Justin Souter Email & Phone Number

Northumberland, Northumberland, United Kingdom

Durham County Council And North Of Tyne Combined Authority Areas

The Innovating Together–Universities in the North East (In-TUNE) partnership, has been launched by Durham, Newcastle, Northumbria and Sunderland Universities, alongside technology innovation catalyst CPI, to deliver two business support programmes which aim to strengthen the North East economy. One of these is Arrow.Working in the Arrow team within the.

North East England

I've run my own business since 2008. I’ve worked with and supported what must be ~500 founders, and have been involved in delivering:- ~12 intakes of the DigitalCity Accelerator in Middlesbrough (workshops + coaching)- Workshops on several intakes for Teesside Launchpad's Startup FUEL programme- Raising Finance and Pitching for Investment workshops for.

England, United Kingdom

Second-in-command on this innovation scouting accelerator bringing together 10 global retail tech companies with board members / chief digital officers of Asda, B&Q, Boots, Marks and Spencer, and EnableAll. Partnering with trade paper Retail Week, the 5 retail panellists shared their key innovation challenges to prospect for fresh solutions. As Program.

NE LEP Area

I worked 4 days a week for the North East LEP on our High Potential Startups accelerator programme, which ran between Autumn 2019 and December 2021 and remotely during the pandemic. Our goal was to create businesses who would create jobs, be suitable for scaleup, and turn over £1m after 3 years of trading. As subject-matter expert on startup best practice.

North East England

2 North East tech leaders - Bob Paton and Charlie Hoult – wanted to set up an organisation to champion the enterprise IT capability in our Region. Charlie commissioned me first to compile a report detailed the IT sector here, and I subsequently became Dynamo’s Head of Engagement. Together with Bob, Charlie and an Advisory Board, I was instrumental in.

Middlesbrough

Together with the founder, I set up this startup programme based in Middlesbrough. We recruited 10 tech teams from around Europe to take part in an early accelerator, based at Teesside University and drawing upon international best practice such as Lean Startup, Business Model Canvas, product management and much more.

Sunderland, United Kingdom

Happiest was a digital startup seeking to build the wellbeing of users through the principles of positive psychology. We pivoted to our aim of: "building a location-aware loyalty rewards platform connecting businesses and consumers."My role was to use web analytics and listening tools to monitor our marketspace; conduct market analyses to inform our.

Bracknell, England, United Kingdom

## Key highlight was working on HMRC accountLeading a team of 8, I was responsible for managing information handled by the account,namely:- management reports and reporting databases- three intranets, and - maximising use of a dashboard-based solution to track business unit performanceMy Boss also tasked me with setting up a team to roll out a centralised.

Reading, England, United Kingdom

## Web content management solution for Department of Trade and IndustryWeb pages for this UK Govt. Department were being created by web designers in a process that was expensive, inefficient, and time-consuming. We replaced this with a browser-based web content management solution. I:- Identified the end-users’ requirements- Re-designed the publishing.

Reading, England, United Kingdom

I won an ICL / Fujitsu Bronze Award for my work with the lead consultant to create a Knowledge, Learning and Information Management Toolkit for the UK Home Office. KLIMT supported teams to reassess the knowledge they possessed – and how to make the most of it..Another high profile assignment was to design and specify a web-based directory of expertise for.

Before joining Fujitsu Services, Justin worked to provide a complete outsourced IT function for a trade union. For the final 14 months of the contract, he acted as Project Manager, working on the design and implementation of windows-based systems with a budget in excess of £200,000.

Mba, Executive Mba

Bsc, Psychology

Activities and Societies: 89-90 -- Bristol University 3rd XV; 90-92 -- Honorary Midshipman in Bristol University Royal Naval Unit

Secondary Education