Dan specialises in strategic, commercial and placemaking advice to destinations of all types and sizes, both domestically and overseas. His work helped to deliver successful places like Cardiff Bay and MediaCityUK, as well as major attractions like The O2 Arena, the National Football Centre at St George’s Park, and Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art.

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An economist by background, Dan advises clients across a broad range of arts, cultural and leisure destinations, including the National Trust and English Heritage, as well as provides placemaking advice to private developers, such as U+I, Berkeley Homes, Argent and Delancey.

Jim has amassed a wealth of experience – spanning four decades – advising on a broad range of arts and cultural destination developments throughout the UK and across Europe, Asia and the Middle East. He brings financial rigor to early-stage creative processes, ensuring development strategies are anchored in sound commercial principles.

In 2009 he authored the business case and design brief that unpinned the award-winning Giant’s Causeway visitor centre. He co-founded Fourth Street in 2012 and has since helped to unlock numerous culture-led regeneration projects including Farsons’ Old Brewhouse in Malta and Brighton’s iconic Madeira Terrace. He is currently leading the team tasked with delivering a £6.5m restoration of Swindon’s Victorian baths.

Juliette has 3 years' experience in market research and consulting. She has advised on strategies, visions and business planning for cultural and urban regeneration focussed projects. In her previous role in the water sector, she worked with clients ranging from private sector water companies, global think tanks, and funding bodies.

Juliette developed a keen interest in urban development and placemaking during her Geography degree at Oxford University, where she specialised in urban geography, and wrote a dissertation on park policy and governance in London.

Tom has ten years of private, public, and third sector experience across regeneration, heritage, arts and culture, and tourism. A mathematics graduate from Bristol University, his approach balances analytical rigour and strategic clarity, helping clients solve their thorniest issues and develop engaging plans for the future.

His recent work has led to successful funding applications to the National Lottery Heritage Fund, Welsh Government, and the Cultural Recovery Fund, including producing the Business Plan for the Newport Transporter Bridge project that was awarded £8.75m by NLHF, their third largest grant in Wales. He has also produced placemaking and commercial strategies underpinning successful planning applications for significant residential and commercial developments, such as at Quayside Quarter in Southall, London, that will create almost 2,000 new homes and 28,000 sqm of commercial floorspace.

Ruth has over five years’ consultancy experience in the property, heritage, tourism and fundraising sectors. At Fourth Street, Ruth has specialised in feasibility and options appraisals with clients including Wandsworth Borough Council and Sheffield City Council. She also has significant experience in major grant funding applications for a range of think tanks and charities both nationally and internationally.

Most recently, she helped lead a submission to the UK Government’s Levelling Up Fund for a £20m grant. Ruth is a graduate of University College London (UCL), where she obtained a BA (Hons) in Modern Languages (French and Russian).

Timothy Ambrose is an international expert in cultural heritage and the development and management of cultural destinations. For over 30 years, Tim has been advising public and private sector clients in the UK and overseas on policy and strategy development, concept development, governance and management structures, and operational systems. He has published and lectured widely on cultural heritage management.