Executive Chair

Dawn Marriott is the Executive Chair at team.blue, having joined in 2021. Additionally, she Chairs a Nordic based business, Geomatikk, is on the Board of Azets, a large European accounting firm, and Citation, an international HR and compliance business. She has previously served on several other Boards of European software and Services businesses. She is also a Partner at Hg.

Dawn is focused on senior operations. She was previously Executive Chair of Kinapse, a leading advisory and operational services provider to the life sciences industry and an Hg investment. During her time at Kinapse, Dawn led the business through a period of rapid growth and transformation before finally overseeing the sale of the business in 2018.  

During 2019 to 2021 she was CEO of Azets, a large accountancy services firm operating throughout Europe. During he time as CEO, she drove a significant transformation programme to integrate 50+ acquisitions and delivered the blue print for the future organisation. She remains an active Board member and coach to the Executive team.
  
Before joining Hg, Dawn was a Board Member and Joint COO of Capita plc, a then FTSE100 BPO and software business. She was responsible for six of the 11 operating divisions and also led Group IT, Group HR and Group Talent. During her 17 years with Capita, Dawn was involved in and responsible for many acquisitions, Chaired multiple companies including two joint venture companies with the British Government, Axelos and FERA. 

She has served on the Board of the Institute for Collaborative Working, Chaired a startup/scale up in the green home energy sector, Hometree. Today she holds Board seats on a charity Advisory Board, Bookmark Reading, the Royal Engineers Board, a division of the British Army and is a Board Advisor to Boardwave, a European network for CEOs and Chairs in the tech industry.