Meet the team

By providing access to great people, proven practices and strong networks we can confidently steer the growth of the businesses we work with.

Management Board

Andrew Finley

Andrew is the Commercial Director at Oxford Innovation Advice which specialises in business growth strategy and investment readiness.

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Dean Barnes

Dean Barnes

Dean is the Regional Director of the Manufacturing Growth Programme, providing dedicated support to SME manufacturers across England.

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Business support

Adrian Waters

Adrian Waters

Adrian is a Manufacturing Growth Manager in the South East Midlands region as part of the delivery for the Manufacturing Growth Programme.

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Amanda Johnston

Amanda Johnston

Amanda is the head of Marketing for Oxford Innovation Advice, working alongside the other functions and programme marketing leads.

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Andrew Baxter

Andrew manages our unique business tool, GROWTHmapper as well as being a Business Coach with the Oxford Innovation Advice team in Cornwall.

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Bita Najafi

Bita is a Medical Scientist with extensive experience is setting up, running and growing businesses. Now supporting businesses as a Business Growth Advisor.

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Chris Oliver

Chris Oliver

Chris is a finance specialist who has worked in a number of different fields of finance within the last 15 years, operating within Fund Management, Private Equity, Business Advisory & Audit.

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Donna Watkins

Donna is working on the Business Growth West Midlands in Dudley project, helping SMEs in the Dudley area to identify opportunities for growth and offering access to relevant business support.

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Helen Fortune

Helen Fortune

Under the Investment Readiness – Access to Finance Programme Helen offers support to Pre-Start, Start-Up and Established Businesses, based in Birmingham, Solihull & the Black Country, who have ‘High Growth Potential’. The support is to help them to develop commercially credible funding raises. To help build on their inherent capabilities to achieve accelerated growth, performance, productivity, attain high GVA and create high value jobs.

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Irving Levy

Irving is a Business Growth Advisor supporting companies to innovate as part of the South East Innovate UK EDGE team.

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James Bosworth

James Bosworth

James is a Manufacturing Growth Manager in the Leicester and Leicestershire region as part of the delivery for the Manufacturing Growth Programme.

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Jeremy Boye

Jeremy Boye

Jeremy is a Manufacturing Growth Manager in the Leeds City region as part of the delivery for the Manufacturing Growth Programme.

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Linda Cheung

Linda Cheung

Linda is an experienced business advisor, executive coach and board member, who helps innovative scaleup businesses achieve change and growth with lean startup methodologies.

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Marcus Pearson

Marcus Pearson

Marcus is a Manufacturing Growth Manager in the South Yorkshire (Sheffield) region as part of the delivery for the Manufacturing Growth Programme.

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Neil Harriman

Neil Harriman

Neil is a Manufacturing Growth Manager in the Greater Lincolnshire and Humber region as part of the delivery for the Manufacturing Growth Programme and Supply Chain expert.

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Nick Elliott

Nick Elliott

Nick is a Strategic Growth Manager in the Leeds City region as part of the delivery for the Strategic Growth Programme.

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Paul Green

Providing fully funded support to eligible businesses in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly who wish to raise finance for their business.

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Paul-Henri Sampson

To help SMEs in the Dudley Borough to access relevant business support by developing solid relationships with owner managers including the use of business diagnostics and Growth Mapper where appropriate.

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Phil Somers

Phillip Somers

Phil is a Manufacturing Growth Manager in the Stoke-on-Trent and Staffordshire region as part of the delivery for the Manufacturing Growth Programme.

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Robert Rabone

Supporting start-ups and scale-ups to develop a deeper understanding of available finance and resource support, to enable access to such finance and to provide wider business support as appropriate.

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Robin Simpsons

Robin Simpson

Robin is a Manufacturing Growth Manager in the Solent region as part of the delivery for the Manufacturing Growth Programme.

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Rocy Moorse

Rocky Moore

Rocky is a Business Growth Advisor supporting companies to innovate as part of the South East Innovate UK EDGE team.

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Ross Clark

Ross supports selected High Growth and Growth companies across multiple sectors, mainly involving manufacturing and technology, assisting them in their business modelling and planning, funding, innovation management and removing barriers to growth.

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Ryan Davies

Ryan supports high growth, innovative SMEs as part of the South-East Innovate UK EDGE team to identify their barriers to growth and support them through their growth.

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Simon Hall

Simon Hall

Simon manages some of Oxford Innovation Advice’s strategic projects, such as our Peer Networks programmes across the country.

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Steve Dunn

To help SMEs in the Dudley Borough to access relevant business support by developing solid relationships with owner managers including the use of business diagnostics and Growth Mapper where appropriate.

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Will Westley

Supporting Manufacturing SMEs throughout Shropshire to grow by identifying, understanding and removing barriers to growth.
Deploying growthMapper, a comprehensive business diagnostic tool and creating action plans for growth and improvement.
Securing external support for the business to deliver the plan and provide grant funding to assist the business with their costs.
Supporting the business and consultants to ensure a successful delivery of the plan.

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Tap into our insights

Oxford Innovation Advice offers Insights into SME needs and policy effectiveness for policy makers, funders and business support commissioners. It draws on our 30 years’ experience of delivering positive economic growth by enabling scale-ups to achieve their full potential. Each edition concludes with an ‘Implications for funders and Policy makers’ section.

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Covid-19 Statement

Update – Wednesday 15th December 2021

Our Innovation Centres remain operational and accessible, and provide a safe environment for our staff and customers. We continue to assess the risk of COVID-19 alongside the latest guidance from government. In the meantime our Innovation Centre remains COVID-19 Secure and fully open for business. Our detailed risk assessment can be found here.