Tom Bloxham, Esq, MBE

Career: chm and co-fndr (with Jonathan Falkingham) Urban Splash 1993-; chair: Manchester Int Arts Festival, IPPR Centre for Cities Think Tank; memb: Arts Cncl England (chair NW), Urban Sounding Bd ODPM, Property Advsy Gp ODPM, Govt's Urban Task Force Working Gps; dir Liverpool Capital of Culture, tstee Tate Gally 2009; UK Property Entrepreneur of the Year Property Week 1998 and 2002, Ernst & Young Young Entrepreneur of the Year 1999, Young Entrepreneur of the Year IOD NW 1999, Manchester Evening News Business of the Year 2002, RIBA Client of the Year 2002, Property Entrepreneur of the Year Building Magazine 2003, Property Personality of the Year Insider Awards 2004, Property Entrepreneur of the Year EN magazine 2004, Royal Soc of Arts Bicentenary Medal 2008; hon fell: John Moores Univ Liverpool 2001, Univ of Central Lancashire 2003; Hon DDes Oxford Brookes Univ 2004, hon degree Univ of Manchester 2007, hon degree Univ of Plymouth 2009, hon degree Univ of Cumbria 2010; Hon FRIBA 2000, hon fell Royal Soc of Architects