our mentors

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.

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”

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

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.

Emma is an accomplished leader and people development professional with extensive experience helping businesses establish, refine and deliver their cultures, business models and growth plans.

Helping teams embed world-class leadership, culture and purpose-driven growth strategies.

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.

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.

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.

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.