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Mark Roger

Mark Roger

​Mark has worked at director level within the technology sector for over 15 years, with a background in commercialisation of Software technology companies. He has experience and expertise in SaaS business modelling, investment strategy, growth funding and wholesale business change. Mark has led M&A activity for a global software acquisition vehicle, led a technology investment fund and currently acts as director and non exec director for several tech start-ups.
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Paul Arnold

Paul Arnold

Paul has held sales & management roles at blue chip medical companies Medtronic (formerly Covidien) and Stryker, achieving every sales target presented to him. He has founded and built numerous technology companies, and has direct experience in SaaS modelling. With a degree and corporate experience in IT, Paul is well equipped to apply his technical, commercial & entrepreneurial knowledge for business growth.
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Justin Birley

Justin Birley

Justin has 25 years sales and marketing experience with successful track record in business development and commercial contracts. An experienced sales manager and motivational business Unit leader, Justin has B2C and B2B account management experience, combined with creativity & commercial acumen.
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Andrew McGee

Anna-marie Taylor

Anna-Marie has over 25 years working in senior marketing roles across corporate, start-up, SME and economic development organisations. She works with senior management to create strategic marketing plans that will make a real difference to their business and advises on digital marketing communication channels, PR and digital channels.  Anna-Marie works with with a number of technology, property, public sector and professional services companies on various public sector frameworks, managing and delivering industry focused events as well delivering an outsourced marketing function to her portfolio of UK businesses. ​
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Dr Gavin Scruby

Dr Gavin Scruby

Gavin is a highly qualified and experienced board-level CIO/CTO who has brought numerous successful products to market in diverse technology areas. He has worked with start-ups, SMEs and blue chips, and has created novel products from initial concept as well as helping deliver some of the largest banking and government projects in Europe. He has experience in everything from embedded digital circuits to massively-scaled military and banking installations. His background ranges across technical, organisational, regulatory and management areas with a strong focus on building technology organisations and defining product strategy.
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Dawn-Anne McAneny

Dawn-Anne McAneny

Dawn-Anne has 18 years direct experience in sales and business analytical roles within the technology sector - specifically health and leisure, championing understanding complex client information requirements and translating into design specifications in SaaS environment.
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With a Masters in Business and IT, Dawn-Anne has a keen focus on helping clients understand the data they capture to drive their decision making, guiding them through how to review their processes to continually push their business forward.
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Kevin Lonergan

Kevin Lonergan

Kevin has over 20 years experience preparing & delivering investment strategies for start up and early stage technology companies, securing investment in excess of £10m.
Kevin also provides business, marketing and funding advice to companies that have received SMART and Innovation funding from Scottish Enterprise. The objective of this support is to identify and then help resolve the immediate risks to product development and business growth.
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Ross Haworth

Ross Haworth

Ross qualified as a Chartered Accountant (ICAEW) with Coopers and Lybrand in London. He then took up the position of corporate finance advisor with the Financial Services Authority within the international oil and gas industry. Since 2005, Ross has worked in the global health care sector, becoming Financial Director, Managing Director and then subsequently taking the role of General Manager for Medical Services for Northern Europe until April 2013. Ross now advises on strategic and structured finance, financial management and corporate governance.
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Ross Haworth

Sian McKay

Sian has worked in senior Commercial, Medical and Market Development roles in the Pharmaceutical, Biotech and Life Sciences industries. She has a wealth of sales, marketing and account management experience. Following many years working in industry, nurturing profitable commercial relationships, she now drives medical communications strategies in the healthcare sector, providing a range of services for pharmaceutical clients and the NHS.​
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Andrew McGee

Andrew McGee

Andrew is an international Commercial Champion who is accustomed to supporting high-growth digital health & emerging technology scale-ups; engaging with global business networks & making revenue growth happen more rapidly. With a broad portfolio of commercial projects from living in Silicon Valley and working around the world, Andrew is accustomed to engaging with spin-outs, start-ups, scale-ups & corporate innovation partners to create robust value propositions and to monetise innovation, using a lean start-up and evidence based entrepreneurship model.
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Nicki Thomson-Berwick

Nicki has worked in Senior Operational/IT Management roles for 12 years, most recently in the healthcare industry for the previous 6 years.  Nicki's key experience is in introducing and implementing tech solutions, ranging from finance and sales to customer support and operational applications.  Her expertise has led to successfully implementing and integrating the right technologies into both small and medium sized businesses. With a degree in Business and Accounting, she has the knowledge to quickly identify solutions to problems, while ensuring key financial metrics are achieved through operational efficiencies.​
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Andrew McGee
Andrew McGee

Carey McEvoy and Mark Thomson

Both Carey and Mark have worked in and around large corporates, SMEs and start-ups and across a variety of sectors, for several years. Mark and Carey met as senior consultants with London-based innovation firm Market Gravity (now part of Deloitte), creating innovative and disruptive propositions for large corporate clients.

Both had developed an entrepreneurial streak, between them setting up several successful businesses and organisations. They discovered a shared desire to offer "large corporate consultancy" to SME's and start-ups, fitted around their challenges, value proposition design and customer segments.
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MICHIEL SMITH

Michiel is an experienced non-executive director and informal investor (with several successful exits). He is the gatekeeper of Apollo Informal Investments, shareholder in over 10 start ups and currently a non-executive director with several of these start ups.  He has a Masters in Financial Business Economics and is a certified  European Financial Analyst (EFFAS). In the past he worked as an equity analyst for a large Dutch Asset Manager.​
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Andrew McGee

SHONA COTTERILL

Shona has over 20 years’ international experience working in senior commercial roles, with a strong track record of improving financial and operational performance and raising investment. She has worked with start-ups since 2011, helping them to define a compelling value proposition, engage successfully with corporate partners, commercialise and raise investment.  She has particularly deep expertise and strong networks in the global Health and InsurTech sectors.​
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