The biggest one-day event for business owners and entrepreneurs. A day of debates, panel discussions and quick-fire speaker slots to help you super-charge growth.
Entrepreneurs' Summit speaker and Funding Circle co-founder Andrew Mullinger on what to think of before you raise money for your business, why banks aren't always the best lenders and how becoming an entrepreneur gave him new trust in the UK economy.
Matthew Rock, co-founder, Real Business & David Van Der Walt, Investec & Neil Bentley, Deputy DG, CBI.
The motion: "Too many British businesses are happy merely to survive, rather than take risks and grow."
For:
Luke Johnson, Risk Capital Partners
Joe Cohen, Seatwave
Julie Meyer, founder, Ariadne Capital
Against:
Errol Damelin, CEO, Wonga
Jon Moulton, Alchemy Partners
Jos White, founder, Notion Capital
Sourcing the most effective money, and putting it to good use.
Will King, King of Shaves
Andrew Mullinger, co-founder & director, Funding Circle
Dr Neil Murray, CEO, Redx Pharma
Ed Cottrell, head of growth & acquisition finance, Investec
How I... sold everything I own to be a startup again: David Spencer-Percival
How I... am reviving an iconic, failing brand: Stuart Garner, CEO, Norton Motorcycles
The export challenge: growing your business in a volatile world market
Dermott Rowan, managing director & co-owner, Kiely Rowan Plc, the company that owns the fashion brands Orla Kiely and Olive & Orange
Other panellists will be announced soon
Customer satisfaction: growing your business buyer by buyer
Wayne Lysaght-Mason, CEO, Ironmongery Direct
Tim Perry, CEO-founder, Spring Law
Other panellists will be announced soon
The Digital Challenge
Michael Ross, ecomera
Other panellists will be announced soon
The acquisition trial: buying a business in a volatile world
Alastair Mills, CEO, Six Degrees Group
Garrett Curran, Growth Capital Partners
Other panellists will be announced soon
How to make your voice heard when your customer is a giant.
Alastair Lukies, CEO, Monitise
Paul Lindley, CEO, Ella's Kitchen
Matthew Sanders, CEO, De Poel
Getting the most out of your leadership team.
Phil Doye, CEO, Kelway
Martin Leuw, former CEO of Iris
Closing keynote
Lloyd Dorfman, founder, Travelex
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Sue is the founder of Bubble and & Balm, the UK's first 100% fair trade bodycare company.
The founder of Arora Hotels, one of the fastest growing independent hotel companies in the UK and the largest hotel company at Heathrow and Gatwick.
Neil is Deputy Director-General, responsible for CBI's operations, business planning and representing the CBI to governments and media.
Peter is responsible for LivingSocial’s numerous markets in the UK and has developed a strong footprint in the UK & Irish group-buying space.
My Business FD is a rapidly growing team of some of the UK's most entrepreneurial FDs who provide support to SMEs.
Founder and CEO of Seatwave, the market leader in online ticket exchange across Europe.
Ed is the Head of the Growth & Acquisition Finance team at Investec Specialist Bank.
Errol is a global entrepreneur who loves building innovative businesses with inspirational people.
Lloyd is the founder of the world's largest foreign exchange and business payments specialist.
Phil founded Kelway at the age of 21. Over the next few years he laid the foundations of today’s Kelway, a company 100% focused on delivering exceptional customer service.
David is the CEO of Investec
Stuart's lifelong interest in motorcycling led him to take on the challenge of this iconic global motorcycle brand.
Luke is the Chairman of Risk Capital Partners, a private equity firm he founded in 2001.
Will founded King of Shaves in the depths of the UK recession in the early 1990's.
Martin is a highly experienced entrepreneur currently chairman of Clearswift.
Founder of children's food supplier, Ella's Kitchen, voted the Best Food and Drink Brand in the 2010 Grocer Gold Awards.
McLaren uses an innovative and dynamic approach to pursing groundbreaking conceptual design, development and engineering.
Alastair has a proven track record of turning visions and concepts into real businesses.
Julie founded Ariadne Capital in August 2000 to create a new model for the financing of entrepreneurship in Europe and the UK.
Alastair is chief executive officer at Six Degrees Group. Previously he was CEO of SpiriTel plc.
Founder & CEO of the VC-backed business that's "here to change the way finance is done". A true financial pioneer
Dr Neil Murray is a seasoned pharmaceutical industry chief executive, with experience of drug development, business growth and general management.
Founded and built the firm on understanding and anticipating its clients' challenges and ambitions.
Alex is an entrepreneur who began trading bankrupt stock at 16 and has since pursued several diverse successful business ideas.
Dermott is the Managing Director of Kiely Rowan and founder of the iconic brand Orla Kiely.
Matthew founded de Poel in 2001, after holding senior management positions within high street multinational recruitment agencies and managing numerous blue chip accounts.
David's recruitment career spans over 15 years and involved working internationally with global companies providing recruitment services.
CEO of the BGF, whose mission is to unlock the potential of fast-growing UK businesses that need long-term capital to drive their future success.
Jos is a partner at Notion Capital, a venture capital firm the focuses on the Cloud Computing sector
