Amy Round has served as Chief People Officer of Vertical Aerospace since October 2022. She previously spent nine years at Google running its Talent division for Google’s largest generating sales and marketing teams across EMEA. Over the time Amy worked at Google, it grew from c.10,000 people to 150,000, with Amy being a key contributor to its diversity efforts progressing its 20% gender balance hiring to 48% by the time she left. Amy joined OVO Energy in 2019, as Talent Director responsible for Talent Acquisition and Development. Whilst at OVO Energy, Amy oversaw the the integration of SSE, as OVO’s $500m acquisition completed, as the company grew from 1,000 people to c6,000, becoming the largest independent energy company in Europe.