The opening Tim Marsh Memorial Award was announced by a Bristol-based creative company Istoria group. The award was created to commemorate former team members Tim Marshwho unfortunately passed away after a short illness in 2022.
About Tim Marsh:
Tim Marsh
was previously co-founder and technical lead at solver board – a Istoria group Incubator Hub Business. Istoria group incubator hub supports young companies based on great ideas in their early stages and helps them to develop and realize their potential until they become independent.
Management Innovation Platform solver board was a great success for all involved and was bought in 2022 by an AIM-listed global software and services company sopheonwhere the innovation product was renamed Acclaim Ideas. Tim led the programming team throughout the development of the platform, drawing on the expertise from his impressive background in large scale technical projects for the Royal MailThe post and the RNLI.
“Tim was an extraordinarily talented person” Sam Rowe, CEO of the Istoria Group commented. ‘Highly respected by his peers in the tech world, he was also well respected on a personal level by everyone he met for his friendliness and constant willingness to offer support and mentorship. A born educator, Tim has never been happier than sharing his expertise and helping to inspire people of all ages and backgrounds to reach their potential.”
About the award:
The award is intended to honor Tim’s legacy of “use technology forever’. The design team from Istoria group referenced Tim’s love of bird watching and incorporated a bird icon into the identity.
The award includes an intensive six-month mentoring program aimed at helping an emerging technology company get to market. Mentoring is provided at the Director level by Istoria groupis an in-house expert and covers all aspects of developing a technology company, along with marketing expertise and a web and brand update from sister agencies tiny spark And Phoenix Wharf and Half a dozen “Ask Me Anything” sessions with Tim’s co-founders Acclaim Ideas
– Phil Atherton And Charlie Widows – are included in the price and ensure that the recipient receives the very best, practical business advice.
The first recipient:
The first prize winner for 2023 is technology company Bristol Founder Angela Loveridgewhose initiative better togethersupports parents to keep their children safe online by pointing them to handy tools, techniques and resources, providing safe spaces for those uncomfortable safety conversations, and coaching parents to empower them to respond in a way instead of to respond Keep channels of communication open with your children and encourage constructive conversations.
Angela’s innovation is recognizing that people have very different parenting styles, which means that safety policies need to be approached without judgement, and tailored and tailored to the specific needs of the child or children in each household.
“We first met Angela as a finalist in our female-led Micro Business Incubator Hub competition,” Sam Rowe explained: ‘and were all very impressed with her as a person and also with her vision for her company. We knew right away that Angela was someone we wanted to support to help Better Together reach its full potential. When we created the Tim Marsh Memorial Award, Angela immediately came to mind as the perfect cast.”
Angela Loveridge commented “I am very pleased and truly honored to be the first recipient of the Tim Marsh Memorial Award.” Although I did not have the pleasure of meeting Tim myself, I can already sense that he was clearly a remarkable person, both in both in terms of his talent and his commitment to using technology for good. The award is a wonderful initiative and the incredible benefits it brings are very exciting. “I look forward to working with the team to enable Better Together to empower more parents to keep their children safe online.”
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Notes for editors:
For more information about this initiative or about Istoria groupPlease contact us Head of Public Relations Caroline Collett at T: + 44 (0)1297 444179 M: + 44 (0)7801 270598 E: caroline@carolinecollettpr.com
About the Istoria Group:
Istoria Group is a Bristol and Indianapolis-based, women-led creative agency collective with diverse but complementary skillsets, a fantastic team spirit and a shared goal of making clients more visible, more relevant and more compelling to their clients. In 2022, Istoria Group received B Corp accreditation in recognition of its People, Planet and Profit ethos. Each agency of the Istoria Group – www.istoriagroup.com – is a specialist in its own field. The group’s core agencies are event and exhibition designers Ignition; Interior architecture and branding designers Phoenix Wharf and purposeful digital experience designers Tiny Spark.
