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.