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EntrepreneursLIVE! 2011 - Speaker Line-Up
17th October 2011
[updated 17 October 2011]
News of the confirmed speakers for our popular EntrepreneursLIVE! 2011 events taking place in London (14 Nov), Birmingham (15 Nov) and Manchester (16 Nov). We will update this blog entry with the final confirmed speakers once they have cleared their diaries for the day!
Don’t forget that students attending EntrepreneursLIVE! 2011 can also enter the Breakfast Enterprise Challenge on the day. Details here
Book places on EntrepreneursLIVE! 2011 here
Tim Roupell (The Daily Bread / Serial Entrepreneur) [London | Birmingham | Manchester]
Tim Roupell started Daily Bread in 1986 with no money or experience, making sandwiches in a friend’s deli and selling them in offices from a basket. He built the company over the next 23 years to a turnover of £14m, employing 230 people, and sold the business in 2008. He now advises small and medium companies and is an active supporter of The Princes Trust, helping disadvantaged young people to become entrepreneurs.
Rachel Bridge (Sunday Times & Enterprise Expert) [London | Birmingham | Manchester]
Rachel Bridge is the Enterprise Editor of The Sunday Times and author of four best-selling books about entrepreneurs. Her latest book, How To Make a Million before Lunch, was published by Virgin Books.
She took a one-woman show to the 2010 Edinburgh comedy festival, also called How to Make a Million before Lunch, which played to sell-out audiences at The Pleasance.
Having interviewed hundreds of the world’s most successful entrepreneurs for her popular Sunday Times column, How I Made It, Rachel has gained a real insight into what makes entrepreneurs tick. By drawing on real life examples, she is the ideal person to talk about the common traits they share and look at what we can learn from them.
For EntrepreneursLIVE! 2011, Rachel will share her ideas on how students and others can set up a new business on a shoestring - perhaps the ideal way to help fund A Level and college studies!
Tom Ball (Cognac & Serial Entrepreneur) [London | Birmingham | Manchester]
Tom Ball has been one of the most active and successful entrepreneurs in the UK since the original dot.com boom in 2000. He built CD9, a leading web design firm from a laptop in my bedroom to 25 full time employees and revenues of over £1.35million. Between 2002-2010 Tom founded and grew Cognac, a communications business, which worked with organisations of all sizes and sectors. Cognac clients included Cisco, Orange, Vodafone, Ernst&Young, LloydsTSB, HBOS, RBS, Prudential, Aviva, Barclays and the NHS. This business was sold for a substantial amount in 2010.
Kirsty Henshaw (Worthenshaws) [Manchester]
Kirsty Henshaw is the seriously business-savvy young mum who won everyone’s hearts in Dragons’ Den, winning investment from Duncan Bannatyne and Peter Jones. Her frozen desert - nut-free, dairy-free, gluten-free and sugar-free - comes in three flavours, and is the first of what Kirsty says are many more to come from Worthenshaws Freedom. A chance for some great Q&A with one of Britain’s most inspirational entrepeneurs.
Zoe Jackson (Living the Dream) [Birmingham | Manchester]
Living the Dream is one of the few performing arts organizations in the UK run by young people, for young people. Living the Dream was set up by Zoe Jackson at the age of 16 in 2006 to give affordable, exciting and accessible opportunities to young people from all walks of life. The ethos of Living the Dream is to provide a safe environment in which its members can grow in talent, confidence and self esteem and prove that young people can achieve great things on their own.
In 2011 Zoe graduated from the The Liverpool Institute of Performing Arts (established by Sir Paul McCartney) with a BA Hons in dance and performing arts. This summer Zoe Selected by Virgin Media as one of three young entrepreneurs to launch Richard Branson’s Control Shift Campaign.
“To set up a company and manage it from top to bottom is a huge accomplishment for a teenager, especially one who is balancing school, a social life and pursuing a career in the arts. Zoe is a perfect example of a young person who is ambitious and successful for all the right reasons” Libby Andrews, IMG Media
Fraser Doherty (Superjam) [London]
Fraser Doherty is the founder of 100% Pure Fruit jam company SuperJam, a business he started at the age of fourteen after being taught to make jam by his Gran.
Supplying all of the major UK supermarkets, SuperJam has won over twenty business awards and is exhibited in the National Museum as an example of an ‘Iconic Scottish Brand’.
The company also invests in running ‘SuperJam Tea Parties’ for thousands of lonely elderly across the UK.