Sandy is Chair of Tangerine, the multi award-winning specialist creative communications agency she founded in Manchester in 2002 and which she put into employee ownership in 2017.

In 2015 she was awarded the MBE for services to business and young people, and in the same year she was named North West Director of the Year by the Institute of Directors (and Highly Commended in the same awards nationally).

That followed the launch in 2013 of The Juice Academy, the UK's first industry-led social media apprenticeship which has since created jobs for more than 600 young people in the North West and across the UK.

Last year, she sold The Academy and, with the proceeds of the sale, created The Bright Futures fund with the charity, Forever Manchester. The fund will run for three years and donate £125,000 per year to community groups which support social mobility, a cause Sandy is especially passionate about.