Stephen is Chief Executive of Bristol City Council, having previously been the council’s Executive Director for Growth and Regeneration with achievements including the City Leap decarbonisation project, Temple Quarter regeneration and the council’s house building programme. A former equity partner at Grant Thornton UK LLP, Stephen has extensive experience of economic development, scale-up businesses, major regeneration projects, technology and the energy sector. His early career included a decade in the international energy industry following which he was a founding director of 3 Mobile.