Mentors & Industry Advisors
Successful applicants are matched with a mentor who will guide them through the programme. Our mentors include some of the most successful entrepreneurs and investors in the UK. Founders on the programme will benefit from their experience, knowledge and network.
Tim Morgan
Tim qualified as a Chartered Accountant with Ernst & Young before spending 5 years doing M&A as an advisor and then in-house at Willis Towers Watson.
Tim founded Mint Digital, a leading provider of software to the broadcast industry with offices in London and New York. Mint was a pioneer of the startup studio model and used its own cash to incubate and launch multiple tech startups including Picklive (exited to Sports Millions) and Stickygram (exited to Photobox).
Tim was COO at Teller, a rapid growth US fintech backed by Founders Fund and Max Levchin’s Sci-Fi VC. Tim has invested the first cheque in the first round in each of Penfold, Mystic AI (the first startup from the South West of England to make it to YC) and Martello.
Tim has coached many startup founders including multiple YCombinator alumni. Tim is the founder of TMA.
George Bevis
George is a serial entrepreneur and the founder of CanDo - a social ventures incubator which develops "for good" initiatives across commercial and not-for-profit sectors.
He previously created Tide, the world's most innovative banking service for small businesses. He is embarrassed about stints as a banker at Capital One, RBS and Barclays, and much prouder of various unsuccessful startups where he learnt the skills necessary to build Tide and CanDo.
Sandra Lyness
Sandra spent her school holidays working in her parents' fish and chip shop and was the first in her family to attend university where she read Engineering.
She started as a trader at JP Morgan, before working as a consultant at KPMG where she qualified as a management accountant.
In 2013, Sandra joined the world of venture, starting as an office manager, then accountant, then associate before working to become Head of Operations at Passion Capital.
Sandra is now Partner at Tiny where she leads the operations and finance.
Tom Rogers
Tom grew up in Cornwall, attending local comps and then Oxford University to study Mathematics. After graduating he became a self-taught web developer, getting his first, junior level job at Boomf one of Mint Digital's spin-out companies.
In 2015 Tom co-founded Farewill a company that has brought the archaic world of wills, probate and funerals online. In his role as CPTO, Farewill grew to be the largest will writer in the UK, raising over £300M for charities through pledges in wills as well as winning industry awards for best will writer, probate provider and funeral provider in the UK.
Since leaving Farewill in 2021 he has mentored, advised and provided technical leadership at various startups in the UK, he is currently the CTO of Roost - a company helping solve the housing crisis through Coops and technology.
Ya-Lin Timbs
Ya-Lin grew up in West London and read English Literature and French at the University of Leeds before going on to work at Hearst in what would become a defining role – combining technology and luxury fashion in advertising operations for Harper’s Bazaar and Elle magazines’ digital products.
Subsequently, Ya-Lin took on leadership roles at Yoox Net-a-Porter and Farfetch, building monetisation programmes and teams. Joining Farfetch ahead of IPO in 2018 to develop an entirely new business unit, she led Media Monetisation and Marketing Operations departments over 7 years and through explosive growth.
Ya-Lin is passionate about helping others achieve success in complex, fast-paced environments, making her a trusted and sought-after advisor in the marketplace and e-commerce space.
