Geoff Shepherd is an entrepreneur and business network founder with more than 20 years' experience bringing people, businesses and opportunities together.
He founded The Yorkshire Mafia, building it into one of the UK's largest independent business networks, and created Buy Yorkshire, a major business conference attracting 4,500 delegates, alongside Leeds Business Week.
Today, he is the founder of Silicon North, a platform connecting the people, companies and opportunities shaping the Northern technology economy. He is also the founder of Northern Embassy and Know Someone, with interests spanning technology, recruitment, media, events and business development.
His work centres on a simple belief: we all need to be better connected.
region to region. Organisation to organisation. Person to person.