
Clare Johnston
CEO & Founder, The Up Group and Sector Managing Director, Digital & Technology
Clare is one of Europe’s most seasoned talent advisers in digital, and has helped to build the senior management teams and Boards of many of Europe’s most disruptive and transformational businesses.
Clare has an extensive global network and founded the Digital Masters series of events, regularly bringing together Europe’s most exciting investors, entrepreneurs as well as senior executives from high-growth start-ups through to listed global corporates.
Having self-funded and grown The Up Group from the ground up, she secured investment from Livingbridge, a leading mid-market Private Equity firm, in 2016. Over four years with Livingbridge, Clare scaled the business and led the recent exit to AMS, who acquired the business in late 2020.
Earlier in her career, Clare was a Management Consultant for Detica, an international technology consultancy, and was co-Managing Director of an executive search firm. She graduated with a First-Class Honours degree in Management Sciences from The University of Warwick.
