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Dan Henderson, Associate Dean: Enterprise, London College of Fashion, University of the Arts London

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Dave Bolton, Director of Enterprise and Employability and Programme Director, Swansea School of Management

Dave Bolton is a Fellow of the IEEP, Fellow of the Chartered Management Institute and of the Higher Education Academy. Having spent in excess of 20 years working in private industry, mainly in the fields of sales and marketing management, he decided to move into entrepreneurship setting up a successful electrical contracting business, as well as entering academia where he currently works in Swansea School of Management He is currently Director of Enterprise and Employability and Programme Director for the School of Management’s BSc Business Management undergraduates. In his spare time David enjoys cycling, running, reading and as a passionate Welshman, rugby.

Vice-Chair

Associate Professor and Director of the Marjon Business School, Plymouth Marjon University

Emily is an Associate Professor and Director of the newly established Marjon Business School at Plymouth Marjon University. Emily has a passion for enterprise education and has devoted her time in Higher Education to developing teaching and research in this discipline. She currently leads the MBA at Plymouth Marjon University and lectures on the BSc (Hons) Business degree, both of which have a strong entrepreneurship flavour. She recently established and now co-chairs the Research in Enterprise Education Community of Interest, the first official partnership between the Institute for Small Business and Entrepreneurship and EEUK.

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Assistant Director (Enterprise and Entrepreneurship), Newcastle University

Gareth joined Newcastle University in 2001, helping to establish the University’s enterprise and entrepreneurship support before leading the development of its Graduate Skills Framework. As Assistant Director of the University’s Careers Service, Gareth leads on enterprise and entrepreneurship strategy, chairs its Board of Studies, and oversees its enterprise education and start-up support functions. Gareth re-joined the EEUK Board in 2016 as Treasurer, having also served 2007-2010 when he was involved in creating the National Enterprise Educator Awards. Gareth is a Fellow of the RSA, a full member of AGCAS and co-developed the 2012 QAA guidance on Enterprise and Entrepreneurship Education.

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Senior Lecturer Strategy, Coventry University

Dr. Inge Hill, Senior Lecturer Business Strategy, Coventry University. Inge has a varied career in private business, the public and Third Sector. She is an award winning former entrepreneur who ran two service businesses before returning to HE in 2013 full-time. Inge is a sought-after inspiring speaker nationally and abroad (Finland, Germany). She leads on strategy development for a number of UK non-profit boards (Localise West Midlands). Her research interests in social enterprise and nascent entrepreneurship (improving processes to start new ventures) and her experience in supporting start-ups led to an internationally successful book Start Up (Hill, 2015, http://bit.ly/Start-Up-IngeHill). https://www.linkedin.com/in/dringehillstrategy/

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Director for Enterprise, University College London

As Director for Entrepreneurship at UCL. I have a truly awe inspiring role to encourage talent across the UCL landscape. My current focus is rebuilding the entrepreneurial offer particularly to the 10,000 PhD and Early Career Researchers. In 2016 I had the privilege to be appointed by Mayor of London the Student Entrepreneur Trainer/Advisor. Previously, at University of Greenwich, I created EU projects raising over €6m to promote innovation and enterprise, latterly in social innovation and entrepreneurship amongst refugee groups. With 20 years in research, 7 start-ups, I am ‘a bit of an ‘maverick’ spanning the academic and commercial worlds.

Former Chair

Head of Enterprise and Innovation Services, Lancaster University

Jon Powell is Head of Enterprise and Innovation Services at Lancaster University. His entrepreneurial journey started when as a student he set up a HR consultancy company in 2003. Interested in helping others Jon also started the Lancaster Entrepreneurship Society, potentially the first in the country. He subsequently managed several start-up support programmes before realising Enterprise Education was a thing and became involved in EEUK. Following this Jon established the Enterprise Team at Lancaster University. Jon is still involved with several SMEs and is on the board of Directors for EEUK and Lancaster District Chamber of Commerce.

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Enterprise Skills Consultant, University of the West of England, Bristol

Lauren is Enterprise Skills Consultant at UWE Bristol, leading the extracurricular programme of enterprise education. Before joining UWE in January 2018 Lauren worked at Cardiff Metropolitan University as an Entrepreneurship Advisor supporting entrepreneurial students and graduates and developing enterprise education initiatives. In 2017 Lauren participated in the EEUK visit to Japan to share best practice in enterprise education. She is currently studying for an MSc in Strategic Marketing, completing her thesis on the motivations of social enterprise customers. She has an active interest in social enterprise and was recently awarded EEUK funding to explore the development of enterprise skills through socially-driven projects.

Treasurer

Assistant Director of Careers Service, (Enterprise Education & Employer Engagement), University of Bristol

An experienced educator and enterprise enabler, Neil has led the development of extracurricular and curricular based pedagogies that lead to innovative capabilities at two Russell Group institutions.  Neil is currently Assistant Director of Careers with responsibility for graduate employer interactions and enterprise education at the University of Bristol.  He leads three distinct strategic areas; high volume employer engagement; emerging and scale up business links; and activities that support enterprising behaviours and start up.  Neil is passionate about enterprise throughout education and its connections with sustainability.

Company Secretary

Head of Enterprise and Entrepreneurship, University of Huddersfield

Philip Clegg is Head of Student and Graduate Business Start-Up with the University of Huddersfield’s Enterprise Team. Originally from a performing arts background, he worked exclusively as a self-employed musician for over 20 years before becoming passionately involved in enterprise education, and so has origins in enterprise practice, prior to entering the HE environment.

Now leading a team of business advisors, the Enterprise Team sits in The Duke of York Young Entrepreneur Centre and feeds into the University’s clear commitment to support the development of enterprising graduates; a commitment reflected in the University’s THE Entrepreneurial University of the Year and a Queen’s Award for Enterprise.

Philip’s particular special interest area of enterprise is Social Enterprise (SE), and having founded an externally facing SE Consultancy Unit in 2013, they operate to the ethos of an SE, utilising profits to enhance SE support to our own students and graduates. The model is supported by his Doctor of Enterprise research to establish a set of guidelines to move towards a sector-informed start-up support provision for social entrepreneurs. Philip has been an EEUK Board member since September 2016 and also Chairs the Graduate Entrepreneurship Network.

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Dean, Teesside University Business School

Susan joined Teesside University in early 2017 and was appointed Dean of Teesside University Business School in June 2017. She welcomes the challenge to be growing and leading the Business School during this rapidly changing landscape.

Previously, Susan spent over twenty years at Edinburgh Napier University where she was the founding Director for the Centre for Entrepreneurship, a Subject Group Leader and Director for Executive Education.  Susan developed a ‘pracademic’ philosophy in the Centre’s teaching which required the teaching team to have both academic qualifications and business experience to ensure a practitioner focus in all delivery.

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Entrepreneur in Residence, Keele University

Will has been in enterprise education for the past seven years, building on his entrepreneurial experience to develop a portfolio career in the sector. He has enjoyed working with 50+ educational institutions, primarily universities, across the UK, Middle East and Asia.

He is an Associate of the National Centre for Entrepreneurship in Education, an Executive MBA candidate at Aston Business School and a Fellow of the School for Social Entrepreneurs. Particular interests include innovation, digital and ethical growth. In his spare time he runs an online community of 600+ social entrepreneurs and throws himself out of aeroplanes for fun.