SPEAKERS

Andrea started her career as an accountant with KPMG before joining their Management Consultancy division in London, directing projects for a number of organisations such as GE Capital Aviation, Ryanair, Lloyds Bank and the FCA. Andrea left KPMG to start her own corporate finance consultancy, where for over 10 years she raised funding for businesses across loans, investment and grants.

Ben White has been disrupting the norms in technology for nearly 3 decades, founding tech start-ups and turning them into market leaders. Having the ability to understand the technology through a commercial lens led Ben to not only found and sell technology businesses amounting to $841 million but also invest in over 54 businesses through Notion Capital, which currently has 5 unicorns. Ben is currently Co-founder and Executive Chair of Upp.

EMEA North Leader, HubSpot

Flavia Colombo is the country manager for UK and Ireland at HubSpot. She is an experienced sales & business development leader with a consistent track record for building and sustaining high performing teams. She is passionate about improving customer experience and operational excellence for her clients.

Award-winning serial entrepreneur

Flavilla Fongang is an award-winning serial entrepreneur, and an international multilingual keynote speaker. She is the founder of 3 Colours Rule, an award-winning branding and marketing agency specialising in the technology sector. Flavilla was awarded the “She’s Mercedes” businesswoman award by Mercedes Benz among women such as Sheryl Sandberg, the COO of Facebook. She is the author of “99 Strategies to get customers”.

Jake Mason, a distinguished digital marketing strategist, led Netflix’s online campaigns at a leading global media agency. As an accomplished marketing entrepreneur with more than 15 years of expertise, he has developed resultdriven digital marketing strategies for top-tier brands and nimble startups. Currently, Jake holds the position of Chief Marketing Officer at the rapidly expanding tech startup, ScoreApp.

Chair & Founder of Seventy7 Ventures

With extensive career experience in IT, Electronics & Healthcare, Ketan moved into self-employment and entrepreneurship in 2009 during the economic crash. Since then Ketan has successfully launched, scaled and sold multiple ventures in the recruitment and marketing verticals; in 2011 Ketan launched Enterprise Lab – a talent and business innovation agency operating in 26 countries with a network of 250 experienced professionals.

Award winning CEO

Founder, Nourished and Scripted

Kim Antoniou is an award-winning tech entrepreneur and Founder and CEO of Auris Tech Limited, inventors of a unique patented Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) technology, designed specifically for ‘read’ speech, which is a distinctly different speech pattern to conversational speech. It has been developed in collaboration with The University of Edinburgh, and used to launch, Fonetti, the world’s first children’s listening bookshop App, available in the AppleStore and soon to be obtainable for Android.

Lara Morgan is a British entrepreneur with a track record of delivering exceptional accelerated growth. Her investment strategy in wellbeing products primarily is pinned to improving life’s journey. Investing as a family office she has a portfolio of seven consumer services businesses which she works to drive sales, leadership and innovation. She is an inspirational leader with a legacy of building world-class teams and aligning organisations behind a clear strategy.

Group Director EMEA, monday.com

Disruptor in the world of food technology and 3D printing. She is passionate about developing innovations which offer solutions to her customers, challenge her competitors, and innovate current market offerings. She is currently the founder and CEO of Rem3dy Health which pioneers personalised solutions across preventative and curative health under the brands Nourished (Personalised Nutrition) and Scripted (Personalised Medicine).

Michael is an entrepreneur and author. He co-founded the campaigns firm Seven Hills & co-authored Mission (Penguin). He is Chair of the Small Business Charter, the mark of excellence for small business leadership education in UK business schools. He is also Chair of Entrepreneurs at the private bank and wealth manager Coutts.

Lara Morgan is a British entrepreneur with a track record of delivering exceptional accelerated growth. Her investment strategy in wellbeing products primarily is pinned to improving life’s journey. Investing as a family office she has a portfolio of seven consumer services businesses which she works to drive sales, leadership and innovation. She is an inspirational leader with a legacy of building world-class teams and aligning organisations behind a clear strategy.

A multi award-winning businesswoman and proud mum, Sophie also enjoys supporting the North East region. Sophie is a supporter of Northern Power Women and co-founder of City Ladies Networking. She is Chair of Smart Works Newcastle and has achieved huge success delivering the aim of doubling the number of unemployed women supported with interview clothing and coaching across the North East and securing Sara Davies MBE as the charity’s ambassador.

Will Hale is the Group Director EMEA at monday.com, a work operating system that allows organisations to build work management tools and software applications that fit their needs. Will joined the company as its first Leader for Europe three years ago and has been making waves ever since, playing an instrumental role in spearheading monday.com’s preand post-IPO expansion from 2 to over 65 team members in the UK. Now, he leads the team seeking innovation and new business opportunities in the EMEA region.