Chelsea Slater from Liverpool Girl Geeks, Amanda Follit from Amaze and Ian Finch from Mando are the three newest members who will help shape the £900m sector in Merseyside.

Three of the Liverpool city region’s top creative and digital talent has joined the Liverpool City Region digital & creative board.

Chelsea Slater from Liverpool Girl Geeks, Amanda Follit from Amaze and Ian Finch from Mando are the three newest members who will help shape the sector and build upon its strengths as a major UK digital & creative hotbed.

The digital and creative sector is of critical importance for the Liverpool city region and forms one of the key growth sectors as identified in the Growth Strategy.

It is already estimated to be worth almost £900m annually to the sub-regional economy.

The board has been established by the Liverpool City Region Local Enterprise Partnership and brings a variety of experiences across the digital, cultural, commercial and academic sectors.

This will be based on the city region’s distinctive assets, including: STFC Hartree Centre at SciTech Daresbury; Baltic Creative, home to more than 450 firms; FACT, one of the UK’s leading media arts centres; the AIMES N3 data storage facility at Wavertree Technology Campus; Sensor City, one of the first sensor technology incubators in the world; plus the Materials Innovation Factory.

Kate Willard, chair of the digital and creative board, said: “Liverpool city region is a thriving, creative digital hotbed working with global clients on a ground-breaking portfolio of work.

“We have the second fastest growing technology start-up cluster in the country with around 3,500 businesses making an annual GVA contribution of almost £900m – we want to grow this

“The breadth of what we do here is truly awe-inspiring – from big data analytics and high-performance computing and internet of things through to digital marketing, film, TV and e-health.”