Visionary · Builder · Change-maker

I have spent my life trying to fulfil something inside me that said I needed to do something big — to help.

Over two decades of building ventures across healthcare, technology and consumer products. One consistent question: who gets left behind — and what happens when someone decides to fix it?

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20+

Years building ventures

6+

Companies founded or co-founded

14

Nations supported across sub-Saharan Africa

1M

Women to reach. The mission starts now.

Now

The biggest chapter is just beginning

On building

"I have spent my career understanding how healthcare systems work, where they fall short, and who pays the price when they do. I have also watched people I love face illness — and felt the gap between what medicine knew and what it could reach. Innovation doesn't have hindsight. It has foresight. Thresio exists because better clinical infrastructure means people live longer, better lives. That is worth building for."

Current work

The ventures.

Each one is an answer to a problem that should already have been solved. Each one funds the mission.

Healthcare infrastructure

Thresio is a governed platform where clinicians learn, share insight, and collaborate with industry transparently and compliantly — built for clinicians who want to contribute to how medicine evolves, and for organisations that want to engage with them more sustainably.

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AI · Consumer tech

KLOSET is an AI-powered wardrobe app that helps you fall back in love with what you already own — discovering outfits, tracking cost-per-wear, and planning looks across every occasion. Built on the belief that most people don't need more clothes, just a smarter way to use them.

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Consumer products

An on-the-go stain remover brought to the UK market before the category existed here. Stocked at WHSmith. In conversations with Aldi. Selling on Amazon for over a decade. The first proof of the pattern.

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Also available

Consultancy

Strategy · Healthcare · Brand

Available for short projects and day-rate engagements. Two decades of experience across pharmaceutical, digital health, clinical communications, and brand strategy.

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What's next

There are more problems the world has learned to live with.

More gaps everyone has normalised. More solutions that should already exist. Each new venture follows the same pattern: find what's been overlooked, understand it completely, build the fix.

Global health work

Supporting clinical organisations across sub-Saharan Africa — fourteen nations and counting.

I currently support the digital infrastructure for an annual conference bringing together ophthalmologists from fourteen nations — facilitating education, clinical exchange, and connection across borders. Through Thresio, I aim to help these organisations access greater investment and reach. If you lead a similar organisation and are looking for support — I would like to hear from you.

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The story so far

A visionary and builder who has always seen further than the room she was in.

My ideas have consistently arrived before the world was ready for them. I have learned that this is not a flaw. It is the whole point. I keep building until the moment catches up.

I studied Biochemistry at University College London, and hold qualifications in marketing and medical communications. I built a career spanning the full commercial landscape of global healthcare — across marketing, sales, market access, clinical communications, and strategy.

In parallel, I have always built — because I have never been able to look at a gap without wanting to close it. Each venture taught me something essential. None of them were wasted.

Step oneFind the gap nobody is talking about
Step twoThorough research
Step threeFeel the frustration of it being overlooked
Step fourBuild the solution

Now, for the first time, I am building entirely on my own terms. I have worked across the technology industry throughout my career — but Thresio and KLOSET are different. These I have built myself, from the ground up, with my own hands. Crossing the threshold. Certain about the direction of travel.

Rebecca James-Kinanen

The journey

UCL
BSc Biochemistry, University College LondonThe scientific foundation for a career spent understanding how systems — biological, institutional, and human — succeed and fail.
Career
Global healthcare — the full commercial pictureMarketing, sales, market access, communications and strategy across pharmaceuticals, medical devices and digital health.
Early
First ventures — learning by doingGift recommendation tools, consumer products, dropshipping, a swimwear line. Each ahead of its time. Each essential tuition.
Age 28
Founded Anything Goes Personal CareSpotted a gap. Brought the product to the UK. Stocked at WHSmith. In conversations with Aldi. Selling on Amazon. Still running today.
Co-founded
Ophthalmology consultancySaw the opportunity, sparked the flame. Built and ran a consultancy working with clinicians, pharmaceutical companies, and global eyecare organisations.
Ongoing
Sub-Saharan Africa — fourteen nationsDigital infrastructure and conference support for a pan-African ophthalmology training organisation.
Now
Thresio & KLOSET — crossing the thresholdTwo technology ventures built from the ground up. The biggest chapter is just beginning.

Industry background

A career spanning the full commercial spectrum of global healthcare.

NovartisAmgenAlconGrünenthalHavas HealthPorterhouse MedicalIndegeneFrost & Sullivan
Devon coastline

The mission

The mother is the original infrastructure. And yet we have built a world that rarely treats her that way.

Every human being alive was shaped — fundamentally, irreversibly — by the conditions their mother lived in. Not just genetically. Environmentally. Emotionally. Economically. The blueprint for the adult is written in that home, in those years, by that woman.

This is not a crisis that belongs to one class or income bracket. It visits every house. As neurodiversity, anxiety, and the pressures of a rapidly changing world reshape childhood, it is mothers — often unacknowledged, often unsupported — who carry the weight.

What we expect

To be an excellent mother, a dedicated professional, a present partner, a healthy individual — simultaneously, without complaint, and largely without support.

What we provide

Almost nothing structural in return. No real financial independence. No optionality. No blueprint for doing it differently.

The consequences

Are everywhere. In mental health. In crime. In school performance. In healthcare. In the persistent cycle of poverty — and in the quiet purposelessness of women who appear to have everything.

