SWANSEA BAY BUSINESS CLUB - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Treasurer
- Treasurer of the Board
Alison is a partner at regional chartered accountants, tax and financial planners, Bevan Buckland. She is a fully qualified chartered accountant and provides financial, accounting and tax advice and support to a range of owner-managed businesses throughout South-west Wales. She specialises in the not-for-profit sector and regularly runs training courses for charities.
Job Titles:
- President of the Board
- Club President
Amy is the Marketing Director, one of the Business Owners and Head of Marketing and Client Engagement at JCP Solicitors, one of Wales' best known law firms. JCP Solicitors employs 180 people across 8 offices in South Wales, including office locations in Swansea, Carmarthenshire and Pembrokeshire.
Noted as a rising star in Wales, Amy has been listed in the Western Mail's ‘35 under 35 to watch' and was highly commended in the Rising Star Category of the South Wales Evening Post's Women in Business Awards. In April 2013 Amy was appointed as one of the youngest non-lawyer salaried law firm partners in Wales at the time. Amy was made Marketing Director at the business in 2015 when JCP became a Limited Company and after 5 further successful years, Amy became one of the business owners in July 2020.
Highly organised and driven by data, Amy provides strategic planning for JCP, making sure all company marketing activity meets the long-term goals of the business. Amy is committed to the Club's mission to provide a high calibre relationship building community for the transformation of regional business. Amy has been a Board Member of the Club since 2013.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Board
- Founding Director of NetBop Web Development
Andrew is the founding Director of NetBop Web Development, and boasts 15 years experience in web design and development including several years at one of the UK's largest website hosting companies. Since launching NetBop, the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) has listed him one of the UK's top six most talented young entrepreneurs. In addition to sitting on the board of Swansea Bay Business Club, Andrew is a Director with Swansea Business Improvement District where he chairs a working group for Parking & Transportation for the City.
Ange Windsor, is Director of Print Inc and Tarw Sports with 7 years within the industry. She is passionate about achieving excellence and implementing innovative solutions within both companies, strives to be a leading entity in their respective niches. Her passion within the industry has resulted in a multitude of Awards including the prestigious Women in Business Awards.
Ange Windsor, is Director of Print Inc and Tarw Sports with 7 years within the industry. She is passionate about achieving excellence and implementing innovative solutions within both companies, strives to be a leading entity in their respective niches. Her passion within the industry has resulted in a multitude of Awards including the prestigious Women in Business Awards.
Swansea Bay Business Club's April Lunch will be hosted at Blanco's Hotel, Bar and Restaurant in Port Talbot with guest speaker Aled Rhys Jones, Chief Executive of the Royal Welsh Agricultural Society. This event is sponsored by Lloyds Bank.
Gareth heads up the Marketing function at Gavin Griffiths of Companies, with a focus on sales and revenue.
Job Titles:
- Deputy President
- Member of the Board
- Relationship Director With Lloyds Bank
Jonathan has been on the board since 2017 takes over as President from Amy in 2026. Jonathan is a Relationship Director with Lloyds Bank providing guidance and financial solutions to a portfolio of high value SME clients across South Wales, from Bridgend to Aberystwyth and beyond, to support them in achieving their financial and commercial goals.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Board
- Senior Member of the School of Management
Professor Louisa Huxtable-Thomas is a senior member of The School of Management at Swansea University, and leads on engagement and impact, as well as coordinating our Executive Education provision. Combining theories and empirical knowledge gleaned from the fields of business, social science, education and psychology, Louisa's research interests relate to how people's behaviours, either as leaders, entrepreneurs or policy makers have an influence on societal and economic welfare.
