Jenifer (Jeni) Mundy

FREng Fellowship of the Royal Academy of Engineering (FREng) is an award and fellowship for engineers who are recognised by the Royal Academy of Engineering as being the best and brightest engineers, inventors and technologists in the UK and from arou ...

is an English yachtswoman, telecoms engineer and board member. She was the first female Chief Technology Officer for

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, and is Managing Director UK and Ireland for

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. Mundy was elected a

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of the

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in 2011. She is one of the few women to compete twice in the

Volvo Ocean Race The Ocean Race is a yacht race around the world, held every three or four years since 1973. Originally named the Whitbread Round the World Race after its initiating sponsor, British brewing company Whitbread, in 2001 it became the Volvo Ocean Rac ...

1989–90 on Maiden and 1993–94 on US Women's Challenge/Heineken.

Life

Jeni Mundy was born in 1965. nShe was educated at the

Lady Eleanor Holles School Lady Eleanor Holles School (often abbreviated to LEH or LEHS) is a private day school for girls in Hampton, London. It consists of a small junior school and a larger senior school, which operate from different buildings on the same site. It is a ...

, a private day school in Hampton, from 1971 to 1981. She went on to study for a Bachelor degree in Maths with Philosophy at the

University of East Anglia The University of East Anglia (UEA) is a Public university, public research university in Norwich, England. Established in 1963 on a campus university, campus west of the city centre, the university has four faculties and twenty-six schools of ...

, before spending six years as a professional yachtswoman. Mundy then decided to study electronic engineering, having learned to fix electronics on yachts, earning an MSc at

Cardiff University Cardiff University () is a public research university in Cardiff, Wales. It was established in 1883 as the University College of South Wales and Monmouthshire and became a founding college of the University of Wales in 1893. It was renamed Unive ...

. Mundy emigrated from the UK to

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with her New Zealand fiance in 1994, and began her telecoms career with

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as an RF engineer. By 2001 she was head of the technology team at Vodafone New Zealand (after the UK carrier bought up Bellsouth in 1998). She moved to the UK CTO position in 2007, ending her Vodafone career with Group Enterprise Director of Products and Innovations. She moved to Visa in 2018, where she is Managing Director UK and Ireland. Mundy was elected a

of the

in 2011.

Yachting

Mundy is one of the few women to compete twice in the

1989-90 on Maiden and 1993-94 on US Women's Challenge/Heineken.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Mundy, Jeni 1965 births Living people Alumni of Cardiff University Alumni of the University of East Anglia Fellows of the Royal Academy of Engineering Female fellows of the Royal Academy of Engineering People educated at Lady Eleanor Holles School Volvo Ocean Race sailors British female sailors (sport) 21st-century British women engineers