Jack Wratten | Bloom.Space Founder

After several years supporting small enterprises something was very clear to me - people in business absolutely love helping other people in business.

I created BLOOM.SPACE so entrepreneurs have a space to bloom, somewhere to get all the help and support needed to plan, start and grow a business.

Everyone involved in BLOOM.SPACE understands how to start a business. Many of us have scaled startups to large companies. We know what help is needed, and we’re here to offer it.

I started out as a biochemist at UCL then moved on to starting my own small companies and developing training for senior managers in charities and local government. I led the first Olympics volunteer recruitment centre for the Mayor of London, then moved back to UCL to scale one of their enterprise programmes from a London pilot to working across 16 countries in Europe and Africa.

My last major project for UCL was setting up and launching BASE KX, a 20,000sqft incubator in King’s Cross.

My on-going links into UCL Engineering Faculty keep my contacts alive, allowing us to break down some of the barriers to accessing the massive talent-pool within the university, as well as others like Gloucester, NMITE, Brunell, Imperial College and various international HEI’s.

Dave Chapman | Senior Lecturer, UCL School of Management

Dave founded and ran UCL’s Tech Entrepreneurship Master programme, and was instrumental in setting up UCL’s School of Management where he is Senior Lecturer. 

He’s a Fellow of The Chartered Institute for IT and has previously held the role of Vice Dean for Enterprise for the Faculty of Engineering Sciences.

He founded and is Director of As-Built Solutions which provides leading-edge products and services to facilitate the inspection and measurement of industrial plant and other infrastructure. 

Dave has a deep understanding of the tech entrepreneurship world, is very well regarded in the ecosystem, has helped thousands of UCL students start their first businesses and is very generous with his time.

He’s a big supporter of entrepreneurship programmes in London and is invited to contribute to multiple programmes as an expert panel member and judge. 

He’s taught on the London Entrepreneurs Challenge (the longest running enterprise programme of its type in London) and was the Academic Lead for Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses Programme in London.

John Collins | The Disruptive Technologist

John is Commercial Director at Imperial College’s Synthetic Biology startup facility, SynbiCITE. He has a wealth of experience in the science startup world and is very active in the sector.

SynbiCITE is a national centre for any startup with technology involving synthetic biology, connecting multiple centres of excellent across the UK and is located in Imperial College London with shared wet-lab facilities and technical support. SynbiCITE is tasked with growing industry based on using the engineering of biology to ‘do useful things and make useful stuff to heal us, feed us, fuel us and sustain us’. Recent start-up successes include LabGenius, CustoMem, Quethera and Synthace.

John helps BLOOM.SPACE Members with science or deep-tech ventures. He’s very experienced at supporting startups,, provides business and entrepreneurship training globally, and judges on multiple business pitching events worldwide.

He’s had a varied portfolio career including R&D, product development, technical sales, business development, international development for a trade association, innovation and digital creativity growth, in educational services and as a trained chef.

 Throughout his careers John has run his own ‘Disruptive Technologies and Innovations Management’ consultancy – Innovation Foundry Ltd. – and continues to work with a diverse spread of technologies.

 He’s our go-to mentor for all science, technology and several digital fields of expertise. If your startup operates in these areas and you’re a BLOOM.SPACE Member that he can help, you’ll get to talk to him.

Sean Davey | Partner and Strategist, Pollitt & Partners

Sean is a strategist and consultant, working with businesses big and small on everything from their marketing campaigns to corporate strategy. He is a Partner at Pollitt & Partners - a 100% Employee Owned creative agency based in Covent Garden.

He’s an advocate of ‘Brand New Thinking’ and will work with you to think about “Brand” not just in terms of what you look like, but as the driver of everything you do: from where you sit in the market (vs competitors), to the kinds of experience you deliver for your customers.

He’s worked with everyone from global drinks brands, to Swedish medtech companies, and previously ran his own social enterprise Grandad’s Caribbean Seasoning during his time at UCL.

Alasdair Inglis | Managing Director, Grow

Alasdair is the BLOOM.SPACE resident marketing expert! He’s based in the Gower Street office full-time, running his own consultancy business from there and is on-hand for one-to-one meeting with our Members whenever they need support.

He runs a number of very well-regarded workshops and masterclasses on the broad topic of Startup Marketing for the British Library’s Business and IP Centre (all of which are free to BLOOM.SPACE Members) where he is Marketer in Residence.

Alasdair has worked on many university programmes, the Goldman Sachs 10k Small Businesses Programme (run in London by UCL) and is well-connected in London’s startup scene, having personally helped 200+ high-growth startups and delivered training to over 5000 others!

Tim Barnes - Founder, The Rain Gods

Entrepreneur running multiple accelerator and incubator programmes in GovTech, SportTech and Scale-Up Other activities: Loughborough Uni, Cambridge Uni, NACUE, angel investing Previous: UCL, big consultancy, Venture Capital investor. Holds the Queens Award for entrepreneurship.

Tim is our go-to contact for anything involving government (local and national) and civil society, universities and the wide range of connections he has across London, Europe and the USA.

Janet Murray | Business & Leadership Coach

Mentor at the CleanTech Challenge, Janet has also founded her own Coaching & Consultancy company aimed at increasing one's personal impact and influence as well as developing an authentic leadership style

Charles William | Founder, Charles William Accountants

Charles runs his own accountancy firm, specialising in helping startups. His office is near to Gower Street and he is always keen to support entrepreneurs and startups. We refer any London member looking for an accountant to Charles.