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Jonathan Whiteside

Principal Technology Consultant at Dept

Jenny Tooth

Chief Executive UK Business Angels Association

Keith Farrell

Director at Old Hall Films

Raj Kundalia

Cyber security at CYFOR

Catarina King

Co-Owner Society 1

Rob Valentine

Bruntwood Partnerships Director

Nigel Holmes

Head of R&D Technical Operations - Catax

Karen Holden

International Trade Advisor

Sam Whitear

Creative Scale-up programme - Project Manager

Robert Binns

Managing Director - Cotton Court

Liam Kelly

CEO of Make CIC

Rob Hewson

CEO & Creative Director at Huey Games

Brendan Keane

Regional Development Director (NW)

Lou Cordwell OBE

Co-Chair GM LEP and Founder/CEO magneticNorth

Sarah O'Brien

Co-founder | Make Thread

Steve Kuncewicz

Partner and Head of Creative, Digital & Marketing Sector Group - BLM

Mehjabeen Patrick

Chief Financial & Operations Officer, Creative England

Tim Evans

Head of Investment, Creative England

Dale Hicks

Director & Co-Founder, The Fashion Network

Chloe Barrett

Founder, Immersify Education

Sarah Miguel

Head of Business Development, People’s History Museum

David Walters

Digital Investment Manager, MSIF

Graeme Murray

Chartered (UK) and European Trade Mark Attorney for Marks & Clerk LLP

Rachel Emson

Managing Director - Vivid Manchester

Dave Hopkins

Senior Policy Advisor Intellectual Property Office

Neil Jones

Detective Superintendent & Director - Cyber Resilience Centre for Greater Manchester

Saira Hussain

Partner - HAD & CO Property Consultants

Jonathan Finch - FISM

Director Of Group Sales - Sales Geek

Dan Byrne

Head of Strategy - Agent

Phil Owen

Head of Engineering - dt3

Zoe Wallace

Director - Agent Academy

Susannah Storey

Director General, Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Andy Hall

Mentoring Relationship Specialist People, Skills & talent

Matt Simmons

Sales Geek

Simon Benson

Co-Founder - Realised Realities

Paul Corcoran

Deputy chair Liverpool City Region Digital & Creative board

Ray Bradnock

Specialist Tax Consultant

Chris Moll

Executive Producer at Liverpool Film/TV Development & Production Funds and Creator of iFeatures

Ruth Raban

Knowledge Exchange Manager Faculty for Culture and Creative Industries

John Quinton-Barber

Founder & Chief Executive of Social Communications

Michael Ayre

Engagement Officer

Paul Halliday

Innovation Advisor

Nicola Adam

Deputy editor at JPI media, Radio presenter BBC and blogger

Sandy Lindsay MBE

Chair of Tangerine Communications and The Juice Academy.

Dan Lukas

Digital Director at creativetouristconsults.com

john holliday

MD of the Cumberland & Westmorland Herald

Jack Powell

BFI

Jenny Rutter

Chair - Creative Lancashire, Director of Super Slow Way, founding Directors of British Textiles Biennial

Martina Murphy

Director at MDI Studios

Kevin McManus

Head of the UNESCO City of Music in Liverpool

Chris Maguire

Executive editor, BusinessCloud / founder iMeg Partnership

Ben Fowler

Project Manager - Exceed

Ram Gupta

Managing Director at Nybble

Philip Hargreaves

Head of Access to Finance

Irene Graham

CEO of the ScaleUp institute

Ian S Dixon

Access To Finance Specialist

Julian Mcintosh

Owner at Julian McIntosh Architects ARB, RIBA

Chloe Barrett

Founder of Immersify Education

Jim Tunstall

Innovate UK Scaleup Programme Director

Andrew Bennison

Managing director and Creative lead at Prospect Games

Joshua Burge

Edge Investments

Sarah Novotny

Digital, Creative & Tech Sector Lead at GC Business Growth Hub

Stephen Bolton

Commercial Director - Lancashire Business View

Nicole Stewart Rushworth

Immersive Lab Manager at Digital Catapult

Ken Price

Blake Mill

Phil Charnock

Biz Dev, Comms and XR Innovation at SwapBots and Draw & Code

Simeon Halligan

Producer/Director - Grimmfest Films | LinkedIn

Laurie Peake

Director at SUPER SLOW WAY

James Copson

Director at Anattic

Caroline Norbury

MBE, Chief Executive Officer at Creative Industries Federation & Creative England

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Creative Scale-up Programme

A fully funded pilot programme for Greater Manchester creative businesses with 4+ employees

Greater Connected

Helping digital, creative and tech businesses stabilise, adapt and grow.

GC Angels

Connecting Angels, Funding Innovation

EnterprisingYou

Supporting the self-employed in Greater Manchester

Bruntwood Works

Creating spaces where work & lifestyle thrive

Growth Platform

Supporting the growth of creative industries in Liverpool City Region

Access to Finance

Understanding your financial needs

Department for International Trade (DIT) North West

Helping businesses export and grow into global markets.

Inventya

Your success. Our commitment.

Boost; Lancashire’s Business Growth Hub

Funded support to grow your Lancashire business

Creative England and Creative Industries Federation

Supporting UK creative industries

Intellectual Property Office

Patents – Trade Marks – Copyright – Designs