Michael Fowle

Experience

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  Pulse Business Systems Ltd

  Jan 1984 - Jan 1993

  Managing Director

  Software house and IT consultancy with mostly UK clients. Some of the systems are still market leaders.

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  University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

  Jan 1997 - Jul 2001

  Director of IM&T
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  I4H Ltd

  Jan 2001 - Mar 2022

  CEO

  i4H Ltd provides Interim Management, Company Turnaround and Restructuring. Most recent work has focused on ICTs, e-commerce, e-health and technology transfer.

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  Advanced Messaging Ltd.

  Jan 2003 - Jan 2006

  Co-founder and Business Development Director
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  Strathclyde Business School

  Jun 2005 - Jun 2013

  Visiting Lecturer in e-Business

  Presenting the e-Business elective on the MBA

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  Genesis Genomics Inc

  Jan 2007 - Jan 2010

  Non-exec Director

  Mitochondrial DNA research company that is changing the way we detect and treat cancer.

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  Context Sensitive Ltd

  Jan 2011 - Mar 2012

  Managing Director
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  Newcastle Business School, Northumbria University

  Sept 2013 - Mar 2022

  Enterprise Fellow/Reader in Entrepreneurship

  Growing the entrepreneurial eco-system in the North East and delivering a pioneering new Entrepreneurship degree based on learning-by-doing.

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  SPARKTANK

  Aug 2015 - now

  Director and Founder

  This started as a new, intensive, free 10-week business accelerator in Newcastle. We are now helping entrepreneurs across the UK to test business ideas and themselves, develop skills and experience and create networks and vibrant new companies. SPARKTANK operates either as a stand-alone accelerator or as the core of experiential entrepreneurship degree programmes.

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  NE-ON

  Feb 2018 - Apr 2025

  Director and Founder
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  Edinburgh Business School, Heriot-Watt University

  Feb 2018 - Mar 2022

  Visiting Faculty
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  HTech Dundee (Elevator)

  Dec 2021 - Apr 2025

  Founder
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  New Venture Education Ltd

  Nov 2022 - now

  Chief Executive Officer

  We design and deliver experiential entrepreneurship programmes, offer locum placements in established programmes and occasionally act as interim CEO for organisations that align with our innovative mission.

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  Cambridge Judge Business School

  Apr 2025 - now

  Programme Leader

  I am programme leader for "Innovation and Intrapreneurship: Winning Strategies for New Venture Creation" through New Venture Education Ltd and Emeritus. It's an exciting programme that looks at why we need innovation, how established companies deal with innovation, how to encourage it, how to help the projects succeed and how to bring them back (or not) as core products.