Joanne Smith

Head of Strategy at Gymshark

📍 West Midlands, England, United Kingdom🔄 Updated October 2026💼 6 investments📅 11 years investing🗓 Last invested Oct 2017
Angel investor🌍 United Kingdom
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Board Member
Aug 2017
Chase Distillery is independently owned, British field to bottle distillery, creating luxury spirits from their farm in Herefordshire. Their range of gins and vodkas is made entirely from scratch, growing potatoes and apples which are distilled into their range of spirits. The quality of their products isn’t by chance. It takes meticulous dedication, craftsmanship and passion from their team.
Board Observer
Jun 2016
Reflex Vehicle Hire is your business mobility partner dedicated to providing you the safest vehicles. In a busy environment, you have to be ready to adapt, so our flexible vehicle hire services allow you to quickly increase or decrease your hire fleet without penalty, day or night. To support the unique needs of your business, we provide a wide array of vehicles backed by tailored services, ranging from racking and livery to towbars and technology, so that our cars and vans always meet your needs. This is backed by our ‘Safety as Standard’ promise to ensure that you remain in control while vehicles are on the road, with vehicle tracking, dashcams and driver risk management technology provided through our award-winning modular safety service, Drive with Reflex. Whatever you need and whenever you need it, you can depend on Reflex Vehicle Hire to deliver every time. 📞 0330 460 9913 ✉ sales@reflexvehiclehire.com 🌏 www.reflexvehiclehire.com
Investor
Jan 2015
BGF is the UK and Irelands most active growth investor, backing ambitious businesses with minority investment to help them scale on their own terms. Since 2011, we have invested more than £5bn in 650+ businesses across every region and sector. Today, with more than £3.5bn in assets under management, we continue to support a range of growing companies across early-stage and growth-stage. Through our 15 offices across the UK and Ireland, were close to the businesses we back, combining local insight with national scale to build trusted partnerships with entrepreneurs and management teams. Beyond investment, our portfolio companies benefit from the expertise of our 200+ strong team, as well as dedicated value creation support spanning talent, operational expertise and our Scale community – including a network of more than 8000+ experienced business leaders, sector specialists and board-level non-executives. Learn more: BGF UK: https://www.bgf.co.uk BGF Ireland: https://www.bgfireland.ie/
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2017
Board Observer
Oct 2017
Medigold Health is one of the UK’s most respected and established providers of occupational health and wellbeing services. We have been involved in the business of helping employers to keep their people in work, safe and well for over two decades. Unlike many of our competitors, we are a clinically led organisation from the top down. Our Life President and Founder, Dr Mike Goldsmith, established the Medigold Health brand and service delivery model on the uncompromising principles of quality and integrity. We are very different to many of our competitors; We have scale, but we have a human face; We have clinical heritage, but we have pioneered the most advanced modern technology; We have our own-employed clinical resources, but still have a fully national presence, And we are growing, investing and inspiring, but we are stable and without leverage. In October 2017 we encouraged proposals for external investment, and subsequently formed a partnership with the Business Growth Fund (BGF) who provided capital investment which enabled us to complete a number of acquisitions in both the Occupational Health and Alcohol & Drug testing markets, strengthening our national footprint and improving our vertical integration of relevant organisational health & wellbeing services. We are redefining corporate healthcare in the UK and we are dedicated to "Keeping people in work, safe and well”. To find out more, please visit www.medigold-health.com
Board Member
Aug 2017
Chase Distillery is independently owned, British field to bottle distillery, creating luxury spirits from their farm in Herefordshire. Their range of gins and vodkas is made entirely from scratch, growing potatoes and apples which are distilled into their range of spirits. The quality of their products isn’t by chance. It takes meticulous dedication, craftsmanship and passion from their team.
MPK Garages Ltd
Board Observer
Jan 2017
2016
Board Observer
Jun 2016
Reflex Vehicle Hire is your business mobility partner dedicated to providing you the safest vehicles. In a busy environment, you have to be ready to adapt, so our flexible vehicle hire services allow you to quickly increase or decrease your hire fleet without penalty, day or night. To support the unique needs of your business, we provide a wide array of vehicles backed by tailored services, ranging from racking and livery to towbars and technology, so that our cars and vans always meet your needs. This is backed by our ‘Safety as Standard’ promise to ensure that you remain in control while vehicles are on the road, with vehicle tracking, dashcams and driver risk management technology provided through our award-winning modular safety service, Drive with Reflex. Whatever you need and whenever you need it, you can depend on Reflex Vehicle Hire to deliver every time. 📞 0330 460 9913 ✉ sales@reflexvehiclehire.com 🌏 www.reflexvehiclehire.com
Board Observer
Feb 2016
Sertec has over 60 years’ experience, specialising in the manufacture of complex lightweight body structures and electric vehicle components for major automotive OEMs and Tier-Ones. Our people, manufacturing processes and technical expertise provide innovative solutions that deliver value and reliability for our customers. This leads to long partnerships with our customers who trust and invest in our business. We support our valued customers from the concept design and development phase through to production. We have bespoke engineering teams for all aspects of product development that include product R&D, design feasibility and tooling capability (sourced competitively in either Europe or Asia supported by our multi-functional engineering team based in China). Our production capacity includes automated stamping processes requiring capacity up to 1000 ton (progression and transfer), automated assembly cells, wireform assemblies and fine blanking manufactured across well invested facilities in the UK and in Europe. More recently, we have specialised in high volume automated no-touch production capacity required for EV components, resulting in the launch of two significant production facilities manufacturing Battery Cases and Modular Busbar Assemblies.
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