Siddika Jaffer

Head of Ventures

2024 - Current

Venture Scout

2022

Pre-Series A venture capital fund investing in overlooked founders and markets. Aiming to be the most inclusive fund in the UK and looking to back ambitious founders who historically have been unable to access capital. Ada Ventures find and funds extraordinary talent who are building breakthrough ideas for the hardest problems we face. Ada invests across climate, economic empowerment, healthcare and ageing

Associate Partner | Business Builder at Leap by McKinsey

2022 - 2024

Non Executive Board Member

2021 - 2022

Venture GM

2019 - 2022

BCG Digital Ventures is a corporate venture capital and venture building firm. We invent, build and invest in ventures with the world’s most influential companies. BCG DV is part of the Boston Consulting Group. Venture General Managers act as venture CEOs donning many hats - developing the marketing, operational and commercial structures of a new venture - and may transition to running these new businesses in market.

Founder & CEO

2018 - 2022

enfoundery builds support infrastructure for entrepreneurs to help craft the path from idea to scale. We provide this support through lending our team of multi-disciplinary specialists to work alongside you to co-build your venture. We also have a supportive community of aspiring and experienced entrepreneurs and sector experts. Our sector specialisms are food, food tech, marketplaces, health and beauty and the halal consumer. We work with any and all startups but have a soft spot for female, ethnic minority and social impact founders.

Founder & CEO

2015 - 2019

This first of its kind marketplace was touted a Top 5 Startup in its category by Forbes. Combining a restaurant finder, bookings and a loyalty app in a free to user product. Our Customer Engagement & Loyalty solution enabled restaurants to run their digital marketing and loyalty campaigns on a simple to use, subscription based platform. With powerful data on most valuable customers, lapsed customers and the ability to turn promotions on in a few clicks to fill capacity / avoid food waste or bring in new customers, our platform helped restaurants acquire, engage and retain halal diners easily and cost effectively.

SMC Associate Mediator

2015 - 2017

Director

2010 - 2016

Consulting services covering corporate strategy, business planning, market strategy, insight and foresight development and front end of innovation. Engagements include: - Interim senior management post providing leadership to the incumbent team and helping secure future business revenues as well as overseeing project delivery, whilst the client was looking for a suitable permanent candidate. - Creating a 3-year strategy roadmap and supporting sales, marketing, fundraising and business development plans for a start up television channel catering to an English speaking Muslim viewership in the UK, US, Middle East and Africa. - Producing reports on the latest insights and trends particularly focusing on the global health and wellbeing arena within consumer goods.

Director of Consulting, Consumer Markets, EMEA

2008 - 2010

Full operational and financial accountability for this fast-growing consulting division, developing sales pipelines and executing projects to high standards. Day to day responsibilities include leading client engagements from initial needs identification, proposal submission through to project delivery. Projects ranged from market entry strategy, innovation pipeline development, brand portfolio management and new proposition development as well as developing consumer trend frameworks. Clients ranged from multinational FMCG manufacturers, global retailers, pharmaceutical companies and government agencies.