Business Support sub-group

The Business Support Sub-group is charged with developing a strategic and coordinated approach to business support activities, aligned to Oxfordshire’s economic growth ambitions, as articulated in the Strategic Economic Plan. 

Chair: Phil Shadbolt - Zeta Group

• Steve Clarke: Inward Investment Group (Vice-chair) 
• David Hartley: Oxford Brookes University
• Stuart Wilkinson: University of Oxford
• Stephen Clarke: Cherwell College Oxford
• Penny Rinta-Suksi: Blake Morgan
• Peter Smith: Oxfordshire Chamber of Commerce
• Rob Lewtas: DIT: Trade South East

• Philip Davies: Federation of Small Business (FSB)

• Matthew Williams: Critchleys

• Sally Hannah: West Midlands and Oxfordshire CBI

Executive and OxLEP staff:

• Richard Byard: Director of Business Development
• Helen Brind: Growth Hub Manager
• Sebastian Johnson: Head of Innovation and Inward Investment