Clare Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe studied graphic design at Bath Spa University.^[1][2]

After graduating, Sutcliffe worked in web design. She joined Pixelgroup in 2010, where she started BrainyHacks, a non technical hacking event.^[3][4] In 2012 she joined marketing agency Albion and designed the messaging application for Telefónica.^[5] She spoke about Hacking the Future at TEDx Brighton.^[6][7]

Sutcliffe co-founded Code Club with Linda Sandvik in 2012.^[8][9] She served as Chief Executive Officer, responsible for 4,000 after school coding clubs for children aged 9 to 13 years old. Code Club creates educational material for volunteers who teach children for an hour after school.^[1] Half of the volunteers are from private sector companies.^[10] The children learn how to program, build computer games and make websites.^[1] They program in Scratch, then HTML, CSS and Python.^[11][12] Sutcliffe got funding from Arm and Google.^[13] Code Club went global in 2014.^[14] She has provided evidence for the government on the UK's fragmented digital skills training.^[15] In 2015 Sutcliffe launched CodeClubPro to better support computer science teachers.^[16]

Sutcliffe led Code Club to merge with the Raspberry Pi Foundation in 2015 and was appointed executive director of communities and outreach.^{[17][18][19][20]}

In 2016 she was awarded an MBE in the New Year Honours.^[21] She was named one of Computer Weekly's Most Influential Women in IT.^[13] She left the Raspberry Pi Foundation in March 2018.^[22]

She was appointed the Chair of Trustees at the Beam Foundation in October 2018.^[23]