Jamie is Industry Head, Retail at Google. Prior to Google, Jamie founded and grew Glasses Direct, employing 150 people and becoming Europe’s largest online glasses retailer shipping over a thousand pairs of glasses a day. Jamie also co-founded entrepreneurship campaigning organisation StartUp Britain, which was announced in the Chancellor’s 2011 budget speech and launched by the Prime Minister. He served for 3 years on George Osborne's New Enterprise Council from 2007-2010. In 2009 Jamie received the Queen's Award for Enterprise Promotion. Last year, he was appointed OBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List.
