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Nick Russill
Snow-Forecast
In a nutshell:
The internet’s most popular winter sports weather website
Sectors:
Life sciences

Co-Founder and Director of TerraDat Geophysics (established 1992). One of Europe’s pioneering ground exploration companies specialising in shallow high-resolution geophysics applied to engineering & environmental problems. TerraDat also carries out 3D reality capture for visualising the above ground environment for applications ranging from heritage documentation, BIM through to forensic scene mapping.

Co-Founder and CEO of Snow-Forecast.com which, together with its sister sites for surfers, mountaineers and other outdoor enthusiasts.  Started as a side project 20 years ago purely for the founders to find the best surf and snowboarding conditions, the combined traffic exceeds 43 million users each year.

Passionate about promoting purpose-driven entrepreneurship, Nick is a Business role model for the Welsh Government’s “Big Ideas Wales” project, inspiring young people from primary school to Further Education to realise their dreams. Occasional mentor for the Prince’s Trust and in 2019 was awarded position by The Royal Society as Entrepreneur in Residence at Exeter University.

Honorary Lecturer at Cardiff University, maintaining academic links for furthering research in the fields of geospatial monitoring, permafrost and climate change and geophysical sciences.

Trustee of a Lottery funded Welsh social mobility charity. The Mullany Fund mentors young people considering a career in life sciences.