ECONOMIC GROWTH SOLUTIONS - Key Persons
Amanda's key responsibility to date has been executing a sustainable marketing strategy to enhance EGS's vision and strategy focusing activity on the programme delivery of the Manufacturing Growth Programme. Providing first hand support to the field teams and operation teams to support and enable the delivery of the programme to achieve delivery targets. Working with the Regional Director and Reginal Managers to reach the programme targets, supporting stakeholder engagement and providing supporting messages into the marketplace. Amanda is responsible for the delivery of all internal and external communications, including website and social media platforms as well as supporting the engagement of key programme stakeholders.
Previously Amanda has worked on national and regional business support programmes as part of their marketing teams, supporting them with communications, creative visuals and event activity. Other experience in a commercial environment include developing brands, showcasing opportunities and working with stakeholders to enhance company profiles.
In her spare time, Amanda enjoys spending time with her younger siblings, going for country walks with her soon to be husband and two English Bulldogs and is looking forward to planning her wedding.
Job Titles:
- Managing Director / Dean Barnes / Regional Director
Dean has been responsible in recruiting the field team and guiding through rapid mobilisation of the Manufacturing Growth Programme (MGP) whilst leading and managing the overall delivery of both National and regional teams, while ensuring MGP achieve their overall complex contract targets in a manner that is fully ERDF compliant. Focusing on reputation, quality of clients engaged and customer satisfaction is critical to our success. Working with the Managing Director to deliver the annual MGP financial plan, which includes regular reviews, reporting on revenue, costs and expenditure, driven by monthly activity, impact and performance reports.
Dean has been helping businesses to grow for a number of years, in support of growth delivered to over 6,000 SME's from securing funding for innovative high-tech companies to personally coaching high growth businesses. Assisting those high performing businesses with the potential to grow, supporting them to achieve their ambitions whilst keeping abreast of all modern manufacturing nuances are a must.
Away from work Dean is very much a football and cricket fan, time relaxing is spent reading a good Tom Sharpe novel, a motivating autobiography or watching a good thriller on T.V.
Kapil provides a full management and statutory accounting service to Economic Growth Solutions, ensuring the accuracy, integrity and dependability of reporting. He is responsible for developing the Finance Team and providing financial support and analysis to all parts of the business. Acting as the first point of contact for the auditors and communicating with them to ensure all questions can be answered efficiently. Working closely with the ERDF Manager to compile accurate financial reports that will enable the MGP financial claim to be submitted on time monthly.
Kapil has over 8 years' Financial experience of financially setting up and closing national, regional and local grant funded and commercial projects, which have had an annual turnover from £10k to £30M+. Kapil has the passion to constantly improve by understanding and gaining knowledge of key position within the business and finance department to make processes simple. This is to make sure the business is efficient but whilst still maintaining a high quality to smoothly pass audit and grow the business.
Outside of work, Kapil is a newlywed and has recently became a father, so most of his spare time has been occupied by raising his new family. He is currently looking forward to enjoying some of his spare time with his wife and family. Kapil also helps with his local Youth community which he has been part of for more than 15 years.
Job Titles:
- Managing Director / Dean Barnes / Regional Director
Martin was instrumental in the creation of Economic Growth Solutions and driving the rapid mobilisation of the company resulting in the successful launch of the Manufacturing Growth Programme. He is responsible for the successful delivery of all business support contracts whilst leading on the strategic development of the business. He works very closely with funders in helping them to design business support programmes that will deliver maximum impact
Martin has over 15 years' experience of designing and delivering international, national, regional and local economic growth programmes that make improvements to SMEs. He has a passion for ‘making the complex simple', delivering in an ‘open, honest and transparent manner' whilst building teams that always deliver results.
Outside of work, Martin spends most of his spare time with his young family. He has a passion for sport and enjoys supporting his two children in developing their sporting and life skills.
Nabila comes from a background of business analysis, working with the operational and financial teams to develop in-depth reporting and management information systems. Currently managing the administration project coordinator team and supporting the delivery teams in delivering high levels of compliancy as required by the Manufacturing Growth Programme. Nabila also provides the business and data analysis need to support the ERDF compliancy, achievement of KPIs, advanced management information reports and monitors the internal delivery team targets.
Alongside this, Nabila draws on her previous experience of working with local and national business support programmes to create meaningful reports which allow the team to further support ERDF compliancy, work towards the achievement of KPIs, and monitor internal delivery team targets. Her aim is to co-ordinate the many data requests required by complex ERDF projects with simple systems which are accessible to all and can grow alongside a dynamic evolving business.
Between poring over spreadsheets and expanding her knowledge of workplace IT solutions, Nabila is currently looking forward to the multiple holidays she has booked over the next year.
Paul's previous programme mobilisation and ERDF governance experience has been central to the creation and implementation of fully compliant systems for the Manufacturing Growth Programme. Responsible for the preparation and completion of a number of successful regulatory compliancy visits, his day to day work is focused on managing claims and maintaining high standards through internal auditing, SMT reviews and, most importantly, working closely with all functional areas of the EGS Team. Adept at the business of day to day stakeholder management, under his supervision MGP has maintained an unprecedented level of efficient and timely monthly claim payments and reporting throughout its operational period.
Paul has over 10 years' experience managing complex projects in both the public and private sectors. He is a champion of "right first time" and maintaining the integrity of every programme he is involved with; he is known for his consistent eye for detail. This, coupled with his real-world project life cycle experience, ensures EGS is provided with an additional source of end-to-end delivery insight and risk management that safeguards both the financial and impact success we currently deliver to our stakeholders.
Away from work, Paul maximises his time with his wife and children. When away from family, Paul can be found playing his trade in the Leicestershire County Tennis Leagues, pursuing his love of travel and or socialising with friends.