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Gaynor Coley
Non-Executive Director
Location:
Other
Team:
Foresight Enterprise VCT - Board
Biography
Gaynor is a Non-Executive Director on the Board of Foresight Enterprise VCT and has over 30 years of experience in private and public sector finance. She is Chair of the Audit Committee and has extensive experience of governance, compliance and risk management. She is a non‑executive director of Lowland Investment Co plc and chair of the audit committee and a non-executive director of Blackrock American Income Trust plc and Chair of the Audit Committee.
Gaynor is very familiar with the challenges of stakeholder management, business growth and development. She was a Founding Director of the £140 million award-winning Eden Project, leading the funding and setting up of the innovative social enterprise structure. After 13 years as Managing Director at the Eden Project, she went on to join the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew as Director of Public Programmes, responsible for rebranding the gardens and growing the commercial income streams. She then chaired the board of directors of Wave Bristol Ltd, an inland surf project, from start-up for five years. She was Director of Finance at Plymouth University for five years prior to joining the Eden Project, encouraging spin-out companies and enterprise initiatives.
