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