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Jodie Cook (née Cole) (born 1988) is a British social media expert and award-winning entrepreneur. Jodie founded her first company, JC Social Media, in 2011 and won Birmingham Young Professional of the Year (BYPY) at the ICC in 2014 before featuring on the cover of BQ Magazine in spring 2014 as well as winning the Midland's small business of the year at the NatWest Venus Awards. Cook also featured in a pilot TV show called #Oversharers which was produced by Birmingham City University and has featured on BBC radio on numerous occasions as a social media expert and enterprise champion.

JC Social Media
Cook's first venture into business was with JC Social Media in 2011. After completing a degree in business management at the University of Sheffield in June 2010, Cook enrolled onto the National Skills Academy for Social Care graduate scheme where she was placed at a care home management company based on Bramall Lane in Sheffield. In this role, Cook reports first realising the potential for businesses to utilise social media platforms as sales and lead generation tools.

The day after finishing her graduate scheme, Cook founded JC Social Media Limited, offering social media management services. In 2012 Jodie was selected as 1 of just twelve ambassadors of the newly launched Startup Loans scheme as an example of a young entrepreneur who started their business on less than £1000. In this role Cook first met then Startup Loans chairman James Caan (Dragon's Den) and Lord Young.

Jodie is a regular speaker on social media and entrepreneurship and founded the Female Entrepreneurs of Birmingham group in 2013, which now has over 300 members of aspiring business women.

Clever Tykes
Along with her husband, Ben Cook, Jodie developed the idea for a series of storybooks introducing positive entrepreneurial role models to primary school children. Clever Tykes gained instant recognition as a tool to promote enterprising thinking having been included in Lord Young's national government report Enterprise for All. The storybooks were also shortlisted in the Growth Britain crowdsourcing campaign for idea which would grow Britain. Husband Ben also reached the regional final of the Lloyds Enterprise Awards as well as the top 20 in The Pitch Awards with Clever Tykes.

BYPY 2014
In May 2014, Cook was crowned Birmingham Young Professional of the Year at the ICC in Birmingham; an event attended by over a thousand young professionals and prominent business figures from the area. Jodie first picked up the award for winning the marketing and communications category before being selected as the overall winner. Jodie joins a list of successful entrepreneurs including Aktar Islam, AMONGST OTHERS. who have picked up the title.

Personal Life
Cook was raised in Harborne and attended Harborne junior and infant school before attending King Edward VI Five Ways grammar school in Bartley Green. It was here Cook (then Cole) met husband to be and fellow entrepreneur Ben Cook.