The industry’s leading instant booking system for all types of parties and events. Think booking.com for events - instantly book street food, mobile bars, catering, musicians, magicians and much more. Ideal for private and corporate clients alike.

Generative AI to power knowledge on demand ‘Ask Eve’, conversational learning for corporates with a distributed workforce with the power of a social network platform - think Tik Tok.

A Microsoft partner and provider of a specialist, cloud based software aggregation solution known as "myday." This provides a student portal and single access point for college and university students and staff. Collabco is also a provider of IT and consultancy services to the Education market. It is backed by the North West Fund for Venture Capital, managed by Enterprise Ventures, and the North West Fund for Digital & Creative, managed by AXM Venture Capital.

The e-Quality Group and CognAssist embraces the 3 companies of e-Quality Learning, Invate and Learning Labs - a provider of specialist assistive technology and training (ATT) to students with learning and physical disabilities in higher education, further education and skills. e-Quality learning delivers over 25,000 hours of one to one training, makes adaptions to over 4,000 IT systems in education and supports over 10,000 service contracts. CognAssist is an innovative diagnostic and support… Show more The e-Quality Group and CognAssist embraces the 3 companies of e-Quality Learning, Invate and Learning Labs - a provider of specialist assistive technology and training (ATT) to students with learning and physical disabilities in higher education, further education and skills. e-Quality learning delivers over 25,000 hours of one to one training, makes adaptions to over 4,000 IT systems in education and supports over 10,000 service contracts. CognAssist is an innovative diagnostic and support system that creates individual learning libraries and personalised learning techniques for apprentices and other learners to aid successful completion of the learning journey. Show less

LIFTUPP is a spin out from The Dental School of the University of Liverpool. LIFTUPP provides an integrated on-line system that provides longitudinal assessment in life science areas such as dentistry, medicine, nursing, physiotherapy, pharmacy and veterinary science with potential in vocational training, engineering and law. It currently has a user base of 50% of the dental school market with expectations of international sales following.

On the merger of learndirect and JHP Group, Jim stepped into the role of Non Executive Director of the new enlarged business.The new business operates across the vocational training, youth and adult skills, on-line learning, e-assessment, education and welfare to work sectors in the UK.

The leading membership organisation representing the interests of members across the vocational training, further education skills and welfare to work sectors

The leading provider of vocational training, apprenticeships and skills in the UK with 13,000 apprentices in the health & social care, early years care, retail, business administration, IT and customer services sectors. JHP is also a provider of employment services in the welfare to work market and a prime contractor to the government's flagship Work Programme. Jim steered the business from private ownership into a private equity backed business via an MBO in January 2010 and subsequently the… Show more The leading provider of vocational training, apprenticeships and skills in the UK with 13,000 apprentices in the health & social care, early years care, retail, business administration, IT and customer services sectors. JHP is also a provider of employment services in the welfare to work market and a prime contractor to the government's flagship Work Programme. Jim steered the business from private ownership into a private equity backed business via an MBO in January 2010 and subsequently the merger of the business with learndirect limited. Show less

Full operational responsibility for the Education and Technology business and shared responsibility for theoperational delivery of all other divisions plus business and strategic planning as part of a 5 man Executive Team of the 2,000 plus PLC.

Full P&L, operational, strategic and tactical responsibility for Tribal's largest and most profitable trading division. I led the formation of the division and its development both organically and via strategic acquisitions.The division operated across all phases of education and extensively in technology and IT services and became one of the leading providers of educational and IT support services.