Team Members

Jerry graduated in mechanical engineering from UCL in 1977. Despite a numerate education, his interest rapidly turned towards marketing communications, and ended up combining the two in the digital world.

His marketing career began with British Aluminium followed by Volvo and then BMW, until 1986 when he met a bloke in a pub who was teaching computers to understand English. This was a few years before the worldwideweb was invented, so leaving a promising career in mainstream marketing to launch the world’s first AI search engine was a bit of a risk to say the least. It also gave him his first crucial business lesson – timing is everything.

His second lesson was ‘don’t sell solutions to problems people don’t yet have’. Since then he has learned many more lessons about what it takes to succeed as an entrepreneur. To date he has founded, and sold, a number of successful digital service businesses, mostly involved with the car industry.

These days he’s a professional dragon or business angel. He still owns a few businesses he founded himself where he acts more as a mentor than being actively engaged, and invests in start-ups where his experience and network of connections might help to make a difference. He is also a volunteer business mentor for the Princes Trust and for Guildford Council.

In what spare time he has, he travels, plays tennis and golf, and regularly attends the TED conference where he mixes with the great and the good for what he calls his annual indulgence of inspiration and humiliation.

Caroline is the Head of Incubation and Student Enterprise, and Director of S100 Club at the University of Surrey.  She specialises in leading complex programmes and delivering commercial development advice to small technical companies.

Prior to Surrey, Caroline was a Technology Commercialisation Manager at Carbon Limiting Technologies and formally at Carbon Trust where she developed and managed a large grant and incubation programme supporting the development and commercialisation of innovative low carbon technology development companies.

Caroline has a Masters Degree in Mechanical Engineering and a Management Diploma and started her career in the oil and gas sector, designing and constructing gas compression rigs and working on north-sea well maintenance.

She is passionate about developing STEM and enterprise skills in students, particularly female students, and ensuring these skills are matched to the requirements of technical companies and create the entrepreneurs of the future.

Charlotte Watson is the Operations & Relationship Manager for the S100 Club. She is responsible for taking care of the day to day running of the club including processing membership enquiries and organising the regular events and activities.  She is delighted to be the first point of contact for existing and prospective club members and works closely with the whole steering team to facilitate the smooth running of the club.

She also manages the SETsquared Surrey Incubation Centre, based in the Technology Centre on the Surrey Research Park.