Experience

Valleys Kids - Plant y Cymoedd

• United Kingdom
• Non-profit Organizations
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Chief Executive

  • May 2021 - Present



The Factory, Porth

• Porth

• Director, Valleys Creative Ltd

  • 2011 - May 2021

  Developing the Factory's social enterprise potential; transforming the original Welsh Hills Works Factory in Porth into a innovative hub for the creative industries based on its success as a live performance venue. Developing the Factory's social enterprise potential; transforming the original Welsh Hills Works Factory in Porth into a innovative hub for the creative industries based on its success as a live performance venue.



Fusion Sponsorship Ltd

• Cardiff

• Director Public and Voluntary Sector Services

  • May 2010 - Jun 2011

  As Director for Voluntary and Public Sector Services at Fusion Elise was responsible for a number of charitable clients and their fundraising and income generation initiatives that engage with individuals through a citizen focused approach. The strategic senior management role involved the facilitation of dialogue between senior decision makers at all levels across all sectors as well as citizen engagement at local level. The key clients included the Welsh Football Trust, The Archdiocese for Cardiff and the Millennium Stadium Charitable Trust. The role also involved a consultancy service given to the Welsh Rugby Union, Welsh Athletics and Scouts Cymru. Show less



Canllaw Online

• Caerphilly

• Director/CEO

  • Jan 2001 - Dec 2009

  Director (CEO) of Wales wide charity established to develop young people’s personal development through access to quality information services, particularly within digital environments. In addition to the chief executive function the role has been to design, develop and implement strategic ICT enabled business transformation initiatives for youth and community organisations and SMEs, working across the public, voluntary and private sectors. The role involved managing a number of projects (including strategic Welsh (Assembly) Government and Wales European Funding Office funded ones) from conception to completion, working to budgets circa £25m. The role has required sophisticated business project management skills to plan initiatives, specify requirements as well as draw in necessary investment from both private and public sectors before implementation. One example of such work is the Credu, social inclusion, initiative that secured £6m+ from the private sector (as well as £6m from local public sector and £12m from Europe), 112 digilabs developed with over 40,000 individuals supported and the initiative also developed employment for over 450 young people and facilitated over 8 million website hits during the life of the project. The initiative successfully delivered the accredited Fujitsu Cyberskills ICT training programme to youth workers and young people at all venues. Show less