Rob is a neurodivergent entrepreneur, and has worked with membership groups, academics and businesses for over twenty years, holding senior roles in academic publishing before becoming self-employed in 2014. In typical ADHD fashion, when he couldn’t find an organisation that catered for the worlds of both neurodivergency and entrepreneurship, Rob hurled himself into the gap and set up the NEA in 2023.

Since then, Rob has secured funding so that the NEA can run enterprise programmes specifically for neurodivergent founders, accredits the programmes of other organisations, and speaks regularly about the ups and downs of neurodivergent self-employment for bodies like Stanford University, the Federation of Small Businesses, the ADHD Foundation, and many higher education institutions, corporates, and local government agencies.

Rob served as a board member for the Institute for Small Business & Entrepreneurship (ISBE) and has worked as a consultant with Enterprise Educators UK (EEUK) as Conference Director for the International Enterprise Educators Conference (IEEC). Based in West Yorkshire, Rob has an MA (Hons) in English Literature, and an MBA from the University of Bradford.

Pablo is a Professor in Entrepreneurship at Durham University Business School. He is an applied social scientist trying to do useful research, at the intersection of human enterprise, social issues and natural environments. He is interested in the generative power of social science research and engaged scholarship; and how, combined, they can help us imagine and enact better futures. Playful experimentation underlies his work. In 2023, Pablo founded the Social Science Enterprise Lab  developing unconventional methods and tools to scale up the impact of social science research through commercialisation. The Lab brings use-inspired / solution-oriented research and business development together and early into collaborative research processes. In the process, Pablo co-founded Mind Your Business, a Durham University spin-out that offers business development support as though people mattered.

In his professional life, Pablo wear several hats. Alongside the Lab and Mind Your Business, he is the Co-Director of the Durham Enterprise Centre (Business School), and the Centre for Social Justice and Community Action (Sociology) as well as Co-PI in the new Global Centre for Contextual Safeguarding. Outside of Durham, he serves as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Business Venturing Insights and holds visiting research positions at IE Business School in Spain and EGADE Business School in Mexico.