The truth

These are not separate problems. They share a common root. And that root is where the solution begins.

Give the mother real optionality — and the chain reaction begins.

→Mothers with economic independence raise children with greater security
→Children raised with security become adults who contribute differently
→Communities shift. Schools improve. Streets become safer.
→Healthcare systems carry less chronic burden
→Economies strengthen from the ground up, not the top down
A question worth sitting with

What would the world look like if any mother — regardless of her background, her circumstances, or where she was born — could generate enough income to live without the weight of financial stress? The answer is not a utopia. It is simply a better version of what already exists. And it is entirely within reach.

Four interconnected problems. One place to begin.

01

Gender inequality

Women remain structurally disadvantaged in the workplace, in wealth-building, and in systems designed before they were at the table.

02

Health

Maternal stress, clinical access gaps, and systemic under-resourcing affect both mothers and the children they raise.

03

Technology access

The tools to build, earn, and connect are more accessible than ever — but only to those who know how to reach them.

04

Poverty

Financial stress in the home is one of the most consistent predictors of disadvantage across education, health, and opportunity.

4Problems addressed
1MWomen — the mission
10KClinicians — year one
1Place to begin

"I build for the mothers who came before me and didn't have enough. And for the ones who come after."

Women around the world building businesses

She has always known she was capable of more.

Who this reaches

The ventures I build are commercial businesses with two distinct but connected purposes.

Thresio exists to improve the infrastructure that underpins clinical care — because better connected clinicians means better outcomes for every patient, everywhere.

KLOSET and the ventures that follow exist to generate a platform and proceeds directed toward a second mission: reaching the women who need a different way forward, and giving them the tools and proof that it exists.

01

The one waiting for the right moment

She has the ambition and the ability. She is waiting until she feels ready, until the timing is right, until she has permission. She is waiting for someone to show her it is possible now.

02

The one who chose presence

She stepped back from a high-powered career to be there for her children. She does not regret it. But she is ready for what comes next — on entirely different terms.

03

The one performing the impossible

She is doing everything — managing careers, children, households and the invisible work nobody names. She needs tools, not sympathy. A path, not a pep talk.

04

The one who just needs enough

She does not need millions. She needs options. Enough to remove the financial weight, be present for her children, and build something of her own.

05

The one who has everything but herself

She lives well. Her children are fine. But she has not been asked what she thinks, what she wants, or who she is — outside of her role as a mother — in longer than she can remember.

06

The next generation

They are being raised to be more confident, more themselves. But the world is not yet ready for them. Neurodiversity, anxiety, the pressures of a digital age.

1,000,000 The goal

One million women reached. Ten thousand clinicians better connected in year one. Given tools, resources, and the living proof that it is possible. The ventures build the platform. The platform funds the mission. The mission is the point.

Resources

While I build — here's where to start.

I cannot yet offer programmes or funded support. But I can start with the thinking, the frameworks, and the permission slips I wish someone had handed me.

Available now

You are worth more than you are charging.

For professional women moving out of employed or public sector roles who are undervaluing their expertise.

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Coming soon

How to start before you are ready.

The honest thinking of someone who has been starting before she was ready for over two decades.

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The playbook after redundancy.

A structured path forward for anyone who has been made redundant and needs to rebuild — practically, financially, and with a clear sense of direction.

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Reinvention after AI.

Millions of careers are being disrupted by automation. This is the guide for people who need to change direction — and want to do it with clarity, not panic.

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Thinking

Writing, ideas and points of view.

On broken systems. On building as a woman and as a mother. On what healthcare could look like if the infrastructure were right. On what the world could look like if we stopped treating mothers as afterthoughts.

Latest · April 2026

The relationship was the infrastructure. But what happens when you don't know the right person?

Three days ago I was sitting next to my daughter's hospital bed. Her case involved three specialties, two hospitals, two cities — all trying to coordinate her care. The doctors were extraordinary. The system was the problem.

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Coming · 2026

Women of the World — the magazine

A magazine for women who are building, leading, and refusing to choose.

Featuring founders, thinkers, mothers and change-makers from every background and every corner of the world. The concept has been years in the making. The moment has arrived.

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Speaking

The talk only I can give.

"What do you do when the world wasn't built with you in mind? You build a better version of it. Then you show everyone else how."

I speak from the intersection of clinical knowledge, entrepreneurship, and lived experience — as a founder, a scientist, a woman who has built across multiple industries, and a mother raising three daughters in the middle of all of it.

How broken systems get fixed — from the inside and the outside
Building technology ventures as a woman, without apology
The future of clinical knowledge and healthcare infrastructure
Why giving mothers economic optionality is the highest-leverage intervention available
You can be a mother and have it all — not despite each other, because of each other
Finding the gaps everyone else has learned to live with — and building the fix
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Get in touch

The right conversation with the right person changes everything.

If you are building in healthcare, investing in technology that matters, looking for a speaker with something real to say, or feel that this work is relevant to yours — I would like to hear from you.

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Thresio

Healthcare & clinical partnerships

Pilot programmes, industry partnerships and investment enquiries.

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KLOSET

Consumer tech & styling

Partnership and investment enquiries.

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Two daughters looking out at Devon fields

"I am building three future female CEOs — wild horses with great minds and fire in their tummies. I need to make the world ready for them."

Rebecca James-Kinanen · 2026