10 YEARS OF TEES BUSINESS
SHARON LANE
MD , Tees Components , & Tees Businesswoman of the Year 2020 , issue 24 , winter 2020 / 21
“ It ’ s about encouraging other women to step forward because you can ’ t complain about lack of representation if you don ’ t take part .
“ I want to give others the confidence to step forward . If I don ’ t do that over the next 12 months then I think I will have failed .”
DEAN BENSON founder and director , Visualsoft , issue 27 , autumn 2021
“ I want some kid on Teesside , who wouldn ’ t have had a computer , to have the chance to become the new Elon Musk .”
ZOE LEWIS CBE
CEO , Middlesbrough College Group , issue 29 , spring 2022
BEN HOUCHEN
Tees Valley mayor , issue 26 , summer 2021
“ A place like Teesside has been neglected for too long , so nothing ’ s going to change by just tinkering at the edges . Why shouldn ’ t we try something big and transformational ?”
CHLOË CLOVER director , Wander Films , issue 28 , winter 2021 / 22
“ This area is massively important to us and always will be . Too many talented people are lost to London , and we need to change that . Our aim is to break the mould and bring the TV and film industry to Teesside .”
“ There ’ s a clear willingness and ambition , the building blocks are in place , but there is still much to achieve and a great responsibility on the Teesworks site to deliver the 13,000 jobs it has planned to replace – in part , the tens of thousands of jobs lost from that area in recent decades .”
KIMBERLEY TURNER financial & commercial director , Double Eleven , issue 32 , winter 2022 / 23
“ There ’ s no need for us to go anywhere else because we ’ ve found everything we need in Middlesbrough .”
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