Meet the Board

Amy Seppman, President

Amy is the Marketing Director, one of the Business Owners and Head of Marketing and Client Engagement at JCP Solicitors, one of Wales’ best known law firms. JCP Solicitors employs 180 people across 8 offices in South Wales, including office locations in Swansea, Carmarthenshire and Pembrokeshire.

Noted as a rising star in Wales, Amy has been listed in the Western Mail’s ‘35 under 35 to watch’ and was highly commended in the Rising Star Category of the South Wales Evening Post’s Women in Business Awards. In April 2013 Amy was appointed as one of the youngest non-lawyer salaried law firm partners in Wales at the time. Amy was made Marketing Director at the business in 2015 when JCP became a Limited Company and after 5 further successful years, Amy became one of the business owners in July 2020.

Highly organised and driven by data, Amy provides strategic planning for JCP, making sure all company marketing activity meets the long-term goals of the business. Amy is committed to the Club’s mission to provide a high calibre relationship building community for the transformation of regional business. Amy has been a Board Member of the Club since 2013.

Alison Vickers, Treasurer

Alison is a partner at regional chartered accountants, tax and financial planners, Bevan Buckland. She is a fully qualified chartered accountant and provides financial, accounting and tax advice and support to a range of owner-managed businesses throughout South-west Wales. She specialises in the not-for-profit sector and regularly runs training courses for charities.

Andrew Downie, Board Member

Andrew is the founding Director of NetBop Web Development, and boasts 15 years experience in web design and development including several years at one of the UK’s largest website hosting companies. Since launching NetBop, the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) has listed him one of the UK’s top six most talented young entrepreneurs. In addition to sitting on the board of Swansea Bay Business Club, Andrew is a Director with Swansea Business Improvement District where he chairs a working group for Parking & Transportation for the City.

Mandi Gwynne, Board Member

Mandi is the Multi Sales Manager of Swansea and Cardiff Marriott hotels. She has been with the Marriott group for more than 25 years and she has been a dynamic voice for the company in Swansea, both in driving revenue growth and profitability, and in boosting its profile within the local community. During her time with the Marriott, Mandi has received its coveted Golden Circle award, seeing her attend a celebration event in Cancun for consistently over-achieving on all of her sales targets. Having worked for Marriott Hotels since she was 18, beginning her career as a receptionist, she sees her role very much as a vocation and a labour of love. In fact, to many in Swansea she is simply known as ‘Mandi Marriott.’ 

Mandi has helped to amplify Swansea Marriott’s profile at regional awards and other high-profile events, such as the Swansea Lifestyle Awards and the Swansea Bay City Region Women in Business Awards, for which she was a finalist in the Ambassador category in 2018.

Alongside her day job, Mandi is a trustee of Harry’s Fund, which she helps run, in honour of her nephew, Harry Patterson, to help bereaved families access support. Harry’s Fund has created a lasting and fitting tribute to young Harry, by building a well-loved park bearing his name, in Altwen.

Ryan David Miles, Board Member

Ryan is the Co director of Miles Hire Limited, a plant , tool and powered access company with depots in Swansea, Bridgend and Cardiff.  Originally starting in 2003 with his brother Darren and father David, the family company has grown with several depots, winning “Hire company of the Year” in the UK in both 2017 and 2020, the only Welsh company ever to do so.  Ryan is passionate about promoting the construction industry and is co director of the Welsh Construction show, the largest construction specific event in Wales.

Louisa Huxtable-Thomas, Board Member

Professor Louisa Huxtable-Thomas is a senior member of The School of Management at Swansea University, and leads on engagement and impact, as well as coordinating our Executive Education provision. Combining theories and empirical knowledge gleaned from the fields of business, social science, education and psychology, Louisa’s research interests relate to how people’s behaviours, either as leaders, entrepreneurs or policy makers have an influence on societal and economic welfare.

Louisa had a varied early career encompassing work in environmental consultancy, policy making at Regional and Local Government level as well as business support and incubation. Louisa’s doctoral research brought all of this prior knowledge together and identified the ways in which businesses can successfully participate in environmental policy making.  After completing her PhD in 2009, Louisa’s research interest increasingly moved towards business and management, rather than environmental policy, but always in parallel to practical projects that worked directly to assist the economy of Wales.  Louisa has played a key role supporting businesses through projects such as incubation, innovation and commercialisation as well as early stage R&D. Not limiting herself to the field of entrepreneurship, Louisa has also worked with academics in fields as diverse as healthcare, e-marketing, education, low carbon energy, information systems, manufacturing and tourism. Most recently she has been working with renowned colleague Professor Paul Hannon to deliver a programme of entrepreneurial leadership development to senior managers of Malaysian Universities.

Angela Windsor, Board Member

Ange Windsor, is Director of Print Inc and Tarw Sports with 7 years within the industry.  She is passionate about achieving excellence and implementing innovative solutions within both companies, strives to be a leading entity in their respective niches. Her passion within the industry has resulted in a multitude of Awards including the prestigious Women in Business Awards.

Print Inc, specialises in the provision of top-tier branded workwear, uniforms, and Personal Protective Equipment (PPE). The company has become synonymous with quality and reliability, catering to a diverse clientele with precision and a keen eye for detail.

Tarw Sports stands out as a bespoke kit and apparel company, with tailor-made solutions meeting the dynamic demands of the sports industry.

Ange has an unwavering passion for supporting veterans in the community, which is exemplified through her active involvement in charitable endeavours. In 2023 she completed the arduous 100k Sahara Walk Challenge for the ABF Soldiers charity and in 2024 will take on the 4100meter challenge of the High Atlas Mountains for Climb 2 Recovery.