John Till
CEO
For over 20 years John has been at the forefront of place branding, marketing and making as a practitioner and specialist adviser. As CEO he established and led the ground breaking marketing partnership Hull Cityimage, transforming the investability and reputation of the city and surrounding region. In 2006 John formed thinkingplace which is recognised as the leading place specialist company for this field of work.
John is project director for all our activity and leads in the creation and communication of place narratives, teasing out the assets and potential of a place and inspiring stakeholders to ‘own’ and ‘sell’ this forward looking story; he leads on the presentation of our thinking. Increasingly, this is focussed on investment interventions where a shared narrative is imperative such as Future High Streets Fund, Towns Fund etc. He gets disparate organisations to come together and engenders belief and confidence that this approach will realise investment or open up funding streams. He is a passionate, engaging speaker and asked to present on many platforms such as the Institute of Economic Development, City Nation Place, SOLACE, Local Government Association, Institute of Place Management and was recently made a High Streets Task Force mentor.
