Jacqueline Gilbert is the co-founder of ParrotPal, the Cambridge healthtech company building the next generation of metabolic health infrastructure. Combining AI, behavioural science and clinical research, the company is tackling one of the biggest emerging challenges in healthcare: how to preserve muscle, metabolic health and long-term resilience during major physiological transitions, from GLP-1 weight loss to perimenopause and ageing.
ParrotPal has grown to more than £2M ARR and 53,000 users, and recently won both the 2026 Innovate UK Women in AI Award and the TechNation NextWave Award.
Before founding ParrotPal with Scott Flear, Jacqueline spent two decades leading strategy and transformation across healthcare, aviation, defence and advanced manufacturing.
She previously founded Beaudurof, a Cambridge-backed design and IP venture named in sector authority, Vogue’s top 10 global product. The company secured international patents across the US, EU, UK and India and is now in structured exit. Jacqueline lectures in strategy and entrepreneurship at Cambridge Judge Business School and is a former international athlete and two-time Ironman finisher.
Her work focuses on the intersection of AI, behaviour change and preventative healthcare, particularly how emerging technologies can scale human health outcomes without losing the human element itself..