A seasoned communications leader, Allie is passionate about helping individuals and organisations tell their stories. With 17 years of experience in communications, PR, media, branding, and campaigns, Allie has worked with FTSE-listed companies and major brands across both the corporate and not-for-profit sectors.

Throughout their career, Allie has honed expertise in developing campaign strategies, crafting speeches, and producing attention-grabbing press releases. Her skills also extend to editing magazines, directing photoshoots, and storyboarding videos. With experience managing national-level crisis communications, Allie brings a steady hand when challenges arise.

In recent years, Allie has focused on supporting small businesses, helping them identify what makes them unique and shaping authentic approaches to connect with audiences in meaningful ways. Through Ark Communications, Allie delivers fresh, creative, and compelling strategies that resonate with people, raise brand awareness, and bring stories to life.

Amy is the founder of BOLD, an agency that helps people grow and monetise their personal brand on LinkedIn, she's a podcast and event host, and LinkedIn top voice, and she's on a mission to create more representation in spaces that matter.

Having spent over 10 years working as a recruiter, Amy's passion for equality was running deep. She eventually moved into th DEI space at the end of 2022 at Twitter, only to be fired 6 months later by Elon musk. Amy got her Adult ADHD diagnosis soon after that, allowing her to fully embrace her neurodivergent brain and create a career (& life) that worked in her spicy brain's favour.

She set off on her entrepreneurial journey from there, learning everything she could about business and marketing, bringing her purpose into everything she did. She now spends her days working with mission-driven businesses and solopreneurs, helping them to grow on Linkedin and build thriving communities - and sharing her story with the world, hoping to inspire others to do the same.

Christine Kavanagh is a Brand Strategist and Identity Partner with 20+ years in brand and visual communications. She knows brand culture isn’t just for big corporations, it belongs to small businesses too. She works with founders to build brands that hold space for your evolution and revolution, in all your multifaceted brilliance.

Her ‘inside-out’ approach allows you to feel at home in your business & make a mark that matters. Your business is capable of incredible things…and your brand gives you the power to tell the world - your way!

This is brand strategy for your (r)evolution. Let’s shake sh** up together.

Every business faces risk—and we help you navigate it with confidence. You can’t insure against success or failure, but you can protect against unexpected events.

At SenseRisk, we encourage you to be inquisitive: think about risk, ask questions, and decide which scenarios matter most. Insurance can be complex, but with an expert in your corner, you’ll be better equipped to manage the unexpected and make informed decisions. We’re here to demystify insurance and help you protect what matters—so you can focus on growing your business.

Jason is a business coach and former founder who’s helped over 200 entrepreneurs start and grow businesses with clarity and confidence.

Drawing from experience scaling and exiting his own FMCG brand, he brings practical insight and empathy to every founder journey. He specialises in mindset, focus, and accountability - helping you define bold goals, break through blockers, and take consistent action.

As a NatWest Accelerator coach and Innovate UK specialist, Jason’s approach blends strategic thinking with real-world momentum. Whether you’re just starting or scaling fast, Jason helps you cut through the noise and keep moving towards what really matters.

John has over 30 years’ experience in business development and client management, John is one of the UK’s leading experts in the field of business networking.

Through The Samphire Club he combines his strategic networking skills and extensive bank of connections with a flair for putting together highly enjoyable and imaginative events that create valuable commercial opportunities for its members. The membership, made up of both individual and corporate members working in the private sector and drawn from across the entire South West, benefits from carefully curated, select events designed to initiate specific collaborations, to broader-based, member-wide functions, and al members have access to one-to-one consultations and introductions from John himself.

Building quality, meaningful business relationships and encouraging members to freely share knowledge and contacts is at the heart of The Samphire Club ethos. Club membership is a byword for quality and has proved an invaluable resource for members. Every year, business arising from connections made through the Club, generates significant growth and opportunity across the region.

Lisa is a sales consultant, mentor, and trainer with over 30 years’ experience in the sales arena, from award-winning corporate sales, generating millions in revenue, to running a successful sales consultancy supporting product and service-based businesses worldwide. She blends sales energetics, high-impact skills, and aligned strategy to help her clients create consistent, high-converting sales without pushy tactics.

Lisa has supported some of the biggest names in the online coaching industry as well as hundreds of business owners, helping them refine their offers, master sales conversations, and scale with confidence. In the last three years alone, she has directly added over £1.54 million to her clients’ sales.

Louisa founded a financial education company helping entrepreneurs take control of both personal and business finances, build conscious wealth, and create lasting financial independence.

A multi-business owner and mum of two, Louisa is known for her honest, empowering, no fluff, inclusive approach. She specialises in working with neurodivergent business owners, six and seven figure entrepreneurs, and corporates who feel like their personal finances don’t reflect their business success.

Louisa helps people align their business with the life they actually want through financial literacy and become truly wealthy in mind, body, and money.

Maria helps neurodivergent individuals, particularly women, mothers, and those navigating perimenopause or burnout, build businesses and lives that truly work for them.

With 20 years of experience in client management, operations, and human-first business support and consulting, Maria combines holistic, person first coaching with practical operational expertise.

Through The NeuroWild Collective, she provides a unique blend of neurodivergent coaching, consultancy, Online Business Management, and VA services, enabling start-ups and entrepreneurs to create systems that support both business growth and personal wellbeing.

The Collective is evolving into a network of diverse experts, fully inclusive of all genders, LGBTQ+, and trans communities, ensuring that every neurodivergent founder can access the right support to thrive.

Olly Reid is a multi-award-winning business coach, adviser, and leadership mentor with over 20 years of real-world leadership and management experience. He has worked with hundreds of CEOs, founders, and executive teams, helping them scale sustainably, navigate change, and build happier, healthier, smarter, and kinder organisations.

With a background spanning education, entrepreneurship, and high-performance coaching, Olly blends proven business strategy with human-focused leadership development — earning recognition from the National StartUp Awards, Mentoring Matters Awards, and the Great British Entrepreneur Awards.

Tino, born in Devon, has a first degree in Business Management and an MA in Investment & Finance from Exeter University.

He has held many management/sales roles both in UK and across Europe. He was the Managing Director (VP) of a group of 6 businesses in UK, Belgium, Netherlands & Norway, €250 million turnover and over 1000 employees. Latterly, he was a Business Director for an international packaging company with responsibilities in both Europe & North America. He has substantial business and project management experience including the building and developing of world class greenfield sites (budget €25 mil), and negotiating large contracts (the last one being for €750 mil over 5 years).

Since retirement his volunteer roles include being a Business Mentor for the Prince’s Trust for 8 years; he is a Trustee for his ex-employer’s UK Pension Scheme; the S. Devon Area Rep for the South West Coast Path, and a member of the Devon Countryside Access Forum.

Richard is an experienced chair, NED and Board Advisor, CFO and founder of Link Stone Advisory a multi-disciplinary practice providing advisory and corporate finance services.

Drawing on work across business (PwC, Kingfisher plc, Future plc, Digitalbox plc) and start up (Play Sports Group).

He founded Link Stone Advisory to support ambitious business with integrated advisory services through fractional directors for finance, commercial, legal, HR, Tech as well as Board Advisory and corporate finance roles helping clients raise funds, scale and exit.

He is also Chair of TechSpark and mentors NEDs.

An award-winning Event & Conference Producer with over a decade of experience delivering high-impact events for global audiences.

Samantha specialises in event strategy, community building, project management, and partnership and sponsorship development.

A serial connector with a creative flair, Samantha has produced some of the world’s largest conferences in the gambling and healthcare sectors. She helps organisations grow their reach, impact, and audience through unforgettable experiences.

Tom brings over 20 years of experience in sales strategy, leadership, and execution.

Throughout his career, he has worked with early-stage businesses to help them grow. In 2023, he founded Bright Evolve to leverage this experience in supporting founders who are passionate about their product and domain but need guidance in building a sales engine that delivers profitable, repeatable, and scalable growth.

Tom thrives on the intellectual challenge of helping people expand their businesses.