Tim Harvey
Tim is one of the leading festival organisers in the UK and a champion of event-based businesses. He has been at the forefront of the UK festival industry’s rapid growth over the last 15 years and now helps promote and produce the MAMA Group’s portfolio of music festivals and outdoor events, acting as Creative Director for both the Lovebox and Wilderness festivals.
As a consultant, he has a long history in advising different rights owners, brands and agencies as how to approach the events landscape. He has both a strategic and creative mindset as well as an intrinsic and detailed understanding of many, often inter-related aspects in the event planning and development process - from talent, content and sponsor acquisition to marketing, production and the commercials.
“If only School for Creative Start-Ups had existed when I was starting out!
The program offers a meticulously delivered insight into what it takes to achieve success working in the creative industries. This landscape is inevitably full of big characters with even bigger chat but it’s those individuals who are smart thinking, cool headed and tooled up with expert advise that usually survive and thrive…”