Bev's career spans inner city regeneration in London, a corporate career with a global north American mining company, where she pioneered equal employment opportunities for women, and a successful UK entrepreneurial career. Growing three successful companies, including healthcare packaging, industrial design, creative industries, and then her own management consultancy business, Bev is also a qualified mediator. She has a first degree in the arts, and a Masters in Science.

In 1999 she was appointed Chief Executive of YTKO, developing new economic development consultancy services to the public sector, managing enterprise and business support programmes for Regional Development Agencies and local authorities across the UK and Europe. These include a £1.5m Proof of Concept Bioscience scheme for Yorkshire Universities, Business training for Sheffield graduates, and the €1m EU Innova programme for medical and healthcare entrepreneurship and funding. Her speciality is the creation and animation of innovation networks and communities of interest.

In 2003 Bev launched, and continues as CEO of, the Norfolk Network, a dynamic, inspirational, educational and support community for entrepreneurs and businesses. It has been recommended to the DTI as an example of best practice. The focus of the Network is business growth, with special expertise and emphasis on financing, sales and marketing - sustainability and growth through getting and keeping customers.

As part of this activity to stimulate start-ups and business growth, Bev also established Norfolk First, an early stage business angel network serving start-up businesses in East Anglia. It is the only one of its kind established by a woman in this region.

More recently, her vision for how women's enterprise support should be transformed across the region led to a unique £1.3m project to increase the number and success of women-owned businesses. With over 2000 participants in the Enterprising Women programme in its first year, this community is set to become a centre of excellence for women in business.

Bev is a Trustee of the East Mentoring Forum, sits on the SME advisory committee of the Industry and Parliament Trust, and served on the board of the Innovation Society of the East of England. She is also a Non Executive Director of Prowess and of The Exchange. She lectures on a wide variety of business topics, is a mentor to several businesses, and holds two non-executive directorships in technology companies.

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