A former police officer turned entrepreneur, Eddie Whittingham bootstrapped his first startup, a SaaS business called The Defence Works, as a sole founder and turned it into a multi-million-pound exit to a NASDAQ-listed giant in less than 4 years. Since his exit, Eddie has overseen a transformation of a 19th century chapel, converting it into Manchester’s only private ‘work club’, Ministry of Work, exclusively for ambitious founders and business leaders.