\n Jenna Meek, who attended St John\u2019s Catholic School and Sixth Form in Bishop Auckland, took her place in the Den as a new Dragon and is now inspiring students from her old school.\n<\/p>\n
\n She is the co-founder of beauty brand Refy, which is stocked in Selfridges, Brown Thomas and Sephora across the UK, Ireland, US, Canada, and the Middle East.\n<\/p>\n
\n St John\u2019s now has the rare honour of counting two Dragons among its alumni, with fellow County Durham entrepreneur Sara Davies also attending the school\n<\/p>\n
\n The school described Ms Meek as an “incredible role model” in a post on social media.\n<\/p>\n
\n It said: “A passionate, dedicated and ambitious student, she has transferred all of these qualities into her career as an entrepreneur, starting with a International Fashion Marketing degree and leading to making it onto the Sunday Times Beauty Rich List in 2025.\n<\/p>\n
\n “Jenna is a fantastic example of what hard work and commitment can achieve, and we could not be prouder to hold her among our alumni.\n<\/p>\n
\n “A true inspiration for what can be achieved by following your dreams.”\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\n At the time of her casting in the Den, Ms Meek said: “I am so excited to be joining Dragons\u2019 Den, this has been a lifelong goal of mine.\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\n “Dragons\u2019 Den is the reason I became an entrepreneur, from watching it with my dad from such a young age, so it is incredible to be able to meet so many amazing entrepreneurs building businesses and pushing the boundaries.\n<\/p>\n
\n “It is such an empowering environment and I am thrilled to be a part of it.”\n<\/p>\n
\n Ms Meek was ranked 13th on the 2025 Sunday Times Beauty Rich List, with an estimated net worth of \u00a352 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jenna Meek, who attended St John\u2019s Catholic School and Sixth Form in Bishop Auckland, took her place in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":403700,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[96,391,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-403699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-tv","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=403699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403699\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/403700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}