Business & IP Centre Devon

Meet the Experts

Chosen carefully for their passion, achievements and willingness to help others – the experts are local to Devon and here to help.

We’re always on the look-out for new experts… contact us to join

Marketing

Siobhán Lavelle

Siobhán is a PR and marketing communications consultant.  With nearly 30 years experience, she works with clients to develop marketing communications programmes that support business goals and drive growth and sales,

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Marketing

Alison Jobson

Alison is a Chartered Marketer and a no-fluff marketing consultant. Her approach is straightforward, plain-speaking and honest. In 2010 she created Straight Marketing, a marketing agency focused on helping busy

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Marketing

Nigel Wilkinson

As founder and Director of the Nican Group, I support our clients by advising them on Digital Marketing, website and engagement strategies. I believe business success happens through understanding customers,

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Social Enterprise

Stephen Woollett

Stephen, along with Sarah Taragon, run Clarity CIC which provides advice, support and consultancy for charities, community groups, social enterprises and public bodies across the South West. Together they have

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Coaching

Gabi Glover

Public Speaking Trainer. Confidence Coach. Growth and Development Consultant  Gabi Glover has been helping business owners, start-ups, SMEs and freelancers grow their business and develop their professional skills for over

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Social Enterprise

Sarah Taragon

Sarah Taragon runs Clarity CIC, which provides advice, support and consultancy for charities, community groups, and social enterprises in the South West. Sarah has over 25 years of experience in

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Funding & Finance

Joshua Rees

Josh is the Director of BCDF Ltd, a professional services firm specialising in commercial finance solutions for new and growing businesses. Access to finance is often ranked as one of

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Business Development

Guy Arnold

​Guy is an unconventional business adviser who helps owners of small businesses build sales and profits through reputation, loyalty and referrals … above all else. Guy has run his own businesses and

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People & HR

Peter Totterdill

Peter has helped a wide range of companies, charities and public sector organisations to achieve successful and sustainable change, enhancing growth, innovation, and workforce engagement and retention. Peter focuses on

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Social Enterprise

Chris Gunson

Chris is Co-founder and Director of Local Spark: Torbay Community Supported Enterprise CIC. Local Spark works with members of all communities across Torbay to start up and support businesses for

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branding

Stacey Sheppard

Stacey Sheppard is a freelance writer and multi-award-winning interior design blogger. She started her blog, The Design Sheppard, in 2009 and it is has ranked as one of the top

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Coaching

Clare Palmer

Clare Palmer – Award-winning coach and founder of Clarity Coaching by Clare Palmer Clare had a highly successful and accredited career working as a senior compliance manager for a multinational

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ethical businesses

Kalkidan Legesse

Kalkidan Legesse (MBA) is a social entrepreneur who works to deliver scaling businesses that are environmentally sound and socially inclusive. In a world facing failures of leaderships, systematic racism and

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branding

Tanya Rodgers

Tanya is a small business branding specialist. Her business, Me & Spirit Design Studio helps women-led creative businesses craft purposeful brands that not only feel deeply authentic but are strategically

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Business Development

Richard Love

Richard has a history of founding start-ups across several fields, from Alcohol to publishing, Renewables to Arts and Crafts. He’s worked across Europe, learning French and Spanish on his journey.

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Product Design & Engineering

Chris Howsam

Chris is a hugely experienced Product Design Consultant with over thirty-five years in design consultancy, delivering over a thousand products, manufactured in their millions globally. He founded Hillside Product Design

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Business Triage

Lauren Lepley-Caldon

Lauren Lepley-Caldon is a Life and Business Executive Coach, primarily working with purpose-led businesses. Rooted in her passion for educating others in bettering themselves both professionally and personally, Lauren works to help

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Sales

James White

James White is the Small Business Sales Expert. He is a keynote speaker, author, trainer and mentor for sales professionals and ambitious small business owners and their sales teams. With

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Marketing

Liz Pendleton

‘LingoLiz’ founded Lingo Design in 2005 after her hobby-website building became more enjoyable than the ‘real job’ – which at the time was working for Norfolk radio station KLFM. Her

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