Glenn is the founder and CEO of Global City Futures. Glenn Woodcock has more than 25 years of experience as a banker, venture capitalist, and entrepreneur. Since 2008 he has been a Director of Oxygen House, which invests in projects that foster social, environmental and economic prosperity.
Glenn is a founder of Sparx, the UK’s most significant Education Technology Company for enhancing maths outcomes for young people.
He is a founding director of Low Carbon Group – a renewable energy investment bank, and City Science, a city analytical product company, as well as an investor in many social and technical enterprises.
He is also a trustee of the University of Exeter and a governor of Exeter College.
Roli is a Director at Global City Futures and leads our Finance and Professional Services offering. His work focuses on building investable business models that deliver on the city’s housing, energy independence and congestion-free vision.
Roli is a fellow of the ICAEW with experience in managing relationships between public sector and commercial finance, Roli previously spent 15 years in professional practice. Roli led a Big 4 Accountancy Firm infrastructure advisory team, with a focus on Housing, Energy, Transport and local government accounting and finance.
Elaine is Project Manager at Global City Futures. Her role is to provide project management support for the business and to drive progress on key projects once funding is in place.
She has experience within finance, project and change management, as well as procurement across industries in both the public and private sector. These include construction, financial services and facilities management. She is a CIMA associate and sits as vice-chair, and lead finance governor on a primary school federation governing board.
Andrew is currently seconded into Exeter City Council as director of the city transformation programme, Exeter City Futures and is leading the organisations’ delivery of the Net Zero Exeter 2020 Plan. Andrew is focusing on turning this roadmap into practical action and ensuring that the organisation effectively collaborates, co-ordinates, facilitates and delivers the city’s ambition of being carbon neutral by 2030.
Andrew has an extensive history of senior executive management, having previously spent 20 years across diverse business sectors, including: retail; hospitality; leisure; and not-for-profit. Specialising in transformational change, Andrew was a Regional Director for Tesco (Westcountry) before joining Global City Futures’ consultancy team. He has a wealth of experience of managing and delivering major projects and a reputation for building relationships across complex platforms and successfully delivering transformational change.
James Geer is the Communications Lead at Global City Futures, where he oversees everything from brand identity to managing relationships with media and key stakeholders.
With a background in PR and Marketing in the UK and abroad, James oversees the delivery of the communication strategy. James has been responsible for establishing a coherent narrative and brand awareness for both Exeter City Futures and Exeter Velocities.
Kathryn is a Project Manager at Global City Futures. Her role is to provide project management support for the business and to drive progress on key projects once funding is in place.
She has a range of corporate and professional experience, covering audit, (internal and external) management of PLC accounting and reporting teams, strategic business case development, business partnering, transformational change and performance management. She is a chartered accountant (ICAEW) and Oxford University biology graduate.
Mandy is a Global City Futures Consultant within our innovation service line. With a focus on the long-term strategy and the building of strategic relationships within the public and private sector, Mandy’s role includes delivering coaching, investment readiness, and building ecosystems for our clients.
With over 8-years’ experience, from banking to start-up companies, and having worked with 100’s of entrepreneurs across various sectors including: FMCG, fintech, clean tech, medtech, foodtech, biotech; Mandy has successfully managed the scale-up of the Exeter Velocities accelerator, from idea to impact.
Kerry is a Global City Futures Consultant specialising in community and education engagement as well as supporting social enterprises. With a wealth of facilitation techniques, combined with her project management experience, Kerry brings people together over shared goals to unlock their potential.
Kerry’s background is based in community arts engagement, education and content creation. As well as being a qualified post-16 lecturer, Kerry has over 10 years’ experience delivering creative workshops and programmes with young people and communities, enabling her to support them in identifying opportunities for change.
Mark Jones is the Creative Lead for Global City Futures, supporting Exeter City Futures with content creation for all its platforms, website management, and public engagement.
Mark has a background of working with early-stage start-ups in similar roles, specialising in cost-effectively providing a wide-range of bespoke services across multiple creative disciplines. He is also responsible for developing and maintaining the Exeter City Futures website and delivering innovative and highly effective public engagement projects.
George is a Data Scientist at Global City Futures with particular specialisms in geoprocessing, visualisation and programming languages, such as R.
George is also supporting Exeter City Futures as a specialist data analysis consultant. Here, George has taken the lead in building the Exeter Data Mill to generate key insights on how the city works and provide evidence for change.
Ellen is Executive Assistant to Glenn Woodcock, Founder of Global City Futures, and holds a diverse role supporting his portfolio of companies and projects, with specialities in graphic design and project management.
Ellen has an eclectic background having worked as an Executive Assistant within a number of national organisations, including Babcock, South West Water and Friends Provident, before returning to university to graduate in graphic design.
If you are passionate about creating sustainable, carbon-neutral societies, with a real interest and skills in data analytics, finance or bid writing, then we’d love to receive a speculative application from you.
We work with brilliant clients and together we’re committed to a sustainable future.
Please email: