Meet the Founders

Our founders, Angela and Suzanne, were driven by a shared passion for empowering businesses and creating opportunities for growth.

THE VISION

Having collaborated on numerous projects over the years, they shared a vision: to build a thriving community where entrepreneurs, industry leaders, and innovators could connect, share ideas, and create opportunities to drive growth and success.

The creation of C2S reflects their unwavering belief in the power of collaboration and networking as catalysts for transformation. By bringing together forward-thinking individuals, they’ve cultivated an environment where innovation thrives, opportunities are unlocked, and businesses grow. They understand that sharing knowledge and working together generate real value, developing a culture of growth, creativity, and progress.

As they continue this journey, their commitment to empowering businesses, driving meaningful connections, and shaping a brighter future remains stronger than ever. Through C2S, they provide the resources, support, and community needed to help businesses achieve their potential.

Their passion for driving growth, developing people, and elevating business visibility is as strong today as it was over a decade ago when they first launched. Beyond their work with C2S, they actively support charitable initiatives, raise funds for important causes, and volunteer their time. Community is at the core of everything they do—supporting young talent, enhancing business impact, and caring for the environment are central to their mission.

At C2S, their goal is clear: to create a platform where businesses and individuals can achieve extraordinary growth and make a lasting impact.

Angela Edwards

Angela grew up in Cheshire with a passion for horses and competed at a high level winning many competitions and gaining national recognition. She started her working life in London in a sales, marketing, and events role. Working on many exciting projects over the years to include the launch of a board game and members club for Terry Venables, high profile events for the music and film industry, national campaigns for BP, Rothmans, Ford Motor Company, Hasbro, and many more global brands. Wishing to start a family she moved back to the countryside and lived in Oxfordshire where her first daughter was born.

She was head hunted for a sales and marketing role for the largest recruitment organisation in the region, heading up the department and overseeing all branches. After working there for seven years she moved to Cheltenham. After the birth of her second daughter, she took on a role in the sporting industry and travelled the UK launching a new concept of hospitality in sports stadiums across the country, to include: Brighton, Doncaster, Swansea, Rotherham, and Gloucester. After launching the 1873 Club at Gloucester Rugby, Angela stayed on to work for them in a sponsorship role for nearly 10 years. Angela is also known for hosting many awards ceremonies to include The National Cyber Awards in London.

While working for Gloucester Rugby Angela met Suzanne and they worked on a number of projects together; they soon came to realise that they were very aligned on their morals and values and thrived on supporting others and helping the business community to flourish and prosper. This is where the concept of Circle2Success was born, now known as C2S after having completed their brand revitalisation and refreshed to C2S offer in line with the needs of businesses today

Suzanne Hall-Gibbins

Throughout her career, Suzanne has held leadership and board roles in both public and private sector environments across the UK. Prior to the turn of the Millennium, she played a significant role in funding large-scale capital projects in South West London, including iconic landmarks such as the Dome, Jubilee Extension Line, and London Eye. Additionally, she spearheaded Start-up & Enterprise Programmes for a London TEC and established two Business Links.

Moving to the Isle of Wight Suzanne was Deputy Chief Executive of a Training & Enterprise Council and Business Link, she decided to return to the private sector and moved to Gloucestershire becoming a shareholder and director of a specialised web development and business consultancy firm. During this time, she collaborated with global blue-chip clients such as Rolls-Royce Plc, BAe Systems, Peugeot and Disney.

Following the birth of her daughter, she sold her interest in the company and assumed a position at Business West where she played a pivotal role in a merger, consolidating three public sector entities with a larger private not for profit company, Business West. As the Gloucestershire Area Director of Business West for seven years, she oversaw the management of the £5m Business Link contract and orchestrated several Europe-funded programmes.

Notably, leading a team of ten full-time business advisors in delivering a strategic insight programme that gained national recognition, as well as running The Beacon South West programme bringing together strategically important businesses across the south west to collaborate and work together including Mulberry, Superdry, Creed, Prima Dental. It was during this time she met Angela Edwards then at Gloucestershire Rugby and the rest, as they say, is history.

Mel Higgins

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