Rhiannon Davies

Rhiannon’s has created, acquired and led companies in Europe, Asia, South and North America, including the GVSC B.V, which became a $2Billion revenue subsidiary of GrandVision N.V.. She was COO and Board Director, taking the $ 5.5 Billion revenue eyecare company with businesses in 45 countries, through a period of rapid growth expansion into 20 new markets through multiple acquisitions, JVs and organic growth, to a successful IPO on the Amsterdam Stock Exchange. The GrandVision IPO ranked in the global top 10 IPOs in 2015.  This was her second exit, following the acquisition of Royal Numico N.V. by Groupe Danone in 2007.  Rhiannon serves/has served on multiple private, public, crown and NGO boards. As an active investor and mentor for early-stage technology companies, Rhiannon is motivated by the enormous untapped opportunity of investing in women and non-binary technology entrepreneurs as an underrepresented demographic that is overperforming.