Sharon Jones

Sharon joined the Royal Navy’s Maritime Enterprise Engagement team in 2023; tasked with extending activity from the Solent Maritime Enterprise Zone to national engagement. She now sits within the London and Eastern England Regional Headquarters. In this role she builds the innovation ecosystem through engagement with industry, academia and Government, upskills around social value and coheres Maritime Enterprise Engagement activity.

Named as one of the Telegraph’s Top 50 Women in Engineering (Returners and Transferrers) in 2018, Sharon is passionate about the opportunities of emerging technologies and the importance of leveraging these to solve problems. With a background in primary education she has rapidly developed an understanding of the importance of collaboration and co-creation to develop solutions. Sharon became immersed in the maritime world, focusing on smart technologies for ports and operations in the Two Seas Smart Ports Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Development Project.

Sharon continues as a volunteer Co-ordinator for the Women’s Engineering Society South Coast Cluster and is co-founder of Women in Tech Dorset. In her spare time she continues to learn more about additive manufacturing, historic postboxes and goat-keeping.