Marc has worked across the media industries as a Founder, CEO, Director, Strategist and Creative Director. As an entrepreneur he has founded several ventures including three creative agencies and two digital businesses. Marc has managed projects for global brands, teams of 50 people, and annual turnovers of £8m. In addition to his role as Chair of GEN UK, he consults on [...]
Elaine has been involved in the Global Entrepreneurship Network (GEN) for over 11 years, and is an Adviser to the Global Board of GEN. In returning to the UK 4 years ago, after living in the Middle East for 8 years, Elaine became a Co-Founder and Executive Director of GEN UK and is frequently invited to [...]
Aaron is the founder and principal consultant of Mourne Management Systems, a professional business consultancy, servicing clients across the UK and Ireland. He advises private and third sector organisations, using his skills and experience to assist organisational growth, manage risk and governance, and increase overall sustainability. Aaron previously worked with major manufacturing organisations in Northern Ireland [...]
Beauty Akter is a PhD fellow at the University of Sussex, UK. She is passionate about accelerating innovation and new business creation. Prior to becoming a PhD fellow, she worked as a faculty at the largest private university of Bangladesh where she taught entrepreneurship. Beauty has worked with Bangladesh’ leading entrepreneurial ecosystem since 2016. She has deep [...]
Asif is currently working as the Head of Digital Innovation & IT along with Teaching Business and Entrepreneurship in London PT College in partnership with the St Mary's University, London. He has been teaching for more than 8 years and taught Entrepreneurship, Technopreneurship, and Marketing at the leading university in Bangladesh, and been the visiting faculty [...]
Gareth is a serial entrepreneur based out of Cardiff, Wales, and in the last decade has worked with 3,000 startups. In 2017 he set up TownSq to roll-out his vision of bringing the insights of his work with entrepreneurs in Wales to communities across the rest of the UK. TownSq is a B Corp focused on [...]
Babita Devi is a coach, mentor and entrepreneur with nearly 30 years’ experience in marketing, strategy and business development. Babita has worked in a diverse range of industries, including IT, life sciences, higher education, consumer goods and optics. She has lectured entrepreneurial marketing at Anglia Ruskin University and Lincoln University. Babita is an advisor to several [...]
Jacqueline is best described as a global humanitarian and innovator, with a deeply held and proven conviction to increasing equality of access to life’s opportunities through the creation of inclusive environments. She is a recognised international expert and consultant on inclusion and accessibility challenges. A thought leader in the reduction of global inequalities, Jacqueline’s work is recognised as good [...]
Shirley Palmer is an award winning serial entrepreneur with a passion for supporting those with an entrepreneurial mindset. She runs two businesses, Shirley Palmer International, focusing on conscious leadership and mindset mastery and The Simple Series, a new business and brand born out of lockdown that supports entrepreneurs, SMEs, and startups to identify their why and [...]
As Director for Entrepreneurship at UCL. I have a truly awe-inspiring role to encourage talent across the UCL landscape. My focus is to inspire UCL students, researchers and alumni to develop entrepreneurial mind-sets to achieve their full potential through our extra-curricular entrepreneurship programmes and encourage start-up creation, typically 60-70 new start-ups per year. Entrepreneurship is woven [...]
