About Kate Macinnes

Kate has worked for several of the largest financial services companies in the UK, in a range of specialist tax & trust planning and business & product  development roles, latterly specialising in ultra-high net investment and retirement planning. She is a respected project manager, distribution and sales strategist and trainer & presenter.  After nearly two decades in Financial Services, Kate stepped down from her role at Octopus in 2016 to set up a successful craft distillery. She also started working with learning disabled adults and in 2019 sold the distillery to focus on this as a career. Unfortunately a brush with Covid 19 derailed those plans, so since 2021 she has worked on a very part-time, freelance basis as fundraiser and business consultant. Her focus is ethical business development and financial services. She holds a range of voluntary positions and also occasionally teaches willow weaving. When not knee deep in spreadsheets, she can often be found in the woods.