Galit Bernard

Galit is part of the admin team for SETsquared based at University Gate East, working in the Incubation Unit. Her duties vary from administrating to co-ordinating events and managing the day to day reception area.

Her background is in the hotel industry and the media where she acts as a writer when she doesn't work for SETsquared.

Lin Jones

Lin Jones was Club Secretary for a large Sports & Social Club in Gloucester for 12 years before moving to New Zealand where she worked as a Personal Assistant at Hewlett-Packard in Auckland for 7 years. On her return to the UK she took up a post as Executive Assistant at Hewlett-Packard in Bristol for 6 years then left to join two of HP's Directors as Office Manager at The Appliance Studio located at University Gate East for 4 years until they left the centre. Lin then became the Administrator at SETsquared Centre in University Gate East in January 2006.

Lin is responsible for the day-to-day operations of the SETsquared Business Acceleration Centre in Bristol. Her duties include the administration of all new ventures into the centre and their continued support. She manages the accounts, is the DSA for the centre and is line manager to the two part-time receptionists.

Nick Sturge

Nick was brought up in Bristol and graduated from Swansea University in 1989 with a first class degree in Electronics and Computer Science.

After working in medical physics at the Bristol Royal Infirmary and for some small medical electronics companies, Nick worked at Inmos, part of STMicroelectronics, for 3 years. When his team were made redundant, Nick and 7 colleagues founded Motion Media Technology to develop video phones and video communication equipment. Motion Media listed on the main market of the London stock exchange, growing to 125 people across the UK and US and achieving a market valuation of over £250m. Nick led the production, HR, facilities, IT and quality functions of the business, giving him broad operational and PLC board level, experience. When Motion Media merged with SCOTTY Group, Nick consulted under the Omnigenix brand, including a part-time role as Entrepreneur-in-Residence at the SETsquared Business Acceleration Centre in Bristol. Nick is now SETsquared Centre Director, responsible for business incubation, at the University of Bristol.

The SETsquared Partnership is an enterprise collaboration of the universities of Bath, Bristol, Southampton and Surrey, with each University hosting a SETsquared Business Acceleration Centre. These Centres accelerate early-stage high-tech companies with high growth potential. The Bristol Centre currently works with 40 high-tech start-ups of between 1 and 30 employees across sectors as diverse as semiconductor, renewable energy, web 2.0 and industrial instrumentation.

Nick is Chairman of the Bristol Branch of the Institute of Directors and sits on the board of several companies. Nick continues to consult for other growing companies on people, property and funding issues and has invested in a number of high-tech start-up companies.

Faye Travers

As a member of the admin team at the SETsquared Business Acceleration Centre at University Gate East, Faye works full time managing the Centres reception and assisting in the administration of the Centre. Her role also includes co-ordinating events, liaising with the ventures and generally assisting with the smooth running of the Centre.

Faye completed her NVQs in Business Administration in an apprentiship programme with the University of Bristol, where she achieved her level 2 whilst working in the Graduation office and Level 3 whilst working in the Politics Department.