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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
One of the 250 Founders of Tech City, in 2016 she pivoted her company FlyingBinary to meet the challenges of the Metaverse and the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) with spectacular results. She is recognised as one of the 100 Global Leaders, is a Top Ten Global IoT innovator, and an independent industry analyst for IIoT. [...]
Helene is an award-winning serial entrepreneur, and founder and President of Savvitas, the network for women business leaders she established, as well as the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Entrepreneurship. A prominent Parliamentary Adviser and House of Lords Chief of Staff, Helene sits on the G7 Strategic Working Group, and advises the W20 Entrepreneurship Board. She established [...]
Josh Armstrong is the Enterprise Officer at the University of Winchester and is just completing his MSc in International Business and undertaking a Postgraduate Certificate in Student Engagement in Higher Education. Josh’s background is within Dance and the Arts after starting his own Community Interest Company in 2017. Josh trained at CAPA College in Wakefield in Production Arts and [...]
