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Jo has over 20 years’ experience working in Government predominantly across the areas of R&D, innovation, small business and entrepreneurship policy. During her MBA at Imperial College, she compared angel investing between Silicon Valley and Cambridge, just before the dot.com bubble burst. She has spent the last 5 years at DASA supporting SMEs to develop and pull through their technology. Most recently, she has been working to shape the UK’s delivery for NATO DIANA. She is now excited to be working with Janus Consortium to create the best accelerator programmes in the sector and to develop the UK defence innovation ecosystem at White City.