TEAM MEMBER

Nicholas is Partnerships Director at BBI and, with Lord Patel and Jon Bashford, developed the initial vision behind the organisation 2015. He oversees the organisation’s national partnerships with Government and supporting the development and formulation of local partnership work across traditional sector boundaries. Nicholas also oversees BBI’s industry partnerships and takes a lead on identifying new areas for the company to focus on.

Nicholas’s background is in qualitative, public sector focused research and communications including stakeholder management. Nicholas has contributed to and overseen more than 300 market insight projects commissioned by both the public and private sector with a focus on Government infrastructure, workforce, technology & procurement.

In 2011 he co-founded DragonGate Market Intelligence (www.dgmi.co.uk) to identify opportunities for innovation and local government in modernising UK public services. Of recent note Nic led the programme teams that successfully secured the relocation of HM Treasury to Darlington, DLUHC to Wolverhampton and most recently Great British Railways to Derby. Nic has a BA in History from Kings College London.