Kate Newhouse

Kate is a health tech award-winning entrepreneurial senior leader. She is COO and board director of Kooth, the world’s largest youth digital mental healthcare provider. Kooth provides a welcoming space for effective personalised digital mental health care, available to all. She is an advisor and investor in health tech start-ups and also a supervisory board member of Europe’s largest pan-European, dentist-led oral care organisation – European Dental Group.

Prior to Kooth, Kate was CEO of Blenheim Chalcot, the UK’s largest venture builder. Formerly Kate was founding team member and CEO of Doctor Care Anywhere, a digital healthcare company. Before that, as a Strategy Consultant, notably at Roland Berger and BDO, she built expertise in digital delivery of services specialising in health and local government sectors. She is also a CMI Companion and holds CMgr CCMI status.

Kate won Disruptor of the Year at the First Woman Awards 2016 and Innovator of the Year at Everywoman Women in Technology awards 2017. In 2019, she was placed in the 100 Most Influential in UK-India Relations and was also a member of the Secretary of State’s Healthtech Advisory Board. In 2021, Kate made the #womentowatch2021 Cranfield University list (shining a light on potential FTSE 350 board members).