JO DALTON
Entrepreneur | Investor | Board Adviser | Longevity Advocate
Building businesses, wealth and lives designed to last.
About Jo
A serial entrepreneur, investor and board adviser who has spent over 20 years helping ambitious founders and businesses start, grow, scale, raise and exit.
As the founder of JD & Co and JD Ventures, I've built businesses, invested in brands I believe in and advised founders, CEOs and boards through some of their biggest decisions.
What I love most is spotting potential, connecting extraordinary people and helping businesses create lasting value.
I'm equally passionate about longevity, in business and in life, and how we build the wealth, health and freedom to enjoy everything we've worked so hard for.
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Jo Dalton is a serial founder, investor, board adviser and longevity advocate, helping ambitious founders and businesses start, scale, raise and exit, while building businesses, wealth and lives designed to last.
With over 20 years of experience, Jo is known for spotting potential, connecting extraordinary people and bringing commercial judgement and human insight to defining moments of growth and change.
She is the founder of JD & Co and JD Ventures. Through JD & Co, she has helped build hundreds of boards and leadership teams, supported over 1,000 senior appointments and advised founders, CEOs and investors on leadership, growth and transformation.
Through JD Ventures, Jo invests in and helps grow businesses including SIGN of the Times, where she sits on the board, and Medeau, the health-optimised fragrance brand she co-owns. Her angel investments include Heights, WONE and Monk.
Passionate about longevity in business and life, Jo hosts Lessons in Longevity and Ageing Disgracefully, bringing together leading voices to explore health, ambition, reinvention and living well.
Her work connects entrepreneurship, leadership, capital and longevity, with a belief in building success that lasts.
JD&Co works with ambitious founders, CEOs, boards and investors at the moments that define what comes next.
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We help founder-led, entrepreneur-led and investor-backed businesses build the leadership, board and advisory foundations they need to scale with conviction.
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For 15 years, we have worked across some of Europe’s most exciting growth businesses, placing over a thousand leaders into boards and executive teams. But our work has never been just about search.
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We help businesses understand what they need next. The right structure. The right leadership. The right board. The right operator, advisor or Chair to support the stage they are entering.
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We are commercially astute, founder fluent and deeply embedded in the entrepreneurial ecosystem. We understand the pace, pressure and nuance of building a business around a founder, and we know when to challenge, when to support and when to bring in the experience that changes the trajectory.
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JD&Co works best with category disruptors, market challengers and ambitious brands across consumer, health, wellness, longevity, lifestyle and marketplaces.
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Businesses with momentum. Founders with ambition. Investors looking for clarity. Boards preparing for the next chapter.
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Because the best businesses are not just built around an idea. They are built around the right people, the right structure and the right decisions at the right time.
Founder Advisory & Executive Search
Startup Investment & Advisory
Set up to impact the startup and scaleup ecosytem with a particular focus on health, longevity and sustainable business models and those prioritising purpose and mission as well as profit.
Either investing money, time or both and committed impacting the world by disrupting traditional business models, challenging out of date thinking and doing our small part to make it a smarter, kinder place.
A powerful, connected community of like minds on a mission to increase lifespan, redefine careers and challenge the norms and stereotypes around how we should live in the second half of our lives. Through community, content and events, pledging to share wisdom so that we can not just add years to our life but more life to our years.
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