• Retail
• Sales & Marketing
• Academia
• Business Growth
• Start-ups, Scale-ups, SMEs

With 20 years' experience in strategic commercial environments, including Directorships, consultancy, and Oxford Innovation, he excels at coaching, mentoring, and inspiring change.

Neil holds an MBA, is Chartered in Consultancy and Management, and has an ILM and Mindspan license. Specialising in business strategy, sales, marketing, and company growth, he is passionate about building networks and ecosystems that drive change.

• Consultancy
• Coaching
• Mindset, Psychology, High Performance
• Business Growth

• SaaS Development
• Banking
• Senior Leadership
• Operational Management
• Sales Management

Ian has extensive experience, including 30 years at Barclays Bank, leading teams for personal and business customers across Greater Manchester. He later worked on a corporate Digital Transformation programme, consulting on strategy and user impact.

After leaving finance, Ian developed a programme to innovate the pharmacy sector, design SaaS products to help smaller pharmacies compete. Before joining OI Space, he led project management and product integration for legal firms in the UK and USA.

• Business/Executive Coaching
• Stakeholder Engagement
• Problem Solving & Sprint facilitation
• Programme Delivery & Public Speaking

• Launching and running a startup
• Marketing and Brand Strategy
• Innovation and design thinking
• Strategic Planning
• Problem Solving

30 years experience in marketing, advertising, branding and music. Duncan has worked with both startups and global giants.

His career includes roles as VP of Marketing at Sony Music and VP of Brand & Digital at Fiverr, where he helped transform the company into a global NYSE-listed brand.

• AI
• Marketing
• Strategy

• Marketing & Digital Strategy
• Partnerships
• Research and Analysis
• Data and Insight
• Diversity and Inclusion

Anna has over 25 years' experience across digital and marketing, in over 20 sectors with over 60 brands (B2B and B2C) in every shape and size.

She loves to drive innovation, from helping start-ups obtain investment to setting up innovation labs at large brands. She was named one of The Telegraph NatWest 100 Female Entrepreneurs to Watch in 2022.

• Tech (including emerging tech AI / Web3 / Metaverse)
• B2B & B2C
• Digital & Marketing Transformation

• Business Strategist & Serial Entrepreneur
• 8 years as a management consultant on London 2012 Olympics
• 12 years running a global fitness brand
• Stakeholder Engagement
• Supported more than 3000 business (B2B & B2C)

Julie has almost 30 years' experience in business growth and regeneration with some of the worlds most recognised organisations and brands, across a range of sectors and industries.

She is an award-winning speaker on innovation and entrepreneurship and is the author of 14 books.

• Conceptual Design
• Design Thinking & Productisation
• Branding, Sales & Marketing
• Community Engagement & Activation

• Fundraising
• Product Development
• Lead Generation
• Start up and Scale Up, Enterprise

Artur is an ex-CTO of a publicly listed company Immotion Group PLC.

He gained experience working within the software & design departments for companies such as Jaguar Land Rover, Dassault Systemes/3D Excite and developed multiple businesses, including VirtualSpeech and Virocast.

• SaaS
• B2B
• B2B2C
• Hardware

• Internationalisation + International & UK Sales
• Business Development & Growth
• Product Development
• Diversification
• Commercialisation

Gary is expert at driving international growth and development with companies of all sizes, having been in the global business arena for over 30 years, predominantly in Healthcare and HealthTech.

Having worked for former Fortune 500 global organisations and run his own international SMEs, Gary brings together his real-world experience to support and guide OI Space customers to grow their own businesses in the UK and internationally.

• International
• Healthcare & Digital Health
• Net Zero

• Marketing and Brand Strategy
• Innovation and design thinking
• Strategic Planning
• Problem Solving

Bernard has 30 years marketing, branding, strategy, leadership and Innovation experience with large-scale, global blue-chip companies.

For the last 9 years Bernard has been running his own marketing consultancy business working in a vast array of large and SME clients, supporting their marketing, strategy and innovation needs.

Bernard uses his skills, knowledge and experience to deliver key business support, guidance & opportunities for OS Space customers.

• Marketing
• Consultancy
• Design Sprint
• Coaching

• Qualified Business Coach and Mentor
• Business Strategy
• Financial analysis, reporting and forecasting
• Team Dynamics
• Start up and Scale up, SMEs

David is expert in coaching and mentoring businesses across the SME range.

He has 20 years' experience in the financial sector, and an in-depth knowledge of the business grant funding arena and state aid processes.

