Entrepreneurship Fortnight

From Monday 7th to Friday 18th November 2016, we are holding an Entrepreneurship Fortnight.

We have an exciting programme of events planned. The fortnight will run as follows:

Monday 7^th November – Assembly by FIVE TALENTS UK
Monday 7^th November – Public Speaking Made Easy – VI Form Lecture by Robin Kermode
Tuesday 8^th November – Hub Dot Event, 7pm-10pm at Francis Holland School, Sloane Square. Parents welcome. Please click here to purchase tickets.
Wednesday 9^th November – Autumn Concert, with retiring collection in support of Five Talents UK.
Monday 14^th November – Ali Gillum will be speaking in Assembly
Monday 14^th November –In Conversation with Entrepreneurs 5-6pm in the Lecture Theatre. More information below. Parents welcome.

Hosted by Jonathan Pfitzner

Elizabeth Passey

Mandeep Metharu

Eve Li

Tom Davenport

Sofia Fenichell

Shirley Soskin

Wednesday 16^th November – Young Enterprise Assembly

Our speakers for Monday 14th November’s In Conversation with Entrepreneurs are as follows:

Jonathan Pfitzner	Jonathan has worked in law, strategic consulting and investment banking. He now has two businesses. The first is a consulting boutique that advises entrepreneurs looking to sell their business or raise money to fund growth. The second is a personal venture fund that invests in internet companies run by entrepreneurs.
Elizabeth Passey	Elizabeth is Senior Adviser, J Stern Co, family office and private bank, Non Exec Director VPC Specialty Lending Investments PLC, Convener of Court, The University of Glasgow, and Member of Court, The University of Greenwich. She is a Steering Committee Member of the 30% Club, and co-chair of its Higher Education Initiative. She is a Board Member of The Big Lottery Fund, Vice President of The Zoological Society of London and Chairman of The Wye and Usk Foundation. She is a past Managing Director of Morgan Stanley and Investec Asset Management. In 2015 she was named one of The 100 women to watch in Cranfield University’s Female FTSE Board report.
Mandeep Metharu	Mandeep Metharu is passionate about utilising emerging technologies to enable start-up businesses to create and successfully commercialise products and services that radically improve the quality of our lives. Medbiomarkers vision is to accelerate the translation of biomarker research via providing data and software solutions and building biomarker related consortia.
Eve Li	Eve Li is an experienced networker with over 15 years experience behind her in various different industries and countries. She is a big believer of your network is your networth. Her passion for networking and building a network inspired her to take a brave leap into launching East Meets West Club, which now holds one of the biggest and most exclusive business networking events in London, bringing together business owners, entrepreneurs and investors.
Tom Davenport	Tom Davenport is a Co-Founder at TalentPool, a recruitment technology business. TalentPool.com is a website which matches candidates and employers, rather like a dating app, but for the professional world. TalentPool is currently a team of 8, with 21 investors and growing very fast indeed (revenue has grown 500%+ in 2016). Tom was previously a management consultant at PricewaterhouseCoopers, where he specialised in advising banks and insurance companies on their plans. Before that, Tom studied History of Art at the University of Cambridge.
Sofia Fenichell	Sofia Fenichell began her career at DDB Needham, a global advertising agency. She then spent a decade working with leading investment firms before founding Wonder Place Ltd., a company dedicated to creating next generation video platforms. Her latest venture, Mrs. Wordsmith, is on a mission to illustrate the English language one rare word at a time. Working with award-winning artists, leading neuroscientists and linguists, they have created a programme designed to foster an appreciation of language, improved reading and writing skills, confidence and ability in school.
Shirley Soskin	Shirley Soskin started her first business at 17, an early foray into the takeaway food delivery market. She went on to found and Chair Clarion Communications, a consumer brand PR agency now owned by the global marketing services organisation WPP. After the sale of Clarion, Shirley started and now runs, Silverhawk Partners a headhunting and consulting firm specialising in flexible working and organisational culture.