**Nick Sherwood, LocalEyes Strategic Development**
Nick is responsible for setting up and managing pilot projects of the VocalEyes’ consultation tool, a central aspect and principal ‘front door’ of LocalEyes.
Nick has always chosen to work at the leading edge, where creativity and innovation are required. A trained designer, experienced facilitator and qualified environmental professional, he has thirty years’ experience of project-development in a variety of different fields, working with groups in the UK and abroad.
During the 1990s his consultancy work focused on the development of ground-breaking sustainable waste-management policies and strategies for the waste industry, using early computer-modelling techniques (including Procter & Gamble’s IWM-1) and LifeCycle Inventory Analysis.
More recently, while working for local government in the field of carbon-management, on his own initiative he developed a web-based Community Carbon Calculator. Using the same back-engine as DEFRA’s national ‘Act on CO2’ calculator and launched the same day, this took a radically different approach enabling the capture and use at local level of data which would otherwise have been dissipated. Like LocalEyes, this tool is also based on the use of six-figure postcodes and also offers the potential to act as a ‘hub’ for community engagement.
These projects equip him well to be a member of the LocalEyes team. In addition, having worked widely in the environmental movement and with Transition Towns Initiatives, Nick brings to the project a wealth of key connections, experience in training and development, and communication skills which are essential to trialling and proving the capabilities of LocalEyes and reporting on these. He also possesses analytic strengths, with a notable eye for detail and a capacity for strategic vision, which enable him to contribute to the project at all levels.

**Neil Crofts, Commercial Development**
Neil has first hand, sharp end, experience of just about every aspect of business including – start up, venture capital, sales, success, meteoric growth, public listing, contraction, change management, product development, mergers and acquisitions, company sale, making and being made redundant, consultancy, training, executive coaching and international business.
In 1998, he joined a small creative new media agency called CHBi, which later morphed into Razorfish, an international internet consultancy. Neil initiated and designed the company’s strategic offering and was Head of Strategy for Europe responsible for a team of 100 strategists in 10 offices across Europe.
Since 2001 Neil has worked independently writing books, coaching and working with business clients. Neil has helped to develop leadership and transform culture at some of the world’s most influential organisations.
Neil has been the principle architect of the commercial aspects of LocalEyes and the author of this business plan.

**Stella Hooper, Business Development**
Stella has extensive experience of project development, project management and grant applications. She was instrumental in securing over £10 million in EU and other grants on over 50 projects for Pembrokeshire College and more recently, over £1.5 million for Milford Haven Port Authority. She has many years experience of working in both the private and public sectors and of setting up and running a company. She has also worked as a management consultant for several years providing business planning, visioning and funding support to both the private and public sector in Pembrokeshire. She has worked with a wide range of community groups and organisations on the development and delivery of many projects. She brings a holistic approach to the Community Builders scheme, which has proven potential to help individuals with their personal development and career progression. She is positive, focused and determined.

** Peter Anderson, Founder**
Peter has been a “social entrepreneur” for the past 6 years focusing mainly on projects that will stimulate community building, regeneration and be a catalyst for social interaction at local level. Peter has spoken at numerous social innovation events and his efforts have been acknowledged with various awards and grants (approx 90k over the last 2 years), including UnLtd Level 1 and 2, backing from NESTA, The Ministry of Justice (a project called “Building Democracy”). Peter’s project LocalEyes was also nominated for the “Revolutionary Award in Gordon Browns social innovation awards 2008 (Catalyst Awards).

Peter has been heavily involved in the transition movement for several years, is founder of Transition Haverfordwest and is working closely with other transition groups such as Transition Totnes, Glastonbury and Hereford to build a digital “toolkit for transition” called “LocalEyes”. See http://www.localeyes.org. This will become an incredibly powerful community engagement tool helping people connect to everything that is local and it will also help people to coordinate the largest superpower on the planet .. that of public opinion and energy.