Nicola Stephens
Skills and Experience
At TGE, Nicky has led work to clarify target audiences, strengthen proposition messaging, improve marketing processes and introduce data-driven approaches to measuring engagement and impact. She also supports the development of strategic communications around key market themes, helping ensure TGE's research, insight and expertise reach the audiences that can benefit most from them.
Before working with TGE, Nicky held senior marketing leadership roles across professional services, technology, data and consultancy businesses. She is the founder of Guidepost Marketing, where she advises leadership teams on growth strategy, market positioning and commercial marketing.
Paul Frainer
Paul Frainer is an accomplished executive, digital leader in place, planning, economy, infrastructure and investment with extensive expertise in business planning and growth strategy, policy and strategy, and digital. He has a proven track record in complex transformation and change programmes, governance and organisational design. As a C-suite advisor he brings a large and diverse network across a range of portfolios including central and local government as well as deep experience in programme management, agile delivery and project recovery.
Paul is a qualified strategic planner and economic development professional, adept at spatial planning, strategic visioning, partnership management, networking, and investment strategy.
Paul works with The Good Economy's Place-Based Impact Investment Advisory Services team, specifically shaping the demand and local government market and connecting institutional capital to place requirements for new infrastructure, supply chains and businesses that delivers real benefits to local people and places in collaboration with others.
He provides advice, guidance, written content and support relating to the interdependencies between policy changes that affect LGPS pooling and
Place Based Impact Investing, especially but not limited to:
- LGPS and Combined Authority Advisory - Investment matching and pipeline, criteria and impact measurement
- Local Government Reform and Devolution - Strategic Planning and the reintroduction of statutory strategic plans as investment frameworks
- Local Growth Plans and interdependencies for institutional investment alignment of investment strategy to investable opportunities at sub regional geographies
- HMG Policy implications from planning reform and related reorganisation
- Digital and innovation - Product development advisory and integrated data opportunities mapping for PBII and institutional investment opportunity matching
Mark Hallett
Mark Hallett is a highly experienced Non-Executive Director, Chair and Special Advisor having previously been Development Director of igloo Regeneration for over 18 years. Igloo has been described by the United Nations as the world’s first sustainable property investor and is the only substantial socially responsible real estate vehicle in the UK. He is currently a Non-Executive Director of Goram Homes (a company controlled by Bristol City Council) and and Trivallis Housing Association. He also holds a number of Special Advisory roles with a variety of place-based impact investors and stakeholders.
Mark studied at the Welsh School of Architecture UWIST and obtained an MSc in Project Management at Reading University. He has worked for a variety of consultancies, contractors, developers and joint venture companies throughout the UK for over 30 years. His experience encompasses the full range of commercial, residential, retail, health and leisure projects with responsibility for identifying and unlocking value from major brownfield urban regeneration land holdings with a combined development value in excess of £2.5 billion. These projects have often been delivered in partnerships between public and private sectors with an ethos of collaborative working and customer centric objectives. He has held responsibility across the complete development cycle from market research, strategy formulation, financial appraisal, risk analysis, business case preparation, funding, acquisition, stakeholder engagement, brief preparation, design management, planning, marketing, sales, construction procurement and delivery, settlements, hand-over, property management, customer service, asset management and investment disposal.
Mark comments regularly in the media on urban design and regeneration issues and has been principal speaker and Chair of numerous conferences and events. Mark is a member of the editorial board for the International Journal of Urban Sustainable Development. Mark is a member of the Chartered Institute for Building, a member of the Association for Project Management, a Chartered Construction Manager and a Fellow of the Forum for the Built Environment. He was also a member (by Ministerial appointment) of the Task and Finish Group for the creation of a Centre of Regeneration Excellence Wales. He is a visiting critic at the Welsh School of Architecture and a visiting lecturer at Cardiff University School of Geography & Planning.