Ambassadors and Scaleup Champions

Gary Woodman

CEO, Worcestershire LEP

Tim Maxfield

Director of Business Development (WBS) at University of Worcester

Nick Sturge

Director, Engine Shed

Rebecca di Corpo

Programme Manager, University of Bristol

Caroline Perkins

Economic Research Analyst at Thames Valley Berkshire LEP

Frances Campbell

Projects Manager, Thames Valley Berkshire Local Enterprise Partnership

Linda Edwothy

Strategy Director, Tees Valley Combined Authority

Rob Perks

CEO, Inspire (Swindon and Wiltshire Growth Hub)

Peter Staffordshire

Economic Partnerships Manager at Staffordshire County Council

Nicola Kent

Business Support Team Leader at Staffordshire County Council

Malcolm Johnston

Manager, SEMLEP Growth Hub

Philip Galpin

Business Support Supervisor at Kent Invicta Chamber of Commerce

Jamie Cox

Assistant Economic Development Officer at Ashford Borough Council

Alexandra Stein

Head of Enterprise and Investment at the Scottish Government

Leah Pape

Head of Scaling Services, Scottish Enterprise

Sandy Kennedy

CEO, Entrepreneurial Scotland

Simone Hartless

Innovation Support for Business (ISfB) Programme Manager at Oxfordshire Local Enterprise Partnership (OxLEP)

Sarah Longman

Programme Manager, Oxfordshire LEP

Lynn Oxborrow

Principal Lecturer, Nottingham Trent University

Colin Bell

Business Growth Director, North East LEP

Fiona Whitehurst

Senior Lecturer, Newcastle University Business School

Caroline Theobald CBE

Director, The Bridge Club & First Face to Face Ltd.

Jennifer Robson

Head of Communications & Stakeholder Engagement, North East LEP

Tom Mordue

The Norman Richardson Professor of Tourism, Newcastle Business School

Dinah Jackson

Programme Manager, North East LEP

Steven Gibson

Marketing & Communications Manager, Entrepreneurs' Forum

Dr Morgan Potter

Business Growth Advisor (Innovation)

Jason Middleton

Programmes Manager, New Anglia

Nigel Birch

Knowledge Transfer Director, University of Wolverhampton

Gill Hammer

Director, Marches LEP

Saqab Rasul

SME & KE Manager, University of Manchester

Richard Jeffrey

Director of Business Growth, Manchester Growth Hub

Katie Peate

Head of Digital, Creative and Technology Growth, Manchester Growth Hub

Anne Dornan

Head of Innovation, Manchester Science Partnerships

Tim Nichol

Dean, Liverpool Business School

Gary Millar

Enterprise Advisory Board Member, Liverpool City Council

Janice Mears

Commercial Broker

Paula Basnett

CEO, Wirral Chamber of Commercial

Mark Basnett

Managing Director

Andy Walker

Head of Business Growth and Innovation, Lancashire County Council

Richard Kendall

Executive Director, Humber LEP

Paul Witcombe

Head of Enterprise and Innovation, Hertfordshire LEP

Nigel Culkin

Co-President, ISBE; Professor of Enterprise and Entrepreneurial Development, University of Hertfordshire

Claire Ruskin

CEO, Cambridge Network

Ian McLaughlin

Growth Hub Manager

Sarah Danson

Business Engagement Manager

Chris Quintana

Innovation and Enterprise

Roya Croudace

Enterprise M3 Growth Hub Director

Janet Addison

Programme Manager

Francis Lee

Head of Structural and Investment Funds

Heather Dean

Director - Investment & Growth

Jayne Shields

Strategic Relationship Manager

Adam Jackson

Head of Government Affairs, Marketing and Business Development, Grant Thornton UK LLP

Alastair Lukies

Prime Minister's Business Ambassador for FinTech at UK Trade & Investment (UKTI)

Anders Hoffman

Deputy Director General at Danish Business Authority

Bethany Koby

Cofounder and CEO, Technology will save us

Brent Hoberman

Lastminute Founders Forum

Chris Blundell

Partner, Brunswick

Claire Cockerton

Chairman, Pivotal Innovations

Chris Haley

Head of New Technology & Startup Research, Nesta

Claire Johnson

CEO and Founder, The Up Group

Daniel Glazer

Partner at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, New York (formerly at Freid Frank)

Davor Hebel

Partner, Fidelity Growth Partners

Edward Bussey

Founder and CEO, Quill

Elizabeth Kanter

Director Government Relations and Public Policy, Cabinet office

Frank Meehan

Cofounder and general partner, sparklabs

Gi Fernando

Serial entrepreneur

Jacqueline de Rojas

EVP Sage, President techUK & Non-Exec Director Rightmove

James Klein

Partner, Corporate Team, Penningtons Manches

James Layfield

CEO, Central working

Janet Coyle

Principal Adviser, London & Partners; Director SVC2UK November Summit; Non Exec Director, Rocketseed

Jenny Tooth

CEO, UKBAA

Jeremy Silver

CEO Digital Catapult

Jon Bradford

Managing Director, TechStars

Julian David

CEO, TechUK

Kathryn Parsons

Cofounder and co-CEO, Decoded

Lord Karan Bilimoria

CBE, Founder of Cobra Beer

Louise Conolly-Smith

Senior Key Account Manager - North America, London and Partners

Michael Hayman

Cofounder Seven Hills

Mike Blackburn

BT

Mike Lynch

Founder, Invoke Capital

Nick Giles

Cofounder, Seven Hills Group

Paul Hofheinz

President and Co-Founder at The Lisbon Council asbl

Rowena Burns

CEO, Manchester Science Partnerships

Russ Shaw

Founder, Tech London Advocates

Ruth Mckernan

CEO Innovate UK

Sandy Kennedy

CEO Entrepreneurial Scotland

Shalini Khemka

CEO, E2Exchange

Stephen Maher

CEO, MBA

Tudor Aw

Partner, Technology Sector Head, KPMG Europe LLP