Mark John Email & Phone Number

Cardiff, GB

South East Wales

Board Member of the Regional Growth Board of the South East Wales Corporate Joint Committee (CJC) for the Cardiff Capital Region (CCR). Acting in a strategic advisory capacity to promote and stimulate economic growth and develop innovation in the region from a tech and digital industry standpoint. To assist and support CCR in its current and future role as.

United Kingdom

Member of the industry steering group for the Western Gateway Connecting our Clusters project. Working both sides of the Severn Bridge in Wales and the West of England, to develop stronger technology and digital sector partnerships between private and public sector stakeholder partners, both geographically and across industry sectors, to create pan-West of.

United Kingdom

Member of the industry steering group for the UK Chips Coalition, formed to provide an influential voice for the thriving UK semiconductor industry. Made up of a composite of sector advocates and companies and led jointly between TechUK, TechWorks and Global Tech Advocates, the UKCC will produce recommendations to UK Govt on ways to increase support for.

Cardiff, United Kingdom

Co-Founder and shareholder at Tramsheds Tech, a Welsh-based UK Digital Tech & Innovation Hub network, providing Business Incubator and Accelerator Growth services, Digital Skills & Tech Training for a wide range of industry and public sector partners. With access to class-leading office and co-working space for the Digital, Tech, Games, Creative Industries.

United Kingdom

Member of the Barclays Eagle Labs Digital Growth Fund Advisory Board, representing Wales, alongside sector representatives from across the UK.

Based at Tramshed Tech in Cardiff, Tech Wales Advocates (TWA) champions the Welsh tech startup ecosystem and campaigns to address challenges facing local tech companies. TWA is the fifth Global Tech Advocates (GTA) network in the UK, joining London, Scotland, Belfast and the North of England. Global Tech Advocates is an international grassroots tech.

Cardiff, United Kingdom

Founding member of UK Tech Cluster Group (UKTCG), which has representation from all the UK Nations and Regions, as the Wales representative, speaking on behalf of the grassroots technology sector, looking to promote sector growth for the UK technology sector, alongside informing government and public sector policy with direct reporting links into DCMS and.

Cardiff (Tramshed Tech)

Chief Operating Officer of Ed Tech / Digital Skills & Training organisation Big Learning Company (BLC Wales Ltd.). Microsoft Certified Learning Partner offering digital skills training in Azur, Cloud Navigation. LEGO Education certified training partner & re-seller.

Cardiff, United Kingdom

Strategic Advisory Board member of the Data Science Academy (DSA), a joint initiative of the School of Computer Science and Informatics at Cardiff University, which now offers 3 class-leading postgraduate qualifications at an MSc level in: Artificial Intelligence (AI) / Cyber Security / Data Science and Analytics

UK (Wales) Coordinator for the International Media Content Training and Producers Networking agency EAVE

London, United Kingdom

Company MD and Producer with TV, Film and Radio Production company Vision Thing Comms (later Development and Co-Production Consultancy)

Representing TAC Council (Welsh Media Producers Alliance) on skills and training issues

Cardiff, United Kingdom

Creative Industries Advisor for Cardiff CC, organising creative cluster programmes and Senior Manager of the Cardiff Film Unit, supervising location filming in the city for Cardiff Council

EU

Managing EU Business Innovation Cluster network around Digital Tech and CI sectors (for Interreg IV-funded ECCE Innovation project) with 7 European city partners (Stuttgart, Nantes, Eindhoven, Aachen, Dublin, Birmingham, CIDA)

UK

On behalf of the UK Sector Skills Council for the Creative Industries, leading Skills & Training assessment teams for the Creative Industries and Digital sectors, working with a range of UK Universities offering Creative & Digital Media course and assessing their suitability to receive the Creative Skillset "tick" of approval. Recruiting and organising.

Wales, United Kingdom

Chairing the Industry Steering Group for Creative Skillset Cymru to administer funding of the £4.2m Future Skills for the Digital Economy fund (ESF EU-Funded), working with experienced industry professionals to make funding decisions and endorse recommended funding awards.