Caxton Career Collective

Lyndsay is an experienced operational leader with 10+ years of success driving organic growth, transformation, and profitability across diverse industries, including SaaS, E-commerce, and Marketing. As a founding member, played a pivotal role in building and scaling a Digital Marketing Agency from inception to £8M+ in annual turnover, achieving #6 on the UK Start Ups 100 List (2018), and securing an 8x multiple exit. Lyndsay is fluent in translating business vision into actionable plans, building global high performing teams, optimising client experiences, and driving performance through data-informed decision-making. A commercially minded yet empathetic leader, Lyndsay is adept at building inclusive teams, championing employee well-being, development, and engagement to drive business success.

As Director of People, Jane-Emma has been a key player in developing Caxton’s culture and people policies for 20 years. Her varied passions and talents for employee well-being, performance management and professional development has allowed the business to thrive in rapidly changing circumstances, including maintaining strong business performance both in the 2008 financial crisis and the recent pandemic. In her years at Caxton she has curated a flexible culture which puts people first, allows for a strong work-life balance and ultimately helps the business and its people to work towards a common goal. The values led culture she has created promotes agility, transparency, collaboration and high performance. She will talk about how she's changed the culture and teams from FX to Fintech at Caxton.

James Cuthbertson is the CRO of Relative Insight. An innovator in text analytics, James helped to grow Relative Insight from its true start-up phase into a pioneer of text analysis servicing global clients such as F1, Amazon, Coca-Cola and HSBC. With over 12 years-experience in the early stage technology market, James has grown, and developed sales and marketing functions focused on products in audience insights and data. James recently left London to relocate to the wild Kent countryside alongside his wife, and their ever-expanding menagerie of cats, dogs, chickens and babies. He will discuss how he was able to accomplish this, and provide tips on being able to build a successful diverse team.

"I'm passionate about giving back, relationships and sharing my expertise in anyway possible as a podcast guest, event speaker, and leadership mentor, on topics such as revenue, growth, female leadership, and untraditional routes to success."

"Experience and knowledge brings wisdom and the ability to listen, guide and sometimes heal. I am delighted to be part of this important initiative created by the fearless women at Caxton."

"It's an acknowledgment of how the power of self-assurance and enthusiasm has enabled women like us to rewrite the rules and shape the world around us. Together, let's continue breaking barriers and create a powerful legacy."

"The care, love and protection we as women add to the work we do, is not even worth a ratio of 4:14 (that's the ratio of women to men in my team, can you believe?!?!). Balancing out is must at it's high time, I am here to give & receive all kinds of support and encouragement to have that dream come true!"