Discover other experienced entrepreneurs and professionals sharing their top tips for business start-up success.
Eryca Freemantle (view profile)
Board member – Panel of Experts at London College of Fashion
Make-Up Artist/Industry Consultant – Celebrity & International
A Paramedical & Camouflage Corrective Specialist with the British Association of Skincare
What does she so?
Eryca Freemantle is an award winning celebrity and international make up artist. She is also a consultant, educator, author, corrective make up specialist, and motivational speaker
Talk to her about:
Makeup. Consulting. New Ventures. Motivation.
Helene Panzarino (view profile)
Independent Management Consulting Professional
What does she do?
Helene Panzarino has been a serial entrepreneur and business adviser and mentor for the past 15 years.
She has helped thousands of budding entrepreneurs set up successful business, trained them, and helped them get funding, whilst running her own consultancy business.
She specializes in the creative sector and professional services. Helene has worked in London prisons helping offenders to set up businesses upon their release, and has done other public sector work.
Talk to her about:
Creative sector, Management Consulting. Funding. Business Plans.
.
Lorna Collins (view profile)
Research Director – Family Enterprise Unit, Bristol Business School at University of the West of England
Principal Lecturer in Strategy – Bristol Business School at University of the West of England
What does she do?
Lorna Collins is the Principal Lecturer in Strategy (Enterprise and Creativity) at University of West England. She develops new social networks for family businesses.
Talk to her about:
Entrepreneurship. Consulting. Family Business. Creativity. New Venture Creation. Succession planning. Culture change. Entrepreneurial management
Luke Aikman (view profile)
Founder – Young British-Entrepreneur Ltd
Founder/CEO – Nudge Digital
Founding Director – Bristol Developers
What does he do?
Luke Aikman is an Innovation specialist, Entrepreneur and Non-Executive Director. He has started and mentored numerous start-ups. Luke specializes in strategy with a focus on refining a business’ core offering, positioning it and providing the business an innovative and cost effective strategy to market.
Talk to him about:
Ideas. New technology. Strategy. Start-Up. Pitching. Sales. Brand Positioning
Mark Johnson (view profile)
Founder – UserVoice.org
What does he do?
Mark Johnson is employed as a consultant on the criminal justice system at the national and international level.. As special adviser to both the National Probation Service and The Prince’s Trust, he is spearheading a number of projects which aim to bring young offenders and addicts back into society and give them a voice. Mark is also the author of the best selling book Wasted.
He was awarded The Prince’s Trust Young Achiever of the Year Award and the Daily Mirror Pride of Britain Award in recognition of this work.
Talk to him about:
Consulting. Addictions. Criminal Justice. Young Offenders.
Natalie Campbell (view profile)
Co-Founder – A Very Good Company
What does she do?
Natalie Campbell is co-founder of social good agency, A Very Good Company. The ethos of AVGC is to create a world where everyone can ‘Do Good, Feel Good and Live Good’.
Natalie started her first business at the age of 19, and at 21 raised capital to set up a Morgan De Toi retail franchise in Lancaster; she now supports other budding Entrepreneurs to make their ideas happen. She is also a Trustee of UnLtd, The Foundation for Social Entrepreneurs; V, The Youth Volunteering Agency and the Consortium for Street Children. Natalie is also a Broadcast Journalist having worked as an Online Reporter for Channel 4 News in Washington D.C. She is also an Assistant Producer for LBC, working on across specialist business and current affairs programmes.
Talk to her about:
Social enterprise. Business planning. Funding. Networking. Management. Media.
Oli Barrett (view profile)
Owner – Oli Barrett Connections
Co-Founder – The Web Mission
Founder – Make Your Mark with a Tenner
What does he do?
Several years ago Oli Barrett brought the concept of ‘Speednetworking’ to the UK. He’s also an ambassador for Global Entrepreneurship Week, and through WebMission he take groups of British entrepreneurs on trips overseas.and has hosted hundreds of events in over a dozen countries.
With Make Your Mark with a Tenner, Oli lends thousands of school pupils ten pounds (from philanthropic entrepreneurs) and gives them one month to see what they can achieve.
Talk to him about:
Networking. Problem solving. Compelling idea generation. Hosting and facilitation. Communicating early stage ventures to potential investors/partners etc.
