Jess Williamson

After nearly 7 years of building and running accelerator programs with Techstars and Springboard, Jess is taking 2018 to live life at a slower pace... on sabbatical! As a runaway Californian she's been living in the European tech community the past ten years, and she was with Techstars since announcing the organization's first accelerator outside the US.

Adventures included two startups in Scotland, joining to run Springboard accelerator in Cambridge, merging to become Techstars London in 2013, setting up their fintech programs with Barclays in 4 continents, and then working across all the new Techstars programs in EMEA + APAC.

She has dedicated 2018 to visiting Antarctica and building something different this year - a personal life!! She is obsessed with blue and hence tweets from @jessinblue.