Lucy Woods

Lucy Woods is the CEO of Accident Exchange group (AX). Lucy specialises in managing businesses with substantial turnaround requirements back to profitability. She has led multiple organisations through complex and challenging transformations, and has delivered significant financial turnarounds and positive outcomes for shareholders, staff and customers.

After joining AX in 2016, Lucy completed a complex financial restructuring and is now leading the recovery of the business. The business offers the delivery of accident management services such as credit hire and credit repair.

AX has achieved substantial growth over the past three years, both in revenue and profitability. Keen to do their part for the environment and as part of their future-focussed outlook, they are rapidly introducing electric cars and charging infrastructure to the fleet and depots.

Lucy is also a non-executive director for Newrotex (Nerve Regeneration) and Shared Access (Mobile Towers). Previously she served on the Patten Commission for Policing of Northern Ireland, as a non-executive for Digiweb Holdings (Ireland) and as Chair of the Institute of Telecoms Professionals. Lucy was also an EY Entrepreneur Of The Year™ 2020 UK finalist. 

In her role as a judge, Lucy will be looking for finalists with a burning sense of ambition for their business and a restless spirit to drive the business forward.