James is a director of The means. He is an experienced regeneration practitioner with over fifteen years in the sector. He has significant experience of community and business consultation exercises, undertaking socio-economic research, supporting economic and community development initiatives on the ground as well as devising programmes that exploit opportunities for business involvement. He has extensive experience of designing and delivering economic development programmes & regeneration plans, strategies, studies, business planning and evaluation exercises. James has considerable experience in socio-economic profiling, action planning, funding applications and project management, particularly where there is a requirement to harness resources from a range of sectors such as Public (Trans-National, National Government, Local Government), Private and Voluntary.

He has also developed particular expertise in financial & systems management and is experienced in developing policies which meet current regulatory / legislative requirements as well as anticipating new ones.

James manages the practice from The means’ Llanelli Office.

Mandy is Project Manager at The means and is based within our Welsh team. She has over nine years’ project management experience in the public and private sectors and was most recently South Wales Regional Project Manager for the Welsh Government’s flagship £22million digital inclusion programme. A graduate in European Union Studies from Cardiff University, Mandy is a fluent French and Spanish speaker. She spent several years working for two high profile MEPs where she worked on a number of successful election campaigns. Mandy is currently working with several businesses across south Wales to assist in the development of BIDs.