Phil Tulba (view profile)
Social Entrepreneur in Residence – Kingston at The Young Foundation
What does he do?
Phil Tulba believes that he has had a roundabout enterprise journey before discovering social enterprise as a way to bring market-based solutions to social and environmental problems. His goals are to promote the social business model and find new ways of doing things through it.
Talk to him about:
Business planning. Developing governance. Campaigning. Problem solving. Project management. Consulting.
Rajeeb Dey (view profile)
UK Partner – Peer Venture Partners
Trustee and Investment Committee member – UnLtd
Advisory Board Member – UK India Business Council
Commissioner – Carnegie UK Trust’s Inquiry into the Future of Civil Society
Founder and CEO – Enternships.com
Founder – English Secondary Students’ Association (ESSA)
What does he do?
Rajeeb Dey is the Founder and CEO of Enternships.com – a service connecting talented students and graduates to start-ups/SMEs and dynamic organisations worlwide who provide ‘entrepreneurial work placements’. The site soft-launched in May 2009 and as already featured in The Sunday Times, The Daily Telegraph, Esquire Magazine, ABC News, Growing Business Magazine, Wall Street Journal, Business Week amongst other media channels. Enternships is the place to find the hottest entrepreneurial work placements around the world.
Talk to him about:
Venture capital. Social enterprise. Public relations. Networking. Education sector. Recruitment for start-ups/SMEs.
Ralph Braithwaite (view profile)
Founder – 3rdPhase
What does he do?
Ralph Braithwaite owns ‘3rdPhase’, a company that encourages young people to use media and film to have a voice within their community about social issues affecting them.
Talk to him about:
Sales. Marketing. Motivation. Inspiration. Business Ideas. Consulting.Youth Engagement.
Sean Risebrow (view profile)
Director of Customer Experience – Virgin Media
What do they do?
Putting “the customer at the heart of what we do” is critical to Virgin Media’s success and as Director of Customer Experience Sean is responsible for ensuring the whole organisation is aligned around what matters most to our customers
Talk to him about:
Sales. Marketing. Customer Relations.
Stephanie McLaren & Ansel Neckles (view profile)
Directors – twenty% extra
What do they do?
Partners Ansel Neckles and Stephanie McLaren both wanted to use their creative skills in advertising and the creative industries to start a new business. Not content with just helping big brands to get bigger, as they did in their past, they also wanted to have a positive social impact. With this in mind twenty % extra was created.
The company is an unusual combination of a creative agency and a social enterprise. It is a creative agency because it offers Advertising, Brand Strategy & Identity, Digital, Interactive, Art Direction & Graphic Design services.
The social enterprise aspect of twenty%extra lies in its investment of time and profits in supporting young people, providing mentoring and youth training.
Talk to them about:
Creative Ideas. Social Change. Marketing. Branding. Advertising. Youth. Social Enterprise.
Tre Azam (view profile)
Director / Trainer – MyTFT
Owner / Producer – Treite Labs
Marketing Consultant – Certus Sales
Director/Consultant – IDMM Limited
What does he do?
Before starting his consultancy business, Tre started and sold a few small businesses to keep him going and build up his experience of business as well as studying every great theory and text on marketing, business, branding and design.
In 2006 he started his own consultancy IDMM – Ideas, Design, Marketing & Management and in 2009 Tre was introduced to the magical world of TFT. Since then he has gone on to help people all over the country deal with stress, anxiety, nerves and most importantly help people achieve and maintain peak performance in their sports, business and personal lives.
Talk to him about:
Marketing and Brand Strategy. Problem Solving. Starting a business.
Xavier Adam (view profile)
What does he do?
Xavier Adam is an experienced entrepreneur, having worked on many high profile ventures with some prominent business people.
He started his career 15 years ago in motor racing, then quickly moved into computer software and the Internet in the mid-1990s. Devising and running global publicity campaigns and brokering commercial and financial deals.
These days his areas of specialism are marketing and strategy. Specifically in the worlds of finance, automotive, media and technology.
Clients include private banks, investment funds, motor manufacturers and a range of media and technology businesses, from start ups to major quoted international groups
Talk to him about:
Technology. Digital and Financial Public Relations. Marketing.
Secured by