Paul Scott is a Chartered Marketer with over 20 years experience across the private, public and not-for-profit sectors in the fields of marketing, communications, key account management and new business development. 

Paul has held lead roles in private and public sector procurement, including EU / OJEU procurement, as the awarding body from the prequalification and tender processes through to contract negotiation, award and management; and as the successful supplier / contractor pitching for new business.  Such procurement work in the private and public sectors has involved collaboration with numerous SMEs and suppliers both in the North East and North Yorkshire.

As well as working for SMEs across a range of industry sectors, Paul has worked with many SMEs across the North East in specialist advisory and consultancy roles.  These have included direct responsibility at a full service marketing and communications agency for working with key clients to promote and develop their businesses regionally, nationally and internationally.  Clients ranged from North Tyneside based businesses such as Norscreen Printers, Royal Quays Shopping Outlet and DFDS Seaways, to SMEs and multinationals across the North, including Seaward Electronic, Baydale Architectural Systems, Komatsu, VA TECH Reyrolle, Northumberland Health Authority, Cumbria Inward Investment Agency and PriceWaterhouseCoopers.   Paul lives in Durham City.

Chris Hylton

Chris Hylton lives in North Tyneside and is an expert in business management.  He’s a project & manufacturing professional and has a keen eye for spotting inefficiencies and identifying radical improvements and savings in systems, processes and operations;

“I worked for electronics giant LG Electronics as well as British and Taiwanese companies but I’m equally proud of my small business ‘apprenticeship’ running the family firm which I sold as a going concern in order to study engineering & manufacturing. Advising businesses for a decade, I have extensive experience of small and medium sized business analysis with business principals in a range of sectors.” Chris has worked with the Tyneside Economic Development Company (TEDCo), the Business and Innovation Centre Sunderland (BIC Sunderland), Northumberland Business Services Ltd, South Tyneside Enterprise Partnership, and Business Links: Northumberland and North-East.

Stuart Pike. 

Stuart is a telecommunications engineer who has worked for Tyneside, national and global companies and currently works in a South Tyneside company as an instructor and accreditor for Driving Instructors.  Stuart knows many small businesses and the issues that affect them.  Stuart Pike lives in South Tyneside.

Bob Rodgers

Bob Rodgers is semi-retired and supports The Social Return Company through his seminar delivery and maintaining relationships with many North East businesses.  He was formerly a welding engineer and is particularly expert at sales and export within his discipline.

More recently Bob has worked with BusinessLink as an Associate Consultant, both to develop businesses and to maintain the highest levels of quality - Bob qualified as a BS5750 consultant (now BS9000).  Bob lives in North Tyneside.