These are the expert mentors who are helping teams to change the world, starting tonight!
Colin Coghlan
Angel Investor, advisor and Mentor
Successful exited as CEO of a broadcasting technology company in 2006. I am now a full time Business Angel, Investor, Advisor and I also speak on the subject at a number of events. I am also a Mentor for Warwick Business School, Tech City and the Institute of Directors. I’m looking forward to a great weekend meeting and helping entrepreneurs realise their dreams.
Doug Morrison
Lean Startup and Social Enterprise
Setting up 6W2X, a social enterprise startup accelerator for students, and Mardi, an organisation for university alumni and students to make the world a better place.
John Hoffmire
Works at SBS
John’s background involved a twenty-year career in equity investing, venture capital, consulting and investment banking. His work has had a particular focus on Employee Stock Ownership Plans. As founder and CEO of his own investment banking firm, he helped employees buy and manage approximately $2.2 billion worth of ESOP stock. He sold his firm to American Capital, which then went public.
Marcelo Bravo
Serial Entrepreneur in Science and Technology
Marcelo Bravo has been a company founder, an angel investor, a public company CEO, a deal maker, a fund raiser, businessman and more during his varied career. He has started or been part of four start-ups, two of which he has taken public to the AIM market, raising £15m in funding from private and institutional investors. Marcelo is founder and Chief Technology Officer of AIM listed Oxford Pharmascience Group Plc. Originally from Chile, he has worked with Procter & Gamble around the world and currently lives in Oxford with his wife and two children.
Matt Arnold
Mentor, Software Developer, Angel Investor
Matt studied Information Engineering at Cambridge, and has since spent 13 years working in software development and financial modelling for JPMorgan and Goldman Sachs. He lives near Oxford and makes Angel Investments in his spare time.
Nicholas Edwards
Business set up and growth advisor
Graduated in Medicine from the University of Oxford in 1985. After research into the use of Artificial Intelligence to do medical diagnosis and work in Cardiology and General Surgery he spent 18 years with Andersen Consulting (now Accenture). Chairman of Kinapse and Oxtex and has a particular interest in restructuring life science start up businesses and pharmaceutical R&D. Founding fellow of Oxford University centre for accelerating medical innovations and supporter of Oxford Academic Health Science Network.
Peter Wherritt
Applied Electronics Product Development
Chartered Engineer with track record of establishing and leading creative multi-disciplinary teams. Peter has wide experience of Science and Technology based product development. Technical expertise is Analogue Electronics, particularly used with other technologies. Experience of project management, production and regulatory compliance enable him to turn new technology into manufactured products. He has built and led teams developing products in the Aerospace, Automotive, Medical and Industrial sectors.
Ruben Bach
Longtime experience in early stage venture capital (seed & start-up) – business case definition
13 years of VC, small cap PE and M&A experience, 10 at MD level. Industries: software, renewables, alternative assets (nano to a lesser extend) Especially interested in the topic of “innovation culture”
Shahjahan Ali
Business Immigration Solicitor
Solicitor specialising in Business Immigration. Expert contributor to LexisPSL Immigration, a legal resource on Business Immigration. Formerly Head of Skilled Migration at a leading Immigration law firm in the Thames Valley region. Delivered numerous presentations and training sessions on Business Immigration. Quoted in various news articles on Business Immigration.
Simon Breese
ICT & Technology Sales & Marketing
Simon Breese is a sales and marketing planner and strategist. After reading Architecture at Bristol University and brief forays into accountancy and finite element analysis, he joined the IT industry, working first for ICL and then for Unisys. Simon is based within easy reach of London, Oxford and the Thames valley. As part of his “Career 2.0” he formed Consilium in 2006 to offer coaching and advice in sales and marketing
Simon Bayly
Scientist, innovator and VC Advisor
Simon has a PhD in Chemistry and spent 10 years as an academic researcher in areas including new materials, molecular sensing and radiopharmaceuticals. His journey into technology commercialisation started at Oxford Biosensors, and stepped into early stage venture capital with H2O Venture Partners. Simon now works with Epiphany Capital helping early stage science and technology companies secure venture capital finance, and is a corporate innovation consultant for IXC UK.
Stephen Newbury
Business model viability
14 years automotive technical engineering Author – Car design yearbook series Co-founded four start-ups in product development, veterinary and business model services Now working building sustainable business models for new technologies mainly in space, digital economy, media and engineering sectors.
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