Louisa had a varied early career encompassing work in environmental consultancy, policy making at Regional and Local Government level as well as business support and incubation. Louisa's doctoral research brought all of this prior knowledge together and identified the ways in which businesses can successfully participate in environmental policy making. After completing her PhD in 2009, Louisa's research interest increasingly moved towards business and management, rather than environmental policy, but always in parallel to practical projects that worked directly to assist the economy of Wales. Louisa has played a key role supporting businesses through projects such as incubation, innovation and commercialisation as well as early stage R&D. Not limiting herself to the field of entrepreneurship, Louisa has also worked with academics in fields as diverse as healthcare, e-marketing, education, low carbon energy, information systems, manufacturing and tourism. Most recently she has been working with renowned colleague Professor Paul Hannon to deliver a programme of entrepreneurial leadership development to senior managers of Malaysian Universities.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Board
- Trustee of Harry 's Fund
Mandi is the Multi Sales Manager of Swansea and Cardiff Marriott hotels. She has been with the Marriott group for more than 25 years and she has been a dynamic voice for the company in Swansea, both in driving revenue growth and profitability, and in boosting its profile within the local community. During her time with the Marriott, Mandi has received its coveted Golden Circle award, seeing her attend a celebration event in Cancun for consistently over-achieving on all of her sales targets. Having worked for Marriott Hotels since she was 18, beginning her career as a receptionist, she sees her role very much as a vocation and a labour of love. In fact, to many in Swansea she is simply known as ‘Mandi Marriott.'
Mandi has helped to amplify Swansea Marriott's profile at regional awards and other high-profile events, such as the Swansea Lifestyle Awards and the Swansea Bay City Region Women in Business Awards, for which she was a finalist in the Ambassador category in 2018.
Alongside her day job, Mandi is a trustee of Harry's Fund, which she helps run, in honour of her nephew, Harry Patterson, to help bereaved families access support. Harry's Fund has created a lasting and fitting tribute to young Harry, by building a well-loved park bearing his name, in Altwen.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Board
- Managing Director of Thomas Carroll Brokers Swansea Ltd
Mark is the managing director of Thomas Carroll Brokers Swansea Ltd. With more than 30 years of commercial insurance experience, Mark has a wealth of knowledge across a variety of business sizes and sectors, ranging from property and construction to life sciences and manufacturing risks. Mark serves on the Swansea and West Wales Chartered Insurance Institute council and is to become the local president for the second time in 2020.
Swansea Bay Business Club's May Lunch will be hosted at Tŷ Milford Waterfront Hotel in Milford Haven, with guest speaker Huw Thomas, Chief Executive of Puffin Produce and Pembrokeshire Creamery. This event is sponsored by Odyssey Pensions.
Job Titles:
- Immediate past President
- Member of the Board
- Co - Founder and Managing Director of Morgan & Morgan
Michael is co-founder and Managing Director of Morgan & Morgan, one of West Wales Leading Office Solutions Companies established over 26 years ago. Michael also has overall responsibility as Chairman of the Board at Nemo Group. With many years in the Office and IT Solutions Industry he comes with a wealth of business experience, not only from within his own business but in his other roles which include chairing Nemo Group and as one of the UK Directors for Business Products Group International as well as Governing Body experience in local schools.
Job Titles:
- Managing Director
- Member of the Board
Natasha is the Managing Director of multi award-winning PR and communications agency reThink PR & Marketing. A former broadcast and national newspaper journalist, Natasha started working in PR in 1999 for one of the UK's largest agencies. Since returning to Swansea in 2003 she has helped position reThink PR & Marketing as one of Wales' most respected communications agencies, which has sat on the highly coveted Welsh Government approved supplier framework for almost ten years. She has won numerous industry awards for her PR work and is one of the Chartered Institute of Public Relations' most awarded PR professionals in Wales.
Since 2009, Russell has lead Swansea Business Improvement District through three successful ballots, securing robust mandates and multi-million-pound support for over 800 stakeholders. In his central role as a leader, decision-maker, manager, and communicator, Russell reports to the board of c-suite directors and oversees the commercial management and marketing of Swansea City Centre.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Board
- Co Director of Miles Hire Limited
Ryan is the Co director of Miles Hire Limited, a plant , tool and powered access company with depots in Swansea, Bridgend and Cardiff. Originally starting in 2003 with his brother Darren and father David, the family company has grown with several depots, winning "Hire company of the Year" in the UK in both 2017 and 2020, the only Welsh company ever to do so. Ryan is passionate about promoting the construction industry and is co director of the Welsh Construction show, the largest construction specific event in Wales.