Quitting school at 16, Jenny rose up the banking ranks to be one of the few women at top level corporate banking.

Following thirty years in the banking trade, where her role included playing a vital part in the integration of NatWest into RBS, Jenny left the banking world in 2006 in pursuit of new challenges.

During her time in business Jenny has won several industry prizes including Businesswoman of the Year in 2014. She was an Ernst Young Entrepreneur of the Year finalist and also won a silver award in the Turnaround category of the Great British Entrepreneur Awards.

Jenny became a natural and formidable Dragon on BBC2 Dragon’s Den for 2 series, showing her feisty northern grit in putting entrepreneurs through their paces before deciding whether to make an offer of investment. Her favourite business motto is “live by corporate standards but breathe as an entrepreneur”.

Today Jenny is spending more time supporting her charitable interests, her two entrepreneurial sons, one with 5 well-known restaurants in London, whilst combing this with her enthusiasm for showing, judging and breeding pedigree flatcoated retrievers, and more recently in 2021 she acquired her first pedigree sheep and is now on the breed Council of the Valais Blacknose Society.