Our Experts

Our network of expert mentors have all built globally successful businesses (some of which are household names), across many different industries.

Atul Pathak

Atul Pathak is one of the UK’s most successful franchise entrepreneurs, operating 43 McDonald’s with more than 3,500 staff.

Atul Pathak OBE

Appt Corporation Ltd

An early pioneer in arguing for the value of digital skills, Kathryn is an advocate of coding and champions gender diversity in technology.

Kathryn Parsons

Decoded

George Polk

George Polk was a pioneer in free WiFi and now a committed investor focused on driving money towards environmentally sustainable projects.

George Polk

Vision Ridge Partners

Ryan Prince

Big on buildings, Ryan boasts considerable experience in real estate and is now busy transforming the home rental sector in the UK.

Ryan Prince

UNCLE

Angie Robinson

Five times a CEO, Angie has long been part of the vanguard of people supporting businesses in the north west of the UK.

Angie Robinson

One Manchester

A publishing powerhouse and politician, Gail advised broadcaster Sky on CSR for a decade and is now active in the fashion and hotel sectors.

Baroness Gail Rebuck

Penguin Random House

Kim Rihal from Equal Education

Equal Education is a social enterprise that provides teacher assistance to children in care, giving them access to special educational tuition.

Kim Rihal

Equal Education

Chrissie started The White Company with £6,000 of her own money in 1994 but company turnover now runs into hundreds of millions.

Chrissie Rucker

The White Company

A regular face on television, interior design expert Celia’s eponymous company has been providing luxury interiors for 20 years.

Celia Sawyer

Celia Sawyer

A true maverick, Richard boasts experience in the music, telecoms and blockchain sectors. He’s currently active in the CBD and tech space.

Richard Skaife

The Conscious Fund

Alex Sloan

Alex has spent his career investing in and successfully growing entrepreneurial for-profit and non-profit organisations that seek to drive financial and/or social impact.

Alex Sloan

Excelerate Foundation

Alex van Someren

An entrepreneur in residence at Cambridge University, Alex was an early tech pioneer, finding success in IT security.

Alex Van Someren

Amadeus Capital Partners Ltd

A keen environmentalist and advocate of social enterprise, Sir Tim Smit is most famous for creating Cornwall’s Eden Project.

Sir Tim Smit

The Eden Project

Layton Tamberlin

An investment expert, Layton founded his own private equity firm and believes in the responsible stewardship of business and corporate citizenship.

Layton Tamberlin

Sullivan Street

David Taylor Brandgym

A marketing maven and author of six books on branding, what else could David call his company but Brandgym? Genius.

David Taylor

The Brandgym

Josh Turner

Josh Turner is the founder of multi award winning social enterprise Stand4 Socks, a leading brand changing the world one pair of socks at a time.

Josh Turner

Stand4 Socks

Graham Thomas

An expert in investment with more than 25 years experience, Graham also has a passion for the natural world.

Graham Thomas

Stage Capital

Emilie Vanpoperinghe

The former finance manager is now on the front line in the fight against food waste as the co-founder and CEO of veg box giant Oddbox.

Emilie Vanpoperinghe

Oddbox

Having run businesses in fashion and residential care, Sandip entered politics in 2006, working in both the Business and International Development departments.

Baroness Verma

UK Government

Katharina Sophia Volz is the CEO and founder of OccamzRazor, a startup using machine learning to find treatments for brain ageing related diseases.

Katharina Sophia Volz

OccamzRazor

The founder of the go-to brand for quality men’s shirts, Charles Tyrwhitt is now a fashion mainstay in cities everywhere, with 40 stores globally.

Nicholas Wheeler

Charles Tyrwhitt

Iqbal Wahhab

Iqbal Wahhab OBE is one of Britain's top restaurateurs with a reputation for excellence through his restaurants Roast and The Cinnamon Club.

Iqbal Wahhab

The Purpose Restaurant Company

Cash rich but time poor, Zia craved meaningful experiences. So he used tech to create something that helped people in the same situation.

Zia Yusuf

Velocity Black

Charly Young The Girls Network

An Expert interested in education, gender equality and social justice, Charly has experience scaling organisations from idea to reality.

Charly Young

The Girls Network

A marketing guru for the new cyber age, Pranav finds connections between product, communication, and the consumer.

Pranav Yadav

Neuro Insight

A strong advocate of social and environmental responsibility, Jochen is Director of Kering, the luxury goods brand.

Jochen Zeitz

The B Team

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