society (the UK’s National Science Academy), and as a Senior Civil Servant with responsibility for Horizon Scanning and Emerging Technologies.