Has over 25 years innovating, launching new products and services that others want, reshaped businesses, built great teams, created substantial shareholder value, grown companies and people, and then sold those businesses on.

I co-own Miralis Data, a consultancy and software development firm working with data to solve business challenges. Working with leading companies such as Europcar, VPS and Routemonkey, we create algorithms, use machine learning and AI to find and create operational efficiencies, improve planning and modelling and deliver strategic change.

We also invest in companies where we can deliver long-term value. As owner and director of UK Bathroom Store we've delivered an 80% growth in sales, substantial margin improvement and a significant growth in profits.

Julie has 25+ years’ experience in the creative services industry. In 2004 she co-founded and, for the next 10 years, ran The fresh Group – a Manchester based creative events business, encompassing event management, video production, graphic design, digital and exhibition services.

Her role as Chief Exec was both operational and strategic. During her time at fresh she grew the team from 4 to 100 people and the business was propelled from a standing start to a £15m+ turnover with an enviable blue chip client base including the likes of: M&S, Tesco, Barclays, The Co-op, Santander and Dixons Carphone. She helped to establish and mentor a strong Senior Management Team and in June 2014, Julie supported the team to complete a private equity backed MBO.

Gareth is the founder of Beyond Noise, a specialist strategy consultancy working with owner-directors of established independent marketing agencies across the UK. Gareth has spent 25 years working in the marketing services sector and for 15 years was CEO of his own very successful agency Gratterpalm (now Creative Race) where he undertook an MBO in 2002 and subsequently made acquisitions. It achieved revenues in excess of £12 million, employed 175 people and has offices in Leeds and London. In addition to numerous creative awards, the agency achieved Investors In People Gold accreditation, beat Morrisons to be crowned “Yorkshire’s Best Company to Work for” and were ranked the top creative agency in the UK outside of London by Campaign magazine.

Having successfully exited Creative Race, Gareth has invested in a number of early-stage tech companies as a business angel and has also been enjoying sharing his experience through mentoring. His work in this area was recognised recently when he was nominated as one of the four finalists for "Mentor of the Year" at The National Mentoring Awards.

Paul is the EMEA CEO for travel tech scale-up Hi Incorporated and leads B2C strategy globally. He was CEO of Havas Media Group, overseeing a £100m business with 900 staff across 10 operating companies. He was recently voted one of Europe’s Top 100 B2B Marketing Leaders by Hot Topics and Disruptive Tech Leader of the Year by MediaTel/Madtech. Paul is a NED and mentor to a range of startups in the madtech, data and HR tech space, advises VC Symvan Capital and is a Scale Partner for We Are Multiple, helping businesses grow through brand and culture.

Business Consultant to the Creative Industries, with countless years’ experience as a highly accomplished CFO. Having worked for 22 years at the world’s most effective brand consultancy, Elmwood, She is now leveraging her skills and expertise to encourage creative businesses to achieve their ambitions.

Rob Shaw is the CEO of CreativeRace one of the longest running independent marketing agencies in the North of England working with household names including ASDA, Greggs and Pets at Home. Previously he was CEO of Jaywing PLC, a data science-led agency and consulting business. With over 30 year’s experience in marketing and technology Rob has managed services for some of the UK's largest brands including Lloyds Bank, Tesco and O2.