Our Specialists

Alex Mackenzie SVS

Executive Coach

Executive coach and business leader with 20+ years’ experience supporting leaders under pressure, in turnarounds, hyper-growth, first-time scale, and mission-critical environments.

Andrea Edmondson SVS

Leadership Coach & Founder of The Biology of Leadership™

Founder of NeuroSmart™, helping leaders strengthen their internal systems, so they become a positive ripple for their teams, organisations, and the wider world.

Andy Hanselman SVS

Founder and Partner, Andy Hanselman Consulting

Andy Hanselman is a keynote speaker, author, and consultant who helps businesses, their leaders and their people create real competitive advantage.

Annette Lyn O'Neil SVS

chptrs.tech, Board Member

Sheffield-based technologist with chptrs.tech and a board member of Venture.Community.

Carl Stanton SVS

Founder, Trove Ventures

Founder of Trove Ventures, advising and supporting early-stage businesses through The Business Trove.

Craig Stewart SVS

IT Operations and DevOps specialist

I'm an experienced IT Operations engineer with 20 years of experience across multiple aspects of the space, and a deep understanding of computing and networking technology.

Jimmy Armitage SVS

Managing Director, Your Wavelength

Founder of Your Wavelength, helping businesses sharpen brand, marketing and communications.

Joe Milnes SVS

Founder, Revitk

Sheffield-based founder of Revitk with a TDSC (Translational Defence & Security) background.

Mark Asquith SVS

Commercial clarity for founders & investors

Senior clarity in complex, high‑stakes environments — £700m+ delivered across PE‑backed exits, turnarounds and transformations.

Martin Barnes SVS

Presentations Specialist, 8s2c

Presentations specialist helping founders and leaders craft and deliver high-impact pitches and talks.

Nazeli Ter-Petrosyan SVS

Research & Innovation Engineer

AI researcher working across startups and academia. Research & Innovation Engineer at Opply, and a founding engineer at Wearify, a fashion-tech startup.

I deeply care about people, ideas and technology. My door is always open for Founders. I've helped over >£14M of fundraising and >20 companies with pitch coaching in the last 15 months. P.S. Come to my raves and buy my dog food

Nuala Gallagher SVS

Founder (stealth), Longshaw Advisors

Stealth-mode founder with advisory experience through Longshaw Advisors and The Prof Office.

Pearl Oguchi SVS

Qube Catalyst. Tech Product Expert for Founders and Startups

I am a software product expert and technology operator with 22 years of experience building, shipping, and optimising digital platforms. My career includes nine years at Meta, where I managed product lifecycles across the entire spectrum of scale, from specialised products for 3,000 people to global systems serving over three billion people, operating within high-speed environments. Outside of my core product career, I am a former elected borough councillor and the founder of Black Women in Tech, a professional Facebook community of over 52,000 members built entirely through organic growth. Today, I operate Qube Catalyst, an independent product advisory where I work with tech startups facing early user adoption, retention, and growth plateau challenges. I specialise in hands-on architectural diagnostics, helping founding teams turn early user behaviour into clear, actionable engineering priorities. Based in Leighton Buzzard, I balance my advisory work with my family life as a wife, a mum to three teenagers, and the caretaker of a very stubborn but adorable Shih Tzu puppy.

Philippe Sayegh SVS

Fundraising Interpretation Diagnostic for Complex Raises

CLARITYINVEST is the fundraising narrative intelligence platform that simulates and predicts how investor rooms will interpret, compress, and retell the story - AFTER you leave the room. >> For seed SaaS founder-CEOs, Series A/B expansion CEOs, cross-border startup CEOs, and board-backed finance lead CEOs. We focus on the one question that determines progress: will the company’s story survive inside the investor’s firm after the meeting ends? Clarityinvest is built specifically for fundraising conviction and cross-border investor decision making frameworks that combines software diagnostics with human advisory, so the company does not just see what happened in the room, but what will happen next in the investor’s internal decision process. That makes us the system founders use when they need a story that can actually lead, not just impress.

Rachel Swann SVS

Founder of Rachel Swann Ltd

South Yorkshire-based independent consultant working under her own practice at rachelswann.com.

Rebecca Noskeau SVS

Organisational Psychologist & Executive Coach, Growing Beyond

Helping founders strengthen decision-making, leadership and team effectiveness as they scale through organisational psychology and executive coaching. Founder of Growing Beyond and board director of Venture.Community.

Sandra Patricio SVS

Performance Coach for Founders & Senior Leaders- Toki Mindset & Talent

Sandra Patricio is the founder of Toki Mindset & Talent, working with commercially-minded founders on the mental fitness that underpins performance: how they think under pressure, make decisions, and lead when the business gets hard. Her approach centres on what she calls "Energetic Currency": understanding where a founder's mental energy actually goes, and reclaiming it from the patterns that drain it. Before coaching, she spent two decades in talent acquisition, and often ends up helping founders think through hiring and building their first teams alongside the coaching work.

Shaun Sagar SVS

Founder, Sagar McClintock Sales Consultants

Barnsley-based sales and operations specialist helping founders find product-market fit and execute go-to-market, with depth in manufacturing, fulfilment, SEIS/EIS and valuation.

Simon Mather SVS

CTO, Glue Software

Technology leadership specialist and CTO at Glue Software, a technology consulting and strategy firm. Supports founders on architecture, technical decisions and engineering leadership.

Sophie Adams SVS

Strategic Marketing Advisor for Startups

I help founders turn complex ideas into brands customers understand, investors back and markets remember. From brand strategy and positioning to go-to-market planning, I help startups build the foundations for sustainable growth. My three service pillars: Brand Strategy: Define your purpose, positioning, messaging and identity so your business stands for something distinctive. Go-to-Market Strategy: Identify your ideal customers, validate your messaging and build a focused plan to win early traction. Fractional Marketing Leadership: Ongoing strategic support to help you grow with confidence without hiring a full-time CMO.

Stephen Bridge SVS

Founder or GTM Consultant

Founder of Silent Kid Limited, a business consultancy specialising in turning commercial ambition into measurable commercial outcomes.

Tom Goff SVS

Solicitor, gunnercooke

Venture Capital focussed corporate lawyer, based in Sheffield. Practicing through gunnercooke LLP, Tom provides trusted legal counsel to numerous Venture.Community members.

Will Poynter SVS

Technical Founder

Engineering Director at Babylon Health, Cofounder & CTO at Tinto (femtech), Technical Manager for the CLOSER project at UCL. Frequent runner with Steel City Striders and lifelong technology enthusiast.