122nd Business Lunch

18th September 2025 from 12:15pm — 3:00pm • Butchers’ Hall, 87 Bartholomew Cl, London EC1A 7EB

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Four things which great, profitable companies need to thrive and grow

Our 122nd Business lunch will be held at Butchers’ Hall on Thursday 18th September 2025 with guest speaker, Sherry Coutu CBE. At this Business Lunch, we’ll confront an uncomfortable truth: some of the most promising tech companies fail to scale—not for lack of funding, but for lack of the right support. What’s often missing? Strategic guidance, values-driven leadership, mentoring, and governance—areas where WCIT members can and do make a decisive difference.

About Sherry Coutu CBE:

Sherry Coutu CBE is a successful entrepreneur and investor with over 25 years of experience in the digital sector. She has established, floated, and sold several businesses in the financial services industry, including her first one, interactive investor, which is valued at over $1 billion with 100M in profits.

Sherry is an active early-stage investor, having invested in more than 70 businesses, such as LinkedIn, Zoopla, and Joby. She serves on the boards of several companies, charities, and universities and is a frequent public speaker, having won and judged the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year awards. Her expertise lies in consumer, internet, information services, and clean energy. Now, she spends 60% of her time on for-profit activities and 40% on philanthropic activities.

As a philanthropist, Sherry has supported various charitable causes, such as founding Founders4Schools and Digital Boost, which support teachers and small business leaders with mentors. She also helped found the Prince’s Trust Technology Leadership Group, which supports young people in the UK in starting their own businesses and serves as co-chair on the Cancer Research UK more research less cancer board. She is also a Harvard Business School European Advisory Council member, which supports the school’s mission to educate leaders who make a difference in the world.

In addition to these activities, Sherry wrote the Scaleup Report and founded the ScaleUp Institute, which supports entrepreneurs in scaling up their businesses.  She has also served as a Trustee of the Raspberry Pi Foundation, which aims to put the power of computing and digital making into the hands of people all over the world.”

Time:

• Reception: 12.15 for 13.00. Carriages: 15.00
• Dress Code: Business Attire
• Ticket price: £130 inc. VAT.

Dress Code: Business Attire

Tickets: £130 inc VAT