Kerry Baldwin Non-executive Director

Kerry Baldwin is Co-Founder and Managing Partner of IQ Capital, a UK deeptech venture capital firm. Over the past 28 years, she has led deeptech investments across defence, dual-use technologies, cybersecurity, neurotechnology, data infrastructure and regulatory technologies, supporting founders from seed stage through to international scale and exit. IQ Capital has $1bn of assets under management and operates both seed and growth stage funds.

Alongside her investment career, Kerry plays a leading role driving transformative policy across the UK’s innovation, defence and economic growth agenda, with particular expertise in mobilising private capital into strategically important sectors. She Co-Chairs the Defence Investors Advisory Group (DIAG) and is a Member of the Defence Industrial Joint Council. She previously served as Chair of the British Private Equity & Venture Capital Association (2021/22) and as Chair of the Mansion House Pension & Private Capital Expert Panel (2023/25), focused on unlocking defined contribution pension capital for venture and growth investment.

Kerry is an expert across the deeptech ‘labs to listings’ ecosystem and serves as Vice-Chair of the University of Plymouth, a Member of the Competitiveness Advisory Board at the City of London Corporation and is an Independent Investment Committee Member at the British Business Bank for its direct technology investments. She remains actively engaged across multiple government and industry workstreams to enable international competitiveness of the UK and private capital mobilisation. Kerry is an Honorary Fellow in Entrepreneurship at Cambridge University Judge Business School.