Debbie Wosskow

Debbie Wosskow OBE is one of the UK’s best known female entrepreneurs. She has built and exited three businesses as Founder CEO (Mantra (2007), Love Home Swap (2017) and AllBright (2022) – raising capital at all levels from Angel to VC to PE.

Debbie is a prolific angel investor and the co Chair of the U.K. government backed ‘Invest in Women Taskforce’. Appointed by the Chancellor, Rachel Reeves, she has raised an initial funding point of £250m to support female powered businesses, the largest in the world.

She is the co-founder of WJV, the boutique investment and strategic innovation firm, championing diversity, wellness and economic empowerment and a Founding Advisor to Smart Society Ventures.

Debbie is Executive Chair of The Better Menopause, empowering women’s performance at midlife through science-backed products. She is a Non Executive Director of Channel 4 and a Senior Advisor to McKinsey & Company.

She is the co- Author of the business bestseller ‘Believe, Build, Become – How to Supercharge your Career’ (Penguin 2019). Debbie is a Board Member of The Mayor of London’s Business Advisory Board and The Women’s Prize for Fiction, where she Chairs the Development Board.

She is a Former Evening Standard ‘Entrepreneur of the Year’ and Author of the ‘Wosskow Review on the Sharing Economy’ for the UK government (2015) and former Chair of Sharing Economy UK.

Debbie was awarded an OBE in June 2016 & received Freedom of the City of London 2019.

She graduated with an MA in Philosophy and Theology from New College, Oxford.