Mary Jo Jacobi

Mary Jo joined the Board of Mulvaney Capital as a non-executive director in January 2010.

Mary Jo has more than 30 years' experience in the financial services, energy and public sectors in the UK and USA. In addition to leading a consulting practice, she is a non-executive director of The Weir Group plc. She also serves on several not-for-profit boards.

Previously Mary Jo was a senior executive of Royal Dutch Shell, BP America, Lehman Brothers, HSBC Holdings and Drexel Burnham Lambert. She has been a non-executive director of Tate & Lyle plc and was the first woman to chair the Board of the Ladies Professional Golf Association.

In the public sector Mary Jo was appointed Assistant US Secretary of Commerce by President George H W Bush and was as Special Assistant to President Ronald Reagan, who also appointed her to his Advisory Committee on Trade Negotiations. She was appointed a British Civil Service Commissioner by HM Queen Elizabeth II; and was appointed to the Advisory Committee on Business Appointments by Prime Ministers Cameron and May. She began her career on the staff of the US Senate Commerce Committee.