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Everyone here at Make Your Mark is committed to helping the UK unlock it’s enterprise potential - and we are a pretty enterprising bunch ourselves! Rollover the squares to find out more...

Alex Richie

Head of Entrepreneurship Now

Alex is kept very busy developing programmes and working with women’s networks, key organisations and entrepreneurs to develop more opportunities for women to be enterprising.

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Amisha Miller

Monitoring and Evaluation Officer

Amisha is responsible for supporting the team to understand and demonstrate the impact of the campaign.

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Beccie Simpson

Regional Campaigner, East of England

Beccie spreads the enterprise message across the Eastern Region and is campaigning to make the East of England the most enterprising place in the UK!

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Caroline Maggs

Regional Campaign Manager, West Midlands

Communicating the work of Make Your Mark in the West Midlands to as many people in the region as possible and getting them engaged in entrepreneurial activity.

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Catherine Ritman Smith

Head of Secondary Education

Catherine works with schools to develop opportunities for young people to be enterprising.

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Chris Spavin

International Campaigns Executive

Chris works with our partners to deliver Global Entrepreneurship Week, catalyse events overseas and assist the campaign’s development abroad.

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Dan McQuillan

Digital Guru

Dan gives direction, insight and inspiration on the use of digital and develops partnerships that can be used to amplify our campaigning.

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Denise Ramsay

Stakeholder Relations Manager

Denise develops partnerships with corporate businesses, entrepreneurs and enterprising organisations. If one of these is you and you would like some enterprising support, contact Denise today!

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Diana Yeboah

PR and Web Assistant

Diana helps Hannah and the rest of the team with any PR and communications tasks. She also mans our Twitter feed, so do drop her a tweet to say hello!

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Diane Beckett

Regional Campaigner, Yorkshire and Humber

Diane develops and manages relationships with partner organisations and supporters in the Yorkshire and Humber region.

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Donovan Izilein

Web Coordinator

Donovan assists the day-to-day maintenance of the Make Your Mark website!

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Eimear Hale

Ambassadors and Networks Manager

The Make Your Mark campaign is supported by inspiring entrepreneurs and super-connected network leaders and it’s Eimear’s job to get them on board!

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Elizabeth Crowther-Hunt

Director of Campaigns

Elizabeth is responsible for work in education – schools, colleges and universities; women’s enterprise; ethnic minorities enterprise, communities enterprise and social enterprise.

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Emma Farrell

Web Manager

Whether it’s this very website, the Make Your Mark blog, the Make Your Mark community or anything else Make Your Mark and webby, Emma will be involved somehow.

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Emma Thorn

Women’s Enterprise Campaigner

Emma manages the Spark Network, a UK wide network of female entrepreneurs.

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Gordon Craig

Head of Business and Corporate Development

Gordon’s mission is to diversify and increase Make Your Mark’s sources of income primarily engaging companies, high net worth individuals and foundations.

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Hannah Bourne

Head of Communications

Hannah can normally be found searching for entrepreneurs who would be good on telly, predicting tomorrow’s headlines or making a cuppa.

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Hannah Carnell

Research Manager

Responsible for Make Your Mark’s research and evaluation activity

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Harry Rich

Chief Executive

Harry leads the executive team in setting the strategy and direction for the campaign and ensuring that we deliver real impact.

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Hazel Johnson

Head of Region East of England

Hazel is the Head of Campaign in the East of England.

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Helen Kerr

Campaign Manager, North West Region

The main part of Helen’s job is to look after the PR and Communications for the North West, shouting out about Make Your Mark, our amazing role models and the campaigns we run.

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James Sandy

Campaign Manager, Localities and Regions

James works to build support for the campaign amongst local government and regional partners across the country.

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Jane Walton

Head of Region, Yorkshire and the Humber

Jane is Head of Region for Yorkshire and the Humber.

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Jonathan Oldershaw

Policy and Research Assistant

Jonathan keeps his finger on the pulse of UK enterprise policy, collates policy responses and authors both our Enterprise Insights newsletter and policy twitter feed - The Enterpriser.

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Kate Fredericks

Education Manager

Kate works within the education campaign developing opportunities for individuals to be enterprising!

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Kate James

Facilities and HR officer

Kate manages the facilities for the organisation and provides HR support to Vanessa.

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Kirstine Murphy

Executive Assistant

Kirstine keeps our Chief Executive organised and fully briefed in order to lead the campaign.

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Lauren Maleh

GEW and Marketing Manager

Copywriter, marketer and strategiser extraordinaire, Lauren is the person to speak to if you want to find out more about Global Entrepreneurship Week!

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Laurie Jarmain

Stakeholder Relations Manager

Laurie develops and co-ordinates relationships with influential partners to support Make Your Mark activitie and is Project Manager of Enterprising Britain and Make Your Mark in Music.

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Luc Benyon

Project Manager, Make Your Mark with a Tenner

Luc deals with the day-to-day management of the Make Your Mark with a Tenner competition.

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Margaret Olszowka

Resources Administrator

Smooth Operator - Margaret works closely with the Resources team, providing professional and friendly administration assistance.

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Mariska van der Linden

Policy Manager

Mariska’s role is to manage research and policy projects that: 
(1) help us increase our impact and really help people to be more enterprising and 
(2) help others understand why enterprise is so important!

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Martha Jennings

Education Officer

Martha helps coordinate the education campaign.

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Melody Slinn

Company Secretary

Melody is Company Secretary and oversees the central administrative functions - finance, facilities and HR.

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Ochuko Adekoya

PR Manager

Ochuko works with the comms team to generate publicity for the campaign and all the fab things we do.

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Pamela Hargreaves

Director of Regions

Director of our regional campaigns, Pam’s role is to bring the enterprise message to the regions and help place enterprise at the top of the agenda!

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Peter Grigg

Head of Policy and Research

Peter’s team works to demonstrate the social and economic impact of campaign activities and to develop fresh ideas and insights for enterprise activity and policy.

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Phil Tulba

Head of Social Enterprise

Phil is the person to speak to if you if you want to get involved with and inspire young people to have enterprising ideas for social and environmental change.

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Polly Harrar

Ethnic Minority Enterprise Campaigner

Polly runs the BAME campaign and highlights the potential of the economic participation of BME entrepreneurs from specific ethnic minority communities across a broad age range.

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Rachel Burkitt

Regional PR Manager

Rachel generates publicity for the campaign across the regions showcasing the exceptional work we do.

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Rodney Egoh

Head of Finance

Rodney reports to teams and project leads on their financial performance and provides financial feedback to the Company Secretary and Chief Executive in order to assist with financial planning.

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Sarah Bevan-Fisher

Head of Region, North West

Sarah works with partners to stimulate enterprising behaviour across the North West region.

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Sarah Summers

GEW and Marketing Coordinator

Sarah engages partners and catalyses events during Global Entrepreneurship Week as well as the coordination of marketing activities.

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Scott Cain

Deputy Chief Executive

Scott is responsible for the campaign’s project development, brand strategy, marcomms and fundraising.

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Slavica Bubullj

Finance Officer

Slava contributes to the effectiveness of the Campaign by providing support to the finance function.

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Tori James

Education Manager

Tori works within the education campaign developing opportunities for individuals to be enterprising!

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Vanessa Brown

Role Models Manager

Vanessa engages with and embeds role models across the campaign influencing our audiences to participate in enterprise.

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Vanessa Johnson

Head of Human Resources

Vanessa leads on all employee initiatives and training and development within the organisation.

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