Jennifer Midura Heywood is a Managing Director at Natrium Capital. She was Head of Strategy and Mergers and Acquisitions at Akzo-Nobel N.V. before becoming Head of Strategy at GKN. She was also a Non-Executive Director of Oxea (later OQ) and a Trustee of the John Innes Centre research institute.

Jennifer has had an international career in Industrial company strategy and has managed Mergers and Acquisitions at the highest levels within corporations. She started her post-MBA career at McKinsey in the USA and then moved to London. She was the Head of Strategy at ICI before moving to Akzo-Nobel with the takeover. She has particular expertise in a variety of industries including Chemicals, Paints and Coatings, Mining, Petfood and Automotive Leasing.

Jennifer has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Economy from The John Hopkins University and an MBA from the Anderson Graduate School of Management at UCLA.