EEDA - East of England Development Agency

Beverly Hurley

Board member

Bev Hurley joined the EEDA board on 14 December 2007.

Bev Hurley joined the EEDA board on 14 December 2007.

Bev started out in social housing and regeneration in inner city London.  Her career then took her to Canada, where she helped pioneer a major change management project for a global gold mine. On returning to the UK, Bev established three successful businesses prior to being appointed chief executive of YTKO, a business consultancy specialising in the commercialisation of innovation and business growth.

She founded the Norfolk Network and Norfolk First, a business angel group, to stimulate greater enterprise and innovation in the county, and leads 'Enterprising Women', now a national community measurably increasing the number, sustainability and growth of women-owned businesses.

Bev is an Enterprise Fellow at the University of East Anglia, a member of the European Centre for Women in Technology, and a Women's Enterprise ambassador.  In 2010 she was honoured by the Queens Award for Enterprise Promotion. She sits on EEDA's Strategy Committee and the Science and Industry Council and is a board champion for innovation and enterprise.

• Click here for Beverly Hurley's Register of Interests   (PDF 705KB)

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