In 1992, she co-founded Synectics Solutions, the leading provider of software and data solutions to mitigate fraud and financial crime risks. She has held various roles in the business, including Managing Director and Chair. Following an investment from growth investor Synova in 2024, Carol became a NED. Carol is Co-Owner and Chair of Port Vale Football Club, and chairs both the Club’s Foundation and is a Trustee of the EFL Trust. She is very active as a philanthropist, particularly in Burslem and the wider Stoke area.
Highlights
To me it was that sense of belonging, that sense of purpose and being there. You all won together, you lost together.
Wherever you go to for your faith, you are all the same and it's the same in a football stadium.
I think I’ve always had this sort of deep faith that everything’s going to be okay and I’m going to get there.
I didn’t do well in education, I had five abortive attempts at education and none of those worked, because I’m just, I’m just not that person.
I always felt that if I could make somebody laugh then I would be alright.
In football we never ever lose, we win or we learn. Sometimes we learn a hell of a lot.
How do we give them the opportunity to be able to fall the right way, because I went and created the opportunity to fall the right way.