Vicky Hlomuka

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About Vicky Hlomuka

An experienced economic development professional, Vicky is passionate about investing time in businesses and supporting them in their growth. She leads the Growth Hub team at SEMLEP who are committed to supporting businesses in the area to grow and thrive. Almost everything the team does is focused on building effective relationships with businesses. “We spend a lot of our time listening to businesses and working with them to overcome their issues, smoothing and enabling their way to growth and recovery. If we can’t help, we often know someone who can and we work in partnership with many other organisations to provide a high quality service to our businesses.”Vicky has worked in the business support arena for over ten years. She is passionate about business growth and investing time in businesses and supporting them in their development. Her experience spans a number of aspects of business support including securing and running European funded programmes to help businesses, designing initiatives to support high growth businesses, business consultancy and running her own business.Her experience includes leading the business growth team at Central Bedfordshire Council, leading on areas including a £3m innovation support project for businesses in partnership with regional universities and developing an account management approach to business support.Her experience spans the public sector, private sector and charity sector and includes international experience – having spent six years of her career in South Africa. She is a strong believer in partnership working and bringing the best people and organisations together to support businesses.Specialties: Business Growth, Project Management, Mentoring, Business Planning, Delivering European funded programmes