Born in Newcastle, Louise Thompson is an alumna of Northumbria University School of Law. She went on to complete her MSc at UMIST and became a Certified Company Director by way of examination on behalf of the Institute of Directors, at Warwick Business School.
She is also an alumna of Windsor Leadership Trust. Louise is a CEDR-accredited mediator.
Louise spent 25 years in blue chip corporate organisations (EDS, BT, SAP, Accenture, De La Rue, Sopra Steria), applying the legal and commercial wrap to tech solutions and managing the end to end contractual lifecycle of customer agreements including bid submissions. She has been a committee member of BSI's ART/1 Committee on AI. She has been NED and Trustee. She is a speaker and writer.
Most recently, and based on her experience of being in a senior leadership position whilst caring for ageing parents, Louise founded Myfolks (www.myfolks.uk). Myfolks sends someone round to the home of an elder person to put the kettle on and have a cup of tea and a chat. It was this work that led Louise to explore the risks to physical and mental health posed by social isolation. We can get ahead of it and prevent more serious illnesses that carry more risk and more cost.
Louise is on the NHS Clinical Entrepreneur Programme, as a Patient Entrepreneur and is supported by the National Innovation Centre for Ageing and Health Innovation North East and North Cumbria and universities in the North East and in London. Louise lives in Sussex, with her husband Paul.
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