Meet the team

Charles Mindenhall is Co-Founder of Blenheim Chalcot, the UK’s leading digital venture builder, and has built over 40 companies since 1998.

Charles is the Chair of OnSide Youth Zones nationally and the Chair of the Future Youth Zone in Barking and Dagenham, as well as being a trustee of Mental Health Innovations (which was spun off from the Royal Foundation following the Heads Together programme).

Charles has a MA in Philosophy and Psychology from Christ Church, Oxford University, and was formerly at Monitor Company.

Jyoti is Head of Legal & HR at Blenheim Chalcot providing a range of advice & guidance to the Blenheim Chalcot portfolio companies across various sectors including financial services. 

Prior to joining central Blenheim Chalcot, Jyoti spent ten years as General Legal Counsel at TDX Group (a Blenheim Chalcot company) until it was sold to Equifax in 2014. 

Prior to this Jyoti was in private practice specialising in commercial litigation. 

Jyoti lives in Nottingham where she is mum to two teenage daughters and 3 dogs, all of whom take up most of her patience… 

Lara was a Strategy Consultant and Monitor Company, Vice President Consumer marketing at EMI Music, and has worked across several of the Blenheim Chalcot technology ventures. Lara has an MBA from INSEAD, an MSc (Economics) from the University of Oxford and an Honours degree from the University of Cape Town. 

Lucy has worked for over 20 years in the investment management industry.  She is a founding partner of Theleme Partners, a global investment firm, based in London, which manages assets on behalf of global institutions.  

She graduated from Christ Church, Oxford University with a degree in Modern Languages and is a Chartered Financial Analyst Charterholder. 

Lucy serves as a volunteer and mentor for the GAIN network (Girls are INvestors), a not for profit organisation seeking to encourage and support women into the investment management industry.  She is also a member of the Christ Church Development Board.

Sarah has spent the last 8 years working in start-ups in the parent tech space. She is CCO at childcare app Bubble and previously co-founded Mush, an app to help support the mental health of new mums. Mush was responsible for creating hundreds of thousands of meet-ups and friendships for new parents.   

Prior to start-ups she spent the first decade of her career working in advertising agencies in London and Boston - focusing on new business and growth. She has three kids and loves to run in Richmond Park. 

Paddy has nearly 20 years’ experience working with a range of civil society organisations, from nationally recognised charities and public bodies to local and community-based organisations and social enterprises, as Chair, CEO and consultant/advisor.  He is passionate about the ‘art of the possible’ and committed to inspiring, influencing and delivering sustainable, inter-generational social impact. 

The early part of his career was in the marketing industry, in London and South Africa, developing campaigns for both global and local brands.    

He is currently Interim CEO of The Peel Institute, the 125 year old community organisation based in Clerkenwell, London.  He has an entrepreneurial streak, including a (successful!) appearance on ‘Dragons’ Den’.