summer 22 new members who’s joined recently Martin Anderson, Lesley Wratten Lemon Contact Centre Bruce Durham Huddle Culture Graeme Tennick Tennick Accountants Natasha McDonough MMC Research & Marketing Jack Atha, Tom Atha Atha Developments Marie Ranson Key Wellbeing Elaine Jordan Extension Recruitment Kim Davis Explain Market Research Jaimie Longmuir USAsports.co.uk Graham Robson Business Doctors Stephen Meenaghan StoZone Laura Hepburn Greenology Steven Parker Causal Effect Rob Smith William Smith Group 1832 Paul Wilson EDM Zone Scott Savin, Paul Milner ALT STUDIOS Louise Kennedy Oculus HR Peter Williams, Adam Smith, Craig Wood Smart Manufacturing Solutions Diana Bourke Echo-U Emma Walker EW Estates Kimberley Cattin WBCo Jon Dudgeon, Dave Gibson Blu Sky Tax Peter Mallon North East Times Lee Durham durhamlane Elliot Smith, Brigitte Keatings, Tom Smith Ringtons Chris Park Park Corporate Insurance Brokers Alan Easton Boxmodel John Devitt Recovery4Life Joe Thompson TT Industrial Dale Smith The SDDE Smith Group Di Gates Stick Theory Andrew Greenwell BMNE Lizzie Adamson-Brown Travel Counsellors Sarah Pittendrigh Sarah Pittendrigh Coaching Kevin and Sarah Howell Howell Technology Group Jeni Smith NetKno John Jones Tyneside Training Services
Scott Savin and Paul Milner ALT STUDIOS What does your business do? Both: ALT STUDIOS embodies a genuine desire to maintain a point of difference in a growing world of homogeneous approaches and soulless solutions by providing an alternative to the mainstream. We are a driven team specialising in, but not limited to, high quality, design-led architecture and bespoke interiors. We create experiences – influenced by a curiosity in context, lifestyle and culture. We help transform people’s lives and businesses through carefully crafted design, grounded in rigorous research and a devotion to detail. What was the attraction of joining the Entrepreneurs' Forum? Both: The opportunity to mix with a large eclectic community of business owners and like-minded people, both formally and informally, as well as benefitting from the mentorship programme. What do you hope to achieve with the Entrepreneurs' Forum? Both: Ultimately, we want to engage and learn from inspiring entrepreneurs beyond the field of architecture to broaden our knowledge of the business world. If you weren’t doing what you do
now, what do you think you would be doing? Scott: Product Designer or Property Developer (nearly diverted after the first architectural degree to the latter). Paul: Fashion Designer or Graphic Designer (naively thought I could concurrently study fashion design alongside architecture!). What was your first job? Paul: Hotel porter. Scott: Police line-up participant (never as a suspect!). What is something most people don’t know about you? Paul: Ever since combing through Dad’s Science and Engineering exercise books from the 60s and 70s I’ve been fascinated with abstract book covers – particularly the work of Willi Baum and Fred Troller. Scott: Throughout my teens I was an avid basketball player, so much so, in wanting to further my knowledge, I even undertook my coaching qualification at age 14. I was by far the youngest one there! Who, dead or alive, would you like to have dinner with? Paul: Table for three. Always admired the unwavering integrity and critical confidence of Austrian architect and
