Meet Team Uptech – Your Local IT & Cybersecurity Experts We’re Uptech – a multi-award-winning IT support and cybersecurity company that’s been helping UK businesses stay secure, productive, and stress-free since 1994. With a dedicated team operating across the East of England (including right here in Lincoln), we’re not just a remote call centre or faceless provider. We’re real people who take time to understand your business, your team, and what makes your operation tick. From handling day-to-day tech headaches to putting proactive cybersecurity and productivity strategies in place, we’re all about helping businesses work smarter and safer.

Claire Taylor-Petch, Head of Business Engagement and Development Claire has nearly 30 years’ experience supporting the local business community with training, recruitment and work-based learning as well as supporting individuals to empower themselves with the skills they need to succeed in their careers.  She is proud to be part of the business and community engagement directorate at Bishop Grosseteste University where her role is to foster relationships with employers and to up skill their teams through higher and degree apprenticeships. In addition, Claire is keen to promote our wider university offer including placements, graduate vacancies, knowledge exchange and so much more.  A few fun facts, Claire is double jointed at her fingertips, loves Zumba and Pilates, speaks Arabic and lived in Qatar until the age of 11. She is also a real foodie but hates black pudding, grapefruit and liver!  Rachel Linstead – Senior Lecturer and Operational Leader (Business Apprenticeships) Rachel is a pracademic – which means she is a practitioner in business as well as an academic. Rachel has run a business for over 13 years and been involved in the Lincolnshire business community for nearly 18 years supporting organisations large and small to help them develop their