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Female Founders: Confidence-Building Business Support Programme
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Meet The Mentors
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Cath Ellington
Erica Wolfe-Murray
Vanessa Chapman
Cath Ellington
Following that she ran the commercial division across the whole of the Bauer Media local network.
In 2019 after over 30 years in Radio, she decided to set up her own consultancy business where she worked predominantly with start ups across a range of professions and creative industries. She has loved the challenge and variety this has afforded her, completely different to radio but what she has learnt is that most businesses have the same challenges and highs and lows so she has been able to draw on the experience of managing multiple teams.
Cath is now spending her time working with CUK across the South East; West Yorks and the North East, helping clients in the Creative Industry on strategy to ultimately grow their businesses. She also spends time coaching and training, working especially around improving the culture within companies.
Additionally she is loving working with Female Founders, where she’s met and worked with some amazing women.
Erica Wolfe-Murray
I see opportunities for creative businesses everywhere. Whether on screens, harnessing the power of audio, developing events or thinking of new products and services. It’s what I’ve been doing my whole life – helping creative people build imaginative, profitable, resilient ventures.
Starting my creative sector career in an international ad agency working on British Airways, London Transport and Newsweek, I moved role and industry to work as the in-house copywriter at the Conran Design Group, before being headhunted to build the B2C arm of a south London design studio. After winning clients like NatWest and Next, two years later I concurrently set up my own design businesses and an indie doc production company with a partner. The former launched its own home furnishing & garden accessory range whilst also doing project work for clients such as Historic Royal Palaces and London Zoo. Meanwhile the latter won awards for BBC and C4 work filming in difficult locations around the globe, before internationalising the business with commissions from NatGeo and A&E, with me as the FD up until 2011.
At the start of 2012, I set up Lola – an innovation studio focused on helping creative, cultural and tech sector clients to harness the potential of their existing intellectual assets and IP to generate new audiences, revenues, products and services across the spectrum, combining both creative and financial perspectives. I’ve worked on projects with Disney, NatGeo, UK Parliament, NotontheHighStreet, Marriott, Puma, Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, and 400+ ventures across the breadth of the creative industries. I led Creative Enterprise’s Female Founders Scale-up Programme for 3 years combining talk-the-talk workshops involving leading industry figures with 1-2-1 walk-the-walk hands-on business growth coaching with each of the 38 company founders. I am on the advisory board of 3 companies encompassing VR, games, scripted/unscripted, podcasts, createch and branded content, work closely with a virtual production incubator and am a trustee of the Gordon Russell Design Museum.
In 2020 my book Simple Tips, Smart Ideas: Build a Bigger Better Business was a finalist in the Business Book Awards, I have an IP for Creative Entrepreneurs course on 8 million+ creative platform Domestika and am an advisor on US investor platform Tegus.com.
Vanessa Chapman
Vanessa Chapman runs VJC Media, a creative and business agency that works internationally with IP owners, media companies, brands and investors.
An award-winning senior media executive, Vanessa has developed, produced, commissioned and acquired intellectual property across multiple platforms and supports a wide variety of clients on corporate strategy, business planning, fundraising and M&A activity.
Vanessa sits on the advisory board of several companies, working with founders and management teams on their day-to-day business as well as growth and investment planning.
With nearly 30 years’ experience in the entertainment industry, Vanessa is a frequent speaker/panellist at major industry events in the UK, Europe and the US, a juror on BAFTA panels and the Rose D’Or and acts as chair and content director at numerous Cartoon Europe conferences, including Cartoon Business and the innovative CartoonNext.
A former Controller of Children’s & Family Programmes at ITV, where she ran a £40m+ production and acquisition budget, Vanessa went on to help develop and spearhead the strategy for the LEGO Company’s entry into the global television and movie industry. She then became MD of the business.
Vanessa started her career as a national newspaper journalist, before joining BBC Radio and then London Weekend Television’s current affairs and popular factual department. She rose to be a senior programme editor before joining the ITV Network Centre in the 1990s as a programme commissioner.
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