our mentors

Amrit practiced as an accountant and auditor for over twenty-five years before entering academia in 2004. His specialist area has been SMEs and has overseen several businesses from initial startup to successful exit.

He has been teaching at Cardiff Business School (and internationally) for the last twelve years, teaching a range of audiences from Foundation level students through to Executive MBA students.

Alan is the Founder and Chairman of TXO Systems. He founded the company in 2005 and has since led it to phenomenal growth, with operations on five continents.

Alan’s expertise is invaluable in guiding our teams with commercial and product decisions, building partnerships and driving sales.

Co-founder and MD of Newport start-up brewery Tiny Rebel. Brad inspires with his story of starting out in a garage homebrewing on weekends to creating and maintaining an international brand.

Giving teams a unique perspective on team culture, branding, scaling and exporting internationally.

Ben is a creative thinker with an analytical focus. He’s fascinated by FinTech and a believer in the potential of innovation when it moves beyond well-intentioned statements.

With over a decade of experience within insurance, and having worked within start-ups, scaling companies & large incumbents, he’s experience is built around Operational Management, Business Development, Product Development and Project Management.

As founder, investor, and adviser, Dai has worked with hundreds of tech startups across the world. This has been at all phases, from initial conception and seed funding, through to international scale up.

At his core, though Dai still a techy, with over 20 years’ experience of innovation at the leading edge of online media, advanced advertising and various emerging technologies.

David is the Vice President for the Telecommunications Industry at HPE and also the Founder of Odyssey – helping people better understand the human experience both personally and in a business context. David helps the teams understand the realities of business and how to survive and succeed in the rapidly changing world of digital transformation.

Damon Rands is an experienced cyber security expert, with over 30 years in the Information technology industry. Having worked in development, support and installation he has helped companies across the United Kingdom build secure systems and implement best practices to protect their intellectual property and private information.

Edward has worked in a variety of technology businesses for 40 years. He is an innovative, entrepreneurial hands-on business leader with track record of establishing new technology and securing large complex contracts. “There is nearly always a way forward for your business and your Customer. The challenge is to find it and convince all the stakeholders”

Ella is a senior marketer, with a broad level of experience across brand, insight, content and digital. Most recently working in several senior roles within GoCompare. Ella has the ability to think strategically and deliver operationally.  Ella offers our teams insight and expertise around branding and digital acquisition strategies.

Elliot is a serial tech entrepreneur, his inspirational story is a great example of start-up success, securing early investment, resilience and entrepreneurial ideation.

Felix Winstone is the Co-Founder and Managing Director at Talkative, an Alacrity start-up that connects website visitors with sales teams. Talkative’s novel platform brings voice, video, chat and cobrowsing into customer facing websites to increase revenues and improve customer service. Felix manages sales, marketing and finance at Talkative.

Over 18 years experience leading sales, success and marketing teams in the Technology Start-Up, SaaS and Finance industries.

Experience of large scale implementation of sales and success strategies.

VC relationship and Capital Raising: Successfully raised significant capital in 3 seed rounds and Series A rounds.

Jerry has more than 25 years of international investment, company-building, product development and business strategy experience. Gained via exec, non-exec board and operational roles in a number of established and start-up companies.

Broad technology and sector background with a deep understanding of the mobile eco-system and links into consumer Internet, social networks and mobile entertainment.

Jonathan is vastly experienced in business services varying from accounts to full company audits in a wide variety of business sectors.

Jonathan provides expertise in producing forecasts for business plans, grant audits, management accounts, company valuations and due diligence reports.

Leading executive search/recruitment specialist in emerging markets since 1994. Providing pragmatic solutions to organisations requiring C suite/Directors and other senior management predominantly to Financial Services and Commercial/Industrial clients in Russia & the CIS, Africa, Middle East, China & South East Asia, India and South America.

John is an expert in running capital raising and exit processes (Mergers and Acquisitions or Initial Public Offerings) from start to finish.

Following 6 years as Investment Manager across three PE growth funds worldwide (> $500m – one African fund), have spent the last 5 years consulting to PE funds on portfolio companies as interim CFO or a deal manager.

Jess is a talented Digital marketer with over eight years experience in industry.
Key skills include digital strategy, email marketing, social media, content, analytics and reporting.

With ten years agency experience spanning PR and online marketing, Katie has worked with local and national brands delivered everything from website redesign projects, SEO, online advertising campaigns to, social media community management.

Kerry is a Solicitor-Advocate specialising in commercial law and intellectual property law / IT.

Kerry has provided training / lectured nationally and internationally on intellectual property law and dispute resolution mechanisms to professionals, international corporations and public bodies.

Award winning Retail Company Director and Entrepreneur, Kate also has 20+ years experience in senior roles across a range of private sector verticals.

Lee runs Swansea based Visit Digital, they specialise in helping companies understand their customers search habits to give stakeholders the data to make informed decisions. Their clients include The Lad Bible Group, Billionaire.com, Car Buyer and several of the UK’s top 50 websites.

Marilyn has 49 years’ experience as an actress in theatre, TV, radio, film, commercials, voiceover and corporate training and, in a freelance capacity, provides training courses in acting, dialect and presentation skills for actors, business professionals and local government departments.

Leading the BITC Cymru team, championing the responsible business movement in Wales.

Joined BITC after 20 years’ experience in communications with experience including the management of one of Wales’ leading agencies, development of social and digital media capacity and major corporate, consumer and behavioral change programmes.

Nathan helps companies create compelling and purposeful presentations, ensuring the message objective is achieved. Through Nathan’s workshops, founder teams are taught how to present a story that will differentiate them from competitors and make a lasting impression on prospects.

Nigel is an information management consultant, practitioner and thought leader with over 20 years experience, gained in large organisations, both in the UK and abroad.

Nigel’s work enables organisations to produce information management business cases, data governance processes, and structures, delivering the benefits of improved data quality and data exploitation.

Sam is the current Managing Director of Enjovia Ltd, an Alacrity graduate company. Before joining Enjovia Sam was part of the management team of the Alacrity Foundation, helping the teams with commercialisation. Before joining the foundation Sam held a number of Sales and Marketing roles in Canada and the UK within the tech and finance sectors.

Richard helps business’s to quickly distil their strategy and then explain it in a simple, inspirational and memorable way.
This approach enables business to win large-scale bids and to effect organisational change.

Richard has worked with clients including Cognizant, Genpact, GMC, KPMG, Land Securities and The Crown Estate.

Having delved into many industries from general insurance, transport hire, web development, franchising, food to music, Tej’s tech business experience is varied and extensive.

Tej’s dedication to business expansion has been the catalyst for success, carefully planning and formatting tech concepts prior to their execution.

With 20 years of experience working for high profile organizations in the public, private and not-for-profit sectors, Yoti has worked and delivered many wide-ranging and complex cross-organisational initiatives in both North America and Europe.