• Access to Finance
• Grant funding
• Coaching

• Digital skills
• Innovation Strategy
• Growth Strategy
• Start up and Scale up, SMEs

Naomi has, over the last 10 years, devoted her time to scale-ups, start-ups, innovation, entrepreneurship and digital skills.

She is an award-winning consultant with vast experience of working with accelerators, incubators and other startup/growth support programs in the UK and beyond.

• Consultancy
• Innovation programmes
• Business Schools & Academic institutions

• Fundraising
• Growth Strategy
• Beauhurst & GrantFinder ninja
• Start up and Scale up

Dr Wendy Tindsley is expert in supporting early stage, high-tech, high-growth, businesses. She has a scientific background, has started and run several businesses of her own and has spent 20 years using that knowledge as a coach and mentor.

Wendy has experience of obtaining funding for R&D and capital investment. With good knowledge of innovative technologies across different sectors, her passion is helping ambitious businesses ot achieve rapid and sustainable growth.

• Life Sciences
• R&D Development
• Coaching

• Bid writing & public sector funding
• Sales
• Inward investment
• Community & ecosystem building
• Knowledge transfer
• Startups & Scale ups, Universities

Thanh is a connector of people and driver of new projects and ideas. She is energised by challenging and innovative projects.

Bringing to OI Space 20 years of professional management and economic development experience to senior relationship building and partnerships.

• Creative industry
• Legal tech

• Sponsorship and paid-for partnerships
• Sales and Account Management
• Ecosystem and community building
• Event co-ordination and facilitation

VIctoria has worked in a number of different verticals, including e-commerce, online brand protection, and the charity sector.

She prides herself on being an ecosystem connector and loves working on sales and commercialisation strategy.

• Sales and Account Management
• Sponsorship

• Business and Marketing Strategy
• Brand Building
• Innovation
• Digital Marketing
• Advertising (mass media and online)

Michael brings over a decade of brand marketing and management experience at Fortune 100 companies, like Johnson & Johnson, BAT and Nestle and over 7 years running a digital marketing consultancy, helping small business grow.

You'll benefit from the best practices from global brands combined with the expertise in digital marketing to give you the strategy, systems and tools to accelerate your business.

• FMCG
• Online Knowledge / Info-businesses
• Start-ups, SMEs, Corporate

• Outdoors adventure / Wellness
• Start-up, scale up
• Experiential Marketing
• Web3

With a diverse educational background in Avionics, Aeronautical Engineering, Advertising and Innovation & Creativity. His career highlights include pivotal roles in Business Development, Strategy, Marketing for various creative agencies, driving international success.

Noteworthy ventures include Luggwoods, a popular family attraction, and a pioneering blockchain-based savings platform for first-time homebuyers. Daniel's commitment to personal growth extends to his most recent venture, Rewild Adventures.

• Marketing (B2B, B2C)
• Strategy (business, marketing)
• Business development
• Events

• Orla has supported over 300 organisations across the UK and Ireland in their Diversity and Inclusion journey
• Business Growth
• Community Building

Orla drives business growth by providing customers with tailored innovation strategies, personalised mentoring, and fostering collaborations. As found of Still I Rise Diversity Storytelling, Orla offers solutions to address topics often overlooked in resources, including race, neurodiversity, male mental health, LGBTQ+ issues, disabilities, diverse families, empathy, and inclusive language.

Still I Rise delivers story sessions, workshops, and training to amplify voices, bridge gaps, and promote empathy, ensuring all children and young people feel seen, heard and value.

• Diversity and Inclusion
• Innovation Strategy
• Storytelling

• Customer Service
• Change Management
• Peer to Peer Networks
• Stakeholder Management and Partnerships
• Supported more than 1000 businesses from pre-start to scale up

Jacqui is an experience performance manager with a demonstrated history of working in the retail banking industry for 26 years. Skilled in Excellent Customer Service, Banking, Stakeholder Management, Change Management, Coaching and Development and Management.

Her main career and personal motivator is the dedication to making a real difference to people in her personal and professional life.

• Business Support Eco-systems
• People - Coaching and Development
• MHFA

• App development
• Startups & Scale ups
• Social enterpirse

Darren founded and grew an international education business annually working with over 3 million children worldwide.

After selling the business in 2017, he began to provide coaching, mentoring and group workshops for pre-start, early growth and social enterprise ventures on all aspects of business ownership.

• Education