Howard Bell

Board Trustee

2022 - Current

Chair

2022

Chair

2022

Creating the next generation of leaders

Chair

2019

Chair

2014

Venture Partner

2017

I work with the Octopus Ventures team to help the CEOs of existing ventures to accelerate growth, optimise positioning and to scale their ventures to a market leadership position.

Advisor/Consultant

2016

I advise CEOs of digital ventures across a range of sectors in scaling-up. Assignments range from business strategy and product market fit to NPD, Positioning and BD strategy.

Chair

2018 - 2021

Chair

2018 - 2020

Chairman

2013 - 2019

I chair the Firefly board working with the founders, non-execs , British Growth Fund and Berengea and provide advice on strategy, performance and governance. Previously I helped Firefly founders to accelerate growth and build a new growth plan which has led to cloud-based support for c. 500 schools in 30 countries.