Creative and Cultural Ecology Connections Among Commercial,
Not-For-Profit and Fringe Theatres
Ezra Konvitz

Ezra Konvitz
Ezra Konvitz is a strategy consultant and entrepreneur, currently serving as a Director at Founders Intelligence (originally a part of Founders Forum, Ezra was on the team that sold it to Accenture). He advises major corporates and non-profit organisations on strategy, innovation and new venture creation, and leads their Accelerator practice, developing partnerships between startups and global organisations including Amazon, Diageo, and the LEGO Foundation.
He began his career at Bain & Company before joining the Serpentine Gallery as Head of Strategy, where he worked closely with then-Director Julia Peyton-Jones during its landmark Zaha Hadid expansion. During this period, he led significant capital fundraising as the Gallery doubled in size and established itself as a leading model for public–private partnership.
In 2011, he co-founded ArtStack, a pioneering social discovery and commerce platform for art, which grew into the world’s largest user-generated art platform and partnered with leading institutions including Christie’s, Magnum Photos, and Taschen.
He is a regular speaker at industry events and has served on the Young Patrons Boards of the Whitechapel Gallery and BFAMI. He holds degrees from the University of Cambridge, the Courtauld Institute of Art, and The City Law School.
Nathalina Harrison

Nathalina Harrison
Nat is an ICF-accredited business coach, trainer and facilitator with PCC certification and specialist ADHD coaching expertise. She supports creative entrepreneurs to clarify their vision, build confidence and develop resilient businesses. A co-founder of the creative business network Hive Collective, she champions hyper-local collaboration and community among creatives in North-East London.
Alongside one-to-one mentoring, Nat will lead group workshops on how to build your founder foundations.
Stuart Balmer

Stuart Balmer
Stuart is a creative business advisor with a background in interior and 3D design, and over 25 years’ experience in fashion entrepreneurship. Formerly co-founder of an international womenswear label, Stuart now provides consultancy, mentoring and training to creative businesses, supporting sustainable growth, strategy and development.
Alongside one-to-one mentoring, Stuart will run group workshops offering expert insights to increase income through better sales for the Summer cohort.
Remi Harris MBE

Remi Harris MBE
An experienced business leader and coach, Remi is co-founder of the Music Leaders Network, the leadership development programme for women in music. Previously, Remi was general manager of AIM, director of operations at UK Music, and chair of the Alliance for Diversity in Music and Media. She was awarded an MBE for services to the Music Industry in 2016 and was inducted into the Music Week Women in Music Roll of Honour in 2019.
Remi will share her expertise with GrowthCamp participants through one-to-one mentoring.
Louise Emerson

Louise Emerson
Louise is a strategist and coach specialising in growth, change and sustainable business planning. With 25+ years’ leadership experience, including roles at the Natural History Museum and Cheltenham Festivals, she helps organisations increase income, build teams and partnerships, and develop strong brands across sectors.
Louise brings her wealth of experience to GrowthCamp, for individual mentoring sessions.
Tony Davidson

Tony Davidson
Tony spent 37 years in advertising, including 20 years at Wieden + Kennedy as Global Partner and Creative Executive Director. His involvement built their global reputation after creative directing campaigns such as Nike's “Run London” and “Nothing beats a Londoner”, Honda's “Power of Dreams” , Lurpak's “Good Food Deserves”, Three's “Moonwalking Pony” and Formula 1's Global rebrand.
Tony joins the GrowthCamp Summer cohort to offer specialist sessions on how to help your brand stand apart through distinctive creative thinking.
Emrys Green

Emrys Green
Emrys Green is an experienced director and consultant working across digital transformation, arts leadership, and social impact. He leads a digital and engagement agency, Cloud Artisans, dedicated to helping organisations and creative enterprises become more inclusive, accessible, and sustainable. His experience blends commercial acumen and cultural engagement, which empowers creatives to broaden their audiences, reduce barriers to participation, and increase their economic and social impact.
Alongside his work in the digital sector, Emrys has roots in cultural education and youth engagement. Emrys was a national project manager for Arts Award before co-founding Voice, a charity championing youth voice and leadership. Emrys has produced a wide range of events, touring productions and festivals over the past 20 years, engaging a variety of audiences and participants.
Emrys' governance experience includes being Chair of the global professional body, The Institute of Leadership, on the board of a social housing association, Tuntum, and formerly a Vice-Chair of an Arts Council England Bridge organisation, The Mighty Creatives. He holds an Executive MBA from Nottingham Business School and Fellowships of The Institute of Leadership, the Institute of Directors, and the Chartered Management Institute. He is a life fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.
Phyllis Belezos
Phyllis Belezos

Phyllis Belezos
Phyllis Belezos
Phyllis is an internationally respected live music agent with 20+ years’ experience across the global music industry. Formerly at ITB and William Morris Agency, she has worked with artists including Whitney Houston, Björk, Massive Attack and Sufjan Stevens, and now leads artist development and representation through Heliocentric.
Tony Davidson
Tony Davidson

Tony Davidson
Tony Davidson
Tony spent 37 years in advertising, beginning as a creative before leading the London office of Wieden + Kennedy as Creative Director. He became a Global Partner in 2009 and served as President of D&AD in 2007. Today, he advises brands on how to stand apart through distinctive creative thinking.
Jason Ojukwu
Jason Ojukwu

Jason Ojukwu
Jason Ojukwu
Jason is an impact-driven, certified business advisor with over 15 years of experience delivering tailored intellectual property solutions for creative entrepreneurs. He has a strong focus on understanding the challenges faced by BAME entrepreneurs to unlock growth and long-term value. With extensive experience across sectors such as visual arts, media, and digital content, he helps founders identify, protect, and monetise their intellectual property. His approach combines commercial insight with practical guidance, enabling clients to turn creative ideas into scalable revenue streams.
Partnering with Creative United, Digital Incubator for London, Park Royal Partnerships, Business Link, and the University of East London, Jason has helped creative businesses refine their positioning, develop IP-led products, and identify untapped markets. His methods are simple and reduce complex legal and commercial concepts by encouraging the empowerment of entrepreneurs to take control of their assets and build sustainable income.
He is passionate about inclusion and under-representation, and works to bridge knowledge gaps and ensure underrepresented founders can compete confidently. His work results in improved sales consistently, clearer business models, and stronger foundations for long-term growth in the creative economy.
Manfredi de Bernard is a PhD student at King’s College London. In 2019 he was awarded a LAHP/AHRC-funded Collaborative Doctoral Award supported by King’s College London in partnership with Creative United.
In his research, Manfredi employs network science and interviews to expand the current knowledge about the UK theatre ecology. In particular, he is looking at the network of workers to understand their interactions with commercial, not-for-profit and fringe theatres in the country.
Theatre is its workers and progress towards the understating of the sector would be hardly possible and deeply unfair without them. So it seemed natural to explore and model the theatre ecology by looking at how the workers behave, their career paths, the difficulties they face and how they collaborate.
The research project is producing evidence to finally recognise workers’ central role in the sector, which has been dramatically overlooked, and not just in the last two years. The whole project thus sits between research and advocacy as we hoped will help inform public policy towards culture and recognise interconnections and synergies in a more consistent and transparent way.
The research is mixed-method: Manfredi is building the workers’ collaboration network from resumes and concurrently interviewing theatre workers of any profile to understand their working conditions, the inequalities happening in the sector, and how differently they engage with different elements of the theatre ecosystem.
As industry partner for this study, Creative United is supporting Manfredi with access to contacts and knowledge within the creative and cultural industries to assist him with his research – from networks and databases, to survey information and policy, consultation and research reports.
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