The Business Life Team
The BUSINESS LIFE team is led by David Rowe BSc MBA MCMI who is a Holder of The Queen's Award for Enterprise Promotion Lifetime Achievement and the Director of University of Warwick Science Park (UWSP), one of Europe's premier, University-linked Science Parks. When he started UWSP, there were just 100 small, knowledge-based firms in the sub-region. Now there are more than 1,000 - around half of which have been supported by a wide range of often groundbreaking, enterprise promotion activities developed by David.
In each of the last six years, between 50 and 70 per cent of the fastest growing hightech companies in Coventry and Warwickshire have been based at UWSP. David has put systems into place to help small businesses access funding, find investment, develop their markets and work with under-graduates and recent graduates - all of which have helped firms to grow quicker.
Now David has brought together an accredited educational programme and combined that with experienced mentors from the Regional Development Agency (RDA) area of Advantage West Midlands. The result is BUSINESS LIFE, a proven package of support for all new and young businesses, and self-employed people in the wider community.
David's team is full of experience - meet just a few of the team:
Bill Taylor
A career marketing specialist who has worked across a wide range of industries and in both small and large businesses. Since joining the BUSINESS LIFE team at the Science Park Bill has become something of a legend, able to rapidly assimilate a business' market options and lead their management towards an improved strategy, more clearly identifying the market segments to go for first that provide the best chance for early success. We call Bill's team TechMark and over the years they have assisted some 500 start up and existing small businesses to improve their performance in the market.
Karen Aston
Karen has many years at the practical end of getting the marketing message out to potential customers and of working with first time entrepreneurs. She led the marketing activity of Aston Science Park in Birmingham before joining the University of Warwick Science Park to manage and market a business incubation centre owned by the Science Park and Coventry City Council. Karen has been selected recently to become a business advisor specialising in helping women to get into business, linking with the growing network of women's business support activities in the West Midlands.
Roger Mumby-Croft
Professor Roger Mumby-Croft is Director of the Enterprise Hub, Warwick Business School (WBS), the University of Warwick. Roger joined WBS in 2007 from Oxford Brooks University Business School, where he was Assistant Dean for Enterpise and Management Development and founder of the Enterprise Centre. Prior to this he held a variety of academic positions at Oxford Brookes and Westminister College, Oxford. Roger has over 30 years experience both as a entrepreneur and academic. During the 1980's Roger founded and directed SeaKing Fish Products Ltd in Grimsby before beginning this business venture, he was the Marketing Director for GMC (Holding) Ltd.
Roger's principal acheivements include a DTI Business Fellow award; he is a European Union Senior Expert in Entrepreneurship and Small Business Management and was responsible for the Developing Management Excellence (DME) programme for the hi-tech and bioscience sectors. Roger is a Board Member of both Enterpise Educators UK and the European Enterpise Network. He also acts as an advisor to several fast growth companies.
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