Will Pritchard, Mba, Frsa Email & Phone Number

United Kingdom

Main Board NED and member of the Governance Committee (incorporating Nominations and Remuneration). • Setting strategic objectives and high-level policies, approving plans to achieve them• Ensuring the integrity of financial information, approving annual accounts, budget, and business plan• Maintaining an effective risk and assurance framework, regularly reviewing major risks• Monitoring performance at a strategic level, including plans, budgets, and decisions• Complying fully with governing instruments, including policies, procedures, and standing orders• Contributing to board decisions, challenging executive directors constructively• Ensuring lawful conduct and compliance with regulatory requirements• Auditing and reviewing internal controls and systems regularly• Verifying balanced and accurate reporting of the Association's performance• Engaging with key stakeholders as required• Approving key policies to support the Association's objectives.

• Providing strategic leadership to SYHAE's Board, driving growth of their impact investment portfolio• Working with colleagues to ensure delivery of the strategic and business plans• Providing effective governance, including shaping the Board’s development and effectiveness• Ensuring that the Board delivers its key strategic role in achieving the Association’s long-term viability and sustainability and compliance with all necessary regulation• Encouraging a positive working relationship between Executive and Board, and promoting the Association’s culture and purpose.• Serving as an organisational ambassador.

• Supporting growth of the (£MM) SYHAE impact investment portfolio, investing in businesses and organisations that support SYHA's purposes and values• Considering proposals for new business, and evaluating and approving acquisition opportunities• Reporting to the Board of SYHA on the operations of SYHAE• Defining the objectives of the Company and ensuring compliance with them• Developing a Business Plan for the subsequent approval of the SYHA Board• Approving the annual budget and monitoring financial performance• Establishing and overseeing a framework of risk management control• Reviewing reports from senior staff and making decisions as required • Monitoring the Company’s performance in relation to established strategies, plans and targets• Oversight relating to performance, probity, good practice and regulatory requirements.

• Supporting client businesses directly to scale and grow through consulting and applied research • Designing and delivering commercial and social impact interventions and experiments for clients • Consulting for the entrepreneurial “ecosystem of support”, including 60+ universities, government agencies, accelerators and incubators across the UK, Asia, and the Middle East• Created and supported a digital community of 900+ growth-focused social entrepreneurs, with a particular focus on commercial issues and challenges• Associate work: approved to provide business growth advisory for clients of St James’s Place PLC (FTSE 100), and enterprise advisory for the leadership of Chinese educational institutions.

Mercia Centre for Innovation Leadership / Smart Innovation Hub:• Provided intensive strategic support for senior business leaders to drive innovation, rapid growth, and transformational change, as a permanent part of a small expert team• Co-designed and developed growth-focused strategies, and held business leaders accountable to performance against them• Launched 70+ new products/services and supported the creation of c.500 new jobs • Contributed to top 10% performance for local regeneration in the national Knowledge Exchange Framework.Employability, Employer Engagement, Global Opportunities, Enterprise and Entrepreneurship:• Provided leadership for enterprise and entrepreneurship; developed and implemented strategic and operational changes across the institution. Increased engagement 4x; increased businesses receiving financial support 3x; set a new institutional record for number of businesses applying for support• Promoted equality, inclusion, and diversity: improved application success rates from Widening Participation students from 33% to >85%• Oversight of financial management, and reporting as required for project, institutional and national metric purposes • Designed and applied a new assessment for businesses applying for financial support• Co-authored strategic plans for 2018-21, 2021-22 and 2022-25 • Co-authored successful bids and applications, including the Small Business Charter Award and one of the highest awards made through the Research England/Office for Students Knowledge Exchange funding competition (£920k, versus £500k mean).

• Board member for the leading national network (115 member organisations and 345 000 associates)• Contributed to strategy development and decision-making, driving change during macroeconomic uncertainty• Built and maintained strong, high-level stakeholder relationships and strategic partnerships• Influenced national policy conversations• Served on the Governance and Risk Committee. Co-authored terms of reference as part of the organisational restructure. Reviewed policies and procedures, financial and non-financial risks. Advised board as appropriate. • Scrutinised, reviewed, and approved accounts and revised budgets. • Managed ongoing development of a national source of enterprise and entrepreneurship best practice• Assessed national Enterprise Education and Research Project Fund applications.

• Developed, lectured, assessed, and moderated MA and BA enterprise modules. • Directly contributed to the sixth-highest graduate start-up rate in UK HE.

South West

• Project managed 19 contributors to develop a flagship educational programme for clients, including the UN, to learn best practice in supporting social entrepreneurs• Regionally managed a national, multi-million pound funding programme for social entrepreneurs in/with HE• Facilitated the creation of an effective ecosystem of support for social entrepreneurs in HEIs• Provided tailored support to enable HEIs to find, fund and support entrepreneurs in their communities• Identified and brokered support from the public, private and third sector to HEI partners• Designed and delivered training for 10 Thai universities at the invitation of the Thai Social Enterprise Office• Served as funder representative on the steering group of GoodLab Southwest, a universities’ IP partnership.

• Co-designed, marketed and managed successful events for a diverse range of stakeholders, driving network growth to 600+ members.

Bristol, United Kingdom

• Managed Basecamp, the university’s award-winning business incubator• Provided business coaching for Basecamp members (c.110), and any student seeking start-up advice• Awards Manager for student social entrepreneurs successful in obtaining UnLtd/HEFCE funding• Managed the Basecamp seed fund• Organised the weekly Monday Means Business masterclass series and Basecamp surgery series• Sat on the assessment panels for the Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Enterprise (Faculty of Engineering) and High-Tech Enterprise (Computer Science) modules• Developed new resources and advice packs for student and graduate businesses• Devised and delivered educational content on enterprise, innovation and business start-up (e.g Finance and Sponsorship/Fundraising) to student audiences• Administrated the SETsquared Kauffman scholarship application process and served on the interview panel• Acted as a liaison between the university’s enterprise managers and the student body.

Executive Mba, Business Administration With Specialism In Strategic Management, Distinction

Bachelor Of Science (Bsc), Social Policy, First

Activities and Societies: Social Policy Society (President), Social Policy Year Representative, Member of the Student Council.