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aw firm Punch Robson Solicitors was
one of the first companies to support
the inaugural Tees Tech Awards by
sponsoring one of the categories.
The region’s thriving digital sector will
be celebrated when the Tees Tech Awards
are held in April 2020, in association with
DigitalCity and Middlesbrough Digital.
Organised by Tees Business – Tees Life’s
sister publication – the inaugural Tees Tech
Awards will take place in Wynyard Hall’s
Grand Marquee on the evening of Thursday
April 23 next year.
The awards will recognise and celebrate
the organisations and individuals thriving
within the Tees Valley’s fast-growing digital
sector together with the local companies
driving their business through digital
transformation.
Stockton-based Punch Robson has agreed
to sponsor the Tees Tech Leader category.
The firm’s managing partner Elaine
McLaine-Wood, pictured with Tees Business
co-editor Martin Walker, said: “We’re proud
and very pleased to be sponsoring the Tees
Punch Robson Solicitors
managing partner Elaine
McLaine-Wood and Tees Business
co-editor Martin Walker.
Awards will shine a light on the Tees
Valley’s thriving tech and digital sector
Tech Business Leader of the Year Award.
“Having clients in the tech and digital
sectors, and having helped to form spin-off
companies from Digital City some years ago,
it is lovely to see the evolving cutting edge
dynamic of those businesses not only evolve
but shine globally.
“We welcome the opportunity to judge
this category to celebrate the leading
individuals at the forefront of their
businesses.”
Tees Business co-editor Martin Walker
said: “The response we’ve had to the very
first Tees Tech Awards has been fantastic so
far.
“We’re grateful to Elaine and her team at
Punch Robson Solicitors, as well as all the
other sponsors, for helping to make this
happen – particularly as we approach a
potentially exciting new dawn for the sector
across the Tees Valley.”
Among the awards presented to
organisations and individuals will be the
inaugural Tees Tech Company of the Year
and Tees Tech Business Leader of the Year,
while other categories will recognise local
tech leaders in export, innovation and
partnership.
As well as headline sponsors DigitalCity
and Middlesbrough Digital, Punch
Robson Solicitors have joined Tracerco,
Communicate, Jacksons Law Firm, Baldwins
Group and Middlesbrough College as
category sponsors for the Tees Tech Awards.
Only four category sponsorships are now
available for sponsorship, including the
Tees Tech Ambassador individual award,
and three company categories in Exporter,
Newcomer and Tees Tech for Good (for use
of digital for charity, community or change).
Sponsorship packages, which include
a table of table of 10 (worth £750), a
champagne reception, an opportunity to
judge category entries and present category
awards including short speech plus pre-and
post-event publicity (print and online), are
priced £3,000 + VAT.
Go to teesbusiness.co.uk for more details
or email [email protected].
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