Leigh Wharton, Director Bubble Enterprises
Leigh is founder director of Partnership WTP Limited and Bubble Enterprises Community Interest Company. Both companies provide advice and support to individuals and organisations entering and starting new ventures; WTP since 2001 in the commercial high growth sector and Bubble Enterprises since 2007 with social enterprise as its remit.
Leigh has daily involvement in the incubation services of the Manchester Business School Incubator. He was one of the team that devised its innovative operational model and brought together the four partner organisations that now form the joint venture. The management of the MBS Incubator brings together commercial organisations, higher education institutes and entrepreneurs in an environment aimed at starting and growing successful enterprises.
Additionally, he is a director of Incubation North West, supporting the network of incubators in the North West region. He is a member of the Northwest Business Angels network advisory team, a finance support service of the NWDA, where he works with entrepreneurs and investors to enable informal equity finance to be invested in growing businesses.