About

Tony is a professionally accredited Chartered Management Institute social enterprise specialist business advisor and mentor. His background was in Retail but he was also the co-founder and non-executive Director of Blackpool’s first independent Radio Station. He is the Managing Director of Social Enterprise Solutions (UK) CIC, and under his leadership, SES has been listed in the RBS top100 social enterprises in the UK for four years running.

Steve Lord approached Ed Christiano with the original idea for Fylde Coast Resilience. From there, Ed asked Tony Carr to join, having worked with him at One Blackpool. Ed’s background is in design for print and media. With an enviable client list in the private and public sector, he produces videos and creates marketing campaigns. His career started as a film technician, working on movies and music videos in Hollywood, including Michael Jackson’s ‘Rock With You’ and ‘She’s Out of my Life’ music videos.

Steve was the inspiration for Fylde Coast Resilience and came up with its name. He’s been networking, connecting people and developing business in the UK and Prague for more than 30 years. His IBB Praha project is the latest stage along a personal business trajectory for turning networking into bona fide opportunities for making business ventures: this is Meta Networking.