Julia Chanteray

Current

Vice President at Brighton and Hove Chamber of Commerce
Director at The Joy of Business

Past

Director at Management-Resources
Operations Director at NSL
Manager at Craigmillar Housing Development

Edincraig Housing Association at Coordinator

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Education

Open University Business School

Recommended

15 people have recommended Julia

Connections

307 connections

Industry

Management Consulting

Websites

Julia Chanteray’s Summary

Julia Chanteray provides advice, support and mentoring for people who want their businesses to grow. She has spent her life setting up and running different companies, and now uses her experience to help others to succeed.
Last year, she was the resident business expert on Channel 4's Risking It All programme, where more than 2 million people watched Julia on each of the five episodes.

She has written the finance section of Start Your Business Step by Step, a workbook for new businesses.

Julia started her business career setting up social enterprises in a very deprived area of Edinburgh, where she worked for 9 years.

She then moved to the private sector and worked as Operations Director for a technology company, taking it from 7 members of staff to 50 staff and an AIM floatation.
She's worked with more than 200 companies in Brighton and across Sussex, all of whom have benefited from her range of expertise and ability to quickly see what the real issues are. Julia especially likes to work with companies who have a great product or service, but are having difficulty getting to where they want to go.

Julia is very active in the business community in Brighton. She's Vice President of the Brighton and Hove Chamber of Commerce, and a director of the Business Community Partnership. She is a popular speaker at business events, including Women in Media, Brighton and Hove Chamber of Commerce, The Women's Networking Company

Julia Chanteray’s Specialties:

Julia supports businesses who want to expand and grow to the next stage. This might be someone who has working on their own and wants to take on their first member of staff, or someone who wants to build a small business into a bigger one. Clients are usually businesses that have been going for a while, and are ready to go to the next stage.

Julia Chanteray’s Experience

Vice President

Brighton and Hove Chamber of Commerce

(Non-Profit Organization Management industry)

2006 — Present (3 years)
Director

The Joy of Business

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Management Consulting industry)

August 2004 — Present (5 years)

The Joy of Business provides ongoing support and advice to growing businesses in Brighton, Sussex and London to help business owners be successful.
Director

Management-Resources

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Management Consulting industry)

June 2002 — September 2004 (2 years 4 months)

Management-Resources provided training and coaching for managers
Operations Director

NSL

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

March 1999 — September 2000 (1 year 7 months)

I joined NSL when it had 7 staff, all crammed into one tiny room with lots of whirring servers. Within 18 months of becoming Operations Director, we'd grown to about 30 staff, increased turnover by 410%, and were getting ready for a floatation on AIM.
Manager

Craigmillar Housing Development

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Philanthropy industry)

February 1995 — March 1999 (4 years 2 months)

I was the manager of an urban regeneration programme in Craigmillar in Edinburgh. We set up a number of social enterprises (they were called community businesses in those days) as part of the regeneration efforts.
Edincraig Housing Association

Coordinator

(Non-Profit; 1-10 employees; Philanthropy industry)

February 1991 — July 1995 (4 years 6 months)

As part of the work in Craigmillar, we set up a housing association that was run and owned by the local community. My job was to get Edincraig going in the first place, and then to make sure that it became a viable business.
This was where I got my first experiences of running a business and of coaching and supporting people.

Julia Chanteray’s Education

Open University Business School

MBA , Business , 1995 — 2001

Additional Information

Julia Chanteray’s Websites:

Julia Chanteray’s Groups:

Brighton and Hove Chamber of Commerce (Vice President),
Common Purpose 2007,
Brighton and Hove Business Community Partnership - director,
South East Dance - director, Womens Networking Company