Biography
Caroline is Chief Executive of Gravita, a Top 30 accounting firm scaling rapidly through acquisitions. She is a serial entrepreneur who previously founded and sold businesses across professional services and software. Her businesses have won multiple awards and have been three-times listed in the Sunday Times Top 100 Best Small Companies to Work For.
Caroline writes a monthly column for The Times focused on small business and has a long-standing passion for supporting entrepreneurship and growth particularly in under-invested locations and groups. Caroline was previously an Independent Member of the Regional Growth Fund, on the Department for Business’ Small Business Forum and National Council for Graduate Entrepreneurship.
She served as one of the Prime Minister’s Business Ambassadors for eight years, representing the UK, in the Professional and Business Services sector. Caroline was awarded an OBE for services to Business and Charity in the Queen’s 90th Birthday Honours List in 2016.
She has an MEng in Engineering, Economics and Management from Oxford University. In 2024 she was elected an Honorary Fellow of St John’s College, Oxford.