We are very fortunate to be advised by an illustrious group of patrons, all successful entrepreneurs in their own right, who strongly advocate similar values and who wish to help us build an energetic international community of successful entrepreneurs.
Recent ‘Entrepreneurs Universe In Conversation With …’ events have played host to:
- Streetcar co-founder, founder of LOVESPACE and entrepreneur Brett Akker. Streetcar is a pioneering business which revolutionised the car-sharing market. Brett is now moving on with his second venture, LOVESPACE, exploiting a current gap within the self-storage market.
- Sir Trevor Chinn, whose previous roles include Chairman of Lex Service PLC that became the RAC PLC, Kwik-Fit, Chairman of the AA, ITIS holdings and The Mayor’s Fund for London.
- Tim Bleakley, CEO of Ocean Outdoor. Ocean Outdoor specializes in large format digital, iconic landmark and super premium banner locations such as Westfield, the Liverpool Media Wall and London’s Imax.
- Smedvig Capital, a VC who invest £2-15M of equity in fast growing UK and Nordic businesses across many industries and who has invested over £600M of internal capital since 1996.
- Lord Stanley Fink, philanthropist, investor, Conservative Party Treasurer and the “godfather of hedge funds”.
We have had a range of great entrepreneurs becoming a part of Entrepreneurs Universe by joining us and sharing their insights and experiences with us.

Richard Reed
Co-founder of Innocent

William Reeve
Founder of LOVEFiLM

Lord Stanley Fink
World-renowned hedge fund expert and philanthropist

Edward Wray
Co-founder of Betfair

Daniel Doulton
Co-Founder of SpinVox

Alon Shulman
Founder & Chairman of Entrepreneurs Universe

Tim Waterstone
Founder of Waterstones and Early Learning Center

Tim Bleakley
CEO, Ocean Outdoor

Michael Smith
Founder of Mind Candy and Moshi Monsters

Stephen Murphy
CEO of Virgin Group

Philip de Lisle
Serial Entrepreneur and executive mentor

Bill Morrow
Founder of Angels Den

Alex Caccia
CEO of Marmalade

Daniel Doll-Steinberg
CEO of Tribeka

Dr Andy Phillipps
Serial web entrepreneur

Drayton Bird
Direct Marketing Guru

Ehud Furman
European MD of Shopping.com and Founder, LookUp Page

Elizabeth Jackson MBE
Founder of Great Guns Marketing

Frances Dickens
Founder of Astus, the UK’s leading corporate barter company

Glen Drury
Former CEO of Kelkoo and Yahoo! Europe

Grant Leboff
Founder Phone Intelligence and The Intelligent Sales Club

Gus Desbarats
Founder of The Alloy: experience-led design

Haakon Overli
Founder of Self Trade S.A. and Dawn Capital

Hugh Welchman
Oscar-winning film entrepreneur

Janette Faherty
Founder of Avanta Enterprise

Jennifer Irvine

Jon Moulton
Founder of Alchemy and Better Capital

Jonathan Straight
CEO of The Straight Group

Judy Piatkus
Founder of Piatkus Books

Karen Swinden
MD of The Hothive

Neville Shulman CBE
Explorer, Philanthropist & Investor

Kenton Fine
Founder of Servest

Lara Morgan
Founder of Pacific Direct

Lawson Muncaster
Founder and MD of City AM

Luke Davies
Founder of Workshare

Martin Perry and Chris Wilks
Former CEO and CFO, Sondex

Neal Gandhi
Founder of Quickstart Global

Neil Stewart
Political advisor turned entrepreneur

Osman Kent
Chairman

Penny Power
Founder of Ecademy

Rene Rechtman
CEO of GoViral

Rob Hamilton
Founder of Instant Offices

Simon Campbell
CEO of Viapost

Simon Webster
Former CEO and Chairman of RSL Steeper

Lena Björck
Founder of Inn or Out Ltd

Tim Weller
CEO of Incisive Media

Zef Eisenberg
Founder of Maximuscle

Victoria Wills
Founder and CEO, NuBeginnings UK and France

Nicolas Samuel, RIP
Former CEO of Hobbs plc

John Viney, RIP
Founder of The Zygos Partnership