Libby seed

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WORK HORSE balance

Account manager for Boston Scientific

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Hobbies & Activities

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Hobbies & Activities

How I make it work: Whatever the time of day or night, mum is always there on the yard to help me

WORDS: KATIE ROEBUCK

**Libby visits a lot of hospitals in the South East of England for herrole with Boston Scientific**

**Libby with Wispa, a six-year-old mare who is due to start eventing this season**

**With Heart Of The Party, a home-bred four-year-old**

**Libby admits that she loves spending time with her three horses**

**Jumping around the Pau CCI5* cross-country course on Heartbreaker Star Quality (aka Angel), who is now Badminton bound**

Libby is sponsored by CrossCountry app

The amateur event rider reveals how she juggles a full-time role in the medical devices industry with eventing at five-star level and preparing for her second Badminton run next month with Heartbreaker Star Quality.

My job…

As an account manager for Boston Scientific, a global medical devices company, I work in the sector of vascular interventional radiology for diseased arteries and veins. Despite living in the South West, I spend a lot of time in hospitals in the South East of England (which is my ‘patch’) as my role involves selling medical equipment, working with NHS procurement on tenders, and making sure that staff are trained in and happy with the equipment. If there are any developments in my product areas I relay these to the vascular surgeons and interventional radiologists who I also work with.

After achieving my lifelong riding goal when completing Badminton in 2022, I wondered whether I should continue with eventing. I thought I would probably move to London and live a more normal working life and so I applied for the South East territory role with Boston Scientific thinking that I would be living in London. However, I decided that I couldn’t live without horses and so I’m currently doing the South West to South East commute.

How I got here…

I originally intended to study biochemistry at university, but I didn’t get the grades and instead ended up at Exeter University reading medical science, which is basically the theory behind medicine and how the human body works down to a cellular level. After completing my degree, though, I did horses professionally for a summer, but I found that I didn’t enjoy making my hobby my career. I tried to work out what I could do with my degree that didn’t involve being based in a lab — which I don’t enjoy — and that’s how working in the medical industry came about. I joined Boston Scientific in 2022, and I don’t think that I could have found a job that suits me better.