The photos below show some of amazing diverse founders and people working in the Bristol & Bath tech cluster. We’re releasing them under a Creative Commons licence so that people can use them to showcase the diversity of their companies.
These photographs are part of the SHIFT project which wouldn’t be able to happen without our partners UWE and Applied Technologies. Special thanks go to Engine Shed and Oracle Startup Cloud Accelerator for hosting our shoot.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Ben Shorrock
Ben has been working to help grow tech and digital business for the last decade. He is currently the MD of TechSPARK the Southwest’s network for tech startups and scale ups working with 25,000 people a month to help them recruit, network and raise capital in the UK’s most productive Tech cluster (TechNation 2019). He sits on the boards of the UK Tech Cluster Group, Bristol’s ONce City Economy Board, Tech Swindon, Tech Southwest and is a co-founder of Bristol Tech Festival.
Prior to working for TechSPARK, Ben worked in consultancy with businesses opening new sites internationally. In this role, he helped set up Invest Bristol & Bath and the Netherlands consulate for the north of England.