Mark Kass

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About Mark Kass

SHORT AND SIMPLE SUMMARY: Bringing together commerce, culture and community and making it work.I do community engagement and partnership building with local creative, cultural and commercial organisations, academia and local/regional governments. I endeavour to help others understand how entrepreneurship is built on improvisation, risk and innovation in any sector and I'm particularly good at the commercialisation, governance and strategy stuff that grows organisations and local communities and audiences through partnership development.There's a lot of exciting music things going on in my world too and I make sure I help balance culture, community and commerce at every opportunity!MARGINALLY MORE DETAILEDSUMMARY:Experienced entrepreneurial leader & consultant in small business things across the East London Growth Boroughs of Newham, Tower Hamlets, Waltham Forest, Hackney, the City of London West Essex. Very experienced in things like start-up advisory, SME community engagement, strategic development programmes, social enterprise for charities and asset commercialisation and an active ambassador and agent supporting local inward investment. A tad obsessed with developing the jazz music world and its people, focusing on all the important stuff around that very cool creative and culturally relevant genre that ensures the industry delivers equality, diversity and inclusion. A seasoned developer of existing and new audiences to some fascinating [ & commercially viable!] entertainment.Not bad at the public speaking and presenting thing but overall, pretty damn good at bringing people together.WHAT CAN I DO FOR YOUR ORGANISATION?Shape economic, creative and cultural growth strategies and underpinning programmes.Design and deliver initiatives that strengthen productivity, competitiveness and inward investment.Lead partnerships with industry, local government, education and government agencies.Embed systems and governance that enable sustained economic, cultural and creative impact.Build partnerships and raise local profiles at a regional and national level, working across the public, private, and not-for-profit sectors to drive inward investment, secure funding and ensure value for money in delivery.Bringing together commerce, culture and community and making it work.