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Richard Coates
CEO of Cyberspark Group Limited
Richard Coates
CEO of Cyberspark Group Limited
Richard Coates, Chief Executive Officer of Cyberspark Group Limited, is a seasoned cyber‑security leader and programme director with extensive experience building cross‑sector partnerships and delivering large‑scale skills initiatives across the UK and Ireland. He founded and organised Hack the Isles®, the region’s first five‑nation cyber CTF culminating in a live televised final, and has led consortiums of major universities, negotiated strategic industry collaborations, and secured government support for national upskilling and resilience programmes. Richard specialises in strategic negotiation, multi‑stakeholder engagement, and designing high‑impact talent and public‑facing cyber events.
Jade Primrose
Founder, Primrose Communications
Jade Primrose
Founder, Primrose Communications
Jade Primrose is the founder of Primrose Communications, where she helps founder‑led B2B training, consulting, and specialist service firms in the UK and Ireland turn “messy but working” pipelines into predictable revenue engines.
With a background in building systems for expert businesses, Jade focuses on the unglamorous but critical work of mapping the real lead → conversation → client journey, identifying where good opportunities leak out, and rebuilding the commercial side of the business so it’s simple enough to use and strong enough to scale.
Her work blends revenue operations, process design, and practical AI – always with commercial reality at the centre. Jade’s clients turn scattered spreadsheets, inboxes, and half‑used CRMs into joined‑up “revenue OS” systems that reduce founder dependency and make growth feel calm and deliberate rather than chaotic.