St David's Catholic College

Since leaving St David’s 9 years ago, she has graduated with a degree in Astrophyics from Cardiff University, completed a higher level certificate in Human Resource Management and become a Chartered Quality Professional. She worked for Sony for 5 years, working initially as an engineer focusing on Big Data, The Internet of Things, intelligent systems and robotics. She project managed the introduction of the UK’s first YUMI collaborative robot for electronic assembly. She then went onto manage a team of software and electronics engineers, developing the next generation of manufacturing system for Sony factories globally, before going onto manage more than 100 people across 5 departments. At the age of 20, Jessica was appointed a Trustee and Director of the Engineering Education Scheme Wales. In 2018, she joined the Board of the WJEC and would go on to become chair of its manufacturing facility and Vice Chair of the main company. She was also appointed a Non-Executive Director of the Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education in England the same year where she was Vice Chair of its Quality Assurance Committee. More recently she became the Chair of the Centre for Digital Public Services in Wales and received the Womenspire Award for Non-Executive Director of the Year. Jessica Leigh left Sony during the global pandemic to set up her own business, taking a few engineers with her. She created iungo, meaning to “to connect”, with the aim of creative the connective tissue between policy makers, employers, and